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Integration of wings and their eyespots in the speckled wood butterfly Pararge aegeria.
Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution - 15 Jul 2007
Breuker Casper J, Gibbs Melanie, Van Dyck Hans, Brakefield Paul M, Klingenberg Christian Peter, Van Dongen Stefan
Abstract excerpt
We investigated both the phenotypic and developmental integration of eyespots on the fore- and hindwings of speckled wood butterflies Pararge aegeria. Eyespots develop within a framework of wing veins, which may not only separate eyespots developmentally, but may at the same time also integrate them by virtue of being both signalling sources and barriers during eyespot development. We therefore specifically...
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