A simple developmental model recapitulates complex insect wing venation patterns
Abstract
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 damselflies), a group with particularly elaborate vein patterns. We characterize the geometric arrangements of veins and develop a simple model of secondary vein patterning. We show that our model is capable of recapitulating the vein geometries of species from other, distantly related winged insect clades.
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1471162
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1526542
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Journal Volume: 115 Journal Issue: 40; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
- Publisher:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; insect wings; patterning; image segmentation; computational modeling; Odonata
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Hoffmann, Jordan, Donoughe, Seth, Li, Kathy, Salcedo, Mary K., and Rycroft, Chris H. A simple developmental model recapitulates complex insect wing venation patterns. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.1721248115.
Hoffmann, Jordan, Donoughe, Seth, Li, Kathy, Salcedo, Mary K., & Rycroft, Chris H. A simple developmental model recapitulates complex insect wing venation patterns. United States. doi:10.1073/pnas.1721248115.
Hoffmann, Jordan, Donoughe, Seth, Li, Kathy, Salcedo, Mary K., and Rycroft, Chris H. Mon .
"A simple developmental model recapitulates complex insect wing venation patterns". United States. doi:10.1073/pnas.1721248115.
@article{osti_1471162,
title = {A simple developmental model recapitulates complex insect wing venation patterns},
author = {Hoffmann, Jordan and Donoughe, Seth and Li, Kathy and Salcedo, Mary K. and Rycroft, Chris H.},
abstractNote = {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 damselflies), a group with particularly elaborate vein patterns. We characterize the geometric arrangements of veins and develop a simple model of secondary vein patterning. We show that our model is capable of recapitulating the vein geometries of species from other, distantly related winged insect clades.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1721248115},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
number = 40,
volume = 115,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {9}
}
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Fig. 1: Secondary veins form a unique pattern on every wing. (A) Overlay of the left (blue) and right (orange) forewing of the same individual of Erythremis simplicicolis. (B) Left and right wings of the same individual, with domains colored by circularity and area. Left wings have been reflected formore »
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