Insect wings. Patterns upon patterns.
Butterfly wing patterns may be generated by an extra coordinate system superimposed on a basic wing-patterning system similar to that of the fruit-fly Drosophila melanogaster.
Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK.
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