Her Majesty’s Desert Throne: The Ecology of Queen Butterfly Oviposition on Mojave Milkweed Host Plants [PDF]
Insects, 2020 Butterfly–host plant relationships can inform our understanding of ecological and trophic interactions that contribute to ecosystem function, resiliency, and services.
Steven M. Grodsky +3 more
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Ecology of the Western Queen Butterfly Danaus gilippus thersippus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts [PDF]
Insects, 2020 The purpose of this study was to assess the ecological knowledge surrounding the western queen butterfly, Danaus gilippus thersippus (H. Bates). Specifically, our objectives were to synthesize existing data and knowledge on the ecology of the queen and ...
Leslie Saul-Gershenz +2 more
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Neo Sex Chromosomes, Colour Polymorphism and Male-Killing in the African Queen Butterfly, Danaus chrysippus (L.) [PDF]
Insects, 2019 Danaus chrysippus (L.), one of the world’s commonest butterflies, has an extensive range throughout the Old-World tropics. In Africa it is divided into four geographical subspecies which overlap and hybridise freely in the East African Rift: Here ...
David A.S. Smith +6 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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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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Incomplete recombination suppression fuels extensive haplotype diversity in a butterfly colour pattern supergene. [PDF]
PLoS BiologySupergenes can evolve when recombination-suppressing mechanisms like inversions promote co-inheritance of alleles at two or more polymorphic loci that affect a complex trait.
Rishi De-Kayne +6 more
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Mimicry in viceroy butterflies is dependent on abundance of the model queen butterfly. [PDF]
Commun Biol, 2019 Prudic KL +4 more
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First Detection of Honeybee Pathogenic Viruses in Butterflies
Insects, 2022 Several pathogens are important causes of the observed pollinator decline, some of which could be transmitted between different pollinator species. To determine whether honeybee viruses can be transmitted to butterflies, a total of 120 butterflies were ...
Metka Pislak Ocepek +4 more
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Phenotypic Plasticity: What Has DNA Methylation Got to Do with It?
Insects, 2022 How does one genome give rise to multiple, often markedly different, phenotypes in response to an environmental cue? This phenomenon, known as phenotypic plasticity, is common amongst plants and animals, but arguably the most striking examples are seen ...
Elizabeth J. Duncan +2 more
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Variation in butterfly larval acoustics as a strategy to infiltrate and exploit host ant colony resources. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 About 10,000 arthropods live as ants' social parasites and have evolved a number of mechanisms allowing them to penetrate and survive inside the ant nests. Many of them can intercept and manipulate their host communication systems.
Marco Sala +4 more
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