The ancestral circadian clock of monarch butterflies: Role in time-compensated sun compass orientation

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 72, Issue , 2007, Pages 113-118

  Reppert, S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME; FLAVOPROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; CRYPTOCHROME 2;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BUTTERFLY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SUNLIGHT; TIME; CRY GENE; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BUTTERFLIES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FLAVOPROTEINS; GENES, INSECT; GEOGRAPHY; INSECT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SUNLIGHT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 48249143136     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2007.72.056     Document Type: Conference Paper

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