THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EYESPOT SHAPE AND WING SHAPE IN THE BUTTERFLY BICYCLUS-ANYNANA - A GENETIC AND MORPHOMETRICAL APPROACH

Authors
MONTEIRO A BRAKEFIELD PM FRENCH V
Citation
A. Monteiro et al., THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EYESPOT SHAPE AND WING SHAPE IN THE BUTTERFLY BICYCLUS-ANYNANA - A GENETIC AND MORPHOMETRICAL APPROACH, Journal of evolutionary biology, 10(5), 1997, pp. 787-802
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Ecology,"Genetics & Heredity",Biology
Journal title
Journal of evolutionary biology → ACNP
ISSN journal
1010061X
Volume
10
Issue
5
Year of publication
1997
Pages
787 - 802
Database
ISI
SICI code
1010-061X(1997)10:5<787:TRBESA>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
The African butterfly, Bicyclus anynana, normally possesses circular e yespots on its wings. Artificial selection lines, which express ellips oidal eyespots on the dorsal surface of the forewing, were used to inv estigate correlated changes in wing shape. Morphometric analysis of li near wing measurements and wing scale counts provided evidence that ey espot shape was correlated with localised shape changes in the corresp onding wing-cell, with overall shape changes in the vying, and with th e density/arrangement of scales around the eyespot area.