Congratulations to Erick Bayala on his successful Ph.D. thesis defense! His dissertation is entitled “How to paint a butterfly? Developmental insights into Heliconius embryology, color patterning, and pigmentation.”
Erick’s manuscript “From the formation of embryonic appendages to the color of wings: Conserved and novel roles of aristaless1 in butterfly development” is on bioRxiv and under review.
Marcus and colleagues published an editorial “Evo-devo of color pattern formation” associated with this Frontiers Research Topic.
Museum genomics reveals the Xerces blue butterfly (Glaucopsyche xerces) was a distinct species driven to extinction published in Biology Letters.
Micah’s paper has been published in Conservation Science and Practice.
Our paper “The evolution and genetics of sexually dimorphic ‘dual’ mimicry in the butterfly Elymnias hypermnestra“ has been published in Proceedings B. Well done Dee, Nick and all!
Check out our Frontiers Research Topic “Evo-Devo of Color Pattern Formation”
Micah’s manuscript “Are eastern and western monarch butterflies distinct populations? A review of evidence for ecological, phenotypic, and genetic differentiation and implications for conservation” has been published on Preprints.org
Marcus Kronforst, PhD
Department of Ecology & Evolution
University of Chicago
1101 E. 57th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
mkronforst@uchicago.edu