The other butterfly cryptochrome works like the mouse’s, with no light sensitivity but a strong braking effect on the clock gears. Ancestral clocks probably had both kinds, says Reppert.

The spectacular migration of the monarch butterfly, which covers a 2,000-mile round trip in a year, uses an inbuilt precision clock that enables the insect to use the sun as a compass, a study has ...

Molecular Basis Of Monarch Butterfly Migration Discovered Date: January 9, 2008 Source: Public Library of Science Summary: An ancestral circadian clock mechanism is defined in monarch butterflies ...

Body Clocks Keep Migrating Monarchs On Course; Butterfly Flight Simulator Sheds Light On Epic Migration. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2003 / 05 ...

An ancestral circadian clock mechanism is defined in monarch butterflies, in which two CRYPTOCHROME proteins function as critical components. The proteins may also function as output molecules ...

The monarch butterfly is beginning to reveal the genetic secrets of its remarkable migration. Every year, in autumn, monarchs migrate thousands of miles from their summer home in the eastern US to ...

In the highlands of central Mexico, millions of monarch butterflies soon will stir from their winter torpor, rising from groves of oyamel firs like flowers taking flight. Their unique annual ...

The monarch butterfly’s famed summertime visits to Chicago could be in jeopardy thanks to climate change and extreme weather. Chicagoans may already see fewer of the graceful orange and black ...