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The Heliconius genome paper, with evidence for colour patterns being
exchanged among multiple species, is out at last! <br>
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See:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11041.html">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11041.html</a><br>
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Summary:<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica,
'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic', sans-serif; font-size:
13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align:
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auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">The
evolutionary importance of hybridization and introgression has
long been debated</span><sup style="vertical-align: super;
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font-family: arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS
PGothic', sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
-webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); "><a
href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11041.html#ref1"
title="Seehausen, O. Hybridization and adaptive radiation.
Trends Ecol. Evol. 19, 198-207 (2004)" id="ref-link-5"
style="color: rgb(157, 3, 3); text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold; border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(157, 3,
3); ">1</a></sup><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS
PGothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">. Hybrids are
usually rare and unfit, but even infrequent hybridization can aid
adaptation by transferring beneficial traits between species. Here
we use genomic tools to investigate introgression in<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i
style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic',
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Heliconius</i><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ
Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic', sans-serif; font-size:
13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align:
-webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">, a rapidly
radiating genus of neotropical butterflies widely used in studies
of ecology, behaviour, mimicry and speciation</span><sup
style="vertical-align: super; font-size: 11px; line-height: 0;
margin-left: 0.15em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial,
helvetica, 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic', sans-serif;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); "><a
href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11041.html#ref2"
title="Bates, H. W. Contributions to an insect fauna of the
Amazon valley. Lepidoptera: Heliconidae. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond.
23, 495-566 (1862)" id="ref-link-6" style="color: rgb(157, 3,
3); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;
border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted;
border-bottom-color: rgb(157, 3, 3); ">2</a>,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11041.html#ref3"
title="Turner, J. R. G. Adaptation and evolution in Heliconius:
a defense of neo-Darwinism. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 12, 99-121
(1981)" id="ref-link-7" style="color: rgb(157, 3, 3);
text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; border-bottom-width:
1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(157,
3, 3); ">3</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11041.html#ref4"
title="Brown, K. S. The biology of Heliconius and related
genera. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 26, 427-457 (1981)" id="ref-link-8"
style="color: rgb(157, 3, 3); text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold; border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(157, 3,
3); ">4</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11041.html#ref5"
title="Jiggins, C. D., Naisbit, R. E., Coe, R. L. & Mallet,
J. Reproductive isolation caused by colour pattern mimicry.
Nature 411, 302-305 (2001)" id="ref-link-9" style="color:
rgb(157, 3, 3); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;
border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted;
border-bottom-color: rgb(157, 3, 3); ">5</a></sup><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ
Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic', sans-serif; font-size:
13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align:
-webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">. We
sequenced the genome of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i
style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic',
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Heliconius melpomene</i><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ
Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic', sans-serif; font-size:
13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align:
-webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and compared it with other
taxa to investigate chromosomal evolution in Lepidoptera and gene
flow among multiple</span><i style="font-style: italic; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ
ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); ">Heliconius</i><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS
PGothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); display: inline !important; float: none; "><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>species and races. Among
12,669 predicted genes, biologically important expansions of
families of chemosensory and</span><i style="font-style: italic;
color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック',
'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); ">Hox</i><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic',
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant:
normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height:
19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); display: inline !important; float: none; "><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>genes are particularly
noteworthy. Chromosomal organization has remained broadly
conserved since the Cretaceous period, when butterflies split from
the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i
style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic',
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Bombyx</i><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ
Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic', sans-serif; font-size:
13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align:
-webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(silkmoth) lineage. Using
genomic resequencing, we show hybrid exchange of genes between
three co-mimics,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i
style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic',
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Heliconius melpomene</i><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ
Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic', sans-serif; font-size:
13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align:
-webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i
style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic',
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Heliconius timareta</i><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ
Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic', sans-serif; font-size:
13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align:
-webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and</span><i
style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic',
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> Heliconius elevatus</i><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ
Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic', sans-serif; font-size:
13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align:
-webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">, especially
at two genomic regions that control mimicry pattern. We infer that
closely related<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i
style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic',
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Heliconius</i><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, 'ＭＳ
Ｐゴシック', 'ＭＳ ゴシック', Osaka, 'MS PGothic', sans-serif; font-size:
13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align:
-webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>species exchange
protective colour-pattern genes promiscuously, implying that
hybridization has an important role in adaptive radiation.</span><br>
<br>
A selection of press releases<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/May2012/12-516-butterfly-genome-reveals-promiscuous-past">http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/May2012/12-516-butterfly-genome-reveals-promiscuous-past</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/butterfly-genome-reveals-a-promiscuous-past/">http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/butterfly-genome-reveals-a-promiscuous-past/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Information/News/press-releases/research-highlight-160512_butterfly_genome.html">http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Information/News/press-releases/research-highlight-160512_butterfly_genome.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/all-news/160512-butterfly">http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/all-news/160512-butterfly</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/27700">http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/27700</a><br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/La-promiscuidad-de-las-mariposas-mejora-su-supervivencia">http://www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/La-promiscuidad-de-las-mariposas-mejora-su-supervivencia</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://phys.org/news/2012-05-species-genomes-international-consortium-sequences.html">http://phys.org/news/2012-05-species-genomes-international-consortium-sequences.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120516135502.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120516135502.htm</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120516140014.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120516140014.htm</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/05/17/3503366.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/05/17/3503366.htm</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sciencecodex.com/heliconius_butterfly_genome_explains_wing_pattern_diversity-91672">http://www.sciencecodex.com/heliconius_butterfly_genome_explains_wing_pattern_diversity-91672</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.myscience.me.uk/wire/butterfly_genome_reveals_a_promiscuous_past-2012-cambridge">http://www.myscience.me.uk/wire/butterfly_genome_reveals_a_promiscuous_past-2012-cambridge</a><br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
James Mallet
OEB Dept, Harvard University
& Professor of Biological Diversity,
University College London
16 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim">www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim</a></pre>
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