TWiEVO 6: Butterflies are free to shuffle

This Week in Evolution

English - March 19, 2016 02:16 - 1 hour - 71 MB - ★★★★★ - 164 ratings
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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.

Links for this episode

Enhancer shuffling for butterfly wing patterns (PLoS Biol)
Batesian mimicry (Wikipedia)
Müllerian mimicry (Wikipedia)
Image credit
Letters read on TWiEVO 6

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Nels - Hill Country Science Mill
Vincent - The Butterfly Conservatory

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Stephen - Darwin Legacy

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