Karin R. L. van der Burg

The paper shows that a canalized butterfly population has higher transcriptional and chromatin plasticity than a seasonally plastic population, suggesting chromatin remodeling masks genetic variation.

The paper investigates glycerol synthesis pathways in the eastern spruce budworm, showing increased glycolysis and reduced pentose phosphate pathway activity during cold shock, with no population-by-treatment interaction.

The paper identifies ivory, a conserved lncRNA, as the color pattern gene at the cortex locus in buckeye butterflies, showing how cis-regulatory elements of ivory influence seasonal color variation.

The paper identifies genes involved in butterfly wing pigmentation through RNA-seq and CRISPR/Cas9, revealing localized effects of melanin pathway genes on color patterns.