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tananacostia7 karma

As an artist, thank you for taking the aesthetics of your paper seriously. That illustration goes above and beyond--excellent work! I hope you keep it up with subsequent publications. Is there any way to embed the image in your Reddit post? Images speak louder than words :)

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Thanks for the answers. Gratulerer!

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So in layman's terms, the circadian clock gene is programmed to put the butterflies into "sleep mode" for the arrival of winter. The gene's estimation for the arrival of winter is programmed for detecting the decrease of daylight, but not temperature. Therefore, if the winter arrives later than what is normal for the area, the butterflies will still go into their sleep mode, because the daylight has decreased. Do I have that right?

Any other interesting findings you haven't talked about yet in this thread that you want to share?

Assuming the winter arrives later and later each year, how many generations might it take for the butterflies' clock gene to adapt? (or do we not know?)

One last thing, how do you think your lab experiment would change in real life conditions? Would there be any differences?