Butterfly wing colours and patterning by numbers

Heredity

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 592-593

  Ffrench Constant, R H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BUTTERFLY; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; GENE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; NOTE; PIGMENTATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY PATTERNING; BUTTERFLIES; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; PIGMENTATION; WING;

EID: 84861347169     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2012.6     Document Type: Note

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