Navigational mechanisms of migrating monarch butterflies

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 399-406

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME;

ANTENNA; BUTTERFLY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FLYING; MIGRATION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BUTTERFLIES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRYPTOCHROMES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; ORIENTATION; SOLAR SYSTEM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77956011500     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2010.04.004     Document Type: Review

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