What's actually really cool, is both H. erato and H. melpomene are co-mimics and are actually both poisonous, and therefore are Mullerian mimics of each other. They share the cost of training predators that they are poisonous. The kinesin gene we identified as a candidate is indeed very cool, but there's a good chance and suggestive evidence it maybe interacting with other genes very nearby in the same small genomic region. The most intriguing part of the story is that these species are ~15-20 million years diverged and independently evolved these similar color patterns, and appear to have used the same set of genes to create their shared color patterns.