Coldness triggers northward flight in remigrant monarch butterflies

Current Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 419-423

  Guerra, Patrick A ^a   Reppert, Steven M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COLD; FLYING; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; COLD TEMPERATURE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; ORIENTATION;

DANAUS PLEXIPPUS;

EID: 84875221212     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.01.052     Document Type: Article

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