WING SHAPE VARIATION ASSOCIATED WITH MIMICRY IN BUTTERFLIES
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Wing shape variation associated with mimicry in butterflies.
Mimetic resemblance in unpalatable butterflies has been studied by evolutionary biologists for over a century, but has largely focused on the convergence in wing color patterns. In Heliconius numata, discrete color-pattern morphs closely resemble comimics in the distantly related genus Melinaea. We examine the possibility that the shape of the butterfly wing also shows adaptive convergence. Fir...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evolution
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0014-3820
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12114