Welcome to the monarch library! Our goal is to include all peer-reviewed articles on monarch biology with links to sites that will give you the easiest direct access to each article. Please contact leslie.ries@georgetown.edu if you 1) know of an article not included, 2) find a mistake in any of the listed articles, 3) know of a better link to access an article. Thanks! With your help we can provide the most complete, informative access to all papers on monarch biology.
Library
Field Definitions
First author: Last name of the first author
Type: Article or book chapter
Year: Publication year
Source: Journal or book
Category*: Broad scope of the publication.
Research topic (monarch & supporting research only)*: Specific topic.
Geographic focus*: Geographic setting for field studies.
Monitoring data used: Data from monitoring or public data efforts.
* Full list
984 result(s)
Category: Supporting research, Hostplant biology
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Tao L, Hunter MD. 2013. Allocation of resources away from sites of herbivory under simultaneous attack by aboveground and belowground herbivores in the common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 7: 217.
Thermoregulation in moulting and feeding Danaus plexippus L. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) caterpillars
Category: Monarch research, Environmental performance
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Serratore VR, Zalucki, MP, Carter PA. 2013. Thermoregulation in moulting and feeding Danaus plexippus L. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) caterpillars. Australian Journal of Entomology 52: 8.
Category: Techniques
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Merlin C, Beaver LE, Taylor OR, Wolfe SA, Reppert SM. 2013. Efficient targeted mutagenesis in the monarch butterfly using zinc-finger nucleases. Genome Research 23: 159-168.
Category: Monarch research, Orientation
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Guerra PA, Reppert SM. 2013. Coldness Triggers Northward Flight in Remigrant Monarch Butterflies. Current Biology 23: 419-423.
Category: Monarch research, Orientation
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Heinze S, Florman J, Asokaraj S, el Jundi B, Reppert SM. 2013. Anatomical basis of sun compass navigation II: The neuronal composition of the central complex of the monarch butterfly. Journal of Comparative Neurology 521: 267-298.
Category: Monarch research, Orientation
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Mouritsen H, Derbyshire R, Stalleicken J, Mouritsen OO, Frost BJ, Norris DR. 2013. An experimental displacement and over 50 years of tag-recoveries show that monarch butterflies are not true navigators. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of t
Category: Supporting research, Habitat
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Perez-Ramirez S, Ramirez MI, Jaramillo-Lopez PF, Bautista F. 2013. Soil organic carbon content under different forest conditions: Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, mexico. Revista Chapingo Serie Ciencias Forestales Y Del Ambiente 19: 157-173.
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Rafter JL, Agrawal AA, Preisser EL. 2013. Chinese mantids gut toxic monarch caterpillars: avoidance of prey defence? Ecological Entomology 38: 76-82.
Category: Other
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Reppert SM. 2013. The monarch butterfly reveals the prototype ancestral TTFL clock of insects: a focus on cryptochromes. Integrative and Comparative Biology 53: E178-E178.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Sharma M, Saini M, Singh M. 2013. Computational Sequence Analysis and Functional Annotation of KGM_05782 Protein of Danaus Plexippus. International Journal of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry. 1: 9.
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Lefevre T, Chiang A, Kelavkar M, Li H, Li J, de Castillejo CLF, Oliver L, Potini Y, Hunter MD, de Roode JC. 2012. Behavioural resistance against a protozoan parasite in the monarch butterfly. Journal of Animal Ecology 81: 70-79.
Category: Commentary or review
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Brower LP, Taylor OR, Williams EH. 2012. Response to Davis: choosing relevant evidence to assess monarch population trends. Insect Conservation and Diversity 5: 327-329.
Category: Monarch research, Orientation
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Heinze S, Reppert SM. 2012. Anatomical basis of sun compass navigation I: The general layout of the monarch butterfly brain. Journal of Comparative Neurology 520: 1599-1628.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Rodrigues D, Weiss MR. 2012. Reward Tracking and Memory Decay in the Monarch Butterfly, Danaus plexippus L. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Ethology 118: 1122-1131.
Discordant timing between antennae disrupts sun compass orientation in migratory monarch butterflies
Category: Monarch research, Orientation
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Guerra PA, Merlin C, Gegear RJ, Reppert SM. 2012. Discordant timing between antennae disrupts sun compass orientation in migratory monarch butterflies. Nature Communications 3.
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Please contact leslie.ries@georgetown.edu with any additions or corrections.