During graduate school, he saw an opportunity to merge his expertise in miRNA with his lifelong interest in butterflies, leading him to explore the largely understudied role of miRNAs in shaping ...

This means that for every five butterflies you might have seen in your garden two decades ago, there are now only four. The ...

Welcome to the kaleidoscopic world of the butterfly wing. How do butterflies and moths (known collectively as Lepidoptera) make use of their vibrant wing patterns? Why are some species experts in ...

Like the butterfly’s wings, “the display is taking the white ambient light around us, white light or sunlight, and through interference is going to send us back a color image,” Gally says.

To understand how males perceive different wing colors, they investigated the color ... developmental and neural changes underlying the evolution of butterfly mate preference, PLOS Biology ...

because structural colors are generated by the fine roughness engraved on their surfaces for recording data therein. The wings of many Morpho butterfly males, however, do not appear iridescent.