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A Genetic Twist Underlying Butterflies' Batesian Mimicry (3 of 3)

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A Genetic Twist Underlying Butterflies' Batesian Mimicry (3 of 3)

image: Non-mimetic type female of Papilio Memnon. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 18 April 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by T. Iijima at University of Tokyo in Kashiwa, Japan, and colleagues was titled, " Parallel evolution of Batesian mimicry supergene in two Papilio butterflies, P. polytes and P. Memnon." view more 

Credit: [Credit: Dr. Shinya KOMATA]


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