Morphological Characterization of the Antenna and Scent Patch of Three Danaus Species (Papilionoidea: Nymphalidae, Danainae) [PDF]
InsectsThe scent system of Danaus is important for the study of butterfly sexual communication and relevant investigations in biomimetics due to its involvement with mimicry.
Yaqi Yang +4 more
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Genome sequence of Ophryocystis elektroscirrha, an apicomplexan parasite of monarch butterflies: cryptic diversity and response to host-sequestered plant chemicals [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2023 Apicomplexa are ancient and diverse organisms which have been poorly characterized by modern genomics. To better understand the evolution and diversity of these single-celled eukaryotes, we sequenced the genome of Ophryocystis elektroscirrha, a parasite ...
Andrew J. Mongue +6 more
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Resistance and Tolerance to Imperfectly Specialized Parasites: Milkweed Butterflies and Their Protozoan Parasites [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionUnderstanding host specificity and cross‐species transmission of parasites is crucial for predicting the risk and consequences of parasite spillover. We experimentally examined these dynamics in two closely related, sympatric, milkweed butterfly hosts ...
Maria L. Müller‐Theissen +2 more
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Neo-sex Chromosomes in the Monarch Butterfly, Danaus plexippus [PDF]
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2017 We report the discovery of a neo-sex chromosome in the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, and several of its close relatives. Z-linked scaffolds in the D.
Andrew J. Mongue +3 more
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Dispersal of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) over southern Spain from its breeding grounds [PDF]
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2018 From 2000–2016, monarch butterflies were detected at 127 locations away from their usual coastal breeding areas in the south of the Iberian peninsula.
Obregón, R. +4 more
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Euploea dorippus Klug, 1845: species, semispecies, subspecies, junior subjective synonym of Danaus chrysippus chrysippus (Linnaeus), and/or form – what does Klug’s dorippus represent? (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Danainae) [PDF]
Nota Lepidopterologica, 2020 The type material of the available name Euploea dorippus Klug, 1845, originated from northern Sudan, an area that lies beyond the core zone of the semispecies or subspecies currently known as Danaus chrysippus dorippus, and the description did not ...
Richard I. Vane-Wright
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Effective detection of ZnO in nicotine using butterfly wing scales
Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology, 2022 This study aimed to elucidate the optical functions of naturally butterfly wing scales via precise control of morphology as an effective photonic sensor and confirm the content of metal oxide nanoparticles in surrounding nicotine.
Thanachai Changcharoen +3 more
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Mobile DNA, 2022 Background Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) are an important model system in ecology and evolution. A high-quality chromosomal genome assembly is available for the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), but it lacks an in-depth transposable element (TE)
Tobias Baril, Alexander Hayward
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« Savoir être étranger » : la question des réfugiés dans Les Suppliantes d’Eschyle
Pallas, 2020 In Aeschylus’ Suppliants, the Argians grant the status of metics to the Danaids and their father Danaus, who came as refugees in the city of Argos to escape the sons of Egyptos.
Étienne Helmer
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New records of rare butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) in Albania
Historia naturalis bulgarica, 2022 Field work conducted in 2016-2019 and 2022 contributed with additional data on 23 relatively rare species in Albania, including the second record of Cacyreus marshalli and the sixth record of Apatura metis.
Ana Nahirnić-Beshkova +2 more
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