Antennal circadian clocks coordinate sun compass orientation in migratory monarch butterflies

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5948, 2009, Pages 1700-1704

  Merlin, Christine ^a   Gegear, Robert J ^a   Reppert, Steven M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CYCLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BRAIN; BUTTERFLY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; MIGRATORY POPULATION; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; OVERWINTERING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BUTTERFLY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIRECTIONAL VISION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLIGHT; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LOCOMOTION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; ORIENTATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SMELLING; SUN; TIME;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN; BUTTERFLIES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FLAVOPROTEINS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ORIENTATION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, INVERTEBRATE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEASONS; SENSE ORGANS; SOLAR SYSTEM;

DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 70349529573     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1176221     Document Type: Article

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