Publications

Scientific Articles

2021

Arias, Monica, Lucie Leroy, Clement Madec, Louane Matos, Cynthia Tedore, Marianne Elias, et Doris Gomez. « Partial Wing Transparency Works Better When Disrupting Wing Edges: Evidence from a Field Experiment ». Journal of Evolutionary Biology 34, no 11 (2021): 1840‑46. https://doi.org/10.1111/JEB.13943.

Gomez, Doris, Charline Pinna, Jonathan Pairraire, Monica Arias, Jerome Barbut, Aaron Pomerantz, Willy Daney de Marcillac, et al. « Wing Transparency in Butterflies and Moths: Structural Diversity, Optical Properties and Ecological Relevance ». Ecological Monographs 91, no 4 (2021): e01475. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1475.

Pinna, Charline, Maëlle Vilbert, Stephan Borenztajn, Willy Daney de Marcillac, Florence Piron-Prunier, Aaron Pomerantz, Nipam Patel, et al. « Convergence in Light Transmission Properties of Transparent Wing Areas in Clearwing Mimetic Butterflies ». ELife 10 (2021): e69080. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.69080.

Pomerantz, Aaron F., Radwanul H. Siddique, Elizabeth I. Cash, Yuriko Kishi, Charline Pinna, Kasia Hammar, Doris Gomez, Marianne Elias, et Nipam H. Patel. « Developmental, Cellular, and Biochemical Basis of Transparency in the Glasswing Butterfly Greta Oto ». Journal of Experimental Biology accepted, no 224 (2021): eb237917. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.237917.

2020

Arias, Monica, Marianne Elias, Christine Andraud, Serge Berthier, et Doris Gomez. « Transparency Improves Concealment in Cryptically Coloured Moths ». Journal of Evolutionary Biology 33, no 2 (2020): 247‑52. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13560.

2019

Arias, Monica, Johanna Mappes, Charlotte Desbois, Swanne Gordon, Melanie McClure, Marianne Elias, Ossi Nokelainen, et Doris Gomez. « Transparency Reduces Predator Detection in Mimetic Clearwing Butterflies ». Functional Ecology 33, no 6 (2019): 33(6), 1110-1119. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13315.

McClure, Melanie, Corentin Clerc, Charlotte Desbois, Aimilia Meichanetzoglou, Marion Cau, Lucie Bastin-Héline, Javier Bacigalupo, et al. « Why has transparency evolved in aposematic butterflies? Insights from the largest radiation of aposematic butterflies, the Ithomiini ». Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286, no 1901 (24 avril 2019): 20182769. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2769.

Preprints

Arias, Mónica, Jérôme Barbut, Rodolphe Rougerie, Manon Dutry, Mireia Kohler, Baptiste Laulan, Caroline Paillard, et al. « Ambient Light and Mimicry as Drivers of Wing Transparency in Lepidoptera ». BioRxiv, 2020, 2020.06.26.172932. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.26.172932v3.

Gomez, Doris, Jonathan Pairraire, Charline Pinna, Monica Arias, Celine Houssin, Jerome Barbut, Serge Berthier, Christine Andraud, Thierry Ondarcuhu, et Marianne Elias. « Hydrophobicity in Clearwing Lepidoptera: Impact of Scale Micro and Nanostructure, and Trade-off with Optical Transparency », BioRxiv 2021. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.11.463886.

Press releases and dissemination articles

generalist journals

article in Le Monde on our work on transparent butterflies

specialised science websites

article (in French) on the CNRS platform on our work

Cairn info website (in French) on science about our work on transparent butterflies

technoscience info website (in French) on our work on transparent butterflies

in English For some butterflies, reason for wing adaptation is clear

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