ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018
A simple developmental model recapitulates complex insect wing venation patterns.
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- Reticulate leaf venation in Pilea peperomioides is a Voronoi diagram.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Shared regulatory networks link vein positioning and eyespot ring formation in butterflies.Communications biology · 2025Article
- WingAnalogy: a computer vision-based tool for automated insect wing asymmetry and morphometry analysis.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Allometric Scaling Reveals Evolutionary Constraint on Odonata Wing Cellularity via Critical Crack Length.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Vein-Membrane Interaction in Cambering of Flapping Insect Wings.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Dragonfly-Inspired Wing Design Enabled by Machine Learning and Maxwell's Reciprocal Diagrams.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Golden ratio in venation patterns of dragonfly wings.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- An image based application in Matlab for automated modelling and morphological analysis of insect wings.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Hexagonal Voronoi pattern detected in the microstructural design of the echinoid skeleton.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Article
- Insect wing 3D printing.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Computational analysis of size, shape and structure of insect wings.Biology open · 2019Article
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Abstract
Insect wings are typically supported by thickened struts called veins. These veins form diverse geometric patterns across insects. For many insect species, even the left and right wings from the same individual have veins with unique topological arrangements, and little is known about how these patterns form. We present a large-scale quantitative study of the fingerprint-like "secondary veins." We compile a dataset of wings from 232 species and 17 families from the order Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies), a group with particularly elaborate vein patterns. We characterize the geometric arrangements of veins and develop a simple model of secondary vein patterning. We show that our model is capable of recapitulating the vein geometries of species from other, distantly related winged insect clades.
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