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Record W207270327

A molecular comparison between long-day and short-day conditioned monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus)

2004· article· en· W207270327 on OpenAlex
Arturo Salcido

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

Venuescholarworks - UTEP (The University of Texas at El Paso) · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicLepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDanausMonarch butterflyTime of dayBiologyLepidoptera genitaliaEcologyAnimal science
DOInot available

Abstract

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The Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), a member of the Lepidoptera, is unique in its seasonal migration. Especially fascinating is the population of eastern United States and Canada because of the distance this group travels yearly. In order to understand what factors contribute to this behavior, two essential concepts are required. First, is an understanding of the changing environment from season to season, which may trigger these survival instincts. Second, is the study of the internal mechanisms that are cued by the environment and that are then translated into behavior. In an attempt to better comprehend monarch butterfly behavior, I have focused on an energy storage protein that is expressed in certain behavioral states and not in others. Though this protein is believed to function in development, my experiments have shown its expression far beyond development into adulthood, suggesting other functions. The expression of this protein, which is known to serve as a storage site for nutrients, could potentially play a role in the anticipation of migratory behavior. This reserve storage would be essential for the survival of monarchs during a nutrient scarce period in overwintering sites in Michoacan, Mexico. My experiments have added to the understanding of protein expression in monarch butterflies and the environmental conditions that influence it.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.116
Threshold uncertainty score0.926

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.239
Teacher spread0.225 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it