La evolución y diversificación de las mariposas de hoja de roble

Shuting Wang1, Dequn Teng2, Xueyan Li3

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.

Cell
|August 4, 2022
PubMed
Resumen

Las mariposas de hoja de roble (Kallima) desarrollaron sus patrones de alas similares a las hojas a través de un gen llamado corteza. Este rasgo rico en biodiversidad, crucial para la supervivencia, se mantiene equilibrando la selección en el Himalaya y Asia.

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