ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
A release from developmental bias accelerates morphological diversification in butterfly eyespots.
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- Developmental lines of least resistance predict standing genetic covariation but do not constrain plasticity or rapid evolution.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Dorsoventral comparison of intraspecific variation in the butterfly wing pattern using a convolutional neural network.Biology letters · 2025Article
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- Developmental bias in the evolution and plasticity of beetle horn shape.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
Development can bias the independent evolution of traits sharing ontogenetic pathways, making certain evolutionary changes less likely. The eyespots commonly found on butterfly wings each have concentric rings of differing colors, and these serially repeated pattern elements have been a focus for evo-devo research. In the butterfly family Nymphalidae, eyespots have been shown to function in startling or deflecting predators and to be involved in sexual selection. Previous work on a model species of Mycalesina butterfly,
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