TWiEVO 6: Butterflies are free to shuffle

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Nels and Vincent continue with an emerging sub-theme of TWiEVO - organisms with wings - as they reveal how enhancer shuffling produces diverse butterfly wing patterns.

 

Links for this episode

• Enhancer shuffling for butterfly wing patterns (PLoS Biol)
• Batesian mimicry (Wikipedia)
• Müllerian mimicry (Wikipedia)
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiEVO 6

Science Picks

Nels - Hill Country Science Mill
Vincent - The Butterfly Conservatory

Listener Pick

Stephen - Darwin Legacy

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