Therefore, to investigate whether an alternative mechanism operates in Limenitis , we then performed RNAseq analysis of WntA expression across four developmental time points (5th instar, prepupal, <48 post pupation and >48 post pupation), and found highly significant evidence for upregulated expression of a 5′-untranslated region (UTR), during the 5th instar stage, only among mimetic individuals ( Fig. 3 ; general linear model (GLM): n =6, P <0.0001 after false discovery rate (FDR) correction 30 ).
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Ancient homology underlies adaptive mimetic diversity across butterflies.
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