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Butterflies

Known as: Butterfly, Papilionoidea 
Slender-bodies diurnal insects having large, broad wings often strikingly colored and patterned.
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Optical properties of the scales of Morpho rhetenor butterflies: theoretical and experimental investigation of the back-scattering of light in the visible spectrum
A study of the optical properties of the largely periodic microstructure occurring on the wings of the iridescent tropical… 
2002
2002
Selective photoreceptor damage in four species of insects induced by experimental exposures to UV-irradiation.
2002
2002
The first microwave-assisted regiospecific synthesis of 6-substituted pterins
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Butterflies of Australia: their identification, biology and distribution, Volume One.
This outstanding work is the ultimate guide for the identification of Australia’s butterflies. Nearly 400 species – all those… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
18S rDNA sequences and the holometabolous insects.
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Wing melanin pattern mediates species recognition in Pieris occidentalis
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Population structure of pierid butterflies
SummaryThe structure of a bivoltine, discrete-generation population of Colias philodice eriphyle, occurring in relatively… 
Review
1978
Review
1978
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATION, PLANT RELATIONSHIPS, AND MIMICRY IN THE EVOLUTION OF DANAID BUTTERFLIES
The knowledge on pheromone biology in danaid butterflies, on relations between adult danaids and pyrrolizidine alkaloid… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
BUTTERFLY PALATABILITY AND MIMICRY: EXPERIMENTS WITH AMEIVA LIZARDS
  • T. C. Boyden
  • Evolution; international journal of organic…
  • 1976
  • Corpus ID: 40832432
Direct demonstration of unpalatability or mimicry in nature represents a problem of great difficulty because of the rarity and… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Population genetics of euphydryas butterflies. I Genetic variation and the neutrality hypothesis.
Twenty-one populations of the checkerspot butterfly, Euphydryas editha, and ten populations of Euphydryas chalcedona were sampled… 
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