Focus on butterfly eyespot development
- 1 November 1996
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 384 (6606) , 209-210
- https://doi.org/10.1038/384209a0
Abstract
The beautiful eyespot patterns on the wings of butterflies help them to evade predators, but they also present biologists with a unique opportunity to investigate the reciprocal interactions of development and evolution.Keywords
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