贝氏拟态在一个全北极蝶类进化枝中的出现和消失。

The coming and going of Batesian mimicry in a Holarctic butterfly clade.

机构信息

Department of Animal Biodiversity, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, 1030 Vienna, Austria.

出版信息

BMC Biol. 2010 Sep 15;8:122. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-122.

DOI:10.1186/1741-7007-8-122

PMID:20887635

原文链接:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2939503/

Abstract

A study using phylogenetic hypothesis testing, published in BMC Evolutionary Biology, suggests that non-mimetic forms of the North American white admiral butterfly evolved from a mimetic ancestor. This case might provide one of the first examples in which mimicry was gained and then lost again, emphasizing the evolutionary lability of Batesian mimicry. See research article http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/239.

摘要

一项使用系统发育假设检验的研究发表在《BMC 进化生物学》上，该研究表明，北美的非拟态白腹丽眼蝶是从拟态祖先进化而来的。这种情况可能提供了第一个获得并再次失去拟态的例子之一，强调了贝氏拟态的进化不稳定性。参见研究文章 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/239。