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    Magnetoreception is a sense which allows an organism to detect the Earth's magnetic field. Animals with this sense include some arthropods, molluscs, and...
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  • bioenergetics, muscle contraction, and electron transport in biomolecules. Magnetoreception is the ability of animals to navigate using the inclination of the...
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    related, magnetoreception via electromagnetic induction in the ampullae of Lorenzini is possible. A study from 2004 shows this magnetoreception by cartilaginous...
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    cycle and delayed metabolic output when compared to the wild type. Magnetoreception is a sense which allows an organism to detect a magnetic field to perceive...
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    homing ability, meaning that it will generally return to its nest using magnetoreception. Flights as long as 1,800 km (1,100 miles) have been recorded by birds...
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    of the robin has been extensively researched and uses vision-based magnetoreception, in which the robin's ability to sense the magnetic field of the Earth...
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  • organisms. The sensing of magnetic fields by organisms is known as magnetoreception. Biological effects of weak low frequency magnetic fields, less than...
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    are known to incorporate magnetite crystals in the upper beak for magnetoreception, which (in conjunction with cryptochromes in the retina) gives them...
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    meat. Dogs' senses include vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and magnetoreception. One study suggests that dogs can feel small variations in Earth's...
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    daylight vision, including some colour vision. Microbats make use of magnetoreception, in that they have a high sensitivity to the Earth's magnetic field...
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    through the swim bladder. Some fish, including salmon, are capable of magnetoreception; when the axis of a magnetic field is changed around a circular tank...
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  • of NMR, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), spin chemistry and magnetoreception during bird migration. Hore was educated at the University of Oxford...
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    between thousands of volatile compounds. Some insects are capable of magnetoreception; ants and bees navigate using it both locally (near their nests) and...
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    Ballast minerals Magnetofossil Magnetosome Magnetotactic bacteria Magnetoreception Microfossils engrailed gene Druse Cupriavidus metallidurans Biomineralising...
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    their birth. It is thought that, when they are in the ocean, they use magnetoreception to locate the general position of their natal river, and once close...
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  • 5–20 Hz, and large groups of plankton generate this type of signal. Magnetoreception is the ability to detect the direction one is facing based on the Earth's...
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    2020 study of the central bearded dragon found that light-dependent magnetoreception occurs when light with a wavelength under 580 nanometers enters the...
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  • it is hypothesized to be key in the underlying mechanism for avian magnetoreception and consciousness. The radical-pair mechanism explains how a magnetic...
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  • changing magnetic field, while migratory birds are thought to use magnetoreception in navigation. Most of the molecules in the human body interact weakly...
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    Ballast minerals Magnetofossil Magnetosome Magnetotactic bacteria Magnetoreception Microfossils engrailed gene Druse Cupriavidus metallidurans Biomineralising...
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  • reactions. Dynamic nuclear polarisation Electron paramagnetic resonance Magnetoreception – a sense in birds that appears to rely on a radical pair mechanism...
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    map and magnetic compass sense, using a form of navigation termed Magnetoreception. Specific migratory routes have been shown to vary between individuals...
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  • Magnetotactic bacteria (category Magnetoreception)
    term taxis involves a stimulus-response mechanism. In contrast to the magnetoreception of animals, the bacteria contain fixed magnets that force the bacteria...
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    Ballast minerals Magnetofossil Magnetosome Magnetotactic bacteria Magnetoreception Microfossils engrailed gene Druse Cupriavidus metallidurans Biomineralising...
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    the species. Eastern newts home using magnetic orientation. Their magnetoreception system seems to be a hybrid of polarity-based inclination and a sun-dependent...
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    Ballast minerals Magnetofossil Magnetosome Magnetotactic bacteria Magnetoreception Microfossils engrailed gene Druse Cupriavidus metallidurans Biomineralising...
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    29959. PMC 5699870. PMID 29140244. Wu, L.-Q.; Dickman, J. D. (2011). "Magnetoreception in an avian brain in part mediated by inner ear lagena". Current Biology...
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  • (although it is, as-yet, unknown whenever-or-not Static is also capable of magnetoreception, like homing pigeons and sharks can). In the animated series, Static's...
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  • the preponderance of specific enantiomers in biochemical systems? Magnetoreception: How do animals (e.g. migratory birds) sense the Earth's magnetic field...
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    Molteno, T.C.A. & W.L. Kennedy (2009). "Navigation by Induction-Based Magnetoreception in Elasmobranch Fishes". Journal of Biophysics. 2009: 1–6. doi:10.1155/2009/380976...
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