Progress and prospects of CRISPR/Cas systems in insects and other arthropods

D Sun, Z Guo, Y Liu, Y Zhang - Frontiers in physiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and the CRISPR-
associated gene Cas9 represent an invaluable system for the precise editing of genes in …

Origin, development, and evolution of butterfly eyespots

A Monteiro - Annual review of entomology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews the latest developments in our understanding of the origin, development,
and evolution of nymphalid butterfly eyespots. Recent contributions to this field include …

Butterfly eyespots evolved via cooption of an ancestral gene-regulatory network that also patterns antennae, legs, and wings

SN Murugesan, H Connahs… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Butterfly eyespots are beautiful novel traits with an unknown developmental origin. Here we
show that eyespots likely originated via cooption of parts of an ancestral appendage gene …

Single master regulatory gene coordinates the evolution and development of butterfly color and iridescence

L Zhang, A Mazo-Vargas… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The optix gene has been implicated in butterfly wing pattern adaptation by genetic
association, map**, and expression studies. The actual developmental function of this …

Spatial and temporal regulation of Wnt signaling pathway members in the development of butterfly wing patterns

TD Banerjee, SN Murugesan, H Connahs… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Wnt signaling members are involved in the differentiation of cells associated with eyespot
and band color patterns on the wings of butterflies, but the identity and spatio-temporal …

[HTML][HTML] The evolution and diversification of oakleaf butterflies

S Wang, D Teng, X Li, P Yang, W Da, Y Zhang… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Oakleaf butterflies in the genus Kallima have a polymorphic wing phenotype, enabling these
insects to masquerade as dead leaves. This iconic example of protective resemblance …

Genome editing in butterflies reveals that spalt promotes and Distal-less represses eyespot colour patterns

L Zhang, RD Reed - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Wnt signaling underlies evolution and development of the butterfly wing pattern symmetry systems

A Martin, RD Reed - Developmental biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Most butterfly wing patterns are proposed to be derived from a set of conserved pattern
elements known as symmetry systems. Symmetry systems are so-named because they are …

Interplay between developmental flexibility and determinism in the evolution of mimetic Heliconius wing patterns

C Concha, RWR Wallbank, JJ Hanly, J Fenner… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
To what extent can we predict how evolution occurs? Do genetic architectures and
developmental processes canalize the evolution of similar outcomes in a predictable …

[PDF][PDF] Activation of butterfly eyespots by Distal-less is consistent with a reaction-diffusion process

H Connahs, S Tlili, J van Creij, TYJ Loo… - …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Eyespots on the wings of nymphalid butterflies represent colorful examples of pattern
formation, yet the developmental origins and mechanisms underlying eyespot center …