Multi-Allelic Major Effect Genes Interact with Minor Effect QTLs to Control Adaptive Color Pattern Variation in Heliconius erato

Recent studies indicate that relatively few genomic regions are repeatedly involved in the evolution of Heliconius butterfly wing patterns. Although this work demonstrates a number of cases where homologous loci underlie both convergent and divergent wing pattern change among different Heliconius sp...

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Main Authors: Papa, Riccardo, Kapan, Durrell D., Counterman, Brian A., Maldonado, Karla, Lindstrom, Daniel P., Reed, Robert D., Nijhout, H. Frederik, Hrbek, Tomas, McMillan, W. Owen
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3606360/