The genetics of monarch butterfly migration and warning colouration

Nature

Volumn 514, Issue 7522, 2014, Pages 317-321

  Zhan, Shuai ^a,b,c   Zhang, Wei ^b   Niitepõld, Kristjan ^d,e   Hsu, Jeremy ^d   Haeger, Juan Fernández ^f   Zalucki, Myron P ^g   Altizer, Sonia ^h   De Roode, Jacobus C ⁱ   Reppert, Steven M ^c   Kronforst, Marcus R ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

ⁱ EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; MYOSIN V;

BUTTERFLY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FLIGHT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COLOR; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; FLIGHT; FLIGHT MUSCLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOTYPE; INSECT GENETICS; MIGRATION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PIGMENTATION; POPULATION DISPERSAL; RECURRENT SELECTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FLYING; FORELIMB; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUSCLE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; HEXAPODA;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BUTTERFLIES; COLLAGEN TYPE IV; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MUSCLES; MYOSIN TYPE V; NORTH AMERICA; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; SELECTION, GENETIC; WING;

EID: 84908138115     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13812     Document Type: Article

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