Visual mate preference evolution during butterfly speciation is linked to neural processing genes
M. Rossi, A. E. Hausmann, T. J. Thurman, S. H. Montgomery, R. Papa, C. D. Jiggins, W. O. Mcmillan, R. M. Merrill
The paper identifies genes linked to visual mate preference divergence in Heliconius butterflies through QTL analysis and gene expression studies in neural tissues.
bioRxiv · Mar 22, 2020Evolutionary Biology