Are monarch butterflies true navigators? the jury is still out

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 39, 2013, Pages

  Oberhauser, Karen S ^a   Taylor, Orley R ^b   Reppert, Steven M ^c   Dingle, Hugh ^d   Nail, Kelly R ^a   Pyle, Robert M ^e   Stenoien, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Xerces Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; BREEDING; BUTTERFLY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FLIGHT; GEOGRAPHY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPROCAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; ORIENTATION;

EID: 84884668030     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308369110     Document Type: Letter

References (4)

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2. Wassenaar LI, Hobson A (1998) Natal origins of migratory monarch butterflies at wintering colonies in Mexico: New isotopic evidence. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95(26):15436-15439.
3. Rogg KA, Taylor OR, Gibo DL (1999) Mark and recapture during the monarch migration: A preliminary analysis. The 1997 North American Conference on the Monarch Butterfly, eds Hoth J, et al. (Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal, Canada), pp 133-138.
4. Urquhart FA, Urquhart NR (1978) Autumnal migration routes of the eastern population of monarch butterfly (Danaus p. plexippus; Danaidae; Lepidoptera) in North America to the overwintering site in the Neotransvolcanic plateau of Mexico. Can J Zool 56(8):1759-1764.