Waiting in the wings: what can we learn about gene co-option from the diversification of butterfly wing patterns?
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A major challenge is to understand how conserved gene regulatory networks control the wonderful diversity of form that we see among animals and plants. Butterfly wing patterns are an excellent example of this diversity. Butterfly wings form as imaginal discs in the caterpillar and are constructed by a gene regulatory network, much of which is conserved across the holometabolous insects. Recent work in
This article is part of the themed issue 'Evo-devo in the genomics era, and the origins of morphological diversity'.
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1471-2970
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Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2014-167)