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THERE have been several reports of electroreceptor responses in elasmobranchs to an electric field induced by various magnetic stimuli (including water flow in a geomagnetic field)1–6. The possibility was suggested that fish can detect telluric currents produced by geomagnetic variations7, but it was not investigated experimentally. Here we describe direct neuro-physiological evidence for such a phenomenon.
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BROWN, H., ILYINSKY, O., MURAVEJKO, V. et al. Evidence that geomagnetic variations can be detected by lorenzinian ampullae. Nature 277, 648–649 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/277648a0
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