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This project aims to uncover the mechanisms behind birds' ability to sense Earth's magnetic field for navigation. It focuses on the role of cryptochrome proteins and seeks to develop new technologies inspired by these biological processes for magnetic field detection.
The sensory mechanisms that allow birds to perceive the direction of the Earth’s magnetic field for the purpose of navigation are only now beginning to be understood.
One of the two leading hypotheses is founded on magnetically sensitive photochemical reactions in the retina.
It is thought that transient photo-induced radical pairs in cryptochrome, a blue-light photoreceptor protein, act as the primary magnetic sensor.
Experimental and theoretical support for this mechanism has been accumulating…
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
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United States, Philadelphia
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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