Melanic frequencies in three species of moths in post industrial Britain

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 475-482

  Cook, Laurence M ^a   Riley, Adrian M ^b   Woiwod, Ian P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Plant and Invertebrate Ecology Division   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apocheima pilosaria; Biston betularia carbonaria; Gene frequency change; Industrial melanism; Odontoptera bidentata; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COLOR MORPH; MOTH; POLYMORPHISM;

UNITED KINGDOM;

BISTON BETULARIA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0036552402     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2002.00035.x     Document Type: Article

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