Chemical Magnetoreception: Bird Cryptochrome 1a Is Excited by Blue Light and Forms Long-Lived Radical-Pairs

• 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

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• Kiminori Maeda,

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

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• Kevin Henbest,

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

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• Erik Schleicher,

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

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• Thomas Simon,

  Affiliation DIARECT AG, Freiburg, Germany

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• Christiane R. Timmel,

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

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• P. J. Hore,

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

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• 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

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