Sex, lies and butterflies

David W. Loehlin () and Sean B. Carroll ()
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David W. Loehlin: David W. Loehlin and Sean B. Carroll are in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
Sean B. Carroll: David W. Loehlin and Sean B. Carroll are in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.

Nature, 2014, vol. 507, issue 7491, 172-173

Abstract: Variation in an evolutionarily conserved sexual-differentiation gene, doublesex, has been found to explain how females of one species of butterfly mimic the colour patterns of several toxic species to avoid predation. See Letter p.229

Date: 2014
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