Navigating at night: fundamental limits on the sensitivity of radical pair magnetoreception under dim light

Night-migratory songbirds appear to sense the direction of the Earth's magnetic field via radical pair intermediates formed photochemically in cryptochrome flavoproteins contained in photoreceptor cells in their retinas. It is an open question whether this light-dependent mechanism could be suf...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Quarterly reviews of biophysics 2019-10, Vol.52, p.e9-e9, Article e9
Hauptverfasser:	Hiscock, H G, Hiscock, T W, Kattnig, D R, Scrivener, T, Lewis, A M, Manolopoulos, D E, Hore, P J
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animal Migration - radiation effects Animals Behavior, Animal - radiation effects Cryptochromes - metabolism Darkness Magnetic Fields Songbirds - metabolism Songbirds - physiology
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