cortex
Coloration (wing ; industrial melanism ; camouflage)
Cis-regulatory,
Insertion
Biston betularia
pepper-and-salt moth - (species) D
Intraspecific
Linkage Mapping
Van't Hof AE; Campagne P; Rigden DJ ; et al. (2016)
The industrial melanism mutation in British peppered moths is a transposable element.
GP00001804
cort
Q960N3
Morphology
Putative transposon insertion within the first intron ; consists of of ~9 kb tandemly repeated 2.3 times + three short tandem subrepeat units
Biston betularia
pepper-and-salt moth - (species)
Biston betularia
pepper-and-salt moth - (species) D
cortex
Biston betularia
pepper-and-salt moth - (species)
Published - Accepted by Curator
cortex
Coloration (wing)
Cis-regulatory,
Deletion
Heliconius melpomene
postman butterfly - (species) D
Domesticated
Association Mapping
Hanly JJ; Livraghi L; Heryanto C ; et al. (2022)
A large deletion at the cortex locus eliminates butterfly wing patterning.
GP00001805
cort
Q960N3
Morphology
78-kb deletion in the 5′ region of the cortex gene that includes a facultative 5′UTR exon detected in larval wing disk transcriptomes. Phenotypic effect confirmed by CRISPR mutagenesis of this exon. The ivory deletion causes the loss of 1 of 2 promoters.
Heliconius melpomene
postman butterfly - (species)
Heliconius melpomene
postman butterfly - (species) D
cortex
Heliconius melpomene
postman butterfly - (species)
Published - Accepted by Curator
cortex
Coloration (wing ; leaf mimicry ; camouflage)
Cis-regulatory,
Complex Change
Kallima inachus
orange oakleaf - (species) D
Intraspecific
Association Mapping
Wang S; Teng D; Li X ; et al. (2022)
The evolution and diversification of oakleaf butterflies.
GP00002413
cort
Q960N3
Morphology
Kallima inachus
orange oakleaf - (species)
Kallima inachus
orange oakleaf - (species) D
cortex
Kallima inachus
orange oakleaf - (species)
Published - Accepted by Curator
cortex
Coloration (wing ; leaf mimicry ; camouflage)
Cis-regulatory,
Unknown
Kallima inachus
orange oakleaf - (species) D
Intraspecific
Association Mapping
Wang S; Teng D; Li X ; et al. (2022)
The evolution and diversification of oakleaf butterflies.
GP00002414
cort
Q960N3
Morphology
Kallima inachus
orange oakleaf - (species)
Kallima inachus
orange oakleaf - (species) D
cortex
Kallima inachus
orange oakleaf - (species)
Published - Accepted by Curator
cortex
Coloration (wing ; leaf mimicry ; camouflage)
Cis-regulatory,
Unknown
Kallima inachus
orange oakleaf - (species) D
Intraspecific
Association Mapping
Wang S; Teng D; Li X ; et al. (2022)
The evolution and diversification of oakleaf butterflies.
GP00002415
cort
Q960N3
Morphology
Kallima inachus
orange oakleaf - (species)
Kallima inachus
orange oakleaf - (species) D
cortex
Kallima inachus
orange oakleaf - (species)
Published - Accepted by Curator
cortex
Coloration (wing ; leaf mimicry ; camouflage)
Cis-regulatory,
Unknown
Kallima inachus
orange oakleaf - (species) D
Intraspecific
Association Mapping
Wang S; Teng D; Li X ; et al. (2022)
The evolution and diversification of oakleaf butterflies.
GP00002416
cort
Q960N3
Morphology
Large inversion and many mutations in the large inverted region.
Kallima inachus
orange oakleaf - (species)
Kallima inachus
orange oakleaf - (species) D
cortex
Kallima inachus
orange oakleaf - (species)
Published - Accepted by Curator
cortex
Coloration (wing ; body)
Unknown,
Unknown
Bombyx mori
domestic silkworm - (species)
Domesticated
Linkage Mapping
Ito K; Katsuma S; Kuwazaki S ; et al. (2016)
Mapping and recombination analysis of two moth colour mutations, Black moth and Wild wing spot, in t[...]
GP00002417
cort
Q960N3
Morphology
Mapping to a 2-Mb-long region which contains the cortex gene.
Bombyx mori
domestic silkworm - (species)
Bombyx mori
domestic silkworm - (species)
cortex
Bombyx mori
domestic silkworm - (species)
Published - Accepted by Curator
cortex
Coloration (wing)
Unknown,
Unknown
Bombyx mori
domestic silkworm - (species)
Domesticated
Linkage Mapping
Ito K; Katsuma S; Kuwazaki S ; et al. (2016)
Mapping and recombination analysis of two moth colour mutations, Black moth and Wild wing spot, in t[...]
GP00002418
cort
Q960N3
Morphology
Mapping to a 100-kb-long region which contains the cortex gene.
Bombyx mori
domestic silkworm - (species)
Bombyx mori
domestic silkworm - (species)
cortex
Bombyx mori
domestic silkworm - (species)
Published - Accepted by Curator
cortex
Coloration (wing; mimicry)
Unknown,
Unknown
Papilio clytia
common mime swallowtail - (species)
Intraspecific
Association Mapping
VanKuren NW; Massardo D; Nallu S ; et al. (2019)
Butterfly Mimicry Polymorphisms Highlight Phylogenetic Limits of Gene Reuse in the Evolution of Dive[...]
GP00002419
cort
Q960N3
Morphology
Mapping to a 500-kb region that contains the cortex gene
Papilio clytia
common mime swallowtail - (species)
Papilio clytia
common mime swallowtail - (species)
cortex
Papilio clytia
common mime swallowtail - (species)
Published - Accepted by Curator
cortex
Coloration (wing; seasonal)
Cis-regulatory,
Unknown
Junonia coenia
buckeye - (species) D
Experimental Evolution
Association Mapping
van der Burg KRL; Lewis JJ; Brack BJ ; et al. (2020)
Genomic architecture of a genetically assimilated seasonal color pattern.
GP00002420
cort
Q960N3
Morphology
No variation in coding region. Strong association with cis-regulatory SNP.
Junonia coenia
buckeye - (species)
Junonia coenia
buckeye - (species) D
cortex
Junonia coenia
buckeye - (species)
Published - Accepted by Curator
cortex
Coloration (wing)
Cis-regulatory,
Insertion
Heliconius melpomene
postman butterfly - (species) D
Intraspecific
Association Mapping
Livraghi L; Hanly JJ; Van Bellghem SM ; et al. (2021)
Cortex cis-regulatory switches establish scale colour identity and pattern diversity in Heliconius.
GP00002660
cort
Q960N3
Morphology
Insertion of two transposable elements (BovB-like and Helitron-like)
Heliconius melpomene
postman butterfly - (species)
Heliconius melpomene
postman butterfly - (species) D
cortex
Heliconius melpomene
postman butterfly - (species)
Published - Accepted by Curator