Article
Contribution of Distal-less to quantitative variation in butterfly eyespots.
Nature - 17 Jan 2002
Beldade Patrícia, Brakefield Paul M, Long Anthony D
Abstract excerpt
The colour patterns decorating butterfly wings provide ideal material to study the reciprocal interactions between evolution and development. They are visually compelling products of selection, often with a clear adaptive value, and are amenable to a detailed developmental characterization. Research on wing-pattern evolution and development has focused on the eyespots of the tropical butterfly Bicyclus anynana....
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