genetic evidence for hybrid trait speciation in heliconius butterflies邮差蝴蝶种群遗传混合特征物种形成的证据.pdfVIP

Genetic Evidence for Hybrid Trait Speciation in Heliconius Butterflies 1,2,3 1 1,2 1 1 Camilo Salazar *, Simon W. Baxter , Carolina Pardo-Diaz , Grace Wu , Alison Surridge , Mauricio 3 2 1 Linares , Eldredge Bermingham , Chris D. Jiggins ´ ´ 1 Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama, 3 Instituto de Genetica, ´ Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia Abstract Homoploid hybrid speciation is the formation of a new hybrid species without change in chromosome number. So far, there has been a lack of direct molecular evidence for hybridization generating novel traits directly involved in animal speciation. Heliconius butterflies exhibit bright aposematic color patterns that also act as cues in assortative mating. Heliconius heurippa has been proposed as a hybrid species, and its color pattern can be recreated by introgression of the H. m. melpomene red band into the genetic background of the yellow banded H. cydno cordula. This hybrid color pattern is also involved in mate choice and leads to reproductive isolation between H. heurippa and its close relatives. Here, we provide molecular evidence for adaptive introgression by sequencing genes across the Heliconius red band locus and comparing them to unlinked wing patterning genes in H. melpomene, H. cydno, and H. heurippa. 670 SNPs distributed among 29 unlinked coding genes