Environmental stress and quantitative genetic variation in butterfly wing characteristics

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 473-485

  Talloen, W ^a   Van Dongen, S ^a   Van Dyck, H ^b   Lens, L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Butterfly wing pattern; Canalization; Environmental stress; Genetic variation; Pararge aegeria

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CANALIZATION (BIOLOGY); DROUGHT STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; HOST PLANT; MELANISM; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; WING MORPHOLOGY;

PARARGE AEGERIA;

EID: 65649130333     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-008-9246-4     Document Type: Article

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