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    Publication Date: 2008-05-02
    Description: Approximately 50 species, including birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, crustaceans and insects, are known to use the Earth's magnetic field for orientation and navigation. Birds in particular have been intensively studied, but the biophysical mechanisms that underlie the avian magnetic compass are still poorly understood. One proposal, based on magnetically sensitive free radical reactions, is gaining support despite the fact that no chemical reaction in vitro has been shown to respond to magnetic fields as weak as the Earth's ( approximately 50 muT) or to be sensitive to the direction of such a field. Here we use spectroscopic observation of a carotenoid-porphyrin-fullerene model system to demonstrate that the lifetime of a photochemically formed radical pair is changed by application of 〈 or =50 microT magnetic fields, and to measure the anisotropic chemical response that is essential for its operation as a chemical compass sensor. These experiments establish the feasibility of chemical magnetoreception and give insight into the structural and dynamic design features required for optimal detection of the direction of the Earth's magnetic field.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Maeda, Kiminori -- Henbest, Kevin B -- Cintolesi, Filippo -- Kuprov, Ilya -- Rodgers, Christopher T -- Liddell, Paul A -- Gust, Devens -- Timmel, Christiane R -- Hore, P J -- England -- Nature. 2008 May 15;453(7193):387-90. doi: 10.1038/nature06834. Epub 2008 Apr 30.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QR, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18449197" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animal Migration/*physiology ; Animals ; Anisotropy ; Birds/*physiology ; Earth (Planet) ; *Magnetics ; *Models, Biological ; Orientation/*physiology ; Superoxides/metabolism
    Print ISSN: 0028-0836
    Electronic ISSN: 1476-4687
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Publication Date: 2009-01-07
    Print ISSN: 0027-8424
    Electronic ISSN: 1091-6490
    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General
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