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SUBMITTER: Nadeau NJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5094491 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nadeau Nicola J NJ Pardo-Diaz Carolina C Whibley Annabel A Supple Megan A MA Saenko Suzanne V SV Wallbank Richard W R RW Wu Grace C GC Maroja Luana L Ferguson Laura L Hanly Joseph J JJ Hines Heather H Salazar Camilo C Merrill Richard M RM Dowling Andrea J AJ ffrench-Constant Richard H RH Llaurens Violaine V Joron Mathieu M McMillan W Owen WO Jiggins Chris D CD
Nature 20160601 7605
The wing patterns of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) are diverse and striking examples of evolutionary diversification by natural selection. Lepidopteran wing colour patterns are a key innovation, consisting of arrays of coloured scales. We still lack a general understanding of how these patterns are controlled and whether this control shows any commonality across the 160,000 moth and 17,000 butterfly species. Here, we use fine-scale mapping with population genomics and gene expression analy ...[more]