Navigating at night: fundamental limits on the sensitivity of radical pair magnetoreception under dim light
Night-migratory songbirds appear to sense the direction of the Earth's magnetic field via radical pair intermediates formed photochemically in cryptochrome flavoproteins contained in photoreceptor cells in their retinas. It is an open question whether this light-dependent mechanism could be suf...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2019
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