Why does a Caribbean angelfish sometimes resemble its Indo-Pacific cousin, even though they have never lived in the same ocean? Why do coral reefs harbor such a wide range of stripes, spots and ...

In our newly published research in Science Advances, my student Ben Alessio and I propose a potential mechanism explaining how these distinctive patterns form—that could potentially be applied to ...

Many butterflies develop wing patterns that mimic other species to protect themselves from predators. While growing complex body parts like wings involves many genes, the difference between two ...

It was long predicted that the source of domestic cats’ distinctive pumpkin-orange fur coloring was genetic and was produced by a gene on the sex-determining X-chromosome because 80% of orange cats ...

Never heard of this one? Domestic cat breeding has led us to felines with “colorpoint” patterns, which is when the body of ...

Six species of swallowtail butterflies occur locally, and they combine yellow, black, orange, blue and red in several diverse patterns that invariably catch the eye. We can marvel at them, but our ...