Avian Ultraviolet/Violet cones identified as probable magnetoreceptors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Nießner, Christine ^a   Denzau, Susanne ^a   Gross, Julia Christina ^a   Peichl, Leo ^b   Bischof, Hans Joachim ^c   Fleissner, Gerta ^a   Wiltschko, Wolfgang ^a   Wiltschko, Roswitha ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME 1; CRYPTOCHROME 1A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CONE OPSIN; CRYPTOCHROME;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ERITHACUS RUBECULA; GALLUS GALLUS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETORECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA CONE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; MAGNETISM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SONGBIRD;

AVES; ERITHACUS RUBECULA; GALLUS GALLUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHICKENS; CONE OPSINS; CRYPTOCHROMES; MAGNETICS; PASSERIFORMES; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 79957458197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020091     Document Type: Article

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