Natural and sexual selection and functional roles influence colouration but not the amount of variation in butterfly wing colour patterns

Abstract Background Trait variation is shaped by functional roles of traits and the strength and direction of selection acting on the traits. We hypothesized that in butterflies, sexually selected colouration is more variable owing to condition-dependent nature and directional selection on sexual or...

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Main Authors: Bhavya Dharmaraaj, Krushnamegh Kunte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2025-01-01
Series:BMC Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-024-02346-8
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