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
996 result(s)
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.
Category: Commentary or review
Type: Article
Year: 2008
Holmes B. 2008. How monarchs keep on straight and narrow. New Scientist 197: 9-9.
Category: Supporting research, Conservation/social dimensions
Type: Article
Year: 2008
Hernandez MEO, Penuelas AG, Vargas EC, Torres DV, Jaramillo J. 2008. Rural survival and conservation of the nature: sanctuary of the Bald Hill (Reserve of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere), the Capulin, Mexico. Cuadernos De Desarrollo Rural 5: 131-168.
Category: Monarch research, Resource use
Type: Article
Year: 2008
Brower LP, Williams EH, Fink LS, Zubieta RR, Ramirez MI. 2008. Monarch butterfly clusters provide microclimatic advantages during the overwintering season in Mexico. Journal of the Lepidopterists Society 62: 177-188.
Category: Monarch research, Migration
Type: Article
Year: 2008
Brindza LJ, Brower LP, Davis AK, Van Hook T. 2008. Comparative success of monarch butterfly migration to overwintering sites in Mexico from inland and coastal sites in Virginia. Journal of the Lepidopterists Society 62: 189-200.
Category: Monarch research, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2007
Slayback DA, Brower LP. 2007. Further aerial surveys confirm the extreme localization of overwintering monarch butterfly colonies in Mexico. American Entomologist 53: 146.
Category: Monarch research, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2007
Vandenbosch R. 2007. What do monarch population time series tell us about eastern and western population mixing? Journal of the Lepidopterists Society 61: 28.
Category: Commentary or review
Type: Article
Year: 2007
Reppert SM. 2007. The ancestral circadian clock of monarch butterflies: role in time-compensated sun compass orientation. Pages 113: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 2007
de Roode JC, Gold LR, Altizer S. 2007. Virulence determinants in a natural butterfly-parasite system. Parasitology 134: 657.
Category: Monarch research, Resource use
Type: Article
Year: 2007
Casagrande RA, Dacey JE. 2007. Monarch butterfly oviposition on swallow-worts (Vincetoxicum spp.). Environmental Entomology 36: 631-636.
Category: Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 2007
Song SH, Öztürk N, Denaro TR, Arat NÖ, Kao YT, Zhu H, Zhong D, Reppert SM, Sancar A. Formation and function of flavin anion radical in cryptochrome 1 blue-light photoreceptor of monarch butterfly. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2007 Jun 15;282(24):17608-12.
Category: Other
Type: Article
Year: 2007
Cornejo-Tenorio G, Ibarra-Manriquez G. 2007. Plant reproductive phenology in a temperate forest of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, Mexico. Interciencia 32: 445-452.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 2007
Davis AK, Cope N, Smith A, Solensky MJ. 2007. Wing color predicts future mating success in male monarch butterflies. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 100: 339-344.
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