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Frizzled2 receives the WntA morphogen during butterfly wing pattern formation
Joseph J. Hanly, Ling Sheng Loh, Anyi Mazo‐Vargas…·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.