Sensory basis of lepidopteran migration: Focus on the monarch butterfly

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 34, Issue , 2015, Pages 20-28

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA (ORGAN); BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COEVOLUTION; COLD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT; LEPIDOPTERA; LIGHT; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MONARCH BUTTERFLY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; OVERWINTERING; POPULATION MIGRATION; REVIEW; SEASON; SENSORY SYSTEM; SUN; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FLYING; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSATION; SUNLIGHT;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; SENSATION; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 84921492216     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2015.01.009     Document Type: Review

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