Expression patterns of cryptochrome genes in avian retina suggest involvement of Cry4 in light - dependent magnetoreception (rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org)
Having previously found that molecules called cryptochromes embedded in birds» retinas both respond to light and detect magnetic fields, scientists at the University of Oldenburg in Germany recently showed that avian brains incorporate clever mechanisms for processing the geomagnetic information. (discovermagazine.com)
In a report published online this week by Science, Deng and his colleagues suggest that in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana, blue - light photoreceptor proteins known as cryptochromes cozy up to COP1. (sciencemag.org)