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Fueling the fall migration of the monarch butterfly [PDF]
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2006 Monarch butterflies in eastern North America accumulate lipids during their fall migration to central Mexico, and use them as their energy source during a 5 month overwintering period. When and where along their migratory journey the butterflies accumulate these lipids has implications for the importance of fall nectar sources in North America.
Lincoln P, Brower +2 more
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Visiting child looks at monarch butterfly poster
, 2017 Visiting child looks at monarch butterfly ...
Billings, Brett, USFWS
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Insects, 2018 Some taxa have adopted the strategy of mimicry to protect themselves from predation. Butterflies are some of the best representatives used to study mimicry, with the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) a well-known model.
Dale A. Halbritter +4 more
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MonarchBase: the monarch butterfly genome database [PDF]
Nucleic Acids Research, 2012 The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is emerging as a model organism to study the mechanisms of circadian clocks and animal navigation, and the genetic underpinnings of long-distance migration. The initial assembly of the monarch genome was released in 2011, and the biological interpretation of the genome focused on the butterfly's migration ...
Zhan, Shuai, Reppert, Steven M.
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Contemporary loss of migration in monarch butterflies [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019 The annual migration of the monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus is in peril. In an effort to aid population recovery, monarch enthusiasts across North America participate in a variety of conservation efforts, including captive rearing and release of monarch butterflies throughout the summer ...
Ayşe Tenger-Trolander +3 more
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, 2021 This unit covers the migration of the monarch butterflies from Michoacan, Mexico, to the Northern parts of America. This Monarch Butterfly unit is geared toward WIDA level 3: developing or CEFR B2 English language learners in middle school or high school.
Ferrell, Bermudez J
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 The eastern North American monarch butterfly population shows a long-term population decline. While it is hypothesized that forest loss on the wintering grounds and milkweed loss throughout the breeding range are responsible for the observed decline ...
Tara L. Crewe +2 more
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Navigational mechanisms of migrating monarch butterflies [PDF]
Trends in Neurosciences, 2010 Recent studies of the iconic fall migration of monarch butterflies have illuminated the mechanisms behind their southward navigation while using a time-compensated sun compass. Skylight cues, such as the sun itself and polarized light, are processed through both eyes and are probably integrated in the brain's central complex, the presumed site of the ...
Reppert, Steven M. +2 more
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NorthernWidget-Skunkworks/Project-Monarch: Version 0.1.1: Project Monarch
, 2021 <ul> <li>Three years of updates to mechanical elements, documentation (incl. response curves), etc. </li> <li>Rename to Project Monarch (after the butterfly and its solar navigation)</li> </ul ...
Andy Wickert, Bobby Schulz
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International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 2018 Global optimization for nonlinear function is a challenging issue. In this paper, an improved monarch butterfly algorithm based on local search and differential evolution is proposed.
Xingyue Cui, Zhe Chen, Fuliang Yin
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