Frizzled2 receives the WntA morphogen during butterfly wing pattern formation
Joseph J. Hanly, Ling Sheng Loh, Anyi Mazo‐Vargas, Teomie S. Rivera‐Miranda, Luca Livraghi, Amruta Tendolkar, Christopher R. Day, Neringa Liutikaite, Emily Earls, Olaf B. W. H. Corning, Natalie D’Souza, José J. Hermina-Perez, Caroline Mehta, Julia A. Ainsworth, Matteo Rossi, , Arnaud Martin
The paper shows that WntA and Frizzled2 form a signaling axis that instructs butterfly color patterning, with Fz2 acting as a morphogen receptor and other Frizzleds having distinct roles in wing development.
bioRxiv · Apr 11, 2023 · PreprintDevelopmental Biology