Our companion paper introduces the first completely proofread connectome of the nerve
cord of an animal that can walk or fly. The base connectome consists of neuronal …

Highlights•Both model and nonmodel organisms shake up our view of bristle development.•
Endopolyploidy and apical extracellular matrix are important for cuticular …

Single-cell techniques are a promising way to unravel the complexity and heterogeneity of
transcripts at the cellular level and to reveal the composition of different cell types and …

Chemosensory tissues exhibit significant between-species variability, yet the evolution of
gene expression and cell types underlying this diversity remain poorly understood. To …

The functions of the heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) genes were studied using a line of
Drosophila melanogaster with a knockout of 6 of these genes out of 13. Namely, the effect of …

The success of butterflies and moths is tightly linked to the origin of scales within the group.
A long-standing hypothesis postulates that scales are homologous to the well-described …

Biological systems present immense robustness to environmental, genetic and stochastic
variation, within which butterfly wings emerge as a prime model. Void of complexities during …