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
995 result(s)
Category: Monarch research, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Pleasants JM, Oberhauser KS. 2013. Milkweed loss in agricultural fields because of herbicide use: effect on the monarch butterfly population. Insect Conservation and Diversity 6: 135-144.
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.
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: Monarch research, Migration
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Flockhart DTT, Wassenaar LI, Martin TG, Hobson KA, Wunder MB, Norris DR. 2013. Tracking multi-generational colonization of the breeding grounds by monarch butterflies in eastern North America. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 280: 8.
Category: Commentary or review
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Mouritsen H, Derbyshire R, Stalleicken J, Mouritsen OO, Frost BJ, Norris DR. 2013. Reply to Oberhauser et al.: The experimental evidence clearly shows that monarch butterflies are almost certainly not true navigators. Proceedings of the National Academy o
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.
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Sander SE, Altizer S, de Roode JC, Davis AK. 2013. Genetic Factors and Host Traits Predict Spore Morphology for a Butterfly Pathogen. Insects 4: 447.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 2013
van der Heyden T, Jimanez D. 2013. Larval colour morphs of Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Danainae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterologia 41.
Category: Techniques
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Zhan S, Reppert SM. 2013. MonarchBase: the monarch butterfly genome database. Nucleic Acids Research 41: D758-D763.
Category: Supporting research, Hostplant biology
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Luna T, Dumroese RK. 2013. Monarchs (Danaus plexippus) and milkweeds (Asclepias species) The Current Situation and Methods for Propagating Milkweeds. Native Plants Journal 14: 5.
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Satterfield DA, Wright AE, Altizer S. 2013. Lipid reserves and immune defense in healthy and diseased migrating monarchs Danaus plexippus. Current Zoology 59:393-402.
Category: Monarch research, Migration
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Hanley D, Miller NG, Flockhart DTT, Norris DR. 2013. Forewing pigmentation predicts migration distance in wild-caught migratory monarch butterflies. Behavioral Ecology 24: 1108.
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, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Villanueva G, Lanz-Mendoza H, Hernandez-Martinez S, Zavaleta MS, Manjarrez J, Contreras-Garduno JM, Contreras-Garduno J. 2013. In the monarch butterfly the juvenile hormone effect upon immune response depends on the immune marker and is sex dependent. Ope
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This database is a work in progress and is likely to contain several omissions and mistakes.
Please contact leslie.ries@georgetown.edu with any additions or corrections.