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Ecological Genetics: A Key Gene for Mimicry and Melanism.

Mallet, J; Hoekstra, HE; (2016) Ecological Genetics: A Key Gene for Mimicry and Melanism. Current Biology , 26 (17) R802-R804. 10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.031. Green open access

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Abstract

Mimicry and melanism in Lepidoptera provided the first convincing examples of natural selection in action. Genetic analysis has now shown that, surprisingly, mimicry in Heliconius butterflies and melanism in peppered moths are switched at precisely the same gene: cortex.

Type: Article
Title: Ecological Genetics: A Key Gene for Mimicry and Melanism.
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.031
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.031
Language: English
Additional information: © 2016. This manuscript version is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Access may be initially restricted by the publisher.
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Genetics, Evolution and Environment
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1516844
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