{"id":3136,"date":"2014-10-01T13:01:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T18:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2014-10-01T11:50:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T16:50:16","slug":"on-the-origins-of-the-monarch-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/on-the-origins-of-the-monarch-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"On the origins of the monarch butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3137\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/monarch.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3137\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3137\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/monarch.png\" alt=\"A monarch butterfly about to emerge from its chrysalis. (Photo credit: Jaap de Roode)\" width=\"360\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/monarch.png 360w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/monarch-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A monarch butterfly about to emerge from its chrysalis. (Photo credit: Jaap de Roode)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Monarch butterflies originated in North America 20,000 years ago at the end of the last glacial maximum before dispersing out to locations around the world, a new study shows. The authors sequenced the whole genome of 101 monarch butterflies from around the world to better understand the genetic basis of its migration patterns.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also found\u00a0that monarch\u2019s distinct bright orange colour is controlled by a single gene not found in any other insects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/nature13812\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the journal <em>Nature<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>October 1 , 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Marcus Kronforst, University of Chicago, USA<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monarch butterflies originated in North America 20,000 years ago at the end of the last glacial maximum before dispersing out to locations around the world, a new study shows. The authors sequenced the whole genome of 101 monarch butterflies from around the world to better understand the genetic basis of its migration patterns. The researchers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[174,170,113,1274,917,909,40],"class_list":["post-3136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animals","tag-biodiversity","tag-biology","tag-dna","tag-evolution","tag-genetics","tag-insects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/monarch.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-OA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3138,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions\/3138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}