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Julia A. Ainsworth

University of California San DiegoORCID 0009-0003-5313-7334Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Organism:Drosophila· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Organism:multiple species· 1

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Developmental BiologyScience AdvancesPeer-reviewedOct 7, 2026

Sensory receptor expansion and neural accommodation in butterfly color vision

Ke Gao, Julia A. Ainsworth, Antoine Donati…·Michael Perry

The paper investigates how butterflies expand their color vision by adding a second R7 photoreceptor and how the brain accommodates this change through developmental mechanisms.

DOI 10.1126/sciadv.aei7570

Drosophilabacteria (other)

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Developmental BiologybioRxivPreprintApr 11, 2023

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.

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