Estimating the age of Heliconius butterflies from calibrated photographs

Mating behaviour and predation avoidance in Heliconius involve visual colour signals; however, there is considerable inter-individual phenotypic variation in the appearance of colours. In particular, the red pigment varies from bright crimson to faded red. It has been thought that this variation is...

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Main Authors: Denise Dalbosco Dell’Aglio, Derya Akkaynak, W. Owen McMillan, Chris D. Jiggins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2017-09-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/3821.pdf