Thread  RSS Genetic 'paint box' shuffled between butterfly species to create new wing patterns



# 11529 9 years ago on Sat, Jan 16 2016 at 10:03 am

How about this?!

New research on butterfly genomes has revealed that the genetic components that produce different splotches of colour on wings can be mixed up between species by interbreeding to create new patterns, like a "genetic paint-box".

Article: user link on phys.org

I'll keep watching this.

"You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you can not fool all of the people a

-- Abraham Lincoln

# 11550 9 years ago on Sun, Jan 17 2016 at 12:21 am

Isn't this also how cats get their stripes?

Don't find fault, find a remedy -- Henry Ford


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