A new model for magnetoreception

Details A new model for magnetoreception A new model for magnetoreception

2010-03-12

arxiv.org/abs/1003.2628v3

Biophysical Journal 102 961 (2012)

Physics

Biological Physics

8 pages, 5 figures, version of final published paper

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.bpj.2012.01.007

Certain migratory birds can sense the earth's magnetic field. The nature of this process is not yet properly understood. Here we offer a simple explanation according to which birds literally `see' the local magnetic field: Our model relates the well-established radical pair hypothesis to the phenomenon of Haidinger's brush, a capacity to see the polarisation of light. This new picture explains recent surprising experimental data indicating long lifetimes for the radical pair. Moreover there is a clear evolutionary path toward this field sensing mechanism: it is an enhancement of a weak effect that may be present in many species.

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