ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
Upper bound for broadband radiofrequency field disruption of magnetic compass orientation in night-migratory songbirds.
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- Weak Radiofrequency Field Effects on Biological Systems Mediated through the Radical Pair Mechanism.Chemical reviews · 2025Review
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- Species-specific circuitry of double cone photoreceptors in two avian retinas.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Orientation of birds in radiofrequency fields in the absence of the Earth's magnetic field: a possible test for the radical pair mechanism of magnetoreception.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
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Abstract
Night-migratory songbirds have a light-dependent magnetic compass sense, the mechanism of which is thought to depend on the photochemical formation of radical pairs in cryptochrome (Cry) proteins located in the retina. The finding that weak radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields can prevent birds from orienting in the Earth's magnetic field has been regarded as a diagnostic test for this mechanism and as a potential source of information on the identities of the radicals. The maximum frequency that could cause such disorientation has been predicted to lie between 120 and 220 MHz for a flavin-tryptophan radical pair in Cry. Here we show that the magnetic orientation capabilities of Eurasian blackcaps (
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