Colour pattern evolution and development in Vanessa butterflies
The evolution and development of eyespot and non-eyespot colour pattern elements was studied in Vanessa butterflies using a phylogenetic approach. A Bayesian phylogeny of the genus Vanessa was reconstructed from 7750 DNA base pairs from 10 genes. Twenty-four non-eyespot and forty-four eyespot color...
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John Wiley & Sons Publishers
2015
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/30979 |