1.   As a geneticist, he found parallels between the inheritance of wing patterns in butterflies and the inheritance of blood types in people.

2.   Her task, she explained, was to stare at the wings of fruit flies all day, looking for wing patterns that would help distinguish between species.

3.   Once the coordinates are fixed, another crew of genes sketches out the dance of eyespots, chevrons, bands and dashes that make up butterfly wing patterns.

4.   On the computer, however, researchers created a virtual population of differently patterned black-and-white winged moths, based on the wing pattern of actual underwing moths.

5.   Some have names that are evocative of their beautiful wing patterns and iridescent colors.