Quantifying monarch butterfly larval pigmentation using digital image analysis

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 145-147

  Davis, Andrew K ^a   Farrey, Bethany ^a   Altizer, Sonia ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Larval pigmentation; Lepidoptera; Monarch butterfly; Nymphalidae

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; DIGITAL IMAGE; LARVA; PIGMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE;

EID: 10344261443     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-8703.2004.00211.x     Document Type: Article

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