Abstract
AbstractThe African butterfly, Bicyclus anynana, normally possesses circular eyespots on its wings. Artificial selection lines, which express ellipsoidal eyespots on the dorsal surface of the forewing, were used to investigate correlated changes in wing shape. Morphometric analysis of linear wing measurements and wing scale counts provided evidence that eyespot shape was correlated with localised shape changes in the corresponding wing‐cell, with overall shape changes in the wing, and with the density/arrangement of scales around the eyespot area.
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