John Turner
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John Turner researched Heliconius and the related genera for about a quarter of a century, from the early 1960s to the late 1980s. His interests were in the evolution of mimicry, the genetic basis for the mimetic patterns, establishing the pattern of parallel variation both within melpomene and erato (there being no clear presentation in the literature) and between higher subdivisions of Heliconius, the explanation of polymorphism (mostly “hybrid” zones), and behavioural ecology (home-range behaviour, communal roosting). He worked initially with the New York Zoological Society group in the person of Jocelyn Crane and in the spirit of William Beebe, who had died not long before leaving published but unanalysed genetic broods of H. erato. His work later involved extensive collaborations particularly with Keith Brown and Philip Sheppard.
Selected publications
Turner, J. R. (2006). Mimicry. In John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. http://www.els.net/WileyCDA/ElsArticle/refId-a0001790.html
Speed, M. P., & Turner, J. R. H. (1999). Learning and memory in mimicry: II. Do we understand the mimicry spectrum? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 67, 281–312.
Turner, J. R. G., & Speed, M. P. (1999). How weird can mimicry get? Evolutionary Ecology, 13, 807–827.
Turner, J. R. G., & Speed, M. (1999). Learning and memory in mimicry. I. Simulations of laboratory experiments. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (B), 351, 1157–1170.
Turner, J. R. G., & Mallet, J. L. B. (1996). Did forest islands drive the diversity of warningly coloured butterflies? Biotic drift and the shifting balance. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 351, 835–845. ://A1996UY36500021
Turner, J. R. G. (1988). The evolution of mimicry: a solution to the problem of punctuated equilibrium. American Naturalist, 131, Supplement, S42–S66.
Turner, J. R. G. (1986). The genetics of adaptive radiation: a neo-Darwinian theory of punctuational evolution. In D. M. Raup & D. Jablonski (Eds.), Patterns and processes in the history of life (pp. 183–207). Springer Verlag.
Turner, J. R. G., Andrews, M., & McGregor, A. (1986). Drinking crocodile tears: the only use for a butterfly? Antenna, 10, 119–120.
Sheppard, P. M., Turner, J. R. G., Brown, K. S., Benson, W. W., & Singer, M. C. (1985). Genetics and the Evolution of Muellerian Mimicry in Heliconius Butterflies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 308, 433-. ://A1985ADE3200001
Turner, J. R. G. (1984). Mimicry: the palatability spectrum and its consequences. In R. I. Vane-Wright & P. R. Ackery (Eds.), The Biology of Butterflies (pp. 141–161). Academic Press.
Turner, J. R. G. (1984). Darwin’s coffin and Doctor Pangloss -- do adaptationist models explain mimicry? In B. Shorrocks (Ed.), Evolutionary Ecology (pp. 313–361). Blackwell Scientific.
Turner, J. R. G. (1983). Mimetic butterflies and punctuated equilibria: some old light on a new paradigm. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 20, 277–300.
Turner, J. R. G. (1982). How do refuges produce tropical diversity? Allopatry and parapatry, extinction and gene flow in mimetic butterflies. In G. T. Prance (Ed.), Biological Diversification in the Tropics (pp. 309–335). Columbia Univ. Press.
Turner, J. R. G. (1981). Adaptation and Evolution in Heliconius - a Defense of Neodarwinism. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 12, 99–121. ://A1981MQ93600005
Turner, J. R. G., & Johnson, M. S. (1980). Sex-limited mimicry: sexual selection, or gene dosage, or both? Heredity, 45, 137.
Turner, J. R. G., Johnson, M. S., & Eanes, W. F. (1979). Contrasted Modes of Evolution in the Same Genome - Allozymes and Adaptive Change in Heliconius. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 76, 1924–1928. ://A1979GS38600086
Johnson, M. S., & Turner, J. R. G. (1979). Absence of Dosage Compensation for a Sex-Linked Enzyme in Butterflies (Heliconius). Heredity, 43, 71–77. ://A1979HS81500008
Turner, J. R. G. (1978). Why male butterflies are non-mimetic: natural selection, sexual selection, group selection, modification and sieving. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 10, 385–432.
Turner, J. R. G. (1977). Butterfly mimicry -- genetical evolution of an adaptation. In M. K. Hecht, W. C. Steere, & B. Wallace (Eds.), Evolutionary Biology (Vol. 10, pp. 163–206). Plenum Press.
Turner, J. R. G. (1977). Forest refuges and ecological islands: disorderly extinctions and the adaptive radiation of Muellerian mimics. In H. Descimon (Ed.), Biogeographie et Evolution en Amérique Tropicale (pp. 98–117).
Turner, J. R. G. (1977). A bibliography of Heliconius and the related genera. Privately published.
Turner, J. R. G. (1976). Muellerian mimicry: classical “beanbag” evolution and the role of ecological islands in adaptive race formation. In S. Karlin & E. Nevo (Eds.), Population Genetics and Ecology (pp. 185–218). Academic Press.
Turner, J. R. G., & Holzinger, R. (1976). Fake Heliconius (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Systematic Entomology, 1, 173–176. ://A1976BU36000007
Turner, J. R. G. (1976). Adaptive Radiation and Convergence in Subdivisions of Butterfly Genus Heliconius (Lepidoptera-Nymphalidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 58, 297–308. ://A1976BT31500002
Turner, J. R. G. (1975). A tale of two butterflies. Natural History, 29.
Turner, J. R. G., & Sheppard, P. M. (1975). Absence of Crossing-over in Female Butterflies (Heliconius). Heredity, 34, 265–269. ://A1975AE95100010
Turner, J. R. G. (1975). Communal roosting in relation to warning colour in two Heliconiine butterflies (Nymphalidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society, 29, 221–226.
Turner, J. R. G. (1974). Breeding Heliconius in a temperate climate. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society, 28, 26–33.
Brown, K. S., Sheppard, P. M., & Turner, J. R. G. (1974). Quaternary Refugia in Tropical America - Evidence from Race Formation in Heliconius Butterflies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 187, 369–378. ://A1974U677200010
Turner, J. R. G. (1973). Illustrations of some Heliconius (Nymphalidae): some rare and important specimens. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society, 27, 130–136.
Suomalainen, E., Cook, L. M., & Turner, J. R. G. (1973). Achiasmatic oogenesis in the heliconiine butterflies. Hereditas, 74, 302–304.
Turner, J. R. G. (1973). The genetics of race formation in mimetic butterflies: is the gene the unit of selection? Genetics, 74, s281.
Turner, J. R. G. (1973). Passion flower butterflies. Animals, 15, 15–21.
Suomalainen, E., Cook, L. M., & Turner, J. R. G. (1971). Chromosome numbers of heliconiine butterflies from Trinidad, West Indies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Zoologica, New York, 56, 121–124.
Turner, J. R. G. (1971). Studies of Müllerian mimicry and its evolution in burnet moths and heliconid butterflies. In E. R. Creed (Ed.), Ecological Genetics and Evolution (pp. 224–260). Blackwell.
Turner, J. R. G. (1971). Experiments on the demography of tropical butterflies. II. Longevity and home-range behaviour in Heliconius erato. Biotropica, 3, 21–31.
Turner, J. R. G. (1971). 2000 Generations of Hybridisation in a Heliconius Butterfly. Evolution, 25, 471-. ://A1971K508700005
Turner, J. R. G. (1971). Genetics of Some Polymorphic Forms of Butterflies Heliconius-Melpomene (Linnaeus) and H Erato (Linnaeus) .2. Hybridization of Subspecies of H Melpomene from Surinam and Trinidad. Zoologica, 56, 125-. ://A1971N423900002
Turner, J. R. G. (1970). Mimicry: a study in behaviour, genetics, ecology and biochemistry. Science Progress, Oxford, 58, 219–235.
Turner, J. R. G. (1968). Natural selection for and against a polymorphism which interacts with sex. Evolution, 22, 481–495.
Turner, J. R. G. (1968). Some new Heliconius pupae: their taxonomic and evolutionary significance in relation to mimicry (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Journal of Zoology (London), 155, 311–325.
Turner, J. R. G. (1967). Some early works on heliconiine butterflies and their biology (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Zoology), 46, 255–266.
Turner, J. R. G. (1967). Goddess changes sex or the gender game. Systematic Zoology, 16, 349–350.
Turner, J. R. G. (1967). The generic name of Papilio iulia Fabricius, sometimes called the flambeau (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Entomologist, 100, 8.
Turner, J. R. G. (1967). Studies of evolution [Thesis]. University of Oxford.
Turner, J. R. G. (1966). A rare mimetic Heliconius (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, B, 35, 128–132.
Turner, J. R. G. (1966). A little-recognized species of Heliconius butterfly (Nymphalidae). Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, 5, 97–112.