Three Genes Provide Pre-Patterning of Swallowtail Caterpillar Camouflage (IMAGE)

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Three Genes Provide Pre-Patterning of Swallowtail Caterpillar Camouflage

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Caterpillars of the Asian swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus. Caterpillar switches from bird droppings mimicry (left) to green camouflage body color (right). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 10, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by H. Jin at University of Tokyo in Kashiwa, Japan, and colleagues was titled, "Prepatterning of Papilio xuthus caterpillar camouflage is controlled by three homeobox genes: clawless, abdominal-A, and Abdominal-B."

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[Credit: Hongyuan Jin]

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