Changing the Color of Butterfly Wings (IMAGE)

Yale University

Changing the Color of Butterfly Wings

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Yale University scientists have performed the first artificial selection on a structural color, using butterfly wings. This image shows a male Bicyclus anynana butterfly, prior to the change in wing color from brown to violet.

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Antónia Monteiro

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