Research into Heliconius butterflies has made a significant contribution to evolutionary
biology. Here, we review our understanding of the diversification of these butterflies, covering …

Most speciation events probably occur gradually, without complete and immediate reproductive
isolation, but the full extent of gene flow between diverging species has rarely been …

We used 20 de novo genome assemblies to probe the speciation history and architecture of
gene flow in rapidly radiating Heliconius butterflies. Our tests to distinguish incomplete …

DNA ‘barcoding’ relies on a short fragment of mitochondrial DNA to infer identification of
specimens. The method depends on genetic diversity being markedly lower within than …

Heliconius butterflies represent a recent radiation of species, in which wing pattern divergence
has been implicated in speciation. Several loci that control wing pattern phenotypes have …

Proxy measures of genome-wide heterozygosity based on approximately 10 microsatellites
have been used to uncover heterozygosity fitness correlations (HFCs) for a wealth of …

In ‘DNA barcoding’a short section of DNA sequence is used to identify species. Neither the
idea nor the technology behind DNA barcoding is novel. What is new and controversial is the …

Müllerian mimicry among Neotropical Heliconiini butterflies is an excellent example of natural
selection, associated with the diversification of a large continental-scale radiation. Some of …

We estimated the spontaneous mutation rate in Heliconius melpomene by genome sequencing
of a pair of parents and 30 of their offspring, based on the ratio of number of de novo …

The H eliconius butterflies are a diverse recent radiation comprising multiple levels of
divergence with ongoing gene flow between species. The recently sequenced genome of H …