Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Nels and Vincent continue with an emerging sub-theme of TWiEVO – organisms with wings – as they reveal how enhancer shuffling produces diverse butterfly wing patterns.
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- Enhancer shuffling for butterfly wing patterns (PLoS Biol)
- Batesian mimicry (Wikipedia)
- Müllerian mimicry (Wikipedia)
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- Letters read on TWiEVO 6
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