Publications
Published manuscripts
Freedman, M.G., Long, R.W., Ramírez, S.R. & S.Y. Strauss (2024). Evidence for reductions in physical and chemical defense traits in island flora. Plants 13, 1026. doi.org/10.3390/plants13071026. (PDF)
Freedman, M.G. & M.R. Kronforst (2023). Migration genetics take flight: genetic and genomic insights into monarch butterfly migration. Current Opinion in Insect Science 59, 101079. doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2023.101079. (PDF)
Robinson, M.L., Weber, M.G., Freedman, M.G., Ashlock, S., Jordan, E., Yonenaga, J. & S.Y. Strauss (2023). Broadscale evolution of coloration in caterpillars reflects their interactions with plants and supports classic tenets of plant defense theory. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290, 20222293. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2293. (PDF)
Cover feature for the January 2023 issue
Hemstrom, W.B., Freedman, M.G., Zalucki, M.P., Ramírez, S.R. & M.R. Miller (2022). Population genetics of a recent range expansion in monarch butterflies. Molecular Ecology 31, 4544-4557. doi.org/10.1111/mec.16592. (PDF)
Pocius, V.M., Majewska, A.A. & M.G. Freedman (2022) The role of experiments in monarch butterfly conservation: a review of recent studies and approaches. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 115, 10-24. doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saab036. (PDF)
Freedman, M.G., De Roode, J.C., Forsiter, M.L., Kronforst, M.R., Pierce, A.A., Schultz, C.B., Taylor, O.R. & E.E. Crone (2021). Are eastern and western monarch butterflies distinct populations? A review of evidence for ecological, phenotypic, and genetic differentiation and implications for conservation. Conservation Science and Practice, 3:e432. doi.org/10.1111/csp2.432 (PDF)
Cover feature for the July 2021 issue
Freedman, M.G., Dingle, H., Strauss, S.Y. & Ramírez, S.R (2020). Two centuries of monarch butterfly collections reveal contrasting effects of range expansion and migration loss on wing traits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 117, 28887-28893. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2001283117. (PDF)
Freedman, M.G., Jason, C., Ramirez, S.R. & S.Y. Strauss (2020). Host plant adaptation during contemporary range expansion in the monarch butterfly. Evolution 74, 377-391. doi.org/10.1111/evo.13914. (PDF)
Freedman, M.G. & H. Dingle. (2018). Wing morphology in migratory North American monarchs: characterizing sources of variation and understanding changes through time. Animal Migration 5, 61-73. doi.org/10.1515/ami-2018-0003 (PDF)
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Freedman, M.G., Miller, R.H. & H.S. Rogers. (2018). Landscape-level bird loss increases the prevalence of honeydew-producing insects and invasive ants. Oecologia 188, 1263-1272. doi.org/10.1007/s00442-018-4273-5. (PDF)
Freedman, M.G., Dingle, H., Chiu, J.C., Tabuloc, C. Yang, L.H. & M.P. Zalucki. (2018). Non-migratory monarch butterflies retain developmental and transcriptional mechanisms associated with migration. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 123, 265-278. doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blx148. (PDF)
Preprints and submitted manuscripts
Freedman, M.G., Choquette, S., Hunter, M.D., Strauss, S.Y., Ramírez, S.R. & R.L. Vannette (2022). Population-specific patterns of cardenolide sequestration in monarch butterflies from around the world. Link to preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.15.464593v2.