[HELICONIUS] Fwd: F1000: your article has been evaluated

[James Mallet]

The Heliconius Genome Consortium's Nature paper  has been rated "must 
read" by two Faculty of 1000 commentators. See below.

Best, Jim


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Subject: 	F1000: your article has been evaluated
Date: 	Sat, 23 Jun 2012 04:53:42 -0400
From: 	Faculty of 1000 <editorial at f1000.com>
To: 	Mallet, Jim <jmallet at oeb.harvard.edu>



Dear Dr Mallet

We are pleased to inform you that your article has been selected for evaluation by Faculty of 1000 (F1000) - the full details are at the end of the email.

Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species. (Nature 2012)
														
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Article details:
Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species.
K Dasmahapatra, J Walters, A Briscoe, J Davey, A Whibley, N Nadeau, A Zimin, D Hughes, L Ferguson, S Martin, C Salazar, J Lewis, S Adler, S Ahn, D Baker, S Baxter, N Chamberlain, R Chauhan, B Counterman, T Dalmay, L Gilbert, K Gordon, D Heckel, H Hines, K Hoff, P Holland, E Jacquin-Joly, F Jiggins, R Jones, D Kapan, P Kersey, G Lamas, D Lawson, D Mapleson, L Maroja, A Martin, S Moxon, W Palmer, R Papa, A Papanicolaou, Y Pauchet, D Ray, N Rosser, S Salzberg, M Supple, A Surridge, A Tenger-Trolander, H Vogel, P Wilkinson, D Wilson, J Yorke, F Yuan, A Balmuth, C Eland, K Gharbi, M Thomson, R Gibbs, Y Han, J Jayaseelan, C Kovar, T Mathew, D Muzny, F Ongeri, L Pu, J Qu, R Thornton, K Worley, Y Wu, M Linares, M Blaxter, R ffrench-Constant, M Joron, M Kronforst, S Mullen, R Reed, S Scherer, S Richards, J Mallet, W Owen McMillan and C Jiggins	
Nature 2012
PMID: 22722851 DOI: 10.1038/nature11041


Evaluation details:
Must Read [8]
Controversial, New Finding, Interesting Hypothesis

Sections:
Genomics & Genetics >> Genomics, Evolutionary/Comparative Genetics
Ecology >> Evolutionary Ecology

Evaluation comments:
Despite a general and widespread interest in adaptive evolution, relatively little is known regarding the relative importance of different evolutionary mechanisms (e.g., de novo mutation, gene flow) in facilitating adaptation to different selective environments. For example, there is much debate in the literature over whether gene flow and introgression constrain or promote adaptive evolution. In the study reported here, the Heliconius Genome Consortium provides compelling evidence that introgressive hybridization may play a fundamental role in facilitating adaptation and speciation in a classic Heliconius mimicry ring. With studies such as this, variants of the 'transporter' hypothesis (as per Schluter and Conte {1}) are gaining support, and strong evidence for introgressive hybridization as a facilitating mechanism underlying adaptation and speciation in at least two classic examples of adaptive radiation now exist.



Specifically, this study uses a combination of whole-genome, targeted and restriction-site-associated DNA (RAD)-tag sequencing approaches to provide evidence for introgressive hybridization between distantly related species of Heliconius butterflies. More importantly, they show that introgression is especially pronounced at regions of the genome known to harbor adaptive variants underlying an ecologically relevant, and locally adapted, trait (i.e., aposematic colouration). Anyone interested in the mechanisms underlying evolutionary diversification should consider this study a must read.

References:
{1} Genetics and ecological speciation.
Schluter D, Conte GL
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009 Jun 16; 106 Suppl 1: 9955-62
  

Competing interests:
None declared
							




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