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: Monarch research, Environmental performance
Type: Article
Year: 1971
Kammer AE. 1971. Influence of acclimation temperature on shivering behavior of butterfly Danaus-plexippus (L). Zeitschrift Fur Vergleichende Physiologie 72: 364-&.
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 1970
McLaughlin RE, Myers J. 1970. Ophryocystis elektroscirrha sp. n., a Neogregarine Pathogen of the Monarch Butterfly Danaus plexippus (L.) and the Florida Queen Butterfly D. gilippus berenice Cramer1. The Journal of Protozoology 17: 300.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1970
Urquhart FA, Tang APS. 1970. Effect of cauterizing the PPM ("gold spots" of authors) of the pupa of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus). J Res Lepidoptera. 9 (3) 157-167.
Category: Other
Type: Article
Year: 1970
Brower LP, Williams.Kl, Flannery MA, Uman HM. 1970. Quantitative assay for cardiac glycosides in monarch butterfly and its milkweed foodplants. American Zoologist 10: 540-&.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1970
Kammer AE. 1970. Thoracic temperature, shivering, and flight in monarch butterfly, Danaus-plexippus (L). Zeitschrift Fur Vergleichende Physiologie 68: 334-&.
Category: Techniques
Type: Article
Year: 1970
Munger F, Harriss TT. 1970. Laboratory production of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 8: 169-176.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1970
Nordlander RH, Edwards JS. 1970. Postembryonic brain development in the monarch butterfly,Danaus plexippus plexippus L. Wilhelm Roux' Archiv fur Entwicklungsmechanik der Organismen 164: 247.
Category: Monarch research, Orientation
Type: Article
Year: 1970
Urquhart FA, Urquhart NR, Munger F. 1970. A study of a continuously breeding population of Danaus plexippus in southern California compared to a migratory population and its significance in the study of insect movement. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 7: 169-181.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1969
Nordlander RH, Edwards JS. 1969. Postembryonic brain development in the monarch butterfly,Danaus plexippus plexippus, L. Wilhelm Roux' Archiv fur Entwicklungsmechanik der Organismen 162: 197.
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 1969
Arnott HJ, Smith KM, Fullilov.Sl. 1969. An ultrastructural investigation of a cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus affecting larva of monarch butterfly. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 88: 166-&.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1969
Meinwald J, Chalmers AM, Pliske TE, Eisner T 1969. Identification and synthesis of trans trans-3,7-dimethyl-2,6-decadien-1,10-dioic acid a component of pheromonal secretion of male monarch butterfly. Journal of the Chemical Society D-Chemical Communicatio
Category: Monarch research, Migration
Type: Article
Year: 1969
Hessel SA. 1969. Monarch observations in mid-town and lower Manhattan, New York City. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 23: 254.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1968
Meinwald J, Chalmers AM, Pliske TE, Eisner T. 1968. Pheromones .3. identification of trans trans-10-hydroxy-3,7-dimethyl-2,6-decadienoic acid as a major component in hairpencil secretion of male monarch butterfly. Tetrahedron Letters: 4893-&.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1968
Nordlander RH, Edwards JS. 1968. Morphology of larval and adult brains of monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus plexippus L. Journal of Morphology 126: 67-&.
Category: Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1968
Reichstein TV, Von Euw J, Parsons JA, Rothschild M. Heart poisons in the monarch butterfly - some aposematic butterflies obtain protection from cardenolides present in their food plants. Science. 1968 Aug 30;161(3844):861-6.
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Please contact leslie.ries@georgetown.edu with any additions or corrections.