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Transcriptome-Wide Differential Gene Expression in Bicyclus anynana Butterflies: Female Vision-Related Genes Are More Plastic.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jan 2016
Macias-Muñoz Aide, Smith Gilbert, Monteiro Antónia, Briscoe Adriana D
Abstract excerpt
Vision is energetically costly to maintain. Consequently, over time many cave-adapted species downregulate the expression of vision genes or even lose their eyes and associated eye genes entirely. Alternatively, organisms that live in fluctuating environments, with different requirements for vision at different times, may evolve phenotypic plasticity for expression of vision genes. Here, we use a global...
Topics
- Animals
- Butterflies
- Eye
- Female
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Male
- Opsins
- Phenotype
- Pigmentation
- Sex Characteristics
- Transcriptome