Eyespot evolution: Phylogenetic insights from Junonia and related butterfly genera (Nymphalidae: Junoniini)

Evolution and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 489-497

  Kodandaramaiah, Ullasa ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; RECONSTRUCTION; SUBSPECIES; WING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; FORELIMB; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BUTTERFLIES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; SELECTION, GENETIC; WING;

JUNONIA; JUNONIINI; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 70349163180     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2009.00357.x     Document Type: Article

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