Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Repeated inversions at the pannier intron drive diversification of intraspecific colour patterns of ladybird beetles
T. Ando, T. Matsuda, K. Goto…·T. Niimi
The paper identifies pannier as a key regulatory gene for color pattern variation in ladybird beetles and shows that inversions and cis-regulatory changes at this gene drive intraspecific diversity.
DOI 10.1038/s41467-018-06116-1