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Butterfly wings: Colour patterns and now gene expression patterns
Author(s) -
French Ver,
Monteiro Antonia
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
bioessays
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.175
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1521-1878
pISSN - 0265-9247
DOI - 10.1002/bies.950161103
Subject(s) - butterfly , biology , wing , evolutionary biology , drosophila (subgenus) , expression (computer science) , gene , genetics , ecology , computer science , engineering , programming language , aerospace engineering
The particular fascination of butterfly wings for developmental biologists (and others) lies in their spectacular array of colour patterns. The evolutionary and developmental relationships between these patterns have been analysed and we know something of the cell interactions involved in their formation (1) . Now butterfly homologues of Drosophila wing‐patterning genes have been identified, and their expression patterns offer the first clues to the molecular mechanisms which specify wing colour patterns (2) .