Inner clock may lead monarch butterflies

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Inner clock may lead monarch butterflies

Scientists have discovered genetic information that helps explain how monarch butterflies find their way from Canada to winter nesting grounds in the mountains of Mexico. The study, published online Tuesday in the PLoS Biology Journal and the Public Library of Science, found that the butterflies' biological clocks help them use the sun as a compass.


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