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Recent research

Everything published on monarchs and milkweed in the last couple of years, as an index. Titles and links only: this is a way to find the literature, not a substitute for reading it.

60papers published since 2025
24free to read without a subscription
35different journals

How this list works

It is assembled from Europe PMC, which indexes PubMed, PubMed Central, Agricola and several preprint servers. Anything with monarchs, Danaus plexippus, Asclepias or milkweed in its title is included; matching on the abstract alone produced a great deal of unrelated agronomy.

Only bibliographic details are reproduced here. Abstracts are usually the publisher's copyright, and every entry links straight to the paper, so you lose nothing by their absence. Where a paper is open access it is marked, and that link will take you to the full text.

A caution about preprints. Anything marked as a preprint has not been peer reviewed. It may be excellent and it may be wrong, and there is no way to tell from the listing.

2026

2025

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