The diversification of Heliconius butterflies: what have we learned in 150 years?

RM Merrill, KK Dasmahapatra, JW Davey… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Research into Heliconius butterflies has made a significant contribution to evolutionary
biology. Here, we review our understanding of the diversification of these butterflies …

Hybrid speciation driven by multilocus introgression of ecological traits

N Rosser, F Seixas, LM Queste, B Cama, R Mori-Pezo… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Hybridization allows adaptations to be shared among lineages and may trigger the evolution
of new species,. However, convincing examples of homoploid hybrid speciation remain rare …

The arms race between heliconiine butterflies and Passiflora plants – new insights on an ancient subject

ECP de Castro, M Zagrobelny, MZ Cardoso… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Heliconiines are called passion vine butterflies because they feed exclusively on Passiflora
plants during the larval stage. Many features of Passiflora and heliconiines indicate that they …

Multilocus Species Trees Show the Recent Adaptive Radiation of the Mimetic Heliconius Butterflies

KM Kozak, N Wahlberg, AFE Neild… - Systematic …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Müllerian mimicry among Neotropical Heliconiini butterflies is an excellent example of
natural selection, associated with the diversification of a large continental-scale radiation …

[KNYGA][B] The ecology and evolution of Heliconius butterflies

CD Jiggins - 2017 - books.google.com
The Heliconius butterflies are one of the classic systems in evolutionary biology and have
contributed hugely to our understanding of evolution over the last 150 years. Their dramatic …

Patterns, predictors, and consequences of dominance in hybrids

KA Thompson, M Urquhart-Cronish… - The American …, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
Compared to those of their parents, are the traits of first-generation (F1) hybrids typically
intermediate, biased toward one parent, or mismatched for alternative parental phenotypes …

Brain composition in Heliconius butterflies, posteclosion growth and experience‐dependent neuropil plasticity

SH Montgomery, RM Merrill… - Journal of Comparative …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Behavioral and sensory adaptations are often reflected in the differential expansion of brain
components. These volumetric differences represent changes in cell number, size, and/or …

What shapes the continuum of reproductive isolation? Lessons from Heliconius butterflies

C Merot, C Salazar, RM Merrill… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The process by which species evolve can be illuminated by investigating barriers that limit
gene flow between taxa. Recent radiations, such as Heliconius butterflies, offer the …

No evidence for maintenance of a sympatric Heliconius species barrier by chromosomal inversions

JW Davey, SL Barker, PM Rastas, A Pinharanda… - Evolution …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Mechanisms that suppress recombination are known to help maintain species barriers by
preventing the breakup of coadapted gene combinations. The sympatric butterfly species …

Neural divergence and hybrid disruption between ecologically isolated Heliconius butterflies

SH Montgomery, M Rossi, WO McMillan… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
The importance of behavioral evolution during speciation is well established, but we know
little about how this is manifest in sensory and neural systems. A handful of studies have …