Firefly genomes illuminate parallel origins of bioluminescence in beetles
Timothy R. Fallon, Sarah E. Lower, Ching-Ho Chang, Manabu Bessho‐Uehara, Gavin J. Martin, Adam J. Bewick, Megan G. Behringer, Humberto Debat, Isaac Wong, John C. Day, Anton Suvorov, Christian J. Silva, Kathrin F. Stanger‐Hall, David W. Hall, Robert J. Schmitz, , Jing‐Ke Weng
The paper generates genomes for three bioluminescent beetles to study the genetic basis of bioluminescence and finds at least two independent evolutionary origins of the trait.
eLife · Oct 15, 2018Peer-reviewedGenomics