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Richard A. Fandino, Noah K. Brady, Martik Chatterjee…·Robert D. Reed
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.
Jin Zhang, Sonja Bisch-Knaden, Richard A. Fandino…·Markus Knaden
The paper shows that the co-receptor IR8a is essential for hawkmoths to avoid ovipositing on plants already attacked by conspecific caterpillars, based on frass-emitted carboxylic acids.
Richard A. Fandino, Alexander Haverkamp, Sonja Bisch-Knaden…·Ewald Große‐Wilde
This study uses CRISPR-Cas9 to knock out orco in hawkmoths, showing impaired foraging but normal oviposition behavior.