Article
Melanin Pathway Genes Regulate Color and Morphology of Butterfly Wing Scales.
Cell reports - 3 Jul 2018
Matsuoka Yuji, Monteiro Antónia
Abstract excerpt
The cuticular skeleton of a butterfly wing scale cell is an exquisitely finely sculpted material that can contain pigments, produce structural colors, or both. While cuticle rigidity and pigmentation depend on the products of the melanin pathway, little is known about whether genes in this pathway also play a role in the development of specific scale morphologies. Here, we use CRISPR/Cas9 to show that knockout...
Topics
- Animals
- Biosynthetic Pathways
- Butterflies
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Genes, Insect
- Male
- Melanins
- Mutagenesis
- Mutation
- Phenothiazines
- Pigmentation