The Ecology And Evolution Of Heliconius Butterflies

ISBN details

• ISBN 10: 0198815549
• ISBN 13: 9780198815549

Overview

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, hybridization, and the origins of novel patterns -- 11. Completing the process : adaptive radiation and speciation -- 12. Taxonomic list

Other Details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Language: En
• Pages: 288
• Date Published: 2018
• Authors: Jiggins, Chris D.