Researchers use genome editing to explore how certain genes influence butterfly wing ... Robert Reed and colleagues used CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing to inactivate the optix gene in nymphalid ...

Evolving Defenses Rapidly Suppress Male Killers Date: August 27, 2006 Source: Public Library of Science Summary: Within Southeast Asian populations, a nymphalid butterfly has recently evolved a ...

Butterfly wings are helping to answer that question. These eyespots, common to the butterfly family Nymphalidae , now serve many butterflies in dual roles of both predator avoidance and mate ...

The common baron hatches from the underside of a leaf, which is the site in which the nymphalid butterfly lays its eggs. As the larvae grows in size, ...

When its wings are closed, the butterfly looks exactly like a dried autumn leaf, ... The butterfly, known as Kallima inachus, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in India and Japan.

A butterfly site explained that the Cirrochroa thais, or the Tamil yeoman, is a species of nymphalid butterfly, found in forested areas of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia.