Invertebrate Magnetoreception – In Between Orientation and
General Sensitivity

C 2020

Invertebrate Magnetoreception – In Between Orientation and General Sensitivity

VÁCHA, Martin

Basic information

Original name

Invertebrate Magnetoreception – In Between Orientation and General Sensitivity

Authors

VÁCHA, Martin (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

2. vyd. Academic Press, The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference, p. 445-458, 14 pp. 2020

Publisher

Elsevier

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

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URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/20:00114828

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

ISBN

978-0-12-805408-6

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.24159-X

Keywords in English

Compass; Circadian clock; Cryptochrome; Electromagnetic fields; Invertebrates; Magnetoreception

Abstract

V originále

Invertebrates are a heterogeneous group and it is much easier to define common features of vertebrates than of invertebrates, which account for about 95% of all animals. It is a small body size that is characteristic of most of them. They typically have a short adult lifespan, suffer from limited thermoregulation and bear large energetic demands for long distance migrations. This hampers the extent of invertebrate travelling and only few invertebrates undertake migrations that compare with those of birds, sea turtles, or fish. It does not seem to be necessary or even possible for small invertebrates to have sensory circuits that allow them to precisely localize celestial orientation cues or to calculate geographical position. Hence, magnetoreception, which is the ability to perceive the magnetic field of the Earth (Geomagnetic field – GMF), would not seem to be vital for most invertebrates. However, findings that animals that do not migrate – for example, Drosophila, the cockroach Periplaneta americana and the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans – can orient themselves according to GMF make us reconsider our intuitive and possibly too anthropocentric views about the ways in which magnetoreception may be useful to animals and what its relative importance is within the hierarchy of other senses. Laboratory and molecular techniques well accessible on invertebrate models may provide answers to the basic questions of magnetoreception: how, where in the body, and why GMF is perceived by animals. The goal of this review is to show what recent discoveries have been made in research into invertebrate magnetoreception since my previous survey (Vácha, 2017) and what future research directions can be expected. My review deals with the difficulties of replicating experiments as well as with the ongoing widening of this field: from a magnetic compass perspective to other cases of general magnetic sensitivity sharing the following common component – the Cryptochrome molecule.

Links

QK1910286, research and development project

Name: Efektivní postupy a strategie pro zvládání včelích chorob a udržitelný chov včelstev

Investor: Ministry of Agriculture of the CR

Citovat

VÁCHA, Martin. Invertebrate Magnetoreception – In Between Orientation and General Sensitivity. Online. In Fritzsch, B. and Bleckmann, H. The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference. 2nd ed. Academic Press: Elsevier, 2020, p. 445-458. ISBN 978-0-12-805408-6. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.24159-X.

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VÁCHA, Martin. Invertebrate Magnetoreception – In Between Orientation and General Sensitivity. Online. In Fritzsch, B. and Bleckmann, H. \textit{The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference}. 2nd ed. Academic Press: Elsevier, 2020, p.~445-458. ISBN~978-0-12-805408-6. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.24159-X.

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