Species-specific coordinated gene expression and trans-regulation of larval color pattern in three swallowtail butterflies

Evolution and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 305-314

  Shirataki, Hiroko ^a   Futahashi, Ryo ^b   Fujiwara, Haruhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; MELANIN;

BUTTERFLY; COLOR MORPH; CUTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYBRID; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYLOGENETICS; PIGMENT; PROTEIN; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; PIGMENTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MELANINS; PIGMENTATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PAPILIO; PAPILIO MACHAON; PAPILIO POLYTES; PAPILIO XUTHUS; PAPILIONIDAE;

EID: 77953954345     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00416.x     Document Type: Article

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