Macroevolutionary shifts of WntA function potentiate butterfly wing-pattern diversity
- aDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853;
- bSmithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Gamboa, Panama;
- cDepartment of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP, United Kingdom;
- dDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637;
- eDepartment of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom;
- fDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720;
- gDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720;
- hDepartment of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052
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Edited by Sean B. Carroll, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, and approved August 7, 2017 (received for review May 16, 2017)

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- Anyi Mazo-Vargasa,
- Carolina Conchab,1,
- Luca Livraghic,1,
- Darli Massardod,1,
- Richard W. R. Wallbankb,e,1,
- Linlin Zhanga,
- Joseph D. Papadorf,
- Daniel Martinez-Najeraf,
- Chris D. Jigginsb,e,
- Marcus R. Kronforstd,
- Casper J. Breukerc,
- Robert D. Reeda,
- Nipam H. Patelf,g,
- W. Owen McMillanb, and
- Arnaud Martinh,2
- aDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853;
- bSmithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Gamboa, Panama;
- cDepartment of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP, United Kingdom;
- dDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637;
- eDepartment of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom;
- fDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720;
- gDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720;
- hDepartment of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052
Edited by Sean B. Carroll, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, and approved August 7, 2017 (received for review May 16, 2017)
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↵1C.C., L.L., D.M., and R.W.R.W. contributed equally to this work.
- ↵2To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: arnaud{at}gwu.edu.
Author contributions: C.D.J., M.R.K., C.J.B., R.D.R., N.H.P., W.O.M., and A.M. designed research; A.M.-V., C.C., L.L., D.M., R.W.R.W., L.Z., J.D.P., D.M.-N., and A.M. performed research; and A.M. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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