When the biologists finished assembling the first complete genome for this species, they discovered its W – or female – chromosome contained the opsin gene. In searching for the genetic mechanism behind this difference, the researchers selected as their subject Heliconius charithonia, or Zebra Longwing butterfly, whose visual capacity is sexually dimorphic.
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