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Do Heliconius butterfly species exchange mimicry alleles?

Biology letters - 23 Aug 2013

Smith Joel, Kronforst Marcus R

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Hybridization has the potential to transfer beneficial alleles across species boundaries, and there are a growing number of examples in which this has apparently occurred. Recent studies suggest that Heliconius butterflies have transferred wing pattern mimicry alleles between species via hybridization, but ancestral polymorphism could also produce a signature of shared ancestry around mimicry genes. To...

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Alleles
Animals
Butterflies
Gene Flow
Genome, Insect
Hybridization, Genetic
Molecular Sequence Data
Pigmentation
Polymorphism, Genetic
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Species Specificity
Wings, Animal

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PMID: 23864282
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0503
PMCID: PMC3730661

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