Discordant timing between antennae disrupts sun compass orientation in migratory monarch butterflies

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Guerra, Patrick A ^a   Merlin, Christine ^a   Gegear, Robert J ^b   Reppert, Steven M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BUTTERFLY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; EVOKED RESPONSE; FLAGELLUM; GENE EXPRESSION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; SUN COMPASS ORIENTATION; TIME PERCEPTION; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SUNLIGHT;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SIGNALING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; BUTTERFLIES; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; PERIOD CIRCADIAN PROTEINS; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 84864843822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1965     Document Type: Article

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