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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025

Correlated evolution of multiple traits gives butterflies a false head.

Tarunkishwor Yumnam, Ullasa Kodandaramaiah

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Tarunkishwor YumnamSchool of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 695551, India.ORCID 0000-0002-0662-2519
Ullasa KodandaramaiahSchool of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 695551, India.ORCID 0000-0002-1564-1738

Funding

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, IndiaIndian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many butterflies possess a combination of characters at the posterior hindwing end, superficially resembling their head. This

Indexed as

Biological EvolutionButterfliesWings, AnimalAnimalsArthropod AntennaeHeadPhylogenyadaptive constellationcorrelated evolutiondeflectionfalse headLepidopteraphylogenetic comparative methods

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PMID40628485
PMCPMC12308526

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