ArticleEvolution; international journal of organic evolution2018
The appearance of mimetic Heliconius butterflies to predators and conspecifics.
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- Subtle Introgression Footprints at the End of the Speciation Continuum in a Clade of Heliconius Butterflies.Molecular biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Oviposition behavior is not affected by ultraviolet light in a butterfly with sexually-dimorphic expression of a UV-sensitive opsin.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Scale-dependent environmental effects on phenotypic distributions inEcology and evolution · 2022Article
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- The influence of ultraviolet reflectance differs between conspicuous aposematic signals in neotropical butterflies and poison frogs.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Neural divergence and hybrid disruption between ecologically isolatedProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Ultraviolet components offer minimal contrast enhancement to an aposematic signal.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
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Abstract
Adaptive coloration is under conflicting selection pressures: choosing potential mates and warning signaling against visually guided predators. Different elements of the color signal may therefore be tuned by evolution for different functions. We investigated how mimicry in four pairs of Heliconius comimics is potentially seen both from the perspective of butterflies and birds. Visual sensitivities of eight candidate avian predators were predicted through genetic analysis of their opsin genes. Using digital image color analysis, combined with bird and butterfly visual system models, we explored how predators and conspecifics may visualize mimetic patterns. Ultraviolet vision (UVS) birds are able to discriminate between the yellow and white colors of comimics better than violet vision (VS) birds. For Heliconius vision, males and females differ in their ability to discriminate comimics. Female vision and red filtering pigments have a significant effect on the perception of the yellow forewing band and the red ventral forewing pattern. A behavioral experiment showed that UV cues are used in mating behavior; removal of such cues was associated with an increased tendency to approach comimics as compared to conspecifics. We have therefore shown that visual signals can act to both reduce the cost of confusion in courtship and maintain the advantages of mimicry.
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