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Characterising the phenotypic diversity of Papilio dardanus wing patterns using an extensive museum collection.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Thompson Martin J, Timmermans Martijn J T N
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The history of 20th Century evolutionary biology can be followed through the study of mimetic butterflies. From the initial findings of discontinuous polymorphism through the debates regarding the evolution of mimicry and the step-size of evolutionary change, to the studies on supergene evolution and molecular characterisation of butterfly genomes, mimetic butterflies have been at the heart of evolutionary...
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