Changing and shielded magnetic fields suppress c-Fos expression in the navigation circuit: input from the magnetosensory system contributes to the internal representation of space in a subterranean rodent

Abstract

In strictly subterranean African mole-rat Fukomys anselli, magnetic information seems to be integrated with multimodal sensory and motor information into a common spatial representation of allocentric space within the rodent navigation circuit.

Keywords

• place cells
• head-direction cells
• spatial representation
• c-Fos
• African mole rats