About the Authors

Miriam Liedvogel

Affiliations VW Nachswuchgruppe Animal Navigation, IBU, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Kiminori Maeda

Affiliation Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Kevin Henbest

Affiliation Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Erik Schleicher

Affiliation Institut für Experimentalphysik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Simon

Affiliation DIARECT AG, Freiburg, Germany

Christiane R. Timmel

Affiliation Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

P. J. Hore

Affiliation Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Henrik Mouritsen

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: henrik.mouritsen@uni-oldenburg.de

Affiliation VW Nachswuchgruppe Animal Navigation, IBU, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HM ML TS CT. Performed the experiments: ML KM KH ES. Analyzed the data: ML KM KH ES CT PH. Wrote the paper: HM ML CT PH.