Gene regulatory networks reused to build novel traits

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Co-option of an anteroposterior head axis patterning system for proximodistal patterning of appendages in early bilaterian evolution

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Eye evolution and the origin of Darwin's eye prototype

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Repeated Co-options of Exoskeleton Formation during Wing-to-Elytron Evolution in Beetles

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Shared and divergent expression domains on mimeticHeliconiuswings

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Eye evolution: common use and independent recruitment of genetic components

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Differential recruitment of limb patterning genes during development and diversification of beetle horns

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Wings, Horns, and Butterfly Eyespots: How Do Complex Traits Evolve?

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Transfer of a large gene regulatory apparatus to a new developmental address in echinoid evolution

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Gene expression underlying adaptive variation in Heliconius wing patterns: non-modular regulation of overlapping cinnabar and vermilion prepatterns

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