Saturday, January 12, 2008

Research news: Studies Reveal Mechanisms of Monarch Migration

The News:
Studies Reveal Mechanisms of Monarch Migration
Talk of the Nation, January 11, 2008 · What drives monarch butterflies to travel en masse thousands of miles to pine groves in Mexico? New research published in the journal PLOS Biology sheds light on the complex circadian clock mechanism in the butterfly brain, and how monarchs can use the position of the sun for navigation, even as it moves across the sky

The Research:
Read the research behind this story in PLoS Biology and PLoS One.

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