Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Zebrafish and medaka offer insights into the neurobehavioral correlates of vertebrate magnetoreception

  • Ahne Myklatun,
  • Antonella Lauri,
  • Stephan H. K. Eder,
  • Michele Cappetta,
  • Denis Shcherbakov,
  • Wolfgang Wurst,
  • Michael Winklhofer,
  • Gil G. Westmeyer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03090-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Advances in animal magnetoreception have been limited by a lack of tractable vertebrate laboratory models. Here, the authors demonstrate light-independent magnetoreception in mature zebrafish and medaka, as well as magnetosensitive locomotion in juvenile medaka associated with neuronal activation in the lateral hindbrain.