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Alejandro Berrio Escobar

Research Scientist
Biology
130 Science Drive, FFS 4115, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Preprints


Lepidopteran scale cells derive from sensory organ precursors through a canonical lineage

Preprint · 2024 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 mechanosensory bristles found in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster ... Full text Cite