A model for photoreceptor-based magnetoreception in birds.

By T. Ritz, Salih Adem, Klaus Schulten. Biophysical Journal, 2000

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Subfields: Biophysics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Physiology

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Magnetic alignment in mammals and other animals (2013, background): “Provided that MA in foxes is based on a radical-pairmechanism (Schulten et al., 1978; Ritz et al., 2000), i.”
Magnetoreception in birds: two receptors for two different tasks (2007, methodology): “The required conditions could be met by the more or less spherical arrangement of receptors in the eyes—radical pair processes would generate characteristic patterns of activation across the retina (Ritz et al. 2000).”
The Radical-Pair Mechanism of Magnetoreception. (2016, background): “In 2000, Schulten’s suggestion changed overnight from interesting curiosity to intriguing possibility when he, Adem, and Ritz wrote an article (162) that both made the 1978 proposal accessible to biologists and suggested a specific molecule in which appropriate radical pairs might be formed.”
Vibrations, quanta and biology (2013, background): “migratory birds provide a potential physiological implementation of such a mechanism [17] which has motivated the recently growth in attention from quantum physicists [124, 130–138].”
How Migrants Get There: Migratory Performance and Orientation (2007, background): “(A radical pair process is started by the absorption of a photon by an acceptor molecule resulting in an electron transfer; the donor and acceptor molecules then each have one unpaired electron that holds a magnetic moment; Ritz et al. 2000.)”
Green Light for Nocturnally Migrating Birds (2008, background): “Magnetic orientation is probably based on specific light receptors in the eye and shown not only to be light dependent (Ritz et al. 2000), but also wavelength dependent: migratory birds require light from the blue-green part of the spectrum for magnetic compass orientation (Wiltschko and Wiltschko…”
Polarized Light in Animal Vision (2004, methodology): “To test this prediction of the scanning hypo thesis, Rossel and Wehner (1986) studied the orientation of trained bees dancing on a horizontal comb during which an artificiallight source (aperture: 10°, elevation: 60°) provided the only directional cue by which they could orient their wagging dance.”