Sarah L. Barker

Recombination Suppression is Unlikely to Contribute to Speciation in Sympatric Heliconius Butterflies

The paper tests whether recombination suppression mechanisms like inversions maintain species barriers in sympatric Heliconius butterflies, finding no evidence for such mechanisms.

Major improvements to the Heliconius melpomene genome assembly used to confirm 10 chromosome fusion events in 6 million years of butterfly evolution