Pigmented Eyespot Wing Scales (IMAGE)

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Pigmented Eyespot Wing Scales

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This photograph shows pigmented wing scales in the eyespots of B. anynana change color with mutations in the melanin pathway. Yellow mutant (left), wildtype (center), and DDC mutant (right).

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Yuji Matsuoka

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