ArticleEcology and evolution2018
Morphological and biological characterization of a light-colored mutant in the multicolored Asian lady beetle,
Article in Ecology and evolution, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Resource-based trade-offs and the adaptive significance of seasonal plasticity in butterfly wing melanism.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Superficially Similar Adaptation Within One Species Exhibits Similar Morphological Specialization but Different Physiological Regulations and Origins.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2020Article
- Investigating reproductive success of the ladybird beetle Harmonia axyridis from the perspective of micropyle variation.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Morphological and biological characterization of a light-colored mutant in the multicolored Asian lady beetle,Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
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Abstract
Insect cuticle color formed with melanin pigments has numerous types of mutants which usually cause pleiotropic effects. Melanism has been widely studied, but mutants with light-colored phenotype as well as the consequent fitness changes have rarely been reported.Here, in the laboratory strain of
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