ArticleGenetics2017
Genetic Basis of Melanin Pigmentation in Butterfly Wings.
Article in Genetics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
52 citing papers in PubMed, 147 citations in OpenAlex.
- Gene Expression and Structural Differences Underpinning Black and White Colouration in Spiders.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Summer Rainfall Drives Adaptation with Gene Flow in a Widespread Butterfly.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Disruption of yellow-e3 impairs both adult molting and cuticular melanization in the honeybee (Apis mellifera).Frontiers in zoology · 2026Article
- Nanoscale cuticle mass density variations influenced by pigmentation in butterfly wing scales.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Single-nucleus transcriptomics of wing sexual dimorphism and scale cell specialization in sulphur butterflies.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Genomics of Experimental Adaptive Radiation in the Cryptic Coloration of Feather Lice.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Evaluation of ebony as a potential selectable marker for genetic sexing in Aedes aegypti.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
- Manipulation of a New Non-model Insect Genome Using Targeted CRISPR-Era Approaches.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Establishment of CRISPR/Cas9-based knock-in in a hemimetabolous insect: targeted gene tagging in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- A microRNA is the effector gene of a classic evolutionary hotspot locus.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Bmlark is essential for embryonic development.BMC genomics · 2024Article
- Novel Sex-Specific Genes and Diverse Interspecific Expression in the Antennal Transcriptomes of Ithomiine Butterflies.Genome biology and evolution · 2024Article
- TheProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- CRISPR/Cas9-Based Genome Editing of Fall Armyworm (Biomolecules · 2024Review
- Article
- A micro-RNA is the effector gene of a classic evolutionary hotspot locus.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Article
- Article
- Frizzled2 receives WntA signaling during butterfly wing pattern formation.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2023Article
- Vermilion and cinnabar are involved in ommochrome pigment biosynthesis in eyes but not wings of Bicyclus anynana butterflies.Scientific reports · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
Despite the variety, prominence, and adaptive significance of butterfly wing patterns, surprisingly little is known about the genetic basis of wing color diversity. Even though there is intense interest in wing pattern evolution and development, the technical challenge of genetically manipulating butterflies has slowed efforts to functionally characterize color pattern development genes. To identify candidate wing pigmentation genes, we used RNA sequencing to characterize transcription across multiple stages of butterfly wing development, and between different color pattern elements, in the painted lady butterfly
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.