Wings, Horns, and Butterfly Eyespots: How Do Complex Traits Evolve?

Antónia Monteiro, Ondřej Podlaha

PLoS Biology · 2009 · 143 citations · 46 references

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Abstract

Do novel complex traits evolve when pre-existent complex developmental networks are recruited into new places in the body? Here we look closely at the genomic fingerprints that are produced as a result of gene network co-option.

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