S. Engstrom et R. Fitzsimmons, Five hypotheses to examine the nature of magnetic field transduction in biological systems, BIOELECTROM, 20(7), 1999, pp. 423-430
This paper postulates five experiments that may be used to characterize the
nature of the transduction step in which a magnetic or electric field is c
onverted into a biological signal. Each of the five experiments is formulat
ed as a refutable hypothesis in such a manner that rejection of the hypothe
sis will provide information about the transduction process and an associat
ed confidence level for evaluating each experiment. The proposed hypotheses
are formulated to provide inferences about the mode of interaction (magnet
ic field or induced electric field transduction), spatial distribution of t
he detector elements in the biological system, and the timescale of the tra
nsductive step. Bioelectromagnetics 20:423-430, 1999. (C) 1999 Wiley-Liss,
Inc.