Artificial intelligence reveals environmental constraints on colour diversity in insects

Deep learning has the potential to identify ecological relationships between environment and complex phenotypes that are difficult to quantify. Here, the authors use deep learning to analyse associations among elevation, climate and phenotype across ~2000 moth species in Taiwan.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shipher Wu, Chun-Min Chang, Guan-Shuo Mai, Dustin R. Rubenstein, Chen-Ming Yang, Yu-Ting Huang, Hsu-Hong Lin, Li-Cheng Shih, Sheng-Wei Chen, Sheng-Feng Shen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12500-2