Butterfly and moth wing color variations, long attributed to the cortex gene, are actually controlled by a microRNA, mir-193, which represses pigmentation genes. This discovery, conserved across ...
So, what are the different butterfly color meanings? Well, the answer to that question depends largely upon what you believe and what you're hoping to see. That's because much of the symbolism ...
Lepidopterans (butterflies and moths) exhibit a splendid diversity of wing colour patterns, and many species display black and white, or dark and bright, wing colour pattern variants associated with ...