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SUBMITTER: Wiltschko R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4892254 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wiltschko Roswitha R Ahmad Margaret M Nießner Christine C Gehring Dennis D Wiltschko Wolfgang W
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20160501 118
The Radical Pair Model proposes that the avian magnetic compass is based on spin-chemical processes: since the ratio between the two spin states singlet and triplet of radical pairs depends on their alignment in the magnetic field, it can provide information on magnetic directions. Cryptochromes, blue light-absorbing flavoproteins, with flavin adenine dinucleotide as chromophore, are suggested as molecules forming the radical pairs underlying magnetoreception. When activated by light, cryptochro ...[more]