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The Heliconius or passion-vine butterflies are tropical butterflies from the new world that show a huge diversity of wing patterns. They have undergone rapid speciation and divergence, and also show an amazing amount of convergence in wing pattern due to mimcry. Evolutionary biologists have studied these butterflies for over 150 years, and we now know a great deal about their ecology, systematics and evolution. This web site offers an introduction to their biology and current research projects studying different aspects of their genetics and evolution. We hope you like them as much as we do!
The genome sequence for Heliconius melpomene is available from LepBase. You might also want to visit the Tree of Life Heliconius pages. Butterflies of America and Michel Cast’s Heliconius pages are also useful resources for species identification.
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Ehlers, S., Blow, R., Szczerbowski, D., Jiggins, C., & Schulz, S. (2023). Variation of Clasper Scent Gland Composition of Heliconius Butterflies from a Biodiversity Hotspot. Chembiochem: A European Journal of Chemical Biology, e202300537. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202300537
Chakraborty, M., Lara, A. G., Dang, A., McCulloch, K. J., Rainbow, D., Carter, D., Ngo, L. T., Solares, E., Said, I., Corbett-Detig, R. B., Gilbert, L. E., Emerson, J. J., & Briscoe, A. D. (2023). Sex-linked gene traffic underlies the acquisition of sexually dimorphic UV color vision in Heliconius butterflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(33), e2301411120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2301411120
Moura, P. A., Young, F. J., Monllor, M., Cardoso, M. Z., & Montgomery, S. H. (2023). Long-term spatial memory across large spatial scales in Heliconius butterflies. Current Biology: CB, 33(15), R797–R798. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.009
Thawornwattana, Y., Huang, J., Flouri, T., Mallet, J., & Yang, Z. (2023). Inferring the Direction of Introgression Using Genomic Sequence Data. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40(8), msad178. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad178
Hebberecht, L., Wainwright, J. B., Thompson, C., Kershenbaum, S., McMillan, W. O., & Montgomery, S. H. (2023). Plasticity and genetic effects contribute to different axes of neural divergence in a community of mimetic Heliconius butterflies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 36(8), 1116–1132. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14188
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