🦋 The Papa Lab, based in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 | Cracking the developmental blueprint of life through comparative multigenomics. We study two native butterflies—𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑎 & 𝐷𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑢𝑠 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑢𝑠—to understand how genes shape form and function.