Repeated inversions at the pannier intron drive diversification of intraspecific colour patterns of ladybird beetles
T. Ando, T. Matsuda, K. Goto, K. Hara, A. Ito, J. Hirata, J. Yatomi, R. Kajitani, M. Okuno, K. Yamaguchi, M. Kobayashi, T. Takano, Y. Minakuchi, M. Seki, Y. Suzuki, , T. Niimi
The paper identifies pannier as a key regulatory gene for color pattern variation in ladybird beetles and shows that inversions and cis-regulatory changes at this gene drive intraspecific diversity.
bioRxiv · Jun 15, 2018Evolutionary Biology