Genes tell butterflies to head south

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - 17:28 in Biology & Nature

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have uncovered a group of 40 genes that appear to make North America's monarch butterflies fly thousands of miles south each autumn.

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