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Radical pair-based magnetic sensing in migratory birds

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Adaptive evolution and loss of a putativemagnetoreceptor in passerines

Author(s): Langebrake C, Manthey G, Frederiksen A, Lugo Ramos JS, Dutheil JY, Chetverikova R, Solov’yov IA, Mouritsen H, Liedvogel M. 2024
Published in: Adaptive evolution and loss of a putative magnetoreceptor in passerines., Issue Proc. R. Soc. B 291: 20232308. Volume 2016, 2024, ISSN 1471-2954
Publisher: Royal society
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2308

Computational reconstruction and analysis of structural models of avian cryptochrome 4

Author(s): M. Hanic, F. Schuhmann, A. Frederiksen, C. Langebrake, G. Manthey, M. Liedvogel, J. Xu, H. Mouritsen, and I. A. Solov’yov
Published in: Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Issue 126, 2022, Page(s) 4623-4635, ISSN 2694-2461
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c00878

No evidence for magnetic field effects on the behaviour of Drosophila

Author(s): Bassetto M, Reichl T, Kobylkov D, Kattnig DR, Winklhofer M, Hore PJ, Mouritsen H
Published in: Nature, Issue 620, 2023, Page(s) 595 - 599, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06397-7

Cryptochrome magnetoreception: four tryptophans could be better than three

Author(s): Siu Ying Wong; Yujing Wei; Henrik Mouritsen; Ilia A. Solov'yov; P. J. Hore
Published in: Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Issue 6, 2021, ISSN 1742-5689
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2021.0601

Double cones in the avian retina form an oriented mosaic which might facilitate magnetoreception and/or polarized light sensing

Author(s): R. Chetverikova, G. Dautaj, L. Schwigon, K. Dedek and H. Mouritsen
Published in: Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Issue 19, 2022, Page(s) 20210877, ISSN 1742-5662
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2021.0877

Isotope substitution effects on the magnetic compass properties of cryptochrome-based radical pairs: a computational study

Author(s): G. J. Pažėra, P. Benjamin, H. Mouritsen and P. J. Hore
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Issue 127, 2023, Page(s) 838-845, ISSN 1520-6106
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c05335

Effects of dynamical degrees of freedom on magnetic compass sensitivity: a comparison of plant and avian cryptochromes

Author(s): G. Grüning, S. Y. Wong, L. Gerhards, F. Schuhmann, D. R. Kattnig, P. J. Hore and I. A. Solov’yov
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 144, 2022, Page(s) 22902–22914, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c06233

Sensitivity enhancement of radical-pairmagnetoreceptors as a result of spindecoherence

Author(s): Jiate Luo
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 160, 074306, 2024, ISSN 2158-3226
Publisher: American Institute of Physics Inc.
DOI: 10.1063/5.0182172

Magnetic stop signs signal a European songbird’s arrival at the breeding site after migration

Author(s): J Wynn, O Padget, H Mouritsen, J Morford, P Jaggers, T Guilford
Published in: Science, 2022, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abj4210

Dimerisation of European robin cryptochrome 4a

Author(s): Maja Hanić; Lewis M. Antill; Angela S. Gehrckens; Jessica Schmidt; Katharina Görtemaker; Rabea Bartölke; Tarick J. El-Baba; Jingjing Xu; Karl W. Koch; Henrik Mouritsen; Justin L. P. Benesch; P. J. Hore; Ilia A. Solov’yov
Published in: J. Phys. Chem. B 2023, 127, 6251−6264, 2023, Page(s) 6251-6264, ISSN 1520-6106
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.11.536350

Chiral-induced spin selectivity in the formation and recombination of radical pairs: cryptochrome magnetoreception and EPR detection

Author(s): Jiate Luo, P J Hore
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 23/4, 2021, Page(s) 043032, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/abed0b

Navigation by extrapolation of geomagnetic cues in a migratory songbird

Author(s): Dmitry Kishkinev, Florian Packmor, Thomas Zechmeister, Hans-Christoph Winkler, Nikita Chernetsov, Henrik Mouritsen, Richard A. Holland
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 31/7, 2021, Page(s) 1563-1569.e4, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.051

A Guide for Using Flight Simulators to Study the Sensory Basis of Long-Distance Migration in Insects

Author(s): Dreyer, David Frost, Barrie Mouritsen, Henrik Lefèvre, Adrien Menz, Myles Warrant, Eric
Published in: Frontiers in Behaviorial Neuroscience, Issue Volume 15 Article 678936., 2021, ISSN 1662-5153
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2021.678936

Magnetic sensitivity of cryptochrome 4 from a migratory songbird

Author(s): J. Xu, L. Jarocha, T. Zollitsch, M. Konowalczyk, K. B. Henbest, S. Richert, M. Golesworthy, J. Schmidt, V. Déjean, D. J. C. Sowood., M. Bassetto, J. Luo, J. R. Walton, J. Fleming, Y. Wei, T. L. Pitcher, G. Moise, M. Herrmann, H. Yin, H. Wu, , R. Bartölke, S. J. Käsehagen, S. Horst, G. Dautaj, P. D. F. Murton, A. S. Gehrckens, Y. Chelliah, J. S. Takahashi, K W. Koch, S. Weber, I. A. Solov’yov,
Published in: Nature, 2021, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03618-9

Amplification of weak magnetic field effects on oscillating reactions

Author(s): Thomas C. Player, Edward D. A. Baxter, Sarah Allatt, P. J. Hore
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11/1, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-88871-8

Mutational Study of the Tryptophan Tetrad Important for Electron Transfer in European Robin Cryptochrome 4a

Author(s): Anders Frederiksen; Corinna Langebrake; Maja Hanić; Georg Manthey; Henrik Mouritsen; Miriam Liedvogel; Ilia A. Solov’yov
Published in: ACS Omega 2023, 8, 26425−26436, Issue monthly, 2023, Page(s) 26425−26436, ISSN 1944-8244
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c02963

Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics.

Author(s): Feng, S., Stiller, J., Deng, Y., Armstrong, J., ….., Mouritsen, H., ……, Zhang, G
Published in: Nature, Issue 587, 2020, Page(s) 252–257, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2873-9

Natal imprinting to the Earth’s magnetic field in a pelagic seabird

Author(s): Joe Wynn, Oliver Padget, Henrik Mouritsen, Chris Perrins, Tim Guilford
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 30/14, 2020, Page(s) 2869-2873.e2, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.05.039

Tracking the Electron Transfer Cascade in European Robin Cryptochrome 4 Mutants

Author(s): Daniel Timmer; Anders Frederiksen; Daniel C. Lünemann; Anitta R. Thomas; Jingjing Xu; Rabea Bartölke; Jessica Schmidt; Tomáš Kubař; Antonietta De Sio; Ilia A. Solov’yov; Henrik Mouritsen; Christoph Lienau
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145 (21), 11566–11578, Issue 4, 2023, ISSN 0019-4522
Publisher: Scientific Publishers
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c00442

In search for the avian trigeminal magnetic sensor: distribution of peripheral and central terminals of ophthalmic sensory neurons in the night-migratory Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla).

Author(s): K. Haase, I. Musielak, L. Warmuth-Moles, B. Leberecht, A. Zolotareva, H. Mouritsen, and D. Heyers
Published in: Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, Issue Volume 16, 2022, Page(s) Article 853401, ISSN 1662-5129
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2022.853401

Magnetic field effects on radical pair reactions: estimation of B1/2 for flavin-tryptophan radical pairs in cryptochromes

Author(s): S. Y. Wong, P. Benjamin and P. J. Hore
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 25, 2022, Page(s) 975-982, ISSN 1463-9076
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d2cp03793a

Immunohistochemical characterization of bipolar cells in four distantly related avian species

Author(s): V. Balaji, S. Haverkamp, P. Kumar Seth, A. Günther, E. Mendoza, J. Schmidt, M. Herrmann, L. Lovis Pfeiffer, P. Nemec, C. Scharff, H. Mouritsen, and K. Dedek
Published in: Journal of Comparative Neurology, Issue 531, 2023, Page(s) 561–581, ISSN 1613-6810
Publisher: Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbbH & Co.
DOI: 10.1002/cne.25443

On the anisotropic weak magnetic field effect in radical-pair reactions

Author(s): Jiate Luo
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue Volume 158, issue 23, 2023, ISSN 1089-7690
Publisher: AIP
DOI: 10.1063/5.0149644

Singlet–triplet dephasing in radical pairs in avian cryptochromes leads to time-dependent magnetic field effects

Author(s): Matthew J. Golesworthy; Tilo Zollitsch; Jiate Luo; Dan Selby; Lauren E. Jarocha; Kevin B. Henbest; Olivier Paré-Labrosse; Rabea Bartölke; Jessica Schmidt; Jingjing Xu; Henrik Mouritsen; P. J. Hore; Christiane R. Timmel; Stuart R. Mackenzie
Published in: J. Chem. Phys. 159, 105102 (2023), Issue 12, 2023, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0166675

Protein-protein interaction of the putative magnetoreceptor cryptochrome 4 expressed in the avian retina

Author(s): Haijia Wu, Alexander Scholten, Angelika Einwich, Henrik Mouritsen, Karl-Wilhelm Koch
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-64429-y

Angular Precision of Radical Pair Compass Magnetoreceptors

Author(s): Yi Ren, Hamish G. Hiscock, P.J. Hore
Published in: Biophysical Journal, Issue 120/3, 2021, Page(s) 547-555, ISSN 0006-3495
Publisher: Biophysical Society
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.12.023

Upper bound for broadband radiofrequency field disruption of magnetic compass orientation in night-migratory songbirds

Author(s): Bo Leberecht; Siu Ying Wong; Baladev Satish; Sara Döge; Jakob Hindman; Lalitha Venkatraman; Shambhavi Apte; Katrin Haase; Isabelle Musielak; Glen Dautaj; Ilia A. Solov’yov; Michael Winklhofer; Henrik Mouritsen; P. J. Hore
Published in: Vol. 120 No 28, Issue 11, 2023, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2301153120

Nuclear polarization effects in cryptochrome-based magnetoreception

Author(s): Siu Ying Wong, Ilia A. Solov’yov, P. J. Hore, Daniel R. Kattnig
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 154/3, 2021, Page(s) 035102, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0038947

Broadband 75–85 MHz radiofrequency fields disrupt magnetic compass orientation in night-migratory songbirds consistent with a flavin-based radical pair magnetoreceptor

Author(s): Bo Leberecht; Dmitry Kobylkov; Thiemo Karwinkel; Sara Döge; Lars Burnus; Siu Ying Wong; Shambhavi Apte; Katrin Haase; Isabelle Musielak; Raisa Chetverikova; Glen Dautaj; Marco Bassetto; Michael Winklhofer; P. J. Hore; Henrik Mouritsen
Published in: Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2022, ISSN 0340-7594
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-021-01537-8

Chemical and structural analysis of a photoactive vertebrate cryptochrome from pigeon

Author(s): Brian D. Zoltowski, Yogarany Chelliah, Anushka Wickramaratne, Lauren Jarocha, Nischal Karki, Wei Xu, Henrik Mouritsen, Peter J. Hore, Ryan E. Hibbs, Carla B. Green, Joseph S. Takahashi
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 116/39, 2019, Page(s) 19449-19457, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1907875116

Viability of superoxide-containing radical pairs as magnetoreceptors

Author(s): Thomas C. Player, P. J. Hore
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 151/22, 2019, Page(s) 225101, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.5129608

Navigating at night: fundamental limits on the sensitivity of radical pair magnetoreception under dim light

Author(s): H. G. Hiscock, T. W. Hiscock, D. R. Kattnig, T. Scrivener, A. M. Lewis, D. E. Manolopoulos, P. J. Hore
Published in: Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics, Issue 52, 2019, ISSN 0033-5835
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0033583519000076

Electromagnetic 0.1–100 kHz noise does not disrupt orientation in a night-migrating songbird implying a spin coherence lifetime of less than 10 µs

Author(s): Dmitry Kobylkov, Joe Wynn, Michael Winklhofer, Raisa Chetverikova, Jingjing Xu, Hamish Hiscock, P. J. Hore, Henrik Mouritsen
Published in: Journal of The Royal Society Interface, Issue 16/161, 2019, Page(s) 20190716, ISSN 1742-5689
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2019.0716

How quantum is radical pair magnetoreception?

Author(s): Thomas P. Fay, Lachlan P. Lindoy, David E. Manolopoulos, P. J. Hore
Published in: Faraday Discussions, Issue 221, 2020, Page(s) 77-91, ISSN 1359-6640
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c9fd00049f

Distinguishing between coherent and incoherent signals in excitation-emission spectroscopy.

Author(s): Daniel C. Lünemann; Anitta R. Thomas; Jingjing Xu; Rabea Bartölke; Henrik Mouritsen; Antonietta De Sio; Christoph Lienau
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 6, 2021, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.428850

Direct interaction of avian cryptochrome 4 with a cone specific G-protein

Author(s): K. Görtemaker, C. Yee, R. Bartölke, H. Behrmann, J. O. Voss, J. Schmidt, J. Xu, V. Solovyeva, B. Leberecht, E. Behrmann, H. Mouritsen and K.-W. Koch
Published in: Cells, Issue 11, 2022, Page(s) 2043, ISSN 2073-4409
Publisher: Cells MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cells11132043

Naive songbirds show seasonally appropriate spring orientation in the laboratory despite having never completed first migration

Author(s): J. Wynn, B. Leberecht, M. Liedvogel, L. Burnus, R. Chetverikova, S. Döge, T. Karwinkel, D. Kobylkov, J. Xu and H. Mouritsen
Published in: Biology Letters, Issue 19, 2023, Page(s) 20220478., ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: The Royal Society Publishing
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2022.0478

Cryptochrome 1a localisation in light- and dark-adapted retinae of several migratory and non-migratory bird species: no signs of light-dependent activation

Author(s): Petra Bolte, Angelika Einwich, Pranav K. Seth, Raisa Chetverikova, Dominik Heyers, Irina Wojahn, Ulrike Janssen-Bienhold, Regina Feederle, Peter Hore, Karin Dedek, Henrik Mouritsen
Published in: Ethology Ecology & Evolution, 2021, Page(s) 1-25, ISSN 0394-9370
Publisher: Universita degli Studi di Firenze
DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2020.1870571

Double cones and the diverse connectivity of photoreceptors and bipolar cells in an avian retina

Author(s): Anja Günther, Karin Dedek, Silke Haverkamp, Stephan Irsen, Kevin L. Briggman, Henrik Mouritsen
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, 2021, Page(s) JN-RM-2495-20, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2495-20.2021

Detection of magnetic field effects by confocal microscopy

Author(s): Victoire Déjean, Marcin Konowalczyk, Jamie Gravell, Matthew J. Golesworthy, Catlin Gunn, Nils Pompe, Olivia Foster Vander Elst, Ke-Jie Tan, Mark Oxborrow, Dirk G. A. L. Aarts, Stuart R. Mackenzie, Christiane R. Timmel
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 11/30, 2020, Page(s) 7772-7781, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0sc01986k

Morphology, biochemistry and connectivity of Cluster N and the hippocampal formation in a migratory bird

Author(s): D. Heyers, I. Musielak, K. Haase, C. Herold, P. Bolte, O. Güntürkün, and H. Mouritsen
Published in: Brain Structure Function, Issue 227, 2022, Page(s) 2731-2749, ISSN 1863-2653
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-022-02566-y

Modeling spin relaxation in complex radical systems using MolSpin

Author(s): L. Gerhards, C. Nielsen, D. R. Kattnig, P. J. Hore, and I. A. Solov’yov
Published in: Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2023, ISSN 0192-8651
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.27120

Conditions for EPR detection of chirality-induced spin selectivity in spin-polarized radical pairs in isotropic solution

Author(s): Yi Ren; P. J. Hore
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue volume 159, issue 14, 2023, Page(s) article 145104, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0171700

Navigation of migratory songbirds: a quantum magnetic compass sensor

Author(s): S. Y. Wong, A. Frederiksen, M. Hanić, F. Schuhmann, G. Grüning, P. J. Hore and I. A. Solov’yov
Published in: Neuroforum, Issue 27, 2021, Page(s) 141-150, ISSN 0947-0875
Publisher: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/nf-2021-0005

Localisation of cryptochrome 2 in the avian retina.

Author(s): Angelika Einwich; Pranav Kumar Seth; Rabea Bartölke; Petra Bolte; Regina Feederle; Karin Dedek; Henrik Mouritsen
Published in: Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology, Issue 3, 2021, ISSN 0340-7594
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-021-01506-1

A novel isoform of cryptochrome 4 (Cry4b) is expressed in the retina of a night-migratory songbird

Author(s): Angelika Einwich, Karin Dedek, Pranav Kumar Seth, Sascha Laubinger, Henrik Mouritsen
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-72579-2

How Migrating Birds Use Quantum Effects to Navigate

Author(s): P. J. Hore & H. Mouritsen
Published in: Scientific American, Issue 326, 2022, Page(s) 27-31, ISSN 0036-8733
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican0422-26

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