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Butterfly Wing Translucence Enables Enhanced Visual Signaling

SIMPLE SUMMARY: The commonly held view on the coloration of butterfly wings is that the bright colors of the dorsal wing sides are used for display, while the much duller ventral wing sides provide camouflage, specifically when the butterflies are resting. Here, we show that the wings of many butter...

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Autores principales: Stavenga, Doekele G., Leertouwer, Heinrich L., Arikawa, Kentaro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10057065/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36975919
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects14030234