Geographic contrasts between pre- and postzygotic barriers are consistent with reinforcement in Heliconius butterflies.

Neil Stephen Rosser; Lucie Mariecke Queste; Bruna Cama; Nathaniel Edelman; Florian Mann; Ronald Mori Pezo; Jake Morris; Carolina Segami; Patricia Velado; Stefan Schulz; James L. B.  Mallet; Kanchon Kumar Dasmahapatra

doi:10.1111/evo.13804

Geographic contrasts between pre- and postzygotic barriers are consistent with reinforcement in Heliconius butterflies.

Neil Stephen Rosser, Lucie Mariecke Queste, Bruna Cama, Nathaniel Edelman, Florian Mann, Ronald Mori Pezo, Jake Morris, Carolina Segami, Patricia Velado, Stefan Schulz, James L. B. Mallet, Kanchon Kumar Dasmahapatra

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Abstract

Identifying the traits causing reproductive isolation and the order in which they evolve isfundamental to understanding speciation. Here, we quantify prezygotic and intrinsicpostzygotic isolation between allopatric, parapatric and sympatric populations of thebutterflies Heliconius elevatus and Heliconius pardalinus. Sympatric populations from theAmazon (H. elevatus and H. p. butleri) exhibit strong prezygotic isolation and rarely mate incaptivity; however, hybrids are fertile. Allopatric populations from the Amazon(H. p. butleri) and Andes (H. p. sergestus) mate freely when brought together in captivity, butthe female F1 hybrids are sterile. Parapatric populations (H. elevatus and H. p. sergestus)exhibit both assortative mating and sterility of female F1s. Assortative mating in sympatricpopulations is consistent with reinforcement in the face of gene flow, where the driving force,selection against hybrids, is due to disruption of mimicry and other ecological traits ratherthan hybrid sterility. In contrast, the lack of assortative mating and hybrid sterility observedin allopatric populations suggests that geographic isolation enables the evolution of intrinsicpostzygotic reproductive isolation. Our results show how the types of reproductive barriersthat evolve between species may depend on geography.

Original language	English
Journal	Evolution: international journal of organic evolution
Early online date	23 Jul 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13804
Publication status	Published - 1 Sep 2019

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Rosser, N. S., Queste, L. M., Cama, B., Edelman, N., Mann, F., Mori Pezo, R., Morris, J., Segami, C., Velado, P., Schulz, S., Mallet, J. L. B., & Dasmahapatra, K. K. (2019). Geographic contrasts between pre- and postzygotic barriers are consistent with reinforcement in Heliconius butterflies. Evolution: international journal of organic evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13804

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