Do they see it at last? Insect magnetoreception after half a century

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Do they see it at last? Insect magnetoreception after half a century
Original language description
Insects were among the very first animal models used in research on animal magnetoreception in the 1960s. Pioneering decades were devoted to investigations of honeybee dance orientations or location of feeder - behaviors which both turned out to be sensitive to the magnetic field. Nowadays, research on insect magnetic compass makes use of genetic tools on laboratory species like Drosophila and Blattella or classical migrant butterfly Danaus plexippus aiming at the old cardinal question: how does the receptor work? While at the beginning of the research magnetite particles rotating putatively as tiny compass needles in tissues were considered the only acceptable mechanism, last decade of research on insects brought a number of evidences in line with alternative hypothesis of radical pairs based on Cryptochromes ? pigments likely controlling biochemical reactions sensitive to light and geomagnetic field.
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GC13-11908J" target="_blank" >GC13-11908J: Physiological and functional genetic analysis of magnetoreception on an insect model.</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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