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Secondary Sexual Trait Melanization in "Black" Scavenger Flies: Nutritional Plasticity and Its Evolution.

The American naturalist - 1 Jan 2022

Rohner Patrick T

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AbstractThe black scavenger fly Sepsis thoracica exhibits polyphenic development resulting in alternate small black and large amber male morphs. Although the behavior, ecology, and physiology of both morphs are being scrutinized, the evolutionary origins of the nutritional polyphenism remain poorly understood. I here use a comparative approach to study variation in the degree of melanization of the forefemur-a...

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PMID: 34978972
DOI: 10.1086/717051

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