Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Martin, Arnaud
• Kapan, Durrell D
• Gilbert, Lawrence E
• Nachman, Michael W.

Titel

Wing patterns in the mist

Ist Teil von

• PLoS genetics, 2010-02, Vol.6 (2), p.e1000822-e1000822

Ort / Verlag

United States: Public Library of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

•   The aesthetic appeal of butterfly wing patterns has been costly to their status as a tool of fundamental scientific inquiry. [...]while mimetic convergence in wing patterns between edible "Batesian" mimics and distasteful models, or between different distasteful "Müllerian" mimics (species that cooperate to educate predators) has long been the subject of genetic analysis [1] and field experiments [2], most biology text books confine mimicry to sections on striking adaptations without applying these examples to broader topics of evolution. In 1979, Turner [10] reported a strong discrepancy in levels of differentiation in color pattern versus allozyme loci across the geographical range of erato and melpomene. [...]if viewed only through the lens of structural genes not manifest in the visible phenotype, few of the many races described for these species would be delimited.