FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term magnetoreception ID (Ontology) GO:0050958 (Gene Ontology)
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.[ PubMed:15886990 ]
Also Known As "magnetoception" ; "sensory perception of magnetic field"
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   |__sensory perception
       |__magnetoreception  1 rec.
           |__detection of light stimulus involved in magnetoreception 1 rec.
           |__magnetoreception by sensory perception of chemical stimulus
           |   |__detection of chemical stimulus involved in magnetoreception
           |__magnetoreception by sensory perception of electrical stimulus
           |   |__detection of electrical stimulus involved in magnetoreception
           |__magnetoreception by sensory perception of mechanical stimulus
               |__detection of mechanical stimulus involved in magnetoreception
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    "sensory perception of magnetic field" EXACT
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Wikipedia:Magnetoception