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Dominance mechanisms in supergene alleles controlling butterfly wing pattern variation: insights from gene expression in Heliconius numata.
Heredity - 1 Feb 2023
Bastide Héloïse, Saenko Suzanne V, Chouteau Mathieu, Joron Mathieu, Llaurens Violaine
Abstract excerpt
Loci under balancing selection, where multiple alleles are maintained, offer a relevant opportunity to investigate the role of natural selection in shaping genetic dominance: the high frequency of heterozygotes at these loci has been shown to enable the evolution of dominance among alleles. In the butterfly Heliconius numata, mimetic wing color variations are controlled by an inversion polymorphism of a circa...
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