Real-time in vivo imaging of butterfly wing development: revealing the cellular dynamics of the pupal wing tissue.

Butterfly wings are covered with regularly arranged single-colored scales that are formed at the pupal stage. Understanding pupal wing development is therefore crucial to understand wing color pattern formation. Here, we successfully employed real-time in vivo imaging techniques to observe pupal hin...

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Main Authors: Masaki Iwata, Yoshikazu Ohno, Joji M Otaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3931798?pdf=render