Authors: Anyi Mazo-Vargas, Anna M. Langmüller, Alexis Wilder, Karin R. L. van der Burg, James J. Lewis, Philipp W. Messer, Linlin Zhang, Arnaud Martin, Robert D. Reed
Published: 2022-10-20
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Butterfly wing patterns derive from a deeply conserved developmental ground plan yet are diverse and evolve rapidly. It is poorly understood how gene regulatory architectures can accommodate both deep homology and adaptive change. To address this, we characterized the cis-regulatory evolution of the color pattern gene