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Different ommochrome pigment mixtures enable sexually dimorphic Batesian mimicry in disjunct populations of the common palmfly butterfly, Elymnias hypermnestra

With varied, brightly patterned wings, butterflies have been the focus of much work on the evolution and development of phenotypic novelty. However, the chemical structures of wing pigments from few butterfly species have been identified. We characterized the orange wing pigments of female Elymnias...

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Autores principales: Panettieri, Silvio, Gjinaj, Erisa, John, George, Lohman, David J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6135364/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30208047
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202465