Magnetic characterization of isolated candidate vertebrate magnetoreceptor cells

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

Volumn 109, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 12022-12027

  Eder, Stephan H K ^a,d   Cadiou, Hervé ^b,e   Muhamad, Airina ^b,f   McNaughton, Peter A ^b   Kirschvink, Joseph L ^c   Winklhofer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Animal migration; Biomineralization; Microrheology; Salmoniformes

Indexed keywords

IRON; MAGNETITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SUSPENSION; CELL TYPE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOSKELETON; DIPOLE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MAGNETORECEPTOR CELL; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAINBOW TROUT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FERUMOXYTOL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETICS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; ORIENTATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TROUT;

ANIMALIA; BOS; SALMONIDAE; SALMONIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84864350400     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205653109     Document Type: Article

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