ReviewTrends in neurosciences2010
Navigational mechanisms of migrating monarch butterflies.
Review in Trends in neurosciences, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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71 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 220 citations in OpenAlex.
- Genetic analysis of cryptochrome in insect magnetosensitivity.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Pooled it
- Monarch Performance and Cardenolide Sequestration Decline on Naturally Derived Hybrid Milkweeds (Asclepias syriaca x speciosa).Journal of chemical ecology · 2026Article
- Environmental and Genetic Conditions Shaping Monarch Butterfly Migration Biology.Animal behaviour · 2026Article
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- The diversity of lepidopteran spatial orientation strategies - neuronal mechanisms and emerging challenges in a changing world.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Review
- From skylight cues to magnetic fields: the toolkit of insect long-distance navigation.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Review
- Non-visual opsins and their role in circadian photoentrainment.Eye and vision (London, England) · 2026Review
- Migratory moths navigate using the stars.Nature · 2025Article
- Mapping Gene Expression in Whole Larval Brains ofMethods and protocols · 2025Article
- A new data-driven paradigm for the study of avian migratory navigation.Movement ecology · 2025Review
- Flora and fauna: how nonhuman species interact with natural and man-made EMF at ecosystem levels and public policy recommendations.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) only use magnetic cues for migratory directionality with orientation re-calibrated by coldness.PloS one · 2025Article
- Quantum theory of a potential biological magnetic field sensor: Radical pair mechanism in flavin adenine dinucleotide biradicals.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2024Article
- The genomic history and global migration of a windborne pest.Science advances · 2024Article
- Neural representation of goal direction in the monarch butterfly brain.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Biomimetic Polarized Light Navigation Sensor: A Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- How the monarch got its spots: Long-distance migration selects for larger white spots on monarch butterfly wings.PloS one · 2023Article
- Editorial: Biological rhythms: Evolution, population biology, and adaptation.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Varieties of visual navigation in insects.Animal cognition · 2023Review
- Extremely Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Field Impairs the Development of Honeybee (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
11 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Recent studies of the iconic fall migration of monarch butterflies have illuminated the mechanisms behind their southward navigation while using a time-compensated sun compass. Skylight cues, such as the sun itself and polarized light, are processed through both eyes and are probably integrated in the brain's central complex, the presumed site of the sun compass. Time compensation is provided by circadian clocks that have a distinctive molecular mechanism and that reside in the antennae. Monarchs might also use a magnetic compass because they possess two cryptochromes that have the molecular capability for light-dependent magnetoreception. Multiple genomic approaches are now being used with the aim of identifying navigation genes. Monarch butterflies are thus emerging as an excellent model organism in which to study the molecular and neural basis of long-distance migration.
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