Artificial selection for structural color on butterfly wings and comparison with natural evolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 33, 2014, Pages 12109-12114

  Wasik, Bethany R ^a   Liew, Seng Fatt ^b   Lilien, David A ^b   Dinwiddie, April J ^a   Noh, Heeso ^b,c   Cao, Hui ^b   Monteiro, Antónia ^a,d,e  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c Kookmin University   (South Korea)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e YALE NUS COLLEGE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Constructive interference; Parallel evolution; Photonics; Thin film

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL SELECTION; BICYCLUS ANYNANA; BICYCLUS MEDONTIAS; BICYCLUS SAMBULOS; BUTTERFLY; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORELIMB; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; LABORATORY; MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRUCTURAL COLOR; THICKNESS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; PARALLEL EVOLUTION; PHOTONICS; THIN FILM;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; COLOR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84906311290     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1402770111     Document Type: Article

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