The beautiful eyespot patterns on the wings of butterflies help them to evade predators, but they also present biologists with a unique opportunity to investigate the reciprocal interactions of development and evolution.
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Nijhout, H. Focus on butterfly eyespot development. Nature 384, 209–210 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/384209a0
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