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From: Adaptive developmental plasticity: Compartmentalized responses to environmental cues and to corresponding internal signals provide phenotypic flexibility

Figure 2

Wing traits measured in adult females. The photos represent the typical phenotype of female Bicyclus anynana reared at 27°C. Note that the dorsal surface of the hindwing does not always have color patterns beyond occasional extra eyespots or just their white pupils which are generally too small for accurate size measurements. For each individual, we obtained 19 wing measurements corresponding to four categories of traits: dorsal eyespots, ventral eyespots, ventral band and wing areas. Note that each eyespot corresponds to a different trait number and we use different letter codes to refer to the corresponding white centers (w), black discs (b) and golden rings (g). The diagram on the right panel displays the symbols used to refer to each of the traits in the other figures. On each wing surface (ventral represented in white and dorsal in brown), we measured two eyespots (one more anterior represented by a circle on the top and one more posterior by a circle on the bottom). The color of the circles at the center of the image corresponds to each of the three color rings that make up each eyespot.

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