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SUBMITTER: Hoffmann J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6176563 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hoffmann Jordan J Donoughe Seth S Li Kathy K Salcedo Mary K MK Rycroft Chris H CH
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180917 40
Insect wings are typically supported by thickened struts called veins. These veins form diverse geometric patterns across insects. For many insect species, even the left and right wings from the same individual have veins with unique topological arrangements, and little is known about how these patterns form. We present a large-scale quantitative study of the fingerprint-like "secondary veins." We compile a dataset of wings from 232 species and 17 families from the order Odonata (dragonflies and ...[more]