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Figure 3

From: Numerical tests of magnetoreception models assisted with behavioral experiments on American cockroaches

Figure 3

Alignment, as defined in Eq. (2), in the magnetite model (magnetite particle of radius 50 nm, viscosity \(10^5\) Pa s). Alignment is a dimensionless and normalised quantity that captures the ratio of magnetic moments along the axis determined by their vectorial sum. The dashed line shows the alignment independent of cockroach orientation, while solid colorful lines include experimentally determined cockroach motion (for three typical insects).

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