Multimodal imaging reveals no evidence for magnetite-based magnetoreceptors in the mole-rat eye
Leif Moritz, Kamalika Nath, Ella P. Walsh, Anna Sternberg, Elisabeth Becher, Adrian Lange, Gerald Falkenberg, Dennis Brückner, Clemens Diwoky, Kristian Bredies, Malte Brammerloh, Daryl L. Howard, David J. Paterson, Kadda Medjoubi, Stephan H. Irsen, , Erich Pascal Malkemper
The paper uses multimodal imaging to investigate magnetite-based magnetoreceptors in the mole-rat eye and finds no evidence for their presence.
bioRxiv · Apr 6, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience