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A Butterfly's Massively Reshuffled Genome Has Shaped Its Evolution (1 of 2)

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A Butterfly's Massively Reshuffled Genome Has Shaped Its Evolution (1 of 2)

image: Pieris napi resting on a host plant which will serve to feed freshly hatched larvae. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 12th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Hill at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden, and colleagues was titled, 'Unprecedented reorganization of holocentric chromosomes provides insights into the enigma of lepidopteran chromosome evolution.' view more 

Credit: Christer Wiklund


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