Chemical magnetoreception in birds: The radical pair mechanism

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 353-360

  Rodgers, Christopher T ^a,b   Hore, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME;

BIRD; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; GEOMETRY; KINETICS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICAL REACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; FLAVOPROTEINS; MAGNETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AVES;

EID: 58849088435     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0711968106     Document Type: Review

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