Ecological Genetics: A Key Gene for Mimicry and Melanism.
Mimicry and melanism in Lepidoptera provided the first convincing examples of natural selection in action. Genetic analysis has now shown that, surprisingly, mimicry in Heliconius butterflies and melanism in peppered moths are switched at precisely the same gene: cortex.
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: jmallet@oeb.harvard.edu.
James
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Mallet
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: hoekstra@oeb.harvard.edu.
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Hoekstra
D000818:Animals; D002080:Butterflies; D004463:Ecology; D008548:Melanosis; D012641:Selection, Genetic