Thesis
Spin-selective chemical reactions in radical pair magnetoreception
- Abstract:
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Many animals on earth need to navigate in their own environments for breeding and foraging. The ability to determine a correct heading and the current location for a migratory bird is critical for its survival. Animals that are sensitive to the Earth’s magnetic field can use it to obtain their direction of travel.
In 2000, a paper suggested that radical pair reaction could form the basis for magnetoreception in migratory birds and a flavoprotein, cryptochrome, was proposed as the ca...
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+ Hore, P
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Chemistry
Sub department:
Physical & Theoretical Chem
Role:
Supervisor
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2014
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:8536
- Deposit date:
- 2014-06-06
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Jason Ching Shun Lau
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- This thesis is not currently available in ORA.
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