New pre-print with some updates on ivory:miR193 in a highly polymorphic moth. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We mapped ivory (again!?) this time controlling aspects of camouflage in Anticarsia gemmatalis. Mapping, SVs, Expression and Function. Comments/suggestions welcome!

Very excited to share the first chapter of my PhD thesis out in @elife.bsky.social : doi.org/10.7554/eLif... We discovered how the gene "mirror" is necessary for specifying the “vannus”, a unique domain in the posterior part of butterfly wings. 🦋🦋 (1/6) #CRISPR #butterfly #genomics

Great interview with lab alumnus @karinburg.bsky.social about her brilliant work on insect seasonal plasticity! thenode.biologists.com/tales-of-met...

The Season's Script: Tales of Metabolic adaptation #MetabolismMondays - the Node

All the world's a metabolic dance, early career scientists are leading the way! Emerging perspectives in metabolism Dr. Karin van der Burg, faculty,

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Awesome new paper by @lucalivraghi.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... in @currentbiology.bsky.social on the evo-devo of a butterfly color variation enjoy the show!

Thrilled to share that this paper is out now in Development! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Lepidopteran scale cells derive from sensory organ precursors through a canonical lineage

Summary: The wing scales of butterflies and moths are derived from sensory organ precursors and are homologues of mechanosensory bristles.

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Joe Hanly@hanliconius.bsky.social · 2y ago

New preprint alert from @lings_ll, @Hanliconius and @KyleDeMarr with the Martin, Wray and Patel labs. We are pleased to share our work outlining evidence for how lepidopteran scale cells are derived from sensory organ precursors (SOPs). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint by butterfly wizard @lucalivraghi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We mapped optix (again?!) as the switch gene of a natural polymorphism, this time controlling silver patches of a mountain butterfly. Gorgeous RNAi validation, evidence of selective sweeps, introgression

The third paper in the ivory triology is finally out! Lovely work by @tianshenbio.bsky.social and colleagues!

Shen Tian 田申@tianshenbio.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our miRNA story is now in @science.org ! We found a microRNA, not a protein, that finally solved a long-standing evolutionary mystery of wing coloration in butterflies and moths. (1/n) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A great write up on the ivory lncRNA story written by Nick VanKuren and Marcus Kronforst. Congrats again to @lucalivraghi.bsky.social and @hwkmthcrspr.bsky.social for this amazing work! www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Regulatory modularity across a spectrum, from Jeanne McDonald's new review paper in TREE. What's the reality for your favorite gene? #evodevo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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🌟 Introducing the Mazo-Vargas Lab @DukeU. 🌟 🧬 We employ #genetics, #functional-genomics, and #evodevo approaches to untangle the genetic basis of morphological adaptive traits.

scRNAseq, ultraviolet iridescent butterflies, and evo-devo of sex specific traits... check out our new preprint by the incredible Ling Sheng Loh Single-nucleus transcriptomics of wing sexual dimorphism and scale cell specialization in sulphur butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out this new perspective article on cis-regulatory evolution by Reed Lab grad student Jeanne McDonald! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Beyond modular enhancers: new questions in cis-regulatory evolution

Our understanding of how cis-regulatory elements work has advanced rapidly, outpacing our evolutionary models. In this review, we consider the implica…

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Lep Soc 2024 abstracts are due today! Please join us in Ithaca for an exciting meeting filled with field trips, blacklighting, workshops, and presentations. Questions: meeting@lepsoc.org

Nice write up in Science Magazine about our ivory lncRNA color patterning preprints! Way to go @hwkmthcrspr.bsky.social, @lucalivraghi.bsky.social, and Tian Shen! www.science.org/content/arti...

(1/3) Congrats @hwkmthcrspr.bsky.social for his new preprint showing how cis-elements of the ivory lncRNA control pigmentation and seasonal morphs in butterflies. Check out these CRISPR summer/autumn mosaics! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We can learn so much by looking at development outside major model organisms. I'm glad to see funding agencies coming around to this more and more... So happy to share coauthorship with so many friends and heroes on this perspective article! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Someone told you there are only two anteroposterior domains in insect wings? Well, it turns out ol' Snodgrass was right - there are more! Check out our new preprint! #evodevo www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...