Unraveling the thread of nature’s tapestry: the genetics of diversity and convergence in animal pigmentation

Gene regulatory networks reused to build novel traits

(2012) Antónia Monteiro   BIOESSAYS

Evolutionary history of the recruitment of conserved developmental genes in association to the formation and diversification of a novel trait

(2012) Leila T Shirai et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The genomic basis of adaptive evolution in threespine sticklebacks

(2012) Felicity C. Jones et al.   NATURE

The evolutionary significance of butterfly eyespots

(2011) Ullasa Kodandaramaiah   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

CONVERGENCE, ADAPTATION, AND CONSTRAINT

(2011) Jonathan B. Losos   EVOLUTION

Seasonal phenotypic plasticity: wild ladybirds are darker at cold temperatures

(2011) Laura Jane Michie et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Comparative population genetics of a mimicry locus among hybridizing Heliconius butterfly species

(2011) N L Chamberlain et al.   HEREDITY

The genetic basis of divergent pigment patterns in juvenile threespine sticklebacks

(2011) A K Greenwood et al.   HEREDITY

Pterin-based ornamental coloration predicts yolk antioxidant levels in female striped plateau lizards (Sceloporus virgatus)

(2011) Stacey L. Weiss et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Chromosomal rearrangements maintain a polymorphic supergene controlling butterfly mimicry

(2011) Mathieu Joron et al.   NATURE

The genome of the green anole lizard and a comparative analysis with birds and mammals

(2011) Jessica Alföldi et al.   NATURE

Molecular spandrels: tests of adaptation at the genetic level

(2011) Rowan D. H. Barrett et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Wing patterning gene redefines the mimetic history of Heliconius butterflies

(2011) H. M. Hines et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Industrial Melanism in British Peppered Moths Has a Singular and Recent Mutational Origin

(2011) A. E. van't Hof et al.   SCIENCE

Developmental Plasticity in Sexual Roles of Butterfly Species Drives Mutual Sexual Ornamentation

(2011) K. L. Prudic et al.   SCIENCE

optix Drives the Repeated Convergent Evolution of Butterfly Wing Pattern Mimicry

(2011) R. D. Reed et al.   SCIENCE

The Developmental Role of Agouti in Color Pattern Evolution

(2011) M. Manceau et al.   SCIENCE

Involvement of the conserved Hox gene Antennapedia in the development and evolution of a novel trait

(2011) Suzanne V Saenko et al.   EvoDevo

Composite Effects of Polymorphisms near Multiple Regulatory Elements Create a Major-Effect QTL

(2011) Ryan D. Bickel et al.   PLoS Genetics

Female mating preferences and male coloration covary with water transparency in a Lake Victoria cichlid fish

(2010) MARTINE E. MAAN et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The genetic and evolutionary basis of colour variation in vertebrates

(2010) Michael Hofreiter et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Shift happens! Shifting balance and the evolution of diversity in warning colour and mimicry

(2010) JAMES MALLET   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Greater Mating Success of Drosophila biarmipes Males Possessing an Apical Dark Black Wing Patch

(2010) B. N. Singh et al.   ETHOLOGY

“SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT”: REPLICATED ECOLOGICAL SPECIATION AT WHITE SANDS

(2010) Erica Bree Rosenblum et al.   EVOLUTION

Local adaptation for body color in Drosophila americana

(2010) P J Wittkopp et al.   HEREDITY

Recent advances in understanding mechanisms of insect cuticle differentiation

(2010) Bernard Moussian   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Melanic through nature or nurture: genetic polymorphism and phenotypic plasticity in Harmonia axyridis

(2010) L. J. MICHIE et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Impact of Darker, Intermediate and Lighter Phenotypes of Body Melanization on Desiccation Resistance inDrosophila melanogaster

(2010) Ravi Parkash et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Stabilizing selection maintains exuberant colour polymorphism in the spider Theridion californicum (Araneae, Theridiidae)

(2010) PETER J. P. CROUCHER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Generation of a novel wing colour pattern by the Wingless morphogen

(2010) Thomas Werner et al.   NATURE

The population genetics of beneficial mutations

(2010) H. A. Orr   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Convergence in pigmentation at multiple levels: mutations, genes and function

(2010) M. Manceau et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Marginal Eyespots on Butterfly Wings Deflect Bird Attacks Under Low Light Intensities with UV Wavelengths

(2010) Martin Olofsson et al.   PLoS One

Dissecting comimetic radiations in Heliconius reveals divergent histories of convergent butterflies

(2010) S.-P. Quek et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pervasive genetic associations between traits causing reproductive isolation in Heliconius butterflies

(2010) R. M. Merrill et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Vertebrate pigmentation: from underlying genes to adaptive function

(2010) Joanna K. Hubbard et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Genomic Hotspots for Adaptation: The Population Genetics of Müllerian Mimicry in the Heliconius melpomene Clade

(2010) Simon W. Baxter et al.   PLoS Genetics

Genomic Hotspots for Adaptation: The Population Genetics of Müllerian Mimicry in Heliconius erato

(2010) Brian A. Counterman et al.   PLoS Genetics

Population Genomics of Parallel Adaptation in Threespine Stickleback using Sequenced RAD Tags

(2010) Paul A. Hohenlohe et al.   PLoS Genetics

Difference in Plumage Color Used in Species Recognition between Incipient Species Is Linked to a Single Amino Acid Substitution in the Melanocortin‐1 Receptor

(2009) J. Albert C. Uy et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Why are females ornamented? A test of the courtship stimulation and courtship rejection hypotheses

(2009) Rita Chan et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Evolution of the tan Locus Contributed to Pigment Loss in Drosophila santomea: A Response to Matute et al.

(2009) Mark Rebeiz et al.   CELL

Genomic hotspots of adaptation in butterfly wing pattern evolution

(2009) Riccardo Papa et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

The causes of repeated genetic evolution

(2009) Nicolas Gompel et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Pleiotropic functions of embryonic sonic hedgehog expression link jaw and taste bud amplification with eye loss during cavefish evolution

(2009) Yoshiyuki Yamamoto et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

METAMODELS AND PHYLOGENETIC REPLICATION: A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO THE EVOLUTION OF DEVELOPMENTAL PATHWAYS

(2009) Artyom Kopp   EVOLUTION

VARIABLE PROGRESS TOWARD ECOLOGICAL SPECIATION IN PARAPATRY: STICKLEBACK ACROSS EIGHT LAKE-STREAM TRANSITIONS

(2009) Daniel Berner et al.   EVOLUTION

The genetic basis of recessive self-colour pattern in a wild sheep population

(2009) J Gratten et al.   HEREDITY

How animals get their skin patterns: fish pigment pattern as a live Turing wave

(2009) Shigeru Kondo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Seasonal changes in humidity level in the tropics impact body color polymorphism and desiccation resistance in Drosophila jambulina—Evidence for melanism-desiccation hypothesis

(2009) Ravi Parkash et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Polyphyly of the Zaprionus genus group (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

(2009) Amir Yassin et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic relationships of phrynosomatid lizards based on nuclear and mitochondrial data, and a revised phylogeny for Sceloporus

(2009) John J. Wiens et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Carotenoid-Based Colours Reflect the Stress Response in the Common Lizard

(2009) Patrick S. Fitze et al.   PLoS One

Melanism in Peromyscus Is Caused by Independent Mutations in Agouti

(2009) Evan P. Kingsley et al.   PLoS One

Molecular and functional basis of phenotypic convergence in white lizards at White Sands

(2009) E. B. Rosenblum et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Accommodating natural and sexual selection in butterfly wing pattern evolution

(2009) J. C. Oliver et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Polymorphic Butterfly Reveals the Missing Link in Ecological Speciation

(2009) N. L. Chamberlain et al.   SCIENCE

Intraspecific Polymorphism to Interspecific Divergence: Genetics of Pigmentation in Drosophila

(2009) P. J. Wittkopp et al.   SCIENCE

Stepwise Modification of a Modular Enhancer Underlies Adaptation in a Drosophila Population

(2009) M. Rebeiz et al.   SCIENCE

Adaptive Evolution of Pelvic Reduction in Sticklebacks by Recurrent Deletion of a Pitx1 Enhancer

(2009) Y. F. Chan et al.   SCIENCE

Molecular and Evolutionary History of Melanism in North American Gray Wolves

(2009) T. M. Anderson et al.   SCIENCE

Sexual Conflict Resolved by Invasion of a Novel Sex Determiner in Lake Malawi Cichlid Fishes

(2009) R. B. Roberts et al.   SCIENCE

Wings, Horns, and Butterfly Eyespots: How Do Complex Traits Evolve?

(2009) Antónia Monteiro et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

A Novel Role for Mc1r in the Parallel Evolution of Depigmentation in Independent Populations of the Cavefish Astyanax mexicanus

(2009) Joshua B. Gross et al.   PLoS Genetics

A Gene-Based Linkage Map for Bicyclus anynana Butterflies Allows for a Comprehensive Analysis of Synteny with the Lepidopteran Reference Genome

(2009) Patrícia Beldade et al.   PLoS Genetics

Evolution of Coloration Patterns

(2008) Meredith E. Protas et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Conspicuousness, not eye mimicry, makes "eyespots" effective antipredator signals

(2008) M. Stevens et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The anti-predator function of ‘eyespots’ on camouflaged and conspicuous prey

(2008) Martin Stevens et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Alternative models for the evolution of eyespots and of serial homology on lepidopteran wings

(2008) Antónia Monteiro   BIOESSAYS

The Evolution of Gene Regulation Underlies a Morphological Difference between Two Drosophila Sister Species

(2008) Sangyun Jeong et al.   CELL

The Regulation and Evolution of a Genetic Switch Controlling Sexually Dimorphic Traits in Drosophila

(2008) Thomas M. Williams et al.   CELL

THE LOCI OF EVOLUTION: HOW PREDICTABLE IS GENETIC EVOLUTION?

(2008) David L. Stern et al.   EVOLUTION

Genetic Basis of Sex-Specific Color Pattern Variation in Drosophila malerkotliana

(2008) C. S. Ng et al.   GENETICS

Convergent Evolution in the Genetic Basis of Müllerian Mimicry in Heliconius Butterflies

(2008) Simon W. Baxter et al.   GENETICS

Exploiting genomic resources in studies of speciation and adaptive radiation of lizards in the genus Anolis

(2008) C. J. Schneider   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

The Genetic Basis of Phenotypic Convergence in Beach Mice: Similar Pigment Patterns but Different Genes

(2008) C. C. Steiner et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Speciation through sensory drive in cichlid fish

(2008) Ole Seehausen et al.   NATURE

Camouflage, communication and thermoregulation: lessons from colour changing organisms

(2008) D. Stuart-Fox et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ecological Niche Dimensionality and the Evolutionary Diversification of Stick Insects

(2008) Patrik Nosil et al.   PLoS One

Synteny and candidate gene prediction using an anchored linkage map of Astyanax mexicanus

(2008) J. B. Gross et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Colour pattern specification in the Mocker swallowtail Papilio dardanus: the transcription factor invected is a candidate for the mimicry locus H

(2008) R. Clark et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Localized Negative Genetic Correlation Constrains Microevolution of Coat Color in Wild Sheep

(2008) J. Gratten et al.   SCIENCE

Development and evolution of insect pigmentation: Genetic mechanisms and the potential consequences of pleiotropy

(2008) Patricia J. Wittkopp et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY