Eco-evo-devo advances with butterfly eyespots.

Abstract excerpt

Eyespots on the wings of different nymphalid butterflies have become valued models in eco-evo-devo. They are ecologically significant, evolutionarily diverse, and developmentally tractable. Their study has provided valuable insight about the genetic and developmental basis of inter-specific diversity and intra-specific variation, as well as into other key themes in evo-evo-devo: evolutionary novelty,...

Topics

• Adaptation, Physiological
• Animals
• Biological Evolution
• Butterflies
• Ecology
• Phenotype
• Pigmentation
• Wings, Animal