South Side Science Festival

The Kronforst Lab was happy to participate in the second annual South Side Science Festival. The festival was featured in the Chicago Sun Times, along with our 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 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 commentary in PNAS about butterfly mimicry evolution. Please take a look at our commentary and the fascinating paper by Basu et al.

We’ve posted two new bioRxiv preprints related to our research on Heliconius vision and mate preference. Please check them out!

We’ve posted two new bioRxiv preprints related to our research on Heliconius vision and mate preference. Please check them out!

Welcome to Rachel Moran

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.

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.

Marcus and colleagues published an editorial “Evo-devo of color pattern formation” associated with this Frontiers Research Topic.