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GO: Biological Process
magnetoreception
- Term ID
- GO:0050958
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- magnetoception
- sensory perception of magnetic field
- Definition
- The series of events required for an organism to receive a stimulus relating to a magnetic field, convert it to a molecular signal, and recognize and characterize the signal. Stimuli may be chemical, mechanical or electrical and interpreting these stimuli allows an organism to determine the orientation of a magnetic field. Magnetoreception also involves the perception of light; birds cannot orient without the presence of short wavelength (blue/green) light. (2)
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