A single origin of Batesian mimicry among hybridizing populations of admiral butterflies (Limenitis arthemis) rejects an evolutionary reversion to the ancestral phenotype

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1667, 2009, Pages 2557-2565

  Savage, Wesley K ^a   Mullen, Sean P ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplified fragment length polymorphism; Gene flow; Limenitis; Mimicry; Phylogeny; Wing pattern evolution

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANCESTRY; BUTTERFLY; EVOLUTION; HYBRIDIZATION; MIMICRY; NATURAL SELECTION;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; BATESIAN MIMICRY; BUTTERFLY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HISTORY; LIMENITIS ARTHEMIS; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM HYBRIDIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

LIMENITIS; LIMENITIS ARTHEMIS; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 67650470749     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0256     Document Type: Article

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