{"id":540,"date":"2019-12-23T23:36:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T04:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greendeilab.com\/?page_id=540"},"modified":"2026-02-01T16:26:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:26:53","slug":"divergence-in-migratory-behavior","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/greendeilab.com\/index.php\/divergence-in-migratory-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Monarch butterflies (<em>Danaus plexippus<\/em>) are renowned for their North American migration. They are one of only two insect species known to make long-distance, bidirectional migrations (the other is the Bogong moth <em>Agrotis infusa<\/em>). Nevertheless, other <em>Danaus<\/em> species are described to exhibit some amounts of &#8220;migratoriness&#8221;. In order to understand how monarchs evolved this unique ability, we take a comparative approach to understand the capabilities of other <em>Danaus<\/em> species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:36px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/greendeilab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5112-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-907\" style=\"width:291px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greendeilab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5112-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greendeilab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5112-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/greendeilab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5112-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/greendeilab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5112-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/greendeilab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5112-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) are renowned for their North American migration. They are one of only two insect species known to make long-distance, bidirectional migrations (the other is the Bogong moth Agrotis infusa). Nevertheless, other &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-540","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendeilab.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendeilab.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendeilab.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendeilab.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendeilab.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/greendeilab.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/greendeilab.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/540\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendeilab.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}