Decoding ladybird’s colours: Structural mechanisms of colour production and pigment modulation

• Marzia Carrada ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: marzia.carrada@cemes.fr

  Affiliations Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversité et l’Environnement (CRBE), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, Toulouse INP, Toulouse, France, CEMES-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8828-6805

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• Mohamed Haddad,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation PHARMA-DEV, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

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• Luis M. San-Jose,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversité et l’Environnement (CRBE), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, Toulouse INP, Toulouse, France

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• Gonzague Agez,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CEMES-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

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• Jean-Marie Poumirol,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CEMES-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

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• Alexandra Magro

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization

  Affiliations Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversité et l’Environnement (CRBE), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, Toulouse INP, Toulouse, France, Université de Toulouse – ENSFEA, Castanet-Tolosan, France

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