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Monarch navigation secrets unravel via clock genes
Neurobiologist Steven Reppert studies monarch butterflies to explain how circadian genes CRY1 and CRY2 coordinate a sun compass with the internal clock. The research in PLoS Biology suggests two clock genes originate from a single ancestor and evolved distinct roles, aiding near migratory precision from the United States and Canada to central Mexico.
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United States
Canada
Steven Reppert
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Reppert
Plos
Public Library of Science
Adriana Briscoe
University of California, Irvine
Briscoe
New York
Central Mexico
Cape May
N.J