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Luca Livraghi @lucalivraghi.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

New pre-print with some updates on ivory:miR193 in a highly polymorphic moth. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We mapped ivory (again!?) this time controlling aspects of camouflage in Anticarsia gemmatalis. Mapping, SVs, Expression and Function. Comments/suggestions welcome!

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Martik Chatterjee @mosaiclep.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Very excited to share the first chapter of my PhD thesis out in @elife.bsky.social : doi.org/10.7554/eLif... We discovered how the gene "mirror" is necessary for specifying the “vannus”, a unique domain in the posterior part of butterfly wings. 🦋🦋 (1/6) #CRISPR #butterfly #genomics

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Awesome new paper by @lucalivraghi.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... in @currentbiology.bsky.social on the evo-devo of a butterfly color variation enjoy the show!

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

New preprint by butterfly wizard @lucalivraghi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We mapped optix (again?!) as the switch gene of a natural polymorphism, this time controlling silver patches of a mountain butterfly. Gorgeous RNAi validation, evidence of selective sweeps, introgression

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Robert Reed @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The third paper in the ivory triology is finally out! Lovely work by @tianshenbio.bsky.social and colleagues!

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Robert Reed @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Regulatory modularity across a spectrum, from Jeanne McDonald's new review paper in TREE. What's the reality for your favorite gene? #evodevo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

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Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🌟 Introducing the Mazo-Vargas Lab @DukeU. 🌟 🧬 We employ #genetics, #functional-genomics, and #evodevo approaches to untangle the genetic basis of morphological adaptive traits.

Five members of the Mazo-Vargas laboratory are standing at the Duke University campus, with tiered grassy steps and autumn trees, under a sky with scattered clouds.

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

scRNAseq, ultraviolet iridescent butterflies, and evo-devo of sex specific traits... check out our new preprint by the incredible Ling Sheng Loh Single-nucleus transcriptomics of wing sexual dimorphism and scale cell specialization in sulphur butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Robert Reed @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Lep Soc 2024 abstracts are due today! Please join us in Ithaca for an exciting meeting filled with field trips, blacklighting, workshops, and presentations. Questions: meeting@lepsoc.org

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Robert Reed @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

(1/3) Congrats @hwkmthcrspr.bsky.social for his new preprint showing how cis-elements of the ivory lncRNA control pigmentation and seasonal morphs in butterflies. Check out these CRISPR summer/autumn mosaics! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Robert Reed @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

We can learn so much by looking at development outside major model organisms. I'm glad to see funding agencies coming around to this more and more... So happy to share coauthorship with so many friends and heroes on this perspective article! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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Robert Reed @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Someone told you there are only two anteroposterior domains in insect wings? Well, it turns out ol' Snodgrass was right - there are more! Check out our new preprint! #evodevo www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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