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Butterfly wing pattern mutants: developmental heterochrony and co-ordinately regulated phenotypes.
Development genes and evolution - 1 Nov 2000
Koch P B, Lorenz U, Brakefield P M, ffrench-Constant R H
Abstract excerpt
Butterfly wings are colored late in development, when pigments are synthesized in specialized wing scale cells in a fixed developmental succession. In this succession, colored pigments are deposited first and the remaining areas are later melanized black or brown. Here we studied the developmental changes underlying two wing pattern mutants, firstly melanic mutants of the swallowtail Papilio glaucus, in which the...
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