Article
Multiple Loci Control Eyespot Number Variation on the Hindwings of Bicyclus anynana Butterflies.
Genetics - 1 Apr 2020
Rivera-Colón Angel G, Westerman Erica L, Van Belleghem Steven M, Monteiro Antónia, Papa Riccardo
Abstract excerpt
The underlying genetic changes that regulate the appearance and disappearance of repeated traits, or serial homologs, remain poorly understood. One hypothesis is that variation in genomic regions flanking master regulatory genes, also known as input-output genes, controls variation in trait number, making the locus of evolution almost predictable. Another hypothesis implicates genetic variation in up- or...
Topics
- Animals
- Butterflies
- Genes, Insect
- Genetic Variation
- Multifactorial Inheritance
- Pigmentation
- Wings, Animal