[HELICONIUS] Optix is the gene for red colour patterns in Heliconius

[James Mallet]

This is an important discovery from July 2011 that has not yet been 
aired here.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/07/20/science.1208227
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110721172338.htm
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/4546/single-gene-tied-butterfly-mimicry

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James Mallet
Professor of Biological Diversity, GEE
University College London
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