'Supergene' is key to copycat butterflies
Friday, August 12, 2011 - 12:00
in Biology & Nature
Since Charles Darwin, biologists have pondered the mystery of "mimicry butterflies", which survive by copying the wing patterns of other butterflies that taste horrible to their predators, birds.
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