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NPRScientists Close In on Butterfly Navigation System

  • John Nielsen
  • May 23, 2003, 12:00 AM

A team of neurobiologists locates the gene that helps monarch butterflies figure out how to navigate their annual migration from Canada to Mexico. The report appears in the journal Science. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

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