Myths in magnetosensation

S Nimpf, DA Keays - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
The ability to detect magnetic fields is a sensory modality that is used by many animals to
navigate. While first postulated in the 1800s, for decades, it was considered a biological …

[HTML][HTML] Theranostics-a sure cure for cancer after 100 years?

Y Song, J Zou, EA Castellanos, N Matsuura… - Theranostics, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer has remained a formidable challenge in medicine and has claimed an enormous
number of lives worldwide. Theranostics, combining diagnostic methods with personalized …

Sense of doubt: inaccurate and alternate locations of virtual magnetic displacements may give a distorted view of animal magnetoreception ability

WT Schneider, F Packmor, O Lindecke… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Virtual magnetic displacements are used to examine the magnetoreceptive ability of animals
by changing the local magnetic field to emulate one that exists elsewhere. This technique …

Proposed three-phenylalanine motif involved in magnetoreception signalling of an Actinopterygii protein expressed in mammalian cells

B Ricker, S Mitra, EA Castellanos, CJ Grady… - Open …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Studies at the cellular and molecular level of magnetoreception—sensing and responding to
magnetic fields—are a relatively new research area. It appears that different mechanisms of …

Magnetosensation

NF Putman - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2022 - Springer
The Earth's magnetic field is formed in the outer core, where swirling, molten iron and nickel
create a self-exciting geodynamo driven by thermal convection (for an accessible review …

Magnetosome proteins belong to universal protein families involved in many cell processes

CL Monteil, D Vallenet, D Schüler… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Magnetic sensing is a fascinating biological function whose origin in eukaryotes still remains
poorly understood, unlike in magnetotactic bacteria (MTB)(1). The hypothesis of ancient …

Extremely Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Field Impairs the Development of Honeybee (Apis cerana)

Y Li, C Sun, H Zhou, H Huang, Y Chen, X Duan… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The ELF-EMF pollution generated by the increase in electrically powered
devices and power lines, accompanied by economic development, has a widespread effect …

A conserved phenylalanine motif among teleost fish provides insight for improving electromagnetic perception

B Ricker, EA Castellanos Franco… - Open …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Magnetoreceptive biology as a field remains relatively obscure; compared with the breadth
of species believed to sense magnetic fields, it remains under-studied. Here, we present …

European common frogs determine migratory direction by inclination magnetic compass and show diurnal variation in orientation

VV Shakhparonov, AA Bolshakova… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Animals can use two variants of the magnetic compass: the 'polar compass' or the
'inclination compass'. Among vertebrates, the compass type has been identified for salmon …

Activation of Cryptochrome 4 from Atlantic Herring

A Frederiksen, M Aldag, IA Solov'yov, L Gerhards - Biology, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The Atlantic herring is one of many migratory fish that may use the
geomagnetic field to navigate on its annual migration. The exact mechanism used for …