...Yuji Matsuoka; Antónia Monteiro ABSTRACT Nymphalid butterfly species often have a different number of eyespots in forewings and hindwings, but how the hindwing identity gene Ultrabithorax (Ubx) drives this asymmetry is not fully understood. We examined a three-gene regulatory network for eyespot...

...P. Bernhardt Koch; David N. Keys; Thomas Rocheleau; Katherine Aronstein; Michael Blackburn; Sean B. Carroll; Richard H. ffrench-Constant ABSTRACT The eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly Papilio glaucus shows a striking example of Batesian mimicry. In this species, females are either wild type...

...H. Frederik Nijhout ABSTRACT The wing patterns of butterflies are made up of an array of discrete pattern elements. Wing patterns evolve through changes in the size, shape and color of these pattern elements. The pattern elements are arranged in several parallel symmetry systems that develop...

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