Deep cis-regulatory homology of the butterfly wing pattern ground plan

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

DOI: 10.1126/science.abi9407

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Abstract

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