Natural hybridization in heliconiine butterflies: the species boundary as a continuum

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Research article

Natural hybridization in heliconiine butterflies: the species boundary as a continuum

James Mallet¹^,2^,3 , Margarita Beltrán¹^,3 , Walter Neukirchen⁴ and Mauricio Linares⁵

¹Galton Laboratory, University College London, Wolfson House, 4 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HE, UK

²Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK

³Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Apartado 2072, Panamá

⁴Winckelmannstrasse 77, 12487 Berlin, Germany

⁵Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto de Genética, Universidad de los Andes, Carrera 1E No 18A10, Bogotá, Colombia

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:28doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-28


Published:	23 February 2007

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Additional File 1:

Hybrids between species of Heliconius and Eueides butterflies: a database. HTML file linking to database of all known wild-caught interspecific hybrid specimens in the Heliconiina, consisting of introductory text, a list of specimens, together with collection data and photographs of the specimens, and links to information about some artificial hybrids and mutants in the group. This is an edited copy of our online database of Heliconius hybrids [102]. To view database, download zip file and extract to a separate folder, then open index.html within that folder.

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Discussion of individual hybrid specimens. PDF document giving detailed evidence for the specimens in the hybrid database.

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Distance measures for mtDNA among species of Heliconiina. PDF document containing table with details of average raw % DNA divergence, based on 1569 bp of the genes CoI, tRNA-leu, and CoII.

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Complete data for hybrids shown in Additional File 1. CSV (comma-delimited text) document with complete data recorded for each hybrid specimen. This is the same as the data for Additional File 1, except that the data for web presentation in that HTML version is abbreviated for ease of presentation.

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