The Only Blue Mimeresia (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Lipteninae) Uses a Color-Generating Mechanism Widely Applied by Butterflies

The butterfly Mimeresia neavei (Joicey & Talbot, 1921) is the only species in the exclusively African subtribal clade Mimacraeina (Lipteninae: Lycaenidae: Lepidoptera) having sexual dimorphism expressed by structurally blue-colored male and pigmentary colored orange–red female phenotypes. We inv...

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Autores principales: Bálint, Zsolt, Sáfián, Szabolcs, Hoskins, Adrian, Kertész, Krisztián, Koós, Antal Adolf, Horváth, Zsolt Endre, Piszter, Gábor, Biró, László Péter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6007625/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29846620
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/iey046

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6007625/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29846620
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/iey046

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