Please see our new paper about how doublesex and its interactions generate color pattern mimicry in swallowtail butterflies.
Please see our new paper about how doublesex and its interactions generate color pattern mimicry in swallowtail butterflies.
Please see our new paper about how doublesex and its interactions generate color pattern mimicry in swallowtail butterflies.
We’ve published a Preview article in Cell Reports about butterfly pigmentation. Please take a look at our Preview and the fascinating papers by Hanly et al. and Nishida et al.
We’ve published a commentary in PNAS about butterfly mimicry evolution. Please take a look at our commentary and the fascinating paper by Basu et al.
We’ve published a new preprint about monarch butterfly phenotypic plasticity. Please check it out!
We’ve posted two new bioRxiv preprints related to our research on Heliconius vision and mate preference. Please check them out!
Congratulations to Paula Fernandez-Begne for receiving an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
The lab is happy to welcome Rachel Moran, a Chicago Fellow studying genomics and speciation of darter fish.
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.
Marcus Kronforst, PhD
Department of Ecology & Evolution
University of Chicago
1101 E. 57th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
mkronforst@uchicago.edu