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Giving eyespots a shiner: Pharmacologic manipulation of the Io moth wing pattern [version 2; referees: 2 approved]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2017
Our knowledge of wing pattern formation in Lepidoptera has advanced significantly in recent years due to the careful examination of several groups of butterflies.
Andrei Sourakov
doaj   +1 more source

Bibliographic Guide to the Terrestrial Arthropods of Michigan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Papers dealing with distribution, faunal extensions, and identification of Michigan insects and other terrestrial arthropods are listed by order, and cover the period of 1878 through ...
O\u27Brien, Mark F
core   +1 more source

Illustrations of Lepidoptera [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1900
CAN any of your readers assist me in finding some artist who is really competent to produce, by any process which combines extreme accuracy with a reasonable cost, a large series of illustrations of variation in butterflies? The difficulty of getting such work done in the country under my own eye is very great, and I am unwilling to do as some of my ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Structural colour in Lepidoptera [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2006
What are Lepidoptera? Butterflies, moths and skippers form the order of insects known as Lepidoptera. Estimated to include more than 150,000 species, they are widely studied and have long been known to have highly complex morphologies, fascinating lifecycles and remarkable ecologies.Their broad wings are invariably covered with arrays of minute scales.
openaire   +3 more sources

The first complete mitochondrial genome for the subfamily Limacodidae and implications for the higher phylogeny of Lepidoptera

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2016
The mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) provides important information for understanding molecular evolution and phylogeny. To determine the systematic status of the family Limacodidae within Lepidoptera, we infer a phylogenetic hypothesis based on the ...
Qiuning Liu   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Moths of the Douglas Lake Region (Emmet and Cheboygan Counties), Michigan: VI. Miscellaneous Small Families (Lepidoptera) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Forty-seven species in nine families of Lepidoptera (Hepialidae, Psychidae, Alucitidae, Sesiidae, Cossidae, Limacodidae, Thyrididae, Pterophoridae, Epiplemi- dae) are listed with earliest and latest recorded flight dates in Emmet and Cheboygan counties ...
Voss, Edward G
core   +2 more sources

Natural parasitism of the Citrus Leafminer (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) over eight years in seven citrus regions of São Paulo, Brazil [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The citrus leafminer (CLM) Phyllocnists citrella Stainton (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) was frst recorded in Brazil in 1996. In 1998, the parasitoid Ageniaspis citricola Logvinovskaya (Hymenoptera: Encyrtdae) was introduced and established in many ...
Diez PA   +12 more
core   +1 more source

Molecular sexing of Lepidoptera

open access: yesJournal of Insect Physiology, 2019
We developed a universal method of Lepidoptera molecular sexing. The method is based on comparing the number of copies of the same gene in different sexes. Males of the majority of lepidopteran species have two Z chromosomes, whereas females have only one Z chromosome.
Sergey V. Pavlushin   +5 more
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Foraging Behavior of the Blue Morpho and Other Tropical Butterflies: The Chemical and Electrophysiological Basis of Olfactory Preferences and the Role of Color

open access: yesPsyche: A Journal of Entomology, 2012
Inside a live butterfly exhibit, we conducted bioassays to determine whether the presence of color would facilitate the location of attractants by the butterflies.
Alexandra Sourakov   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Conserved Patterns of Sex Chromosome Dosage Compensation in the Lepidoptera (WZ/ZZ): Insights from a Moth Neo-Z Chromosome

open access: yesGenome Biology and Evolution, 2017
Where previously described, patterns of sex chromosome dosage compensation in the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) have several unusual characteristics.
Liuqi Gu   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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