Cryptic variation in butterfly eyespot development: The importance of sample size in gene expression studies

Evolution and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 2-9

  Reed, Robert D ^a   Chen, Po Hao ^a   Frederik Nijhout, H ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BUTTERFLY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; GENE EXPRESSION; VARIATION (GENETICS); WING;

EID: 33846069593     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2006.00133.x     Document Type: Article

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