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- Title
Ecological and genetic associations across a Heliconius hybrid zone.
- Authors
BLUM, M. J.
- Abstract
Differences in habitat use can bridge early and late stages of speciation by initiating assortative mating. Heliconius colour pattern races might select habitats over which each pattern confers a relative fitness advantage because signal efficacy of wing patterns can vary by environment. Thus habitat preferences could serve to promote the evolution of mimetic colour patterns for mate choice. Here I compare colour pattern genotype and phenotype frequencies to environmental variation across the H. erato hydara × H. erato erato hybrid zone in French Guiana to determine whether races exhibit habitat preferences. I found that genotype and phenotype frequencies correspond to differences in land cover moreso than to other environmental factors. Temporal shifts in colour pattern genotypes, phenotypes and land cover also were associated at individual sample sites, which further suggests that H. erato races differ in habitat use and that habitat preferences may promote speciation among Heliconius butterflies.
- Subjects
FRENCH Guiana; HABITATS; ANIMAL courtship; ANIMAL sexual behavior; BIOLOGICAL evolution; GENETIC polymorphisms; PHENOTYPES
- Publication
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2008, Vol 21, Issue 1, p330
- ISSN
1010-061X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01440.x