Butterflies change wing color in new Yale research

Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - 16:30 in Biology & Nature

Yale University scientists have performed the first artificial selection on a structural color, using butterfly wings. This image shows a male Bicyclus anynana butterfly Yale University scientists have chosen the most fleeting of mediums for their groundbreaking work on biomimicry: They've changed the color of butterfly wings.

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