Insect wings. Patterns upon patterns

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G North1, V French

  • 1Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK.

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|July 1, 1994
PubMed

Abstract:

Butterfly wing patterns may be generated by an extra coordinate system superimposed on a basic wing-patterning system similar to that of the fruit-fly Drosophila melanogaster.

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