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J C Weaver1, T E Vaughan, R D Astumian

  • 1Harvard-M.I.T. Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA. jim@hstbme.mit.edu

Nature
|June 23, 2000
PubMed
まとめ

動物は磁場検出のために磁石だけでなく化学反応も利用する. この研究は,化学的ベースの生物学的コンパスをモデル化し,反応速度が磁場に対して十分に敏感である場合に実現可能であると発見しました.

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