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Journal ArticleSource:
BioScience, American Institute of Biological Sciences and the University of California Press, Volume 45, Issue 8, p.540-544 (1995)Call Number:
A95BRO02IDUSURL:
http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1083&context=bio_facKeywords:
Danaus plexippus, monarch butterflyAbstract:
This piece from the Roundtable section offers three arguments against transferring monarch butterflies between distinct populations: Transferred butterflies can carry infectious and potentially lethal diseases into susceptible populations; transfers may confuse our understanding of numerous aspects of the monarch’s basic biology; and the hypotheses purportedly being tested with these transfers are unanswerable by this technique. The authors ultimately recommend against transfer and release of monarch butterflies in any life-history stages between populations that are naturally separated from each other and definitely against transfers across the Rocky Mountains.
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ELECTRONIC FILE - Zoology
Generic citation: Lincoln P. Brower, Linda S. Fink, Andrew Van Zandt Brower, Kingston Leong, Karen Oberhauser, Sonia Altizer, Orley Taylor, Daniel Vickerman, William H. Calvert, Tonya Van Hook, Alfonso Alonso-Mejia, Stephen B. Malcolm, Denis F. Owen, and Myron P. Zalucki. 1995. On the dangers of interpopulational transfers of monarch butterflies" BioScience 45(8): 540-544.
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