ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2022
Double cones in the avian retina form an oriented mosaic which might facilitate magnetoreception and/or polarized light sensing.
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- A hybrid compass mechanism combining radical pairs and magnetite crystals.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Structure of European robin cryptochrome 1 reveals a role in circadian rhythms, not magnetoreception.iScience · 2025Article
- Cryptochrome 4b protein is probably irrelevant for radical pair-based magnetoreception in the European robin.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- Spectroscopic Characterization of Radical Pair Photochemistry in Nonmigratory Avian Cryptochromes: Magnetic Field Effects inJournal of the American Chemical Society · 2025Article
- Comparative transcriptomic insights into the evolution of vertebrate photoreceptor types.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Full-Length Cryptochrome 1 in the Outer Segments of the Retinal Blue Cone Photoreceptors in Humans and Great Apes Suggests a Role Beyond Transcriptional Repression.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025Article
- European Robin Cryptochrome-4a Associates with Lipid Bilayers in an Ordered Manner, Fulfilling a Molecular-Level Condition for Magnetoreception.ACS chemical biology · 2025Article
- Morphology and connectivity of retinal horizontal cells in two avian species.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2025Article
- AAV-mediated transduction of songbird retina.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Comparison of retinol binding protein 1 with cone specific G-protein as putative effector molecules in cryptochrome signalling.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Comparative transcriptomic insights into the evolutionary origin of the tetrapod double cone.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Migratory birds can extract positional information from magnetic inclination and magnetic declination alone.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Species-specific circuitry of double cone photoreceptors in two avian retinas.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Adaptive evolution and loss of a putative magnetoreceptor in passerines.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Eagle eyed or bird brained?Eye (London, England) · 2023Review
- Dimerization of European Robin Cryptochrome 4a.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2023Article
- Isotope Substitution Effects on the Magnetic Compass Properties of Cryptochrome-Based Radical Pairs: A Computational Study.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2023Article
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Abstract
To navigate between breeding and wintering grounds, night-migratory songbirds are aided by a light-dependent magnetic compass sense and maybe also by polarized light vision. Although the underlying mechanisms for magnetoreception and polarized light sensing remain unclear, double cone photoreceptors in the avian retina have been suggested to represent the primary sensory cells. To use these senses, birds must be able to separate the directional information from the Earth's magnetic field and/or light polarization from variations in light intensity. Theoretical considerations suggest that this could be best achieved if neighbouring double cones were oriented in an ordered pattern. Therefore, we investigate the orientation patterns of double cones in European robins (
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