Ovarian Dynamics in Heliconiine Butterflies: Programmed Senescence versus Eternal Youth
- 29 July 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 197 (4302), 487-490
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.197.4302.487
Abstract
New oocytes are generated throughout long lives in butterflies of the genus Heliconius, which as adults feed on amino acids from pollen. In Dryas julia, a related heliconiine that feeds only on nectar and is relatively short-lived, the original oocyte supply is eventually depleted. Such divergent ovarian dynamics in closely related organisms are significant in terms of both their evolutionary basis and their physiological controls.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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