The ghost of mimicry past: laboratory reconstitution of an extinct butterfly ‘race’

Four variable traits that determine mimetic colour patterns in the butterfly, Heliconius cydno, evolved between 1908 and 1984–91. There was a decline in the frequencies of alleles and phenotypes that confer resemblance to the co-mimic, Elzunia humboldt regalis, and an increase in the frequencies of...

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1997
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Universidad del Rosario
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Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario
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eng
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oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/27074
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https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1997.102
https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/27074
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Butterfly mimicry
Heliconius microevolution
Mimicry evolution
Müllerian mimicry
Population genetics
Rapid microevolution
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