Hierarchical morphogenesis of swallowtail butterfly wing scale nanostructures.

ABSTRACT: The study of color patterns in the animal integument is a fundamental question in biology, with many lepidopteran species being exemplary models in this endeavor due to their relative simplicity and elegance. While significant advances have been made in unraveling the cellular and molecular basis of lepidopteran pigmentary coloration, the morphogenesis of wing scale nanostructures involved in structural color production is not well understood. Contemporary research on this topic largely focuses on a few nymphalid model taxa (e.g., Bicyclus, Heliconius), despite an overwhelming diversity in the hierarchical nanostructural organization of lepidopteran wing scales. Here, we present a time-resolved, comparative developmental study of hierarchical scale nanostructures in Paride

SUBMITTER: Seah KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10538957 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature