Until recently, deep-level phylogeny in Lepidoptera, the largest single radiation of plant-
feeding insects, was very poorly understood. Over the past two decades, building on a …

Developmental plasticity refers to the property by which the same genotype produces
distinct phenotypes depending on the environmental conditions under which development …

Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim
that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that …

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and the CRISPR-
associated gene Cas9 represent an invaluable system for the precise editing of genes in …

Butterfly eyespot colour patterns are a key example of how a novel trait can appear in
association with the co-option of developmental patterning genes. Little is known, however …

Butterfly wing patterns are a model system for studying the evolution and development of
adaptive traits. Zhang et al. combine RNA-seq and CRISPR/Cas9... Despite the variety …

The blunt snout bream Megalobrama amblycephala is the economically most important
cyprinid fish species. As an herbivore, it can be grown by eco-friendly and resource …

Eyespots on the wings of nymphalid butterflies represent colorful examples of pattern
formation, yet the developmental origins and mechanisms underlying eyespot center …

This book is a result of 20 years of my interest in reading and thinking about the bizarre
phenomenon of mimicry. This journey has brought me from the standard scientific world …

Butterfly color patterns provide visible and biodiverse phenotypic readouts of the patterning
processes. Although the secreted ligand WntA has been shown to instruct the color pattern …