What do soap bubbles and butterflies have in common?
Sunday, April 12, 2020 - 11:10
in Biology & Nature
Edith Smith bred a bluer and shinier Common Buckeye at her butterfly farm in Florida, but it took University of California, Berkeley, graduate student Rachel Thayer to explain the physical and genetic changes underlying the butterfly’s newly acquired iridescence. In the process, Thayer discovered how relatively easy it is for butterflies to change their wing […]