Pigmentation pattern formation in the butter y wing of Papilio dardanus
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A Predictive Model for Color Pattern Formation in the Butter y Wing of Papilio dardanus
Previously, we have proposed a mathematical model based on a modiied Turing mechanism to account for pigmentation patterning in the butterry wing of Papilio dardanus, well-known for the spectacular phenotypic poly-morphism in the female of the species (Sekimura, et al., Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 267, 851-859 (2000)). In the present paper, we use our model to predict the outcome of a number of dii...
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