Butterflies choose mates because they are more attractive, not just easier to see (IMAGE)

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Butterflies choose mates because they are more attractive, not just easier to see

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Evolution of mate preference in polymorphic butterflies. These white Heliconius cydno alithea butterflies are mating on a passionflower vine, but the male had a choice between white and yellow-winged females. Nicholas VanKuren, Nathan Buerkle, and their co-authors dive into the genetics and neurobiology of mate choice behavior and find surprising variation in the genome and the eye that correlates with male preference.

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Wei Lu (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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