Fueling the fall migration of the monarch butterfly

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1123-1142

  Brower, Lincoln P ^a   Fink, Linda S ^a   Walford, Peter ^b  

^a SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOCYNACEAE; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; GLYCINE MAX; PAPILIONOIDEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33750932910     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icl029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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