Do North American monarch butterflies travel to Cuba? Stable isotope and chemical tracer techniques

Ecological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1106-1114

  Dockx, Cristina ^a,d   Brower, Lincoln P ^b   Wassenaar, Leonard I ^c   Hobson, Keith A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE   (United States)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Butterfly; Cardenolide fingerprint analysis; Cuba; Danaus plexippus; Danaus plexippus megalippe; Danaus plexippus plexippus; Hybridization; Mexico; Migration; Monarch butterfly; Stable isotope; Thin layer chromatography

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; HYBRIDIZATION; MIGRATION; MOVEMENT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CUBA; GREATER ANTILLES;

DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS MEGALIPPE; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS PLEXIPPUS; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PLEXIPPUS;

EID: 4444355316     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-5128     Document Type: Article

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