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Butterfly eyespot patterns and how evolutionary tinkering yields diversity.

Novartis Foundation symposium - 1 Jan 2007

Brakefield Paul M

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Eyespots are repeated elements in the wing pattern of butterflies. In the species-rich genus of Bicyclus, all eyespots are formed by the same developmental process. Artificial selection in B. anynana has explored how readily two of the eyespots can become different to each other. There is sufficient standing genetic and developmental variation in a single stock of this species for high flexibility in the...

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PMID: 17710849
DOI: 10.1002/9780470319390.ch6

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