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Essential and nonessential fatty acid composition and use in overwintering monarch butterflies

Anparasan L, Pilecky M, Ramirez MI and others. Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, December 2024.

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Fatty acidsLipidsWinteringEnergeticsMonarch Butterfly

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