Abstract
Wing Patterns in the Mist
Highlights
In the 20th century, Oxford’s pre-eminent evolutionist and student of insect color patterns, Edward B
Several teams have been busy in recent years trying to relate underlying allelic variation in color pattern observed in laboratory crosses and in natural hybrid zones to changes occurring in the genome
Classic genetic mapping previously showed that these adaptive polymorphisms in four different radiations were linked to homologous intervals [14,15,16]
Summary
The aesthetic appeal of butterfly wing patterns has been costly to their status as a tool of fundamental scientific inquiry. Eltringham [7] distinguished Heliconius erato and Heliconius melpomene groupings and noted repeated mimetic convergence between them Within those groupings, he failed to distinguish species, races, and hybrids. It soon became clear that many rare ‘‘taxa’’ described as species by museum workers were recombinants occurring in narrow hybrid zones between two distinct mimetic races. In these zones Mullerian partners erato and melpomene each generate similar arrays of hybrid phenotypes, many of which would be sufficiently distinct to warrant separate species status when viewed out of context
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