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Sex-linked gene traffic underlies the acquisition of sexually dimorphic UV color vision in Heliconius butterflies
M. Chakraborty, A. G. Lara, A. Dang…·A. Briscoe
The paper identifies that sex-specific UV color vision in Heliconius butterflies evolved through gene duplication and movement to the W chromosome, leading to female-specific UVRh1 expression.
DOI 10.1101/2022.07.04.498748