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The Genetic, Morphological, and Physiological Characterization of a Dark Larval Cuticle Mutation in the Butterfly, Bicyclus anynana

Studies on insect melanism have greatly contributed to our understanding of natural selection and the ultimate factors influencing the evolution of darkly pigmented phenotypes. Research on several species of melanic lepidopteran larvae have found that low levels of circulating juvenile hormone (JH)...

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Autores principales: Bear, Ashley, Simons, Ariel, Westerman, Erica, Monteiro, Antónia
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2904379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20644735
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011563