Climate Change May Alter Breeding Ground Distributions of Eastern Migratory Monarchs (Danaus plexippus) via Range Expansion of Asclepias Host Plants [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Climate change can profoundly alter species\u27 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
Lemoine NP.
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Context-dependency of monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) egg abundance on milkweeds (Asclepias). [PDF]
PLoS ONENorth American monarch (Danaus plexippus) populations have experienced sharp declines. Loss of milkweed is among the major drivers of this decline.
Katie Harris +5 more
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Prevalence of monarch (Danaus plexippus) and queen (Danaus gilippus) butterflies in West Texas during the fall of 2018 [PDF]
BMC Ecology, 2020 Background The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is a conspicuous insect that has experienced a drastic population decline over the past two decades.
Matthew Z. Brym +5 more
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Evidence of Nonrandom Patterns of Functional Chromosome Organization in Danaus plexippus. [PDF]
Genome Biol EvolAbstractOur understanding on the interplay between gene functionality and gene arrangement at different chromosome scales relies on a few Diptera and the honeybee, species with quality reference genome assemblies, accurate gene annotations, and abundant transcriptome data.
Kimura A, Go AC, Markow T, Ranz JM.
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Selection of Reference Genes for RT-qPCR Analysis in the Monarch Butterfly, Danaus plexippus (L.), a Migrating Bio-Indicator. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Reverse transcriptase-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) is a powerful technique to quantify gene expression. To facilitate gene expression study and obtain accurate results, normalization relative to stably expressed reference genes is ...
Huipeng Pan +5 more
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Assessing predation of monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) larvae using artificial caterpillar models [PDF]
Scientific ReportsPredation of immature monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) by arthropod natural enemies is well-established. However, little is known about predation by avian and mammalian predators on this species. Decline of the monarch over the last several decades
Adam M. Baker
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CONSERVANDO LA MARIPOSA MONARCA (Danaus plexippus L.), CONSERVANDO ENEMIGOS NATURALES DE PLAGAS
Revista Chapingo: Serie Ciencias Forestales y del Ambiente, 2014 El potencial de la mariposa monarca ( Danaus plexippus L.) como hospedera alterna de enemi - gos naturales de plagas, se investigó (marzo de 2012 a marzo de 2013) en una plantación de As - clepias curassavica L.
Hipólito Cortez-Madrigal +2 more
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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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Effects of in situ climate warming on monarch caterpillar (Danaus plexippus) development [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Climate warming will fundamentally alter basic life history strategies of many ectothermic insects. In the lab, rising temperatures increase growth rates of lepidopteran larvae but also reduce final pupal mass and increase mortality.
Nathan P. Lemoine +2 more
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EcospherePopulation declines of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus plexippus) in North America have largely been attributed to the distribution and condition of species‐specific preferred nectar sources.
Kenneth E. Spaeth Jr. +5 more
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