Ecology and Evolution of Heliconius Butterflies

This is the first thorough and accessible treatment of the scientific literature on the ecology, genetics, and adaptive radiation of Heliconius butterflies: a classic model system in evolutionary biology.

List of contents

• 1: Some evolutionary problems


• 2: Meet the butterflies and the biologists


• 3: The passion: Niche differentiation, coexistence and coevolution


• 4: The pollen: Adult resources and life history evolution


• 5: Roosts and traplines: Patterns of dispersal and movement


• 6: Brains, sex and learning: Behaviour, sexual and social selection


• 7: Beware! Warning colour and mimicry


• 8: Genes on the wing: Colour pattern genetics


• 9: Development on the wing: How to make a wing pattern different


• 10: First steps: biogeography, hybridisation and the origins of novel patterns


• 11: Completing the process: Adaptive radiation and speciation


• 12: Taxonomic list

About the author

Chris Jiggins is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Director of Studies and Fellow at St John's College, Research Associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. His research group is currently working on many aspects of Heliconius evolutionary biology, including evolutionary developmental biology of wing patterning, the genetic and behavioural basis for speciation, the sensory ecology of mimicry and analysis of the Heliconius melpomene genome.

Summary

This is the first thorough and accessible treatment of the scientific literature on the ecology, genetics, and adaptive radiation of Heliconius butterflies: a classic model system in evolutionary biology.

Additional text

Jiggins provides a review of recent and classical work on Heliconius that is exhaustive enough to interest specialists, without losing general readers in the process. The Ecology and Evolution of Heliconius Butterflies is destined to become a standard textbook in the libraries of both lepidopterists and evolutionary biologists.

Product details

• Authors: Chris D Jiggins, Chris D. Jiggins, Chris D. (University Lecturer and Royal S Jiggins, Chris D. (University Lecturer and Royal Society University Research Fellow Jiggins, Jiggins Chris D.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780198815549
• ISBN: 978-0-19-881554-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Insects (entomology), Animal Ecology, Zoology and animal sciences, Evolution / Evolutionary biology