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Adaptive introgression across species boundaries in Heliconius butterflies
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Pardo Díaz, Geimy Carolina
Salazar, Camilo
Baxter, Simon W.
Wilsea,Claire Merot
Figueiredo-Ready, Wilsea
Joron,Mathieu
McMillan,Owen
Jiggins,Chris D.
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2012-06-21
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de la Universidad del Rosario.
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It is widely documented that hybridisation occurs between many closely related species, but the importance of introgression in adaptive evolution remains unclear, especially in animals. Here, we have examined the role of introgressive hybridisation in transferring adaptations between mimetic Heliconius butterflies, taking advantage of the recent identification of a gene regulating red wing patterns in this genus. By sequencing regions both linked and unlinked to the red colour locus, we found a region that displays an almost perfect genotype by phenotype association across four species, H. melpomene, H. cydno, H. timareta, and H. heurippa. This particular segment is located 70 kb downstream of the red colour specification gene optix, and coalescent analysis indicates repeated introgression of adaptive alleles from H. melpomene into the H. cydno species clade. Our analytical methods complement recent genome scale data for the same region and suggest adaptive introgression has a crucial role in generating adaptive wing colour diversity in this group of butterflies.
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Mariposas Heliconius , Hibridación , H. melpomene , H. cydno , H. timareta y H. heurippa
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Butterflies Heliconius , Hybridization , H. melpomene , H. cydno , H. timareta and H. heurippa
