Animal Navigation
Publications from the group members
Peer-reviewed research papers:
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| 2010: | Gerald Falkenberg, Gerta Fleissner, Kirsten Schuchardt, Markus Kuehbacher, Peter Thalau, Henrik Mouritsen, Dominik Heyers, Gerd Wellenreuther, Guenther Fleissner "Avian Magnetoreception: Elaborate Iron Mineral Containing Dendrites in the Upper Beak Seem to Be a Common Feature of Birds";PlosOne, February 2010 , Volume 5, Issue 2, e9231, 1 - 9; link
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| 2010: | Ritz T., Ahmad M., Mouritsen H., Wiltschko R. & Wiltschko W. "Photoreceptor-based magnetoreception: Optimal design of receptor molecules, cells, and neuronal processing", J. Royal. Soc. Interface, in press;
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| 2009: | Liedvogel M. & Mouritsen, H. "Cryptochromes – a potential magnetoreceptor: what do we know and what do we want to know?", J. Royal. Soc. Interface, in press; doi:10.1098/rsif.2009.0411.focus link
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| 2009: | Hein, C. M., Zapka, M., Heyers, D., Kutzschbauch, S., Schneider, N.-L. & Mouritsen, H. "Night-migratory garden warblers can orient with their magnetic compass using the left, the right, or both eyes", J. Royal. Soc. Interface, in press; doi:10.1098/rsif.2009.0376.focus link
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Kornmeier J, Hein CM, Bach M. "Multistable Perception: When bottom-up and top-down coincide", Brain and Cognation, 69: 138 - 147. Link
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| 2009: | Zapka, M., Heyers, D., Hein, C. M., Engels, S., Schneider, N.-L., Hans, J., Weiler, S., Dreyer, D., Kishkinev, D., Wild, J. M. & Mouritsen, H. "Visual but not trigeminal mediation of magnetic compass information in a migratory bird", Nature 461, 1274-1277. Link
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| 2009: | Mouritsen, H., Feenders, G., Hegemann, A. & Liedvogel, M. "Thermal paper can replace typewriter correction paper in Emlen funnels", J. Ornithol. 150, 713-715. Link
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| 2008: | Chapman, J.W., Reynolds, D.R., Mouritsen, H., Hill, J.H., Riley, J.R., Sivell, D., Smith, A.D. & Woiwod, I.P. "Wind Selection and Drift Compensation Optimise Migratory Pathways in a High-flying Moth", Current Biology, 18: 514-518. Link
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Feenders, G., Liedvogel, M., Rivas, M., Zapka, M., Horita, H., Hara, E., Wada, K., Mouritsen, H. & Jarvis, E.D. "Molecular Mapping of Movement-Associated Areas in the Avian Brain: A Motor Theory for Vocal Learning Origin." PLoS ONE, 3(3): e1768 Link |
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Heyers D., Manns M., Luksch H., Güntürkün O., Mouritsen H. "Calcium-binding proteins label functional streams of the visual system in a songbird", Brain Research Bulletin 75, 348-55. Link |
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Chernetsov N., Kishkinev D., & Mouritsen, H."A long-distance avian migrant compensates for longitudinal displacement during spring migration.", Current Biology 18: 1888-190. (PUBMED) |
| 2007: | Liedvogel M., Maeda K., Henbest K., Schleicher E., Simon T., Timmel C.R., Hore P.J. & Mouritsen, H."Chemical Magnetoreception: Bird Cryptochrome 1a Is Excited by Blue Light and Forms Long-Lived Radical-Pairs.", PLoS ONE 2(10): e1106 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001106. (Full Article)
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| 2007: | Heyers D., Manns M., Luksch H., Güntürkün O., Mouritsen H. "A visual pathway links brain structures active during magnetic compass orientation in migratory birds", PLoS ONE 2(9): e937. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000937. (Full Article)
This paper was reported in over 200 major news media (internet, radio, newspapers, search engines) around the world including Nature News, National Geographic, BBC, Reuters, Yahoo, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Spiegel etc. |
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Liedvogel, M., Feenders, G., Wada, K., Troje, N.F., Jarvis, E. D. & Mouritsen, H. (PUBMED) "Lateralised activation of Cluster N in the brains of migratory songbirds". European Journal of Neuroscience 25, 1166-1173. |
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Frost, B.J. & Mouritsen, H. "The neural mechanisms of long distance animal navigation". Current Opinion in Neurobiology 16, 481-488. (PUBMED) |
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Stalleicken, J., Labhart, T., & Mouritsen, H. "Physiological characterization of the compound eye in monarch butterflies with focus on the dorsal rim area". Journal of Comparative Physiology A 192, 321-331. (PUBMED) |
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Piersma, T., Pérez-Tris, J., Mouritsen, H., Bauchinger, U. & Bairlein, F. "Is there a ‘migratory syndrome’ common to all migrant birds?", Annals of the New York Academy of the Sciences, 1046, 282-394.(PUBMED) |
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Mouritsen, H. & Ritz, T. "Magnetoreception and it use in bird navigation", Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 15, 406-414. (review) (PUBMED) |
| 2005: | Mouritsen, H., Feenders, G., Liedvogel, M., Wada, K. & Jarvis, E. D. "A Night Vision Brain Area in Migratory Songbirds", PNAS 102, 8339-8344. (Link to article) |
| 2005: | Stalleicken, J., Mukhida, M., Labhart, T., Wehner, R., Frost, B. J. & Mouritsen, H. "Do Monarch butterflies use polarized skylight for oriention?", Journal of Experimental Biology 208, 2399-2408.
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| 2005: | Sauman, I., Briscoe, A.D., Zhu, H. Shi, D., Froy, O., Stalleicken, J., Yuan, Q., Casselman, A. & Reppert, S.M. "Connecting the Navigational Clock to Sun Compass Input in Monarch Butterfly Brain", Neuron 46, 1-11. Link
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| 2004: | Mouritsen, H., Feenders, G., Liedvogel, M. & Kropp, W. "Migratory birds use head scans to detect the direction of the Earth’s magnetic field ". Current Biology 14, 1946-1949.
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| 2004: | Mouritsen, H., Janssen-Bienhold, U., Liedvogel, M., Feenders, G., Stalleicken, J., Dirks, P. & Weiler, R. "Cryptochromes and activity markers co-localize in bird retina during magnetic Orientation". PNAS 101, 14294-14299. (Link to article)
[See also Science 306, 432-434 and Nature Review Neuroscience 5, 827]. This paper also reached the general public through the popular press (reported on in over 200 major news media around the world). |
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Cochran, B., Mouritsen, H. & Wikelski, M. "Migrating Songbirds Recalibrate their Magnetic Compass Daily from Twilight Cues." Science 304, 405-408. PUBMED News item: Science 304: 373 as pdf-fileThis paper was written up in over 200 major news media (TV, radio and newspapers) around the world including CNN, BBC, NBC, CBC, National Geographic, Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Daily Telegraph and Washington Post. |
| 2004: | Heyers D., Luksch H., Redies C. Selective synaptic cadherin expression by traced neurons of the chicken visual system." Neuroscience 127, 901-916. Link
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| 2003: | Mouritsen, H., Huyvaert, K.P., Frost, B.J. & Andersson, D.J. Wawed Albatrosses can navigate with strong magnets attached to their head." Journal of Experimental Biology, 206, 4155-4166. Link
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| 2003: | Andersson, D.J., Huyvaert, K.P., Wood, D.R., Gillikin, C.L., Frost, B.J. & Mouritsen, H. "At-sea movements of Waved Albatrosses and the Galapagos Marine Reserve." Biological Conservation, 110, 367-373.Link |
| 2003: | Mouritsen, H. "Spatiotemporal orientation strategies of long-distance migrants". In: Avian Migration (Eds: Berthold, Gwinner & Sonnenschein), Springer Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 493-513. (review) link
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| 2002: | Mouritsen, H. & Frost, B.J. "Virtual migration in tethered flying monarch butterflies reveals orientation mechanisms." PNAS 99, 10162-10166.Link to article
This paper was written up in Science´s news section, in New Scientist, and in many major news media around the world including CNN, CBC, Reuther´s, Ritzau, The Independent, Bild der Wissenschaft and Washington Post. |