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: Techniques
Type: Article
Year: 2009
McIntosh AH, Grasela JJ. 2009. Establishment of a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus, Lepidoptera: Danaidae) cell line and its susceptibility to insect viruses. Applied Entomology and Zoology 44: 331-336.
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 2009
Lindsey E, Altizer S. 2009. Sex differences in immune defenses and response to parasitism in monarch butterflies. Evolutionary Ecology 23: 607-620.
Category: Monarch research, Orientation
Type: Article
Year: 2009
Labhart T, Baumann F, Bernard GD. 2009. Specialized ommatidia of the polarization-sensitive dorsal rim area in the eye of monarch butterflies have non-functional reflecting tapeta. Cell and Tissue Research 338: 391-400.
Category: Monarch research, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2009
Knight A, Brower LP. 2009. The Influence of Eastern North American Autumnal Migrant Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus L.) on Continuously Breeding Resident Monarch Populations in Southern Florida. Journal of Chemical Ecology 35: 816-823.
Category: Orientation
Type: Article
Year: 2009
Kyriacou CP. Clocks, cryptochromes and Monarch migrations. Journal of Biology. 2009;8(6):55.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 2009
Solensky MJ, Oberhauser KS. 2009. Male monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus, adjust ejaculates in response to intensity of sperm competition. Animal Behaviour 77: 465-472.
Category: Monarch research, Resource use
Type: Article
Year: 2009
Brower LP, Williams EH, Slayback DA, Fink LS, Ramirez MI, Zubieta RR, Garcia MIL, Gier P, Lear JA, Van Hook T. 2009. Oyamel fir forest trunks provide thermal advantages for overwintering monarch butterflies in Mexico. Insect Conservation and Diversity 2:
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 2009
de Roode JC, Chi J, Rarick RM, Altizer S. 2009. Strength in numbers: high parasite burdens increase transmission of a protozoan parasite of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus). Oecologia 161: 67-75.
Category: Monarch research, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2009
Haeger JF, Barbudo DJ. 2009. The Monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Strait of Gibraltar (Lepidoptera: Danaidae). Shilap-Revista De Lepidopterologia 37: 421-438.
Category: Supporting research, Habitat
Type: Article
Year: 2009
Honey-Roses J. 2009. Disentangling the proximate factors of deforestation: the case of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Mexico. Land Degradation & Development 20: 22-32.
Category: Monarch research, Migration
Type: Article
Year: 2009
Howard E, Davis AK. 2009. The fall migration flyways of monarch butterflies in eastern North America revealed by citizen scientists. Journal of Insect Conservation 13: 279-286.
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 2008
de Roode JC, Yates AJ, Altizer S. 2008. Virulence-transmission trade-offs and population divergence in virulence in a naturally occurring butterfly parasite. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105: 7489.
Category: Monarch research, Orientation
Type: Article
Year: 2008
Zhu HS, Sauman I, Yuan Q, Casselman A, Emery-Le M, Emery P, Reppert SM. 2008. Cryptochromes define a novel circadian clock mechanism in monarch butterflies that may underlie sun compass navigation. Plos Biology 6: 138-155.
Category: Monarch research, Orientation
Type: Article
Year: 2008
Zhu HS, Casselman A, Reppert SM. 2008. Chasing Migration Genes: A Brain Expressed Sequence Tag Resource for Summer and Migratory Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus). Plos One 3.
Category: Techniques
Type: Article
Year: 2008
Leong KHL, Yoshimura MA, Piner A. 2008. Reliability of abdominal palpation in determining the mated status of overwintering monarch butterfly (Nymphalidae: Danainae) females in California. Journal of the Lepidopterists Society 62: 161-165.
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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.