Article
Extensive transcriptional response associated with seasonal plasticity of butterfly wing patterns.
Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 2014
Daniels Emily V, Murad Rabi, Mortazavi Ali, Reed Robert D
Abstract excerpt
In the eastern United States, the buckeye butterfly, Junonia coenia, shows seasonal wing colour plasticity where adults emerging in the spring are tan, while those emerging in the autumn are dark red. This variation can be artificially induced in laboratory colonies, thus making J. coenia a useful model system to examine the mechanistic basis of plasticity. To better understand the developmental basis of seasonal...
Topics
- Animals
- Butterflies
- Ecdysone
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Genes, Insect
- Molecular Sequence Data
- North Carolina
- Phenotype
- Pigmentation
- Seasons
- Sequence Analysis, RNA