Post date: Sep 26, 2017 4:42:32 PM
26ix17. We found a lot of wing pattern loci of interest from reading Zhang et al. 2017: Single master regulatory gene coordinates the evolution and development of butterfly color and iridescence. I searched lepbase (ensembl) for sequences we can use to blast against Lycaeides. Saving these sequences in "wingpattern_genes2.txt".
1. spalt: found a sequence "Homeotic protein spalt-major OS=Drosophila virilis GN=salm PE=2 SV=1 [Source:UniProtKB/TrEMBL;Acc:P39806]"
2. Distal-less: found on http://flybase.org/reports/FBgn0000157.html
3. WntA: found protein sequence on http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/H9AZR2.
4. doublesex: http://flybase.org/reports/FBgn0000504.html (Drosophila)
5. optix and cortex - already have (see wingpattern_genes.txt)