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A major gene controls mimicry and crypsis in butterflies and moths

dc.creatorSalazar, Camilospa
dc.creatorPardo Díaz, Geimy Carolinaspa
dc.creatorWhibley, Annabelspa
dc.creatorSupple, Megan A.spa
dc.creatorSaenko, Suzanne V.spa
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-19T14:42:39Z
dc.date.available2020-08-19T14:42:39Z
dc.date.created2016-06-01spa
dc.description.abstractThe wing patterns of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) are diverse and striking examples of evolutionary diversification by natural selection1,2. 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 analyses to identify a gene, cortex, that regulates pattern switches in multiple species across the mimetic radiation in Heliconius butterflies. cortex belongs to a fast-evolving subfamily of the otherwise highly conserved fizzy family of cell-cycle regulators3, suggesting that it probably regulates pigmentation patterning by regulating scale cell development. In parallel with findings in the peppered moth (Biston betularia)4, our results suggest that this mechanism is common within Lepidoptera and that cortex has become a major target for natural selection acting on colour and pattern variation in this group of insects.eng
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1038/nature17961
dc.identifier.issnEISSN: 1476-4687
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/27542
dc.language.isoengspa
dc.publisherSpriger Naturespa
dc.relation.citationEndPage110
dc.relation.citationIssueNo. 534
dc.relation.citationStartPage106
dc.relation.citationTitleNature
dc.relation.ispartofNature, EISSN: 1476-4687, No.534 (2016); pp.106-110spa
dc.relation.urihttps://www.nature.com/articles/nature17961spa
dc.rights.accesRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.accesoAbierto (Texto Completo)spa
dc.sourceNaturespa
dc.source.instnameinstname:Universidad del Rosario
dc.source.reponamereponame:Repositorio Institucional EdocUR
dc.subject.keywordButterfliesspa
dc.subject.keywordMothsspa
dc.subject.keywordInsectsspa
dc.titleA major gene controls mimicry and crypsis in butterflies and mothsspa
dc.title.TranslatedTitleUn gen importante controla el mimetismo y la cripsis en mariposas y polillas.spa
dc.typearticleeng
dc.type.hasVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.type.spaArtículospa
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