Animal Navigation: The Evolution of Magnetic Orientation

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Gould, James L ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETITE;

ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; LIGHT; MAGNETISM; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; LIGHT; MAGNETICS; ORIENTATION; SONGBIRDS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 44349167686     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.03.052     Document Type: Short Survey

References (20)

1. Wallraff H. The magnetic map of homing pigeons: an evergreen phantom. J. Theo. Biol. 197 (1999) 265-269
2. Gould J.L. The case for magnetic sensitivity in birds and bees. Am. Sci. 68 (1980) 256-267
3. Lohmann K.J., Lohmann C.M.F., and Putman N.F. Magnetic maps in animals: nature's GPS. J. Exp. Biol. 210 (2007) 3697-3705
4. Stapput K., Thalau P., Wiltschko R., and Wiltschko W. Orientation of birds in total darkness. Curr. Biol. 18 (2008) 602-606
5. Blakemore R.P. Magnetotactic bacteria. Science 190 (1975) 377-379
6. Gould J.L., Kirschvink J.L., and Deffeyes K.S. Bees have magnetic remanence. Science 102 (1978) 1026-1028
7. Wallcott C., Gould J.L., and Kirschvink J.L. Pigeons have magnets. Science 205 (1979) 1027-1028
8. Mora C.V., Davison M., Wild J.M., and Walker M.M. Magnetoreception and its trigeminal mediation in the homing pigeon. Nature 432 (2004) 508-511
9. Wiltschko W., and Wiltschko R. Magnetic orientation and magnetoreception in birds and other animals. J. Comp. Physiol. A 191 (2005) 675-693
10. Kirschvink J.L., and Gould J.L. Organic magnetite: a ferrimagnetic basis for magnetic field detection in animals. BioSystems 13 (1980) 181-207
11. Kalmijn A. Experimental evidence of geomagnetic orientation in elasmobranch fishes. In: Schmidt-Koenig K., and Keeton W.T. (Eds). Animal Migration, Navigation, and Homing (1978), Springer-Verlag, Berlin 345-353
12. Ritz T., Adem S., and Schulten K. A model for photoreceptor-based magnetoreception in birds. Biophys. J. 78 (2000) 707-718
13. Foster R.G. Shedding light on the biological clock. Neuron 20 (1998) 829-832
14. Griffin D.R. Oriented bird migration in or between opaque cloud layers. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 117 (1973) 117-141
15. Phillips J.B., and Sayeed O. Wavelength-dependent effects of light on magnetic compass orientation in Drosophila melanogaster. J. Comp. Physiol. A 172 (1993) 303-308
16. Deutschlander M.E., Borland S.C., and Phillips J.B. Extraocular magnetic compass in newts. Nature 400 (1999) 324-325
17. Lohmann K.J., and Lohmann C.M.F. A light-independent magnetic compass in the leatherback sea turtle. Biol. Bull. 185 (1993) 149-151
18. Marhold S., Wiltschko W., and Burda H. A magnetic polarity compass for direction finding in a subterranean mammal. Naturwissenschaften 84 (1997) 421-423
19. Ritz T., Phillips J.B., and Dommer D.H. Shedding light on vertebrate magnetoreception. Neuron 34 (2002) 503-506
20. Phillips J.B., Borland S.C., Freake M.J., Brassart J., and Kirschvink J.L. "Fixed-axis" magnetic orientation by an amphibian. J. Exp. Biol. 205 (2002) 3903-3914