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Butterfly wing patterns and mimicry
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- Creator
- edited by Richard H. Ffrench-Constant
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- London : Academic Press, 2018
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource : illustrations (some colour)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780128137703, 0128137703, 0128137711, 9780128137710
- OCLC
- on1035947421
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Front Cover; Butterfly Wing Patterns and Mimicry; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introductory Chapter: Butterfly Wing Patterns: Not Just Painting by Numbers; 1. Painting by Numbers; 2. Mind the Developmental Gap; 3. What Is Missing?; 4. How Can New Tools Help?; 5. Pattern Is Not Everything; 6. Where Do We Go From Here?; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter One: Structural Colours in Lepidopteran Scales; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Human Colour Vision; 1.2. Origins of Colours in Nature; 1.3. Structural Colours in Other Scale-Bearing Insects; 1.3.1. Hoplia coerulea Scarab Beetle
- 1.3.2. Weevil and Longhorn Beetles1.3.3. Cataglyphis bombycina Ant; 2. Classification of Photonic Nanostructures in Lepidopteran Scales; 2.1. Type I Scales; 2.2. Type II Scales; 2.3. Type III Scales; 3. Physical Origins of Colours in Butterfly Wing Scales; 3.1. Interference in Thin Films; 3.2. Interference in Periodic Multilayers; 3.3. Diffraction by Gratings; 3.4. Light Interaction With 3D Photonic Crystals; 3.5. Light Incoherent Scattering in Randomly Disordered Structures; 4. Case Studies in Lepidopteran Scale Structures; 4.1. Morpho Genus
- 4.2. Light Diffraction in Lamprolenis nitida, Pierella luna and Argyrophorus argenteus4.3. Ancyluris meliboeus; 4.4. Troides magellanus; 4.5. Urania leilus and Chrysiridia rhipheus; 4.6. Multilayer Interference in Lycaenids' Scales; 4.7. Thin-Film Interference in Graphium sarpedon and Hypolimnas salmacis; 4.8. Papilio ulysses and Papilio palinurus; 4.9. Coherent Light Scattering in 3D PCs in Callophrys rubi and Parides sesostris; 4.10. Incoherent Light Scattering in Pieris rapae and Delias nigrina; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References
- Chapter Two: More Than Colours: An Eco-Evolutionary Framework for Wing Shape Diversity in Butterflies1. Introduction; 2. Wing Shape and Function; 2.1. Evaluating the Wing Shape; 2.1.1. Allometry; 2.1.2. Modularity; 2.1.3. Phylogenetic Relationships; 3. Ontogenetic Drivers; 4. Biotic Filters; 4.1. Intraspecific Interaction; 4.2. Interspecific Interaction; 5. Abiotic Filters; 6. Macroevolutionary Processes; 7. Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter Three: CRISPR/Cas9 as the Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Butterfly Wing Pattern Development and Its Evolution
- 1. Functional Genomics in Lepidoptera: An Introduction2. Insights Into Butterfly Wing Patterning and Eyespot Development Through CRISPR/Cas9; 2.1. WntA: An Evolutionarily Malleable Genetic Pencil That Sketches Pattern Shapes; 2.2. CRISPR Mutants Highlight a Modular Organisation of Wing Patterns; 2.3. optix: A Master Regulator of Pigmentation and Iridescence; 2.4. Pigmentation Genes; 2.5. Genes Involved in Eyespot Development; 3. Benefits and Caveats of Mosaicism; 4. Beyond Knockouts of Candidate Genes; Acknowledgements; References; Further Reading; Back Cover