Scientists recreate butterfly species in lab

WhiteTara

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Thu Jun-15-06 12:28 AM
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Scientists recreate butterfly species in lab

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=10&si=1633500&issue_id=14207
A SPECIES of butterfly has been recreated in the laboratory during a remarkable experiment that may have captured the real evolutionary steps leading to the formation of a new breed of animal.

The experimental species was produced from two different types of butterfly that had been interbred to produce a fertile hybrid which was later shown to prefer mating with its own kind.

British and American researchers said that this is probably how the brightly coloured Heliconius heurippa - a wild species found in South America - first came about as a distinct entity many thousands of years ago.
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aikoaiko

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Thu Jun-15-06 12:39 AM
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1. Nice -- this is an important demostration for evol. biol.

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blogslut

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Thu Jun-15-06 12:51 AM
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2. Here it is

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WhiteTara

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Thu Jun-15-06 10:20 AM
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3. thanks for the photo!

It certainly has a lot of black on it for a butterfly, don't you think?

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kestrel91316

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Thu Jun-15-06 10:40 AM
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4. Those scientists are obviously liars and fakers. We ALL know that

evolution is a myth.

sarsasm off

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