Ultrabithorax modifies a regulatory network of genes essential for butterfly eyespot development in a wing sector-specific manner

The Hox gene Antennapedia is essential for wing development in insects

(2022) Chunyan Fang et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Butterfly eyespots evolved via cooption of an ancestral gene-regulatory network that also patterns antennae, legs, and wings

(2022) Suriya Narayanan Murugesan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hox dosage contributes to flight appendage morphology in Drosophila

(2021) Rachel Paul et al.   Nature Communications

Activation of butterfly eyespots by Distal-less is consistent with a reaction-diffusion process

(2019) Heidi Connahs et al.   DEVELOPMENT

The Hox transcription factor Ubx stabilizes lineage commitment by suppressing cellular plasticity in Drosophila

(2019) Katrin Domsch et al.   eLife

Melanin Pathway Genes Regulate Color and Morphology of Butterfly Wing Scales

(2018) Yuji Matsuoka et al.   Cell Reports

Genome editing in butterflies reveals that spalt promotes and Distal-less represses eyespot colour patterns

(2016) Linlin Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

Nymphalid eyespots are co-opted to novel wing locations following a similar pattern in independent lineages

(2015) Sandra R Schachat et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Over-expression of Ultrabithorax alters embryonic body plan and wing patterns in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana

(2014) Xiaoling Tong et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Nymphalid eyespot serial homologues originate as a few individualized modules

(2014) J. C. Oliver et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hox gene regulation in the central nervous system of Drosophila

(2014) Maheshwar Gummalla et al.   Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Distal-LessRegulates Eyespot Patterns and Melanization inBicyclusButterflies

(2013) ANTÓNIA MONTEIRO et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Cofactor Binding Evokes Latent Differences in DNA Binding Specificity between Hox Proteins

(2011) Matthew Slattery et al.   CELL

Hox genes regulate the same character by different strategies in each segment

(2008) Takuya Tsubota et al.   MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPMENT