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Molecular evolution of Colias butterflies

Part of: RMBL Butterfly Monitoring
Principal Investigator: Ward Watt
Status: active
Field: Ecology and Evolutionary biology
Research Areas: Genetics; Insect biology
Items: 79 (79 publications, 0 datasets, 0 documents)

Publications (79)

Article

A mitochondrial-DNA-based phylogeny for some evolutionary-genetic model species of <i>Colias</i> butterfly (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

2008Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Chapter

Butterflies: ecology and evolution taking flight

2003
Book

Butterflies: Ecology and Evolution Taking Flight

2003
Article

Adaptive significance of pigment polymorphism in Colias butterflies. III. Progress in study of the "alba" variant

1973EvolutionDOI: 10.2307/2407188
Article

Adaptation at specific loci. VI. Divergence vs parallelism of polymorphic allozymes in molecular function and fitness-component effects among Colias species (Lepidoptera:Pieridae)

1996Molecular Biology and Evolution
Article

Adaptive significance of pigment polymorphism in Colias butterflies. I. Variation of melanin pigment in relation to thermoregulation

1968EvolutionDOI: 10.2307/2406873
Article

Naturally occurring variation in larval color of Colias butterflies: isolation from two Colorado populations

1974EvolutionDOI: 10.2307/2407334
Article

Metabolic resource allocation vs. mating attractions: adaptive pressure on the "alba" polymorphism of Colias butterflies

1980Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Article

Population structure of pierid butterflies. I. Numbers and movements of some montane <i>Colias</i> species

1977Oecologia
Article

A reconnaissance of population genetic variation in artic and subarctic sulfur butterflies (Colias spp.; Lepidopetera, Pieridae)

2005Canadian Journal of Zoology
Article

The thermal ecology of some Colias butterfly larvae

1973Journal of Comparative Physiology
Article

Nectar resource use by <i>Colias</i> butterflies: chemical and visual aspects

1974Oecologia
Article

Adaptive significance of pigment polymorphism in Colias butterflies. II. Thermoregulation and photoperiodically controlled melanin variation in Colias eurytheme

1969Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
Article

From DNA to fitness differences: sequences and structures of adaptive variants of Colias Phosphoglucose Isomerase (PGI)

2006Molecular Biology and Evolution
Article

Adaptation at specific loci. III. Field behavior and survivorship differences among Colias PGI genotypes are predictable from in vitro biochemistry

1983Genetics
Thesis

Rapid evolution and population divergence in response to environmental change in <i>Colias</i> butterlies

2014
Article

Evidence for a single, ancient origin of a genus-wide alternative life history strategy

2023Science Advances
Article

A genetic polymorphism evolving in parallel in two cell compartments and in two clades

2013BMC Evolutionary BiologyDOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-9
Article

Molecular-functional studies of adaptive genetic variation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes

2000Annual Review of GeneticsDOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.34.1.593
Article

Testing the "mimicry" explanation for the <i>Colias</i> "alba" polymorphism: patterns of co-occurrence of <i>Colias</i> and Pierine butterflies

1989Functional EcologyDOI: 10.2307/2389300
Article

Evolutionary genetics of dorsal wing color in Colias butterflies

2004Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Article

A study of hybrids in Colias (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

1959EvolutionDOI: 10.2307/2405945
Thesis

Insights into butterfly ecology and evolution

2009
Thesis

The Thermal Ecology of the Larvae fo <i>Colias</i> Butterflies

1971
Chapter

Butterflies: Ecology and Evolution Taking Flight

2003
Article

Genetics of populations of Lepidoptera

1958Proc X Int Congress Ent (Montreal)
Student Paper

The effects of patterns of flower coloration on insect variation

1991
Article

Contrasting population biology of two species of butterflies

1970Nature
Article

Genetics of populations of Lepidoptera

1956Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Entomology
Thesis

The social and genetic organization of populations of Weidemeyer's admiral butterfly

1987
Article

Checkerspot butterflies: a historical perspective

1975ScienceDOI: 10.1126/science.1118723
Student Paper

Study of population structures in Rocky Mountain Butterflies

1983
Article

Colias alexandra: a model for the study of natural populations of butterflies

1984Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera
Student Paper

Study of population structures in Rocky Mountain butterflies

1983
Article

Coevolution of pierid butterflies and their cruciferous foodplants. II. The distribution of eggs on potential foodplants

1977EvolutionDOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1977.tb01045.x
Article

Hawkmoths and the geographic patterns of floral variation in Aquilegia caerulea

1981EvolutionDOI: 10.2307/2408246
Student Paper

Specificity of pollinating butterflies

1973
Article

Interspecific hybridization and mimicry in butterflies

1960New Scientist
Article

Specific-gene studies of evolutionary mechanisms in an age of genome-wide surveying

2013Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesDOI: 10.1111/nyas.12139
Article

The green-veined white (Pieris napi L.), its Pierine relatives, and the systematics of divergent character sets (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

2006Biological Journal of the Linnean SocietyDOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00630.x
Article

Adaptation at specific loci. VII. Natural selection, dispersal and the diversity of molecular-functional variation patterns among butterfly species complexes (<i>Colias</i>: Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

2003Molecular EcologyDOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.2003.01804.x
Chapter

The evolution of population biology

2003
Article

Avoiding paradigm-based limits to knowledge of evolution

2000Evolutionary BiologyDOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-4135-6_4
Article

Allozymes in evolutionary genetics: self-imposed burden or extraordinary tool?

1994GeneticsDOI: 10.1093/genetics/136.1.11
Article

Eggs, enzymes, and evolution - natural genetic variants change insect fecundity

1992Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesDOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.22.10608
Article

On the appropriateness of performance measures for studying the evolution of metabolism

1992Functional Ecology
Chapter

Genes in Ecology

1992
Article

Biochemistry, physiological ecology, and population genetics -- the mechanistic tools of evolutionary biology

1991Functional Ecology
Article

Testing the 'mimicry' explanation for the Colias 'alba' polymorphism: platability of Colias and other butterflies to wild bird predators

1989Functional EcologyDOI: 10.2307/2389299
Article

Adaptation at specific loci. V. Metabolically adjacent enzyme loci may have very distinct experiences of selective pressures

1988GeneticsDOI: 10.1093/genetics/119.4.913

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