This chapter reviews our current knowledge about the mechanisms that underlie animals' ability to perceive the Earth's magnetic field. I describe three major hypotheses of magnetoreception proposed so far: a magnetite-based, an induction-based, and a radical-pair-based mechanism. I also summarize our current knowledge on neuronal pathways that might relay and process magnetic input within the avian brain.
7.26 - Transduction Mechanisms in Magnetoreception / Kobylkov, D.. - 7:(2020), pp. 459-478. [10.1016/B978-0-12-805408-6.00004-X]
7.26 - Transduction Mechanisms in Magnetoreception
Kobylkov D.
2020-01-01
Abstract
This chapter reviews our current knowledge about the mechanisms that underlie animals' ability to perceive the Earth's magnetic field. I describe three major hypotheses of magnetoreception proposed so far: a magnetite-based, an induction-based, and a radical-pair-based mechanism. I also summarize our current knowledge on neuronal pathways that might relay and process magnetic input within the avian brain.File in questo prodotto:
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