Polarized Light Helps Monarch Butterflies Navigate

Current Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 155-158

  Reppert, Steven M ^a   Zhu, Haisun ^a   White, Richard H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; INSECTA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PLEXIPPUS;

EID: 1142302210     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2003.12.034     Document Type: Article

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