Museum specimen polymorphism survey (Nymphalidae)

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Method synopsis

Large-scale examination of museum specimens to characterize geographic variation in polymorphic traits across species ranges

Synthesized from method descriptions across 1 paper using this protocol.

Procedure from a recent peer-reviewed implementation

Steps below were extracted from the most recent peer-reviewed implementation of this protocol in the corpus — Genetic basis of an adaptive polymorphism controlling butterfly silver iridescence (2025), Current Biology. Implementations in other papers (listed below) may differ.

1. Museum specimen examination
   Examined 9,763 occurrence records from museum collections across the US and Canada, scoring the prevalence of silver and unsilvered morphs from each locality
   Quantities: 9,763 records totalDuration: Not specifiedConditions: Museum collections

Output Measurements

• morph frequencies
• geographic distributions

Papers Using This Protocol (1)

Species Studied With This Protocol