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The generation and diversification of butterfly eyespot color patterns.
Current biology : CB - 16 Oct 2001
Brunetti C R, Selegue J E, Monteiro A, French V, Brakefield P M, Carroll S B
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: A fundamental challenge of evolutionary and developmental biology is understanding how new characters arise and change. The recently derived eyespots on butterfly wings vary extensively in number and pattern between species and play important roles in predator avoidance. Eyespots form through the activity of inductive organizers (foci) at the center of developing eyespot fields. Foci are the proposed...
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