A new type of radical-pair-based model for magnetoreception.
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 through the impact of a physical rather than a chemical signature of the ra...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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