ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2024
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.
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- Protein-Solvent Interface Controls Proton-Coupled Reactivity in Cryptochrome 4a.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- How important are quantum mechanical effects in controlling biological functions: Enzymes, electron transfer and bird navigation.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2026Review
- Protein and Solvent Reorganization Drives Radical Pair Stability in Avian Cryptochrome 4a.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025Article
- Magnetosensitivity of Model Flavin-Tryptophan Radical Pairs in a Dynamic Protein Environment.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2025Article
- Magneto-oncology: a radical pair primer.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Review
- 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
The magnetic compass sense of migratory songbirds is thought to derive from magnetically sensitive photochemical reactions in cryptochromes located in photoreceptor cells in the birds' retinas. More specifically, transient radical pairs formed by light-activation of these proteins have been proposed to account for the birds' ability to orient themselves using the Earth's magnetic field and for the observation that radiofrequency magnetic fields, superimposed on the Earth's magnetic field, can disrupt this ability. Here, by means of spin dynamics simulations, we show that it may be possible for the birds to orient in a monochromatic radiofrequency field in the absence of the Earth's magnetic field. If such a behavioural test were successful, it would provide powerful additional evidence for a radical pair mechanism of avian magnetoreception.
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