The redder the better: Wing color predicts flight performance in monarch butterflies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Davis, Andrew K ^a   Chi, Jean ^a   Bradley, Catherine ^a   Altizer, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BUTTERFLY; FEMALE; FLYING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; WING COLOR;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; PIGMENTATION; WING;

DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; HEXAPODA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 84864346763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041323     Document Type: Article

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