Magnetoreception

Magnetoreception is a sense which allows an

organism to detect the Earth's magnetic field. Animals
with this sense include arthropods, molluscs, and
vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and
mammals, though not humans). The sense is mainly
used for orientation and navigation, but it may help
some animals to form regional maps. Experiments on
migratory birds suggest that they make use of a
cryptochrome protein in the eye, relying on the
quantum radical pair mechanism to perceive magnetic
fields. This effect is extremely sensitive to weak
magnetic fields, and readily disturbed by radio-
frequency interference, unlike a conventional iron
compass.

Birds have iron-containing materials in their upper

beaks. There is some evidence that this provides a
magnetic sense, mediated by the trigeminal nerve, but
the mechanism is unknown.
Experiments on European robins, which are
migratory, suggest their magnetic sense makes
use of the quantum radical pair mechanism.

Cartilaginous fish including sharks and stingrays can

detect small variations in electric potential with their
electroreceptive organs, the ampullae of Lorenzini. These appear to be able to detect magnetic fields by
induction. There is some evidence that these fish use magnetic fields in navigation.

Contents
History
Proposed mechanisms
In animals
Cryptochrome
Iron-based
Electromagnetic induction
Passive alignment in bacteria
Unanswered questions
Taxonomic range
In molluscs
In insects
In vertebrates
In fish
In amphibians
In reptiles
 In birds
In mammals
See also
References

History
Biologists have long wondered whether migrating animals such as birds and sea turtles have an inbuilt
magnetic compass, enabling them to navigate using the Earth's magnetic field. Until late in the 20th century,
evidence for this was essentially only behavioural: many experiments demonstrated that animals could
indeed derive information from the magnetic field around them, but gave no indication of the mechanism.
In 1972, Roswitha and Wolfgang Wiltschko showed that migratory birds responded to the direction and
inclination (dip) of the magnetic field. In 1977, M. M. Walker and colleagues identified iron-based
(magnetite) magnetoreceptors in the snouts of rainbow trout. In 2003, G. Fleissner and colleagues found
iron-based receptors in the upper beaks of homing pigeons, both seemingly connected to the animal's
trigeminal nerve. Research took a different direction in 2000, however, when Thorsten Ritz and colleagues
suggested that a photoreceptor protein in the eye, cryptochrome, was a magnetoreceptor, working at a
molecular scale by quantum entanglement.[1]

Proposed mechanisms

In animals

In animals, the mechanism for magnetoreception is still under investigation. Two main hypotheses are
currently being discussed: one proposing a quantum compass based on a radical pair mechanism,[2] the
other postulating a more conventional iron-based magnetic compass with magnetite particles.[3]

Cryptochrome
 The radical pair mechanism has been proposed for quantum magnetoreception in birds.[4]

According to the first model, magnetoreception is possible via the radical pair mechanism,[5] which is well-
established in spin chemistry. The mechanism requires two molecules, each with unpaired electrons, at a
suitable distance from each other. When these can exist in states either with their spin axes in the same
direction, or in opposite directions, the molecules oscillate rapidly between the two states. That oscillation is
extremely sensitive to magnetic fields.[6][7][8][9] Because the Earth's magnetic field is extremely weak, at
0.5 gauss, the radical pair mechanism is currently the only credible way that the Earth's magnetic field
could cause chemical changes.[9]

In 1978, Schulten and colleagues proposed that this was the mechanism of magnetoreception.[10] In 2000,
scientists proposed that cryptochrome - a flavoprotein in the rod cells in the eyes of birds - was the
"magnetic molecule" behind this effect.[11] It is the only protein known to form photoinduced radical-pairs
in animals.[5] The function of cryptochrome varies by species, but its mechanism is always the same:
exposure to blue light excites an electron in a chromophore, which causes the formation of a radical-pair
whose electrons are quantum entangled, enabling the precision needed for magnetoreception.[12][13]

Many lines of evidence point to cryptochrome and radical pairs as the mechanism of magnetoreception in
birds:[4]

Despite 20 years of searching, no biomolecule other than cryptochrome has been identified
capable of supporting radical pairs.[4]
In cryptochrome, a yellow molecule flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) can absorb a photon
of blue light, putting the cryptochrome into an activated state: an electron is transferred from
a tryptophan amino acid to the FAD molecule, forming a radical pair.[4]
Of the six types of cryptochrome in birds, cryptochrome-4a (Cry4a) binds FAD much more
tightly than the rest.[4]
Cry4a levels in migratory birds, which rely on navigation for their survival, are highest during
the spring and autumn migration periods, when navigation is most critical.[4]
 The Cry4a protein from the European robin, a migratory bird, is much more sensitive to
magnetic fields than similar but not identical Cry4a from pigeons and chickens, which are
non-migratory.[4]

These findings together suggest that the Cry4a of migratory birds has been selected for its magnetic
sensitivity.[4]

Behavioral experiments on migratory birds also support this theory. Caged migratory birds such as robins
display migratory restlessness, known by ethologists as Zugunruhe, in spring and autumn: they often orient
themselves in the direction in which they would migrate. In 2004, Thorsten Ritz showed that a weak radio-
frequency electromagnetic field, chosen to be at the same frequency as the singlet-triplet oscillation of
cryptochrome radical pairs, effectively interfered with the birds' orientation. The field would not have
interfered with an iron-based compass. Further, birds are unable to detect a 180 degree reversal of the
magnetic field, something they would straightforwardly detect with an iron-based compass.[4]

Very weak radio-frequency interference prevents migratory robins from orienting correctly to
the Earth's magnetic field. Since this would not interfere with an iron compass, the
experiments imply that the birds use a radical-pair mechanism.[4]

From 2007 onwards, Henrik Mouritsen attempted to replicate this experiment. Instead, he found that robins
were unable to orient themselves in the wooden huts he used. Suspecting extremely weak radio-frequency
interference from other electrical equipment on the campus, he tried shielding the huts with aluminium
sheeting, which blocks electrical noise but not magnetic fields. When he earthed the sheeting, the robins
oriented correctly; when the earthing was removed, the robins oriented at random. Finally, when the robins
were tested in a hut far from electrical equipment, the birds oriented correctly. These effects imply a radical-
pair compass, not an iron one.[4]

In 2016, Wiltschko and colleagues showed that cryptochrome can be activated in the dark, removing the
objection that the blue light-activated mechanism would not work when birds were migrating at night. A
different radical pair is formed by re-oxidation of fully-reduced FADH−. Experiments with European
robins, using flickering light and a magnetic field switched off when the light was on, showed that the birds
detected the field without light. The birds were unaffected by local anaesthesia of the upper beak, showing
that in these test conditions orientation was not from iron-based receptors in the beak. In their view,
cryptochrome and its radical pairs provide the only model that can explain the avian magnetic compass.[12]
A scheme with three radicals rather than two has been proposed as more resistant to spin relaxation and
explaining the observed behaviour better.[14]

Iron-based

The second proposed model for magnetoreception relies on clusters composed of iron, a natural mineral
with strong magnetism, used by magnetotactic bacteria. Iron clusters have been observed in the upper beak
of homing pigeons,[15] and other taxa.[16][5][17][18] Iron-based systems could form a magnetoreceptive
basis for many species including turtles.[9] Both the exact location and ultrastructure of birds' iron-
containing magnetoreceptors remain unknown; they are believed to be in the upper beak, and to be
connected to the brain by the trigeminal nerve. This system is in addition to the cryptochrome system in the
retina of birds. Iron-based systems of unknown function might also exist in other vertebrates.[19]

Electromagnetic induction

Another possible mechanism of magnetoreception in animals

is electromagnetic induction in cartilaginous fish, namely
sharks, stingrays, and chimaeras. These fish have
electroreceptive organs, the ampullae of Lorenzini, which
can detect small variations in electric potential. The organs
are mucus-filled and consist of canals that connect pores in
the skin of the mouth and nose to small sacs within the
animal's flesh. They are used to sense the weak electric fields The yellow stingray is able to sense the
of prey and predators. These organs have been predicted to intensity and inclination angle of a magnetic
sense magnetic fields, by means of Faraday's law of field.[20]
induction: as a conductor moves through a magnetic field an
electric potential is generated. In this case the conductor is
the animal moving through a magnetic field, and the potential induced (Vind ) depends on the time (t)-
varying rate of magnetic flux (Φ) through the conductor according to

The ampullae of Lorenzini detect very small fluctuations in the potential difference between the pore and
the base of the electroreceptor sack. An increase in potential results in a decrease in the rate of nerve
activity. This is analogous to the behavior of a current-carrying conductor.[21][22][23] Sandbar sharks,
Carcharinus plumbeus, have been shown to be able to detect magnetic fields; the experiments provided
non-definitive evidence that the animals had a magnetoreceptor, rather than relying on induction and
electroreceptors.[23] Electromagnetic induction has not been studied in non-aquatic animals.[9]
The yellow stingray, Urobatis jamaicensis, is able to distinguish between the intensity and inclination angle
of a magnetic field in the laboratory. This suggests that cartilaginous fishes may use the Earth's magnetic
field for navigation.[20]

Passive alignment in bacteria

Magnetotactic bacteria of multiple taxa

contain sufficient magnetic material in the
form of magnetosomes, nanometer-sized
particles of magnetite,[25] that the Earth's
magnetic field passively aligns them, just as
it does with a compass needle. The bacteria
are thus not actually sensing the magnetic
Magnetite magnetosomes in Gammaproteobacteria strain SS-
field.[26][27]
5. (A) Chain of highly elongated magnetosomes. (B) Part of a
A possible but unexplored mechanism of chain. (C) The magnetosome in the lower right in (B), viewed
magnetoreception in animals is through along the direction, with its Fourier transform in the lower
endosymbiosis with magnetotactic bacteria, right.[24]
whose DNA is widespread in animals. This
would involve having these bacteria living
inside an animal, and their magnetic alignment being used as part of a magnetoreceptive system.[28]

Unanswered questions
It remains likely that two or more complementary mechanisms play a role in magnetic field detection in
animals. Of course, this potential dual mechanism theory raises the questions of to what degree each
method is responsible for the stimulus, and how they produce a signal in response to the weak magnetic
field of the Earth.[9]

In addition, it is possible that magnetic senses may be different for different species. Some species may only
be able to detect north and south, while others may only be able to differentiate between the equator and the
poles. Although the ability to sense direction is important in migratory navigation, many animals have the
ability to sense small fluctuations in earth's magnetic field to map their position to within a few
kilometers.[9][29]

Taxonomic range
Magnetoreception is widely-distributed taxonomically. It is present in many of the animals so far
investigated. These include arthropods, molluscs, and among vertebrates in fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds,
and mammals. Its status in other groups remains unknown.[30]

The ability to detect and respond to magnetic fields may exist in plants, possibly as in animals mediated by
cryptochrome. Experiments by different scientists have identified multiple effects, including changes to
growth rate, seed germination, mitochondrial structure, and responses to gravity (geotropism). The results
have sometimes been controversial, and no mechanism has been definitely identified. The ability may be
widely distributed, but its taxonomic range in plants is unknown.[31]

Eukaryotes   Animals Vertebrates  

cryptochrome         
Fishes inc. sockeye salmon
   Amphibians inc. cave salamander
 

  Mammals inc. big brown bat

 
 
 
    Reptiles inc. box turtle
   
 
 
  Birds inc. homing pigeon
 

 
Diptera inc. fruit fly
 
Insects
 
   
Hymenoptera inc. honey bee
   

  Molluscs inc. giant sea slug

 

  Plants inc. pea

 

In molluscs

The giant sea slug Tochuina gigantea (formerly T. tetraquetra), a mollusc, orients its body between north
and east prior to a full moon.[32] A 1991 experiment offered a right turn to geomagnetic south and a left
turn to geomagnetic east (a Y-shaped maze). 80% of Tochuina made a turn to magnetic east. When the field
was reversed, the animals displayed no preference for either turn.[33][34] Tochuina's nervous system is
composed of individually identifiable neurons, four of which are stimulated by changes in the applied
magnetic field, and two which are inhibited by such changes.[34] The tracks of the similar species Tritonia
exsulans become more variable in direction when close to strong rare-earth magnets placed in their natural
habitat, suggesting that the animal uses its magnetic sense continuously to help it travel in a straight line.[35]

In insects
The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster may be able to orient to magnetic fields. In one choice test, flies
were loaded into an apparatus with two arms that were surrounded by electric coils. Current was run
through each of the coils, but only one was configured to produce a 5-Gauss magnetic field (about ten
times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field) at a time. The flies were trained to associate the magnetic
field with a sucrose reward. Flies with an altered cryptochrome, such as with an antisense mutation, were
not sensitive to magnetic fields.[36]

Magnetoreception has been studied in detail in insects including honey bees, ants and termites.[37] Ants and
bees navigate using their magnetic sense both locally (near their nests) and when migrating.[38] In
particular, the Brazilian stingless bee Schwarziana quadripunctata is able to detect magnetic fields using the
thousands of hair-like sensilla on its antennae.[39][40]

In vertebrates

In fish

Studies of magnetoreception in bony fish have been conducted mainly with salmon. Both sockeye salmon
(Oncorhynchus nerka) and Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tschawytscha) have a compass sense. This
was demonstrated in experiments in the 1980s by changing the axis of a magnetic field around a circular
tank of young fish; they reoriented themselves in line with the field.[41][42]

In amphibians

Some of the earliest studies of amphibian magnetoreception were conducted with cave salamanders
(Eurycea lucifuga). Researchers housed groups of cave salamanders in corridors aligned with either
magnetic north–south, or magnetic east–west. In tests, the magnetic field was experimentally rotated by
90°, and salamanders were placed in cross-shaped structures (one corridor along the new north–south axis,
one along the new east–west axis). The salamanders responded to the field's rotation.[43]

Red-spotted newts (Notophthalmus viridescens) respond to drastic increases in water temperature by

heading for land. The behaviour is disrupted if the magnetic field is experimentally altered, showing that the
newts use the field for orientation.[44][45]

Both European toads (Bufo bufo) and natterjack toads (Epidalea calamita) toads rely on vision and
olfaction when migrating to breeding sites, but magnetic fields may also play a role. When randomly
displaced 150 metres (490 ft) from their breeding sites, these toads can navigate their way back,[46] but this
ability can be disrupted by fitting them with small magnets.[47]

In reptiles

The majority of study on magnetoreception in reptiles involves turtles. Early support for magnetoreception
in turtles was provided in a 2010 experiment on Terrapene carolina, a box turtle. After teaching a group of
these box turtles to swim to either the east or west end of an experimental tank, a strong magnet disrupted
the learned routes.[48][49]

Orientation toward the sea, as seen in turtle hatchlings, may rely partly on magnetoreception. In loggerhead
and leatherback turtles, breeding takes place on beaches, and, after hatching, offspring crawl rapidly to the
sea. Although differences in light density seem to drive this behaviour, magnetic alignment appears to play
a part. For instance, the natural directional preferences held by
these hatchlings (which lead them from beaches to the sea) reverse
upon experimental inversion of the magnetic poles.[50]

In birds

Homing pigeons use magnetic fields as part of their complex

navigation system.[51] William Keeton showed that time-shifted
homing pigeons (acclimatised in the laboratory to a different time-
Magnetoreception plays a part in
zone) are unable to orient themselves correctly on a clear, sunny
guiding loggerhead hatchlings to the
day; this is attributed to time-shifted pigeons being unable to
sea
compensate accurately for the movement of the sun during the day.
Conversely, time-shifted pigeons released on overcast days
navigate correctly, suggesting that pigeons can use magnetic fields
to orient themselves; this ability can be disrupted with magnets attached to the birds' backs.[52][53] Pigeons
can detect magnetic anomalies as weak as 1.86 gauss.[54]

For a long time the trigeminal system was the suggested location for a magnetite-based magnetoreceptor in
the pigeon. This was based on two findings: First, magnetite-containing cells were reported in specific
locations in the upper beak.[55] However, the cells proved to be immune system macrophages, not neurons
able to detect magnetic fields.[56][57] Second, pigeon magnetic field detection is impaired by sectioning the
trigeminal nerve and by application of lidocaine, an anaesthetic, to the olfactory mucosa.[58] However,
lidocaine treatment might lead to unspecific effects and not represent a direct interference with potential
magnetoreceptors.[57] As a result, an involvement of the trigeminal system is still debated. In the search for
magnetite receptors, a large iron-containing organelle (the cuticulosome) of unknown function was found in
the inner ear of pigeons.[59][60] Areas of the pigeon brain that respond with increased activity to magnetic
fields are the posterior vestibular nuclei, dorsal thalamus, hippocampus, and visual hyperpallium.[61]

Domestic hens have iron mineral deposits in the sensory dendrites in the upper beak and are capable of
magnetoreception.[62][63] Beak trimming causes loss of the magnetic sense.[64]

In mammals

Some mammals are capable of magnetoreception. When woodmice are removed from their home area and
deprived of visual and olfactory cues, they orient towards their homes until an inverted magnetic field is
applied to their cage.[65] When the same mice are allowed access to visual cues, they are able to orient
themselves towards home despite the presence of inverted magnetic fields. This indicates that woodmice
use magnetic fields to orient themselves when no other cues are available. The magnetic sense of
woodmice is likely based on a radical-pair mechanism.[66]

The Zambian mole-rat, a subterranean mammal, uses magnetic fields to aid in nest orientation.[68] In
contrast to woodmice, Zambian mole-rats do not rely on radical-pair based magnetoreception, perhaps due
to their subterranean lifestyle. Experimental exposure to magnetic fields leads to an increase in neural
activity within the superior colliculus, as measured by immediate gene expression. The activity level of
neurons within two levels of the superior colliculus, the outer sublayer of the intermediate gray layer and
the deep gray layer, were elevated in a non-specific manner when exposed to various magnetic fields.
However, within the inner sublayer of the intermediate gray layer (InGi) there were two or three clusters of
cells that respond in a more specific manner. The more time the mole rats were exposed to a magnetic field,
the greater the immediate early gene expression within the InGi.[67]
Bats may use magnetic fields to orient themselves. They use
echolocation to navigate over short distances. When big brown bats
(Eptesicus fuscus) are taken from their home roosts and exposed to
magnetic fields rotated 90 degrees from magnetic north, they are
disoriented; it is unclear whether they use the magnetic sense as a
map, a compass, or a compass calibrator.[69] Another bat species,
the greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis), appear to use the
earth's magnetic field to provide their compass, but to calibrate this
with the direction of sunset.[70] The Zambian mole-rat is one of
several mammals that use magnetic
Red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) may use magnetoreception when fields, in their case for nest
predating small rodents like mice and voles. They attack this kind orientation.[67]
of prey using a specific high-jump, preferring a north-eastern
compass direction. Successful attacks are tightly clustered to the
north.[71]

Humans do not have a magnetic sense, despite having a cryptochrome (cry2) in the retina which is
magnetosensitive when exposed to light.[72] A 2019 study found that magnetic fields do affect human
alpha brain waves, but it is not known whether this results in any change in behaviour.[72][73]

See also
Electroreception
Magnetobiology
Quantum biology
Salmon run

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