Research Highlights
Shining light on the 100-year mystery of birds sensing spring for offspring
Abstract:
Professor Takashi Yoshimura and colleagues at ITbM, Nagoya University have identified for the first time, a key photoreceptor cell deep inside the brain of birds, which takes the role of eyes in humans by directly responding to light and regulates breeding activity according to seasonal changes.
Japanese quail CSF-contacting neurons and rod cells
Journal Information:
"Intrinsic photosensitivity of a deep brain photoreceptor" Yusuke Nakane, Tsuyoshi Shimmura, Hideki Abe and Takashi Yoshimura, Current Biology, Volume 24, Issue 13, Pages R596-597. Selected as cover picture.
Links:
- Press Release
- Current Biology Dispatch "Neurobiology: The Eye within the Brain" (July 7, 2014)
- ResearchSEA "Shining light on the 100-year mystery of birds sensing spring for offspring" (July 8, 2014)
- EurekAlert! "Shining light on the 100-year mystery of birds sensing spring for offspring" (July 8, 2014)
- Phys.Org "Shining light on the 100-year mystery of birds sensing spring for offspring" (July 8, 2014)
- Science Codex "Shining light on the 100-year mystery of birds sensing spring for offspring" (July 8, 2014)
- Science Newsline "Shining light on the 100-year mystery of birds sensing spring for offspring" (July 8, 2014)
- Press-News.Org "Shining light on the 100-year mystery of birds sensing spring for offspring" (July 8, 2014)
- Bio-Medicine "Shining light on the 100-year mystery of birds sensing spring for offspring" (July 8, 2014)
- Science Daily "Shining light on the 100-year mystery of birds sensing spring for offspring" (July 8, 2014)
- Red Orbit "Researchers Find Missing Piece Of How Birds Sense Light" (July 9, 2014)
- Birds' internal weather clock can sense spring featured in Yahoo News, Chennai online, Big News Network, BioScholar News, Business Standard, Northern Voices Online, Bangladesh News, News Reporter, New Kerala, LAIndian (July 9, 2014), Authint Mail, Silicon India (July 10, 2014)
- Bird News "Scientists document light-sensitive 'eye within the brain' of birds" (July 9, 2014)
- Open Science News "Shining light on the 100-year mystery of birds sensing spring for offspring" (July 9, 2014)
- SciBite "Intrinsic photosensitivity of a deep brain photoreceptor" (July 9, 2014)
- Metro Journalist " Check Out!: Internal Clock Of Birds Can Sense Spring" (July 10, 2014)
- Shining light on the mystery of birds sensing spring featured in News R, Terra Daily, Global Ne.Ws, London: The News (July 11, 2014)
- Researchers Shed Light on the Mystery of Birds Sensing Spring for Offspring featured in MedIndia (July 11, 2014)
- Origo They found the third eye in birds (July 10, 2014 in Hungarian)
- Asia Research News 2015 "Quail breeding discoveries shed light on human sexuality" (February 2015)
Professor Takashi Yoshimura: http://www.itbm.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en_backup/members/t-yoshimura/
Media Coverage and Related Links:
2014-07-08