Heliconius wing patterns: An evo-devo model for understanding phenotypic diversity

Heredity

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 157-167

  Joron, M ^a,b   Jiggins, C D ^b   Papanicolaou, A ^b   McMillan, W O ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Expressed sequence tags; Linkage mapping; Melanin; Mimicry; Ommochrome; Positional cloning; Signalling pathways

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; MIMICRY; PHENOTYPE; TAXONOMY; WING MORPHOLOGY;

ANIMAL; BUTTERFLY; FORELIMB; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; GENES, INSECT; PHENOTYPE; VARIATION (GENETICS); WING;

HELICONIINAE; HELICONIUS; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 33747876621     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800873     Document Type: Short Survey

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