Magnetic-field perception

Kenneth J. Lohmann
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Kenneth J. Lohmann: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA. klohmann@email.unc.edu

Nature, 2010, vol. 464, issue 7292, 1140-1142

Abstract: The ability to perceive Earth's magnetic field, which at one time was dismissed as a physical impossibility, is now known to exist in diverse animals. The receptors for the magnetic sense remain elusive. But it seems that at least two underlying mechanisms exist — sometimes in the same organism.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1038/4641140a

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