Directional and stabilizing selection on wing size and shape in migrant and resident monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus (L.), in Cuba

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 605-616

  Dockx, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fourier analyses; Megalippe; Wing angles; Wing condition; Wing morphology

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CHROMATOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOMORPHOLOGY; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; FOURIER TRANSFORM; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; POPULATION MIGRATION; SELECTION; WING MORPHOLOGY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CUBA; GREATER ANTILLES;

DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 36849069985     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00886.x     Document Type: Article

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