LONGWING (HELICONIUS) BUTTERFLIES COMBINE A RESTRICTED SET OF PIGMENTARY AND STRUCTURAL COLORATION MECHANISMS

Longwing (Heliconius) butterflies combine a restricted set of pigmentary and structural coloration mechanisms

Abstract Background Longwing butterflies, Heliconius sp., also called heliconians, are striking examples of diversity and Reed Switch mimicry in butterflies.Heliconians feature strongly colored patterns on their wings, arising from wing scales colored by pigments and/or nanostructures, which serve as an aposematic signal.Results Here, we investigat

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Dosage Compensation of X-Linked Muller Element F Genes but Not X-Linked Transgenes in the Australian Sheep Blowfly.

In most animals that have X and Y sex chromosomes, chromosome-wide mechanisms Food Containers are used to balance X-linked gene expression in males and females.In the fly Drosophila melanogaster, the dosage compensation mechanism also generally extends to X-linked transgenes.Over 70 transgenic lines of the Australian sheep blowfly Lucilia cuprina h

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