Bifurcation of non-radial solutions from radial solutions of a semilinear elliptic equation with negative exponent in expanding annuli of ℝ2 is studied. To obtain the main results, we use a blow-up argument via the Morse index of the regular entire solutions of the equation
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The main results of this paper can be seen as applications of the results obtained recently for finite Morse index solutions of the equation
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with N ⩾ 2 and p > 0.