Blue light-dependent human magnetoreception in geomagnetic food orientation.

The Earth's geomagnetic field (GMF) is known to influence magnetoreceptive creatures, from bacteria to mammals as a sensory cue or a physiological modulator, despite it is largely thought that humans cannot sense the GMF. Here, we show that humans sense the GMF to orient their direction toward...

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Main Authors: Kwon-Seok Chae, In-Taek Oh, Sang-Hyup Lee, Soo-Chan Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211826