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From: aristaless1 has a dual role in appendage formation and wing color specification during butterfly development

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Summary of Heliconius wing pattern development. The top panel highlights the wing imaginal discs across the multiple phases of wing development at the organismal level. The middle panel describes developmental changes observed in the functional cells (scale cell in magenta and socket cell in dark blue) that will eventually become the pigmented scales (stages of scale development adapted from [13]. The bottom panel of the image consolidates our knowledge about when the known patterning genes wntA, cortex, and optix are expressed and when the expression results in terminal color synthesis of melanin and ommochromes, respectively. The yellow pigment (3-OHK) deposition window is also shown. Dashed gray lines separate the different phases

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