Chris D Jiggins

Natural selection and genetic diversity in the butterfly Heliconius melpomene

This study analyzes genetic diversity and selection in Heliconius melpomene butterflies, finding that 31% of amino acid substitutions are adaptive and linked selection reduces diversity on longer chromosomes.

Pollen feeding proteomics: salivary proteins of the passion flower butterfly, Heliconius melpomene

This study identifies 31 salivary proteins from Heliconius melpomene, revealing functional classes involved in pollen digestion, immunity, and housekeeping, with some unannotated proteins showing recent tandem duplications.

Extraordinarily wide genomic impact of a selective sweep associated with the evolution of sex ratio distorter suppression

The paper examines the genomic impact of a selective sweep in Hypolimnas bolina butterflies caused by sex ratio distortion suppression, revealing widespread genetic changes and linkage disequilibrium.

Multilocus Species Trees Show the Recent Adaptive Radiation of the Mimetic Heliconius Butterflies

This study uses multilocus species trees to analyze the adaptive radiation of Heliconius butterflies, finding a doubling of speciation rates around 11 million years ago.