HIGHLIGHTS
- who: Roswitha Wiltschko et al. from the Germany Germany Germany Germany have published the article: Magnetoreception: activated cryptochrome 1a concurs with magnetic orientation in birds, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of 13/09/2022
- how: For this study the authors used 25 chickens between 18 and 22 days old that is of an age where chicks can be trained to magnetic directions and thus have a functioning magnetic compass . By analogy with other known cryptochromes the following paradigm is assumed in the dark Cry1a is present with flavin in the fully oxidized form FADox.
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