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The effect of cardiac glycoside storage on growth rate and adult size in the butterflyDanaus chrysippus (L.)

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Danaus chrysippus grows faster and attains significantly greater size when fed as a larva on several species of Asclepiadaceae (milkweeds) containing cardiac glycosides than on one which does not.

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  1. Department of Biology, Eton College, SL4 6EW, Windsor, Berkshire, (England)

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Acknowledgment. I thank Professor D. Schneider and Dr M. Boppré for sending me a sample of butterflies of Kenya stock reared in the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Smith, D.A.S. The effect of cardiac glycoside storage on growth rate and adult size in the butterflyDanaus chrysippus (L.). Experientia 34, 845–846 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01939656

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