Evolutionary Novelty in a Butterfly Wing Pattern through Enhancer Shuffling.

An important goal in evolutionary biology is to understand the genetic changes underlying novel morphological structures. We investigated the origins of a complex wing pattern found among Amazonian Heliconius butterflies. Genome sequence data from 142 individuals across 17 species identified narrow...

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Main Authors: Richard W R Wallbank, Simon W Baxter, Carolina Pardo-Diaz, Joseph J Hanly, Simon H Martin, James Mallet, Kanchon K Dasmahapatra, Camilo Salazar, Mathieu Joron, Nicola Nadeau, W Owen McMillan, Chris D Jiggins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002353