I love butterflies and when I pulled up Pinterest I saw some of the most beautiful crochet butterfly patterns. I knew I had to share them with you. Some of the patterns are free while some ...

Biologist Breeding World's First Transgenic Butterfly: Wing Patterns May Hold Key To Understanding Morphological Evolution Date: March 28, 2002 Source: University At Buffalo Summary: The beautiful ...

University of California - Irvine. "Secrets Behind Butterfly Wing Patterns Uncovered." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 26 October 2007. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 10 / 071025125134.htm>.

And by performing the same feat across several butterfly species, the team showed that this one gene, known as optix, controls all kinds of butterfly patterns. Red becomes black. Matte becomes shiny.

The beautiful patterns on butterfly wings are emerging as exceptional model systems that may reveal much about how the shapes, sizes and colors of specific organisms have evolved, a type of study ...