Feedback from the Monarch authorities regarding research project

[Paul Cherubini]

Cris Guppy & Aud Fischer wrote:
> 
> Thank you Dr. Oberhauser for your carefully documented factual information.

One important claim made in this post was "east-west transfers [of monarch butterflies 
across the Rocky Mountains] will very likely mask any degree of natural differentiation at 
neutral genetic loci presently occurring in natural populations."

Since there are normally 200,000,000 monarch butterflies breeding east of the Rockies and 
3,000,000 west of the Rockies, does anyone (Bruce Walsh?) know the mathematical 
formula that a population geneticist would use to  calculate how many monarchs would have 
to be shipped over the Rockies east to west (or west to east) and at what fequency to likely 
result in a short or long term "masking the natural differentiation at neutral genetic loci 
presently occuring in these natural populations"?

Paul Cherubini, Placerville, California