Dr. Pierce-Shimomura publishes in eLIFE

Dr. Jon Pierce-Shimomura and colleagues published a research article in eLIFE entitled “Magnetosensitive neurons mediate geomagnetic orientation in Caenorhabditis elegans”.  This research identifies a microscopic, magnetic sensing structure located on the end of a neuron in C. elegans worms.  The structure allows the worms to sense and orient to the earths magnetic field and is used in navigation under ground.

Clck here to read the UT press release on this work.

Vidal-Gadea A, Ward K, Beron C, Ghorashian N, Gokce S, Russell J, Truong N, Parikh A, Gadea O, Ben-Yakar A and Pierce-Shimomura J. 2015. Magnetosensitive neurons mediate geomagnetic orientation in Caenorhabditis elegans. eLIFE:10.7554/eLife.07493