Polyphyly and gene flow between non-sibling Heliconius species

Vanessa Bull, Margarita Beltrán, Chris D Jiggins, W Owen McMillan, Eldredge Bermingham, James Mallet

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Abstract

The view that gene flow between related animal species is rare and evolutionarily unimportant largely antedates sensitive molecular techniques. Here we use DNA sequencing to investigate a pair of morphologically and ecologically divergent, non-sibling butterfly species, Heliconius cydno and H. melpomene (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), whose distributions overlap in Central and Northwestern South America.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)11
JournalBMC Biology
Volume4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006

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