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Pieridae

Common names: cabbage white butterflies

Taxonomy: Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae

Roles: pollinator

ITIS TSN: 117267

Synonyms: cabbage milky butterflies, milky butterflies

External: RMBL Collections

Papers: 101 | Mentions: 104

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 73 entities)

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Publications (101)

student_paper

The Effect of Drought Stress on the Development of Pieris macdunnoughii Feeding on its Native and Non-Native Host Plants

2026Role: text_match

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Females know best: dispersal polymorphism maintained by sex-specific foraging

2025Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologyRole: text_match

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Fitness costs and benefits of a non-native floral resource for subalpine solitary bees

2025OikosRole: text_match

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Patterns of genetic variation and local adaptation of a native herbivore to a lethal invasive plant

2024Molecular EcologyRole: text_match

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Evidence for a single, ancient origin of a genus-wide alternative life history strategy

Documents (1)

technical report

Biologically Significant Areas in Gunnison County Colorado

Co-occurring Species

Lepidoptera

91 shared papers

Colias philodice eriphyle

Pieridae40 shared papers

Pieris macdunnoughii

Pieridae37 shared papers

Pieris rapae

Pieridae22 shared papers

Beetles

22 shared papers

Colias meadii

Pieridae20 shared papers

Colias eurytheme

Pieridae19 shared papers

Thlaspi

Brassicaceae19 shared papers

Caterpillars

19 shared papers

Boechera stricta

Brassicaceae18 shared papers

2023Science AdvancesRole: text_match

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Genetic mechanisms underlying maladaptation in specialized species interactions

2023Role: text_match

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Novel host unmasks heritable variation in plant preference within an insect population

2022EvolutionRole: text_match

student_paper

Larval Feeding Ability on a Drought-Stressed Invasive Plant

2021Role: text_match

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The genome of the Margined White butterfly (Pieris macdunnoughii): sex chromosome insights and the power of polishing with PoolSeq data

2021Genome Biology and EvolutionRole: text_match

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Ecological contexts of balancing selection in nature

2020Role: text_match

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Experience may outweigh cue similarity in maintaining a persistent host plant-based evolutionary trap.

2020Ecological Monographs. doi 10.1002/ecm.1412Role: text_match

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Non-Bee Insects as Visitors and Pollinators of Crops: Biology, Ecology, and Management

2019Annual Review of EntomologyRole: text_match

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Pre- and post-ingestive defenses affect larval feeding on a lethal invasive host plant

2019Entomologia Experimentalis et ApplicataRole: text_match

student_paper

The effect of nutrient availability on floral display and pollinator interactions

2019Role: text_match

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The persistent maladaptation of Pieris macdunnoughii: Constraints on adaptation to an evolutionary trap

2019Role: text_match

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Climate Warming Drives Local Extinction in a Subalpine Meadow

2018Mountain ViewsRole: text_match

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Rocky Mountain Biological Lab. Ecology of Place: Making Ecology and Evolutionary Biology spatially explicit

2018Mountain ViewsRole: text_match

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Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic CO Ecology of Place: Making Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Spatially Explicit

2018Mountain ViewsRole: text_match

student_paper

Conflict of interest? Investigating the costs and benefits of herbivore defense using the model plant Boechera stricta

2017Role: text_match

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Historical changes in thermoregulatory traits of alpine butterflies reveal complex ecological and evolutionary responses to recent climate change

2016Climate Change ResponsesRole: text_match

student_paper

Larval feeding behavior and leaf components that affect the survival of Pieris macdunnoughii on the invasive mustard Thlaspi arvense

2016Role: text_match

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Morphological and physiological determinants of local adaptation to climate in Rocky Mountain butterflies

2016Conservation PhysiologyRole: text_match

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Temporal ecology of a subalpine ecosystem: Plant communities, plant-pollinator interactions, & climate change.

2016Role: text_match

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Adaptation to climate and climate change in Rocky Mountain butterflies: Morphology, physiology, and behavior

2015Role: text_match

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Climate variability slows evolutionary responses of Colias butterflies to recent climate change

2015Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match

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Fine-Grained Distribution of a Non-Native Resource Can Alter the Population Dynamics of a Native Consumer

2015PloS oneRole: text_match

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Dynamics and structure of a native Pieris population in the presence of a non-native, toxic larval host plant

2014Journal of the Lepidopterists SocietyRole: text_match

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Geographic differences and microevolutionary changes in thermal sensitivity of butterfly larvae in response to climate

2014Functional EcologyRole: text_match

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Rapid evolution and population divergence in response to environmental change in Colias butterlies

2014Role: text_match

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A genetic polymorphism evolving in parallel in two cell compartments and in two clades

2013BMC Evolutionary BiologyRole: text_match

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Fitness costs of butterfly oviposition on a lethal non-native plant in a mixed native and non-native plant community

2013OecologiaRole: text_match

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Seasonal change in a pollinator community and the maintenance of style length variation in Mertensia fusiformis (Boraginaceae)

2011Annals of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

The effects of elevation and climate on butterfly (Lepidoptera) abundance and activity

2011Role: text_match

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Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

2010Role: text_match

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Nectar sugar limits larval growth of solitary bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

2009Environmental EntomologyRole: text_match

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The importance of interannual variation and bottom-up nitrogen enrichment for plant-pollinator networks

2009OikosRole: text_match

article

Understanding insect life histories and senescence through a resource allocation lens

2009Functional EcologyRole: text_match

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A mitochondrial-DNA-based phylogeny for some evolutionary-genetic model species of Colias butterfly (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

2008Molecular Phylogenetics and EvolutionRole: text_match

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Bottom-up effects of nutrient enrichment on plants, pollinators, and their interactions

2008Role: text_match

student_paper

Butterfly foraging behavior: can butterflies detect nectar in flowering plants?

2008Role: text_match

student_paper

Flower preference and constancy in four butterfly species

2007Role: text_match

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The green-veined white (Pieris napi L.), its Pierine relatives, and the systematics of divergent character sets (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

2006Biological Journal of the Linnean SocietyRole: text_match

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A reconnaissance of population genetic variation in artic and subarctic sulfur butterflies (Colias spp.; Lepidopetera, Pieridae)

2005Canadian Journal of ZoologyRole: text_match

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Larval food limitation in butterflies: effects on adult resource allocation and fitness

2005OecologiaRole: text_match

student_paper

Cardamine cordifolia Pollination effects on seed and fruit production

2004Role: pollinator

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Adaptation at specific loci. VII. Natural selection, dispersal and the diversity of molecular-functional variation patterns among butterfly species complexes (Colias: Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

2003Molecular EcologyRole: text_match

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Measuring dispersal in a metapopulation using stable isotope enrichment: high rates of sex-biased disperal between patches in a mayfly population

2003OikosRole: text_match

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The evolution of wing color: male mate choice opposes adaptive wing color divergence in Colias butterflies

2003EvolutionRole: text_match

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The evolution of wing color in Colias butterflies: heritability, sex linkage, and population divergence

2002EvolutionRole: text_match

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The matrix matters: effective isolation in fragmented landscapes

2001American NaturalistRole: text_match

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Interference competition and sexual selection promote polymorphism in Colias (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

2000Functional EcologyRole: text_match

article

Molecular-functional studies of adaptive genetic variation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes

2000Annual Review of GeneticsRole: text_match

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Behavioural fitness component effects of the alba polymorphism of Colias (Lepidoptera, Pieridae): resource and time budget analysis

1998Functional EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Oviposition variation among Pieris napi due to increasing glucosinolate levels in cruciferous hostplants

1998Role: text_match

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Community composition in mountain ecosystems: climatic determinants of montane butterfly distributions

1997Global Ecology and Biogeography LettersRole: text_match

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Adaptation at specific loci. VI. Divergence vs parallelism of polymorphic allozymes in molecular function and fitness-component effects among Colias species (Lepidoptera:Pieridae)

1996Molecular Biology and EvolutionRole: text_match

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Adaption at Specific Loci. VI. Divergence vs. Parallelism of Polymorphic Allozymes in Molecular Function and Fitness-Component Effects Among Colias Species (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

1996Molecular Biology and EvolutionRole: text_match

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A general model of the role of male-donated nutrients in female insects' reproduction

1990American NaturalistRole: text_match

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Testing the 'mimicry' explanation for the Colias 'alba' polymorphism: platability of Colias and other butterflies to wild bird predators

1989Functional EcologyRole: text_match

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DISSECTING CORRELATED CHARACTERS: ADAPTIVE ASPECTS OF PHENOTYPIC COVARIATION IN MELANIZATION PATTERN OFPIERISBUTTERFLIES

1987EvolutionRole: text_match

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EVOLUTION AND COADAPTATION OF THERMOREGULATORY BEHAVIOR AND WING PIGMENTATION PATTERN IN PIERID BUTTERFLIES

1987EvolutionRole: text_match

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Predation, thermoregulation, and wing color in pierid butterflies

1987OecologiaRole: text_match

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Thermal physiological ecology of Colias butterflies in flight

1986OecologiaRole: text_match

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Adaptations at specific loci. IV. Differential mating success among glycolytic allozyme genotypes of Colias butterflies

1985GeneticsRole: text_match

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Butterfly engineering

1985Scientific AmericanRole: text_match

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Egg distribution and survivorship in the pierid butterfly, Colias alexandra

1985OecologiaRole: text_match

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The predator-prey interaction of the mite Balaustium sp. and the pierid butterfly Colias alexandra

1985EcologyRole: text_match

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Thermal ecology of Pieris butterflies (Lepidoptera; Pieridae): a new mechanism of behavioral thermoregulation

1985OecologiaRole: text_match

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Thermoregulatory significance of wing melanization in Pieris butterflies (Lepidoptera; Pieridae): physics, posture, and pattern

1985OecologiaRole: text_match

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Colias alexandra: a model for the study of natural populations of butterflies

1984Journal of Research on the LepidopteraRole: text_match

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Mechanistic constraints and optimality models: thermoregulatory strategies in Colias butterflies

1984EcologyRole: text_match

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Adaptation at specific loci. II. Demographic and biochemical elements in the maintenance of the Colias PGI polymorphism

1983GeneticsRole: text_match

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Ecological significance of flight activity in Colias butterflies: implication for reproductive strategy and population structure

1983EcologyRole: text_match

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The "white male" variant of Colias (Pieridae): two new records from Colorado

1983Journal of the Lepidopterists' SocietyRole: text_match

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Thermoregulation and flight in Colias butterflies: elevational patterns and mechanistic limitations

1983EcologyRole: text_match

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Thermoregulatory strategies in Colias butterflies: thermal stress and the limits to adaptation in temporally varying environments

1983American NaturalistRole: text_match

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Diapause and diapause dynamics of Colias alexandra (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)

1982OecologiaRole: text_match

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Thermoregulation and the determinants of heat transfer in Colias butterflies

1982OecologiaRole: text_match

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Population structure of pierid butterflies. IV. Genetic and physiological investment in offspring by male Colias

1981OecologiaRole: text_match

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The population ecology of a natural population of the pierid butterfly Colias alexandra

1981OecologiaRole: text_match

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Metabolic resource allocation vs. mating attractions: adaptive pressure on the "alba" polymorphism of Colias butterflies

1980Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesRole: text_match

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Phytochemical correlates of herbivory in a community of native and naturalized cruciferae

1980Biochemical Systematics and EcologyRole: text_match

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Population structure of pierid butterflies. II. A "native" population of Colias philodice eriphyle in Colorado

1979OecologiaRole: text_match

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Adaptation at specific loci. I. Natural selection on phosphoglucose isomerase of Colias butterflies: biochemical and population aspects

1977GeneticsRole: text_match

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Population structure of pierid butterflies. I. Numbers and movements of some montane Colias species

1977OecologiaRole: text_match

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Coevolution of pierid butterflies and their cruciferous foodplants

1975OecologiaRole: text_match

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Naturally occurring variation in larval color of Colias butterflies: isolation from two Colorado populations

1974EvolutionRole: text_match

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Nectar resource use by Colias butterflies

1974OecologiaRole: text_match

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Adaptive significance of pigment polymorphism in Colias butterflies. III. Progress in study of the "alba" variant

1973EvolutionRole: text_match

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The thermal ecology of some Colias butterfly larvae

1973Journal of Comparative PhysiologyRole: text_match

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The Thermal Ecology of the Larvae fo Colias Butterflies

1971Role: text_match

student_paper

Larval food plants for Colias alexandria: a survey of the distributions of Lathyrus leucanthus and Vicia americana near Gothic, Colorado

1970Role: text_match

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Adaptive significance of pigment polymorphism in Colias butterflies. II. Thermoregulation and photoperiodically controlled melanin variation in Colias eurytheme

1969Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceRole: text_match

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Adaptive significance of pigment polymorphism in Colias butterflies. I. Variation of melanin pigment in relation to thermoregulation

1968EvolutionRole: text_match

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The phenetic relationships of the butterflies. I. Adult taxonomy and the non-specificity hypothesis

1967Systematic ZoologyRole: text_match

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Studies on the chromosomes of North American Rhopalocera. II. Hersperiidae, Megathymidae, and Pieridae

1960Journal of the Lepidopterists' SocietyRole: text_match

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A study of hybrids in Colias (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

1959EvolutionRole: text_match

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Comparative studies of the developmental rates, hibernation, and food plants in North American Colias (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

1958American Midland NaturalistRole: text_match

Pieridae

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 73 entities)

Publications (101)

The Effect of Drought Stress on the Development of Pieris macdunnoughii Feeding on its Native and Non-Native Host Plants

Females know best: dispersal polymorphism maintained by sex-specific foraging

Fitness costs and benefits of a non-native floral resource for subalpine solitary bees

Increasing aridity may threaten the maintenance of a plant defence polymorphism

Sensory cues and memory in Lepidopteran mud puddling behavior

Changes in insect population dynamics due to climate change

Patterns of genetic variation and local adaptation of a native herbivore to a lethal invasive plant

Evidence for a single, ancient origin of a genus-wide alternative life history strategy

Documents (1)

Biologically Significant Areas in Gunnison County Colorado

Co-occurring Species

Lepidoptera

Colias philodice eriphyle

Pieris macdunnoughii

Pieris rapae

Beetles

Colias meadii

Colias eurytheme

Thlaspi

Caterpillars

Boechera stricta

Genetic mechanisms underlying maladaptation in specialized species interactions

Novel host unmasks heritable variation in plant preference within an insect population

Larval Feeding Ability on a Drought-Stressed Invasive Plant

The genome of the Margined White butterfly (Pieris macdunnoughii): sex chromosome insights and the power of polishing with PoolSeq data

Ecological contexts of balancing selection in nature

Experience may outweigh cue similarity in maintaining a persistent host plant-based evolutionary trap.

Non-Bee Insects as Visitors and Pollinators of Crops: Biology, Ecology, and Management

Pre- and post-ingestive defenses affect larval feeding on a lethal invasive host plant

The effect of nutrient availability on floral display and pollinator interactions

The persistent maladaptation of <i>Pieris macdunnoughii</i>: Constraints on adaptation to an evolutionary trap

Climate Warming Drives Local Extinction in a Subalpine Meadow

Rocky Mountain Biological Lab. Ecology of Place: Making Ecology and Evolutionary Biology spatially explicit

Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic CO Ecology of Place: Making Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Spatially Explicit

Conflict of interest? Investigating the costs and benefits of herbivore defense using the model plant <i>Boechera stricta</i>

Historical changes in thermoregulatory traits of alpine butterflies reveal complex ecological and evolutionary responses to recent climate change

Larval feeding behavior and leaf components that affect the survival of <i>Pieris macdunnoughii</i> on the invasive mustard <i>Thlaspi arvense</i>

Morphological and physiological determinants of local adaptation to climate in Rocky Mountain butterflies

Temporal ecology of a subalpine ecosystem: Plant communities, plant-pollinator interactions, & climate change.

Adaptation to climate and climate change in Rocky Mountain butterflies: Morphology, physiology, and behavior

Climate variability slows evolutionary responses of <i>Colias</i> butterflies to recent climate change

Fine-Grained Distribution of a Non-Native Resource Can Alter the Population Dynamics of a Native Consumer

Dynamics and structure of a native Pieris population in the presence of a non-native, toxic larval host plant

Geographic differences and microevolutionary changes in thermal sensitivity of butterfly larvae in response to climate

Rapid evolution and population divergence in response to environmental change in <i>Colias</i> butterlies

A genetic polymorphism evolving in parallel in two cell compartments and in two clades

Fitness costs of butterfly oviposition on a lethal non-native plant in a mixed native and non-native plant community

Seasonal change in a pollinator community and the maintenance of style length variation in Mertensia fusiformis (Boraginaceae)

The effects of elevation and climate on butterfly (<i>Lepidoptera</i>) abundance and activity

Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

Nectar sugar limits larval growth of solitary bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

The importance of interannual variation and bottom-up nitrogen enrichment for plant-pollinator networks

Understanding insect life histories and senescence through a resource allocation lens

A mitochondrial-DNA-based phylogeny for some evolutionary-genetic model species of <i>Colias</i> butterfly (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

Bottom-up effects of nutrient enrichment on plants, pollinators, and their interactions

Butterfly foraging behavior: can butterflies detect nectar in flowering plants?

Flower preference and constancy in four butterfly species

The green-veined white (Pieris napi L.), its Pierine relatives, and the systematics of divergent character sets (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

A reconnaissance of population genetic variation in artic and subarctic sulfur butterflies (Colias spp.; Lepidopetera, Pieridae)

Larval food limitation in butterflies: effects on adult resource allocation and fitness

<i>Cardamine cordifolia</i> Pollination effects on seed and fruit production

Adaptation at specific loci. VII. Natural selection, dispersal and the diversity of molecular-functional variation patterns among butterfly species complexes (<i>Colias</i>: Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

Measuring dispersal in a metapopulation using stable isotope enrichment: high rates of sex-biased disperal between patches in a mayfly population

The evolution of wing color: male mate choice opposes adaptive wing color divergence in <i>Colias</i> butterflies

The evolution of wing color in <i>Colias</i> butterflies: heritability, sex linkage, and population divergence

The matrix matters: effective isolation in fragmented landscapes

Interference competition and sexual selection promote polymorphism in Colias (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

Molecular-functional studies of adaptive genetic variation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes

Behavioural fitness component effects of the alba polymorphism of Colias (Lepidoptera, Pieridae): resource and time budget analysis

Oviposition variation among <i>Pieris napi</i> due to increasing glucosinolate levels in cruciferous hostplants

Community composition in mountain ecosystems: climatic determinants of montane butterfly distributions

Adaptation at specific loci. VI. Divergence vs parallelism of polymorphic allozymes in molecular function and fitness-component effects among Colias species (Lepidoptera:Pieridae)

Adaption at Specific Loci. VI. Divergence vs. Parallelism of Polymorphic Allozymes in Molecular Function and Fitness-Component Effects Among Colias Species (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

A general model of the role of male-donated nutrients in female insects' reproduction

Testing the 'mimicry' explanation for the Colias 'alba' polymorphism: platability of Colias and other butterflies to wild bird predators

DISSECTING CORRELATED CHARACTERS: ADAPTIVE ASPECTS OF PHENOTYPIC COVARIATION IN MELANIZATION PATTERN OFPIERISBUTTERFLIES

EVOLUTION AND COADAPTATION OF THERMOREGULATORY BEHAVIOR AND WING PIGMENTATION PATTERN IN PIERID BUTTERFLIES