Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Tracing the origin and evolution of supergene mimicry in butterflies

  • Wei Zhang,
  • Erica Westerman,
  • Eyal Nitzany,
  • Stephanie Palmer,
  • Marcus R. Kronforst

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01370-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Wing pattern mimicry in the butterfly Papilio polytes is controlled by a single Mendelian locus, the mimicry supergene doublesex. Here, Zhang and colleagues reconstruct the complex evolutionary history of the doublesex supergene and mimicry in the Papilio polytes species group.