PLoS ONE, 2015 Climate change can profoundly alter species' distributions due to changes in temperature, precipitation, or seasonality. Migratory monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) may be particularly susceptible to climate-driven changes in host plant abundance or
Nathan P Lemoine
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Exploring the Use of Indigenous Wild Vegetables by the Basotho People of Southern Africa: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature and Nutritional Analysis of Selected Species [PDF]
Foods, 2023 Wild indigenous vegetables have recently been receiving attention due to their accessibility and potential to fight malnutrition. The current study investigated the nutritional profile of 10 selected wild indigenous vegetables, namely Asclepias ...
Rudzani Ralph Tshikororo +2 more
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Phylogenomics Reveals Deep Divergences and Cryptic Species Within a Rare Sand‐Dwelling Milkweed, Asclepias tomentosa Elliott [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionIntegrative taxonomy incorporates multiple data types to delineate and describe species and discovers hidden biodiversity (i.e., ‘cryptic’ species) previously undetected when relying solely on morphology.
Daniel P. Duran +4 more
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Floristic Account of Apocynaceae (Gentianales) in Tunisia: New Additions to National and North African Flora with Nomenclatural Updates and Taxonomic Notes [PDF]
PlantsA taxonomic revision of the family Apocynaceae (Gentianales) from Tunisia is presented. Field surveys carried out during the last two decades allowed us to identify new records at the national level, i.e., Asclepias curassavica, Carissa macrocarpa ...
Ridha El Mokni, Duilio Iamonico
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Development and Verification of an Interspecific Hybridization Protocol for Asclepias
HortScience, 2021 Milkweed (Asclepias sp.) is an important pollinator genus across North America and is a host plant for many butterfly species, notably the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).
Mary Lewis +4 more
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Plants, 2021 While milkweeds (Asclepias spp.) are important for sustaining biodiversity in marginal ecosystems, CO2 flux may afflict Asclepias species and cause detriment to native communities.
Rondy J. Malik, James D. Bever
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A draft genome and transcriptome of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) as resources for evolutionary, ecological, and molecular studies in milkweeds and Apocynaceae [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Milkweeds (Asclepias) are used in wide-ranging studies including floral development, pollination biology, plant-insect interactions and co-evolution, secondary metabolite chemistry, and rapid diversification.
Kevin Weitemier +5 more
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Ecosphere, 2021 Species distributions are driven by abiotic and biotic factors, but the importance of variation in the availability and quality of critical resources is poorly understood.
A. Nalleli Carvajal Acosta +1 more
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Intragenomic polymorphisms among high-copy loci: a genus-wide study of nuclear ribosomal DNA in Asclepias (Apocynaceae) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Despite knowledge that concerted evolution of high-copy loci is often imperfect, studies that investigate the extent of intragenomic polymorphisms and comparisons across a large number of species are rarely made.
Kevin Weitemier +3 more
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Monarch Butterflies Show Differential Utilization of Nine Midwestern Milkweed Species
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Monarch butterfly overwintering numbers have declined over the past 20 years. Restoring habitat that includes milkweeds, the only host plants for larval monarch butterflies, is necessary to increase monarch numbers within the breeding range. The value of
Victoria Marie Pocius +7 more
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