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Focusing on butterfly eyespot focus: uncoupling of white spots from eyespot bodies in nymphalid butterflies

BACKGROUND: Developmental studies on butterfly wing color patterns often focus on eyespots. A typical eyespot (such as that of Bicyclus anynana) has a few concentric rings of dark and light colors and a white spot (called a focus) at the center. The prospective eyespot center during the early pupal...

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Autores principales: Iwata, Masaki, Otaki, Joji M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4977239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27547662
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-2969-8