Publications

Baxter SW, N Nadeau, L Maroja, P Wilkinson, BA Counterman, A Dawson, M Beltran, S Perez-Espona, N Chamberlain, L Ferguson, R Clark, C Davidson, R Glithero, J Mallet, WO McMillan, M Kronforst, M Joron, R H. ffrench-Constant & CD Jiggins. Genomic hotspots for adaptation: the population genetics of Müllerian mimicry in the Heliconius melpomene clade. (in review with PLoS Genetics)

Counterman BA, F Araujo-Perez, SW Baxter, C Morrison, D Lindstrom, R Papa, L Ferguson, M Joron, R French-Constant, G Halder, C Smith, D Nielsen, R Chen, J Mallet, R Reed, C Jiggins & WO McMillan. A tale of two loci: The population genetics of warning color in Heliconius erato (in review with PLoS Genetics)

Ferguson L, SF Lee, N Chamberlain, N Nadeau, M Joron, SW Baxter, P Wilkinson, A Papanicolaou, S Kumar, TJ Kee, R Clark, C Davidson, H Beasley, A Surridge, G Wu, H Vogel, RH ffrench-Constant & CD Jiggins. Characterization of a hotspot for mimicry: Assembly of a butterfly wing transcriptome to genomic sequence at the HmYb/Sb locus (in press) Molecular Ecology

Brakefield PM & M Joron (in press 2009). The flexibility of butterfly wing color patterns and evolution in morphospace. In From Field Observations to Mechanisms: A Program in Evolutionary Biology (P.R. Grant and B.R. Grant, Eds), Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ

Joron M (2009). Mimicry. In Encyclopedia of Insects, 2nd Edition (R.T. Cardé & V.H. Resh, Eds), pp. 633-643. Academic Press, New York.

Joron M (2009). Aposematic coloration. In Encyclopedia of Insects, 2nd Edition (R.T. Cardé & V.H. Resh, Eds), pp. 33-38. Academic Press, New York.

Elias M, M Joron, K Willmott, V Kaiser, K Silva-Brandão, C Arias, LM Gómez Piñeres, S Uribe, AVZ Brower, AVL Freitas & CD Jiggins (2009). Out of the Andes: patterns of diversification in clearwing butterflies. Molecular Ecology 18: 1716-1729.
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Joron M (2008). Batesian mimicry: Can a leopard change its spots -and get them back? Current Biology 18 (11): r476-478.
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Baxter SW, R Papa, N Chamberlain, SJ Humphray, M Joron, RH ffrench-Constant, WO McMillan & CD Jiggins (2008). Parallel evolution in the genetic basis of Müllerian mimicry in Heliconius butterflies. Genetics 180: 1567-1577.
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Joron M, R Papa, J Mallet, et al. (2007) [Meeting Abstract]. Conserved but flexible: Genetic control of mimicry in Heliconius butterfly wing patterns. Journal of Insect Science 7: 24.
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Elias M, M Joron, K Willmott, et al. (2007) [Meeting Abstract]. Phylogenetic hypothesis, pattern of speciation and evolution of wing pattern in neotropical Napeogenes butterflies (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae). Journal of Insect Science 7: 13-14.
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Joron M, R Papa, M Beltrán, N Chamberlain, J Mavárez, S Baxter, EB Bermingham, S Humphray, J Rogers, H Beasley, K, Barlow, RH ffrench-Constant, J Mallet, WO McMillan & CD Jiggins (2006). A conserved supergene locus controls wing pattern diversity in Heliconius butterflies. PLoS Biology 4(10): e303.
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Joron M, CD Jiggins, A Papanicolaou & WO McMillan (2006). Heliconius wing patterns: an evo-devo model for understanding phenotypic diversity. Heredity. 97: 157 - 167 (Evo-devo Special issue).
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Whinnett A, M Zimmermann, KR Willmott, N Herrera, R Mallarino, F Simpson, M Joron, G Lamas & J Mallet (2005). Strikingly variable divergence times inferred across an Amazonian butterfly 'suture zone'. Proc. Roy. Soc. B 272: 2525-2533.
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Joron M & Y Iwasa (2005). The evolution of a Müllerian mimic in a spatially-distributed community. Journal of Theoretical Biology 237: 87-103.
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Papanicolaou A, M Joron, W O McMillan, M L Blaxter & C D Jiggins (2005). Genomic tools and cDNA derived markers for butterflies. Molecular Ecology 14: 2883-2897.
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Joron M (2005). Polymorphic mimicry, microhabitat use, and sex-specific behaviour. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18: 547-556.
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Joron M & PM Brakefield (2003). Captivity masks inbreeding effects on male mating success in butterflies. Nature 424: 191-194.
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Martin JL & M Joron (2003). Nest predation in forest birds: influence of predator type and predator's habitat quality. Oikos 102(3): 641-653.
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Joron M (2003). Mimicry. In Encyclopedia of Insects (R.T. Cardé & V.H. Resh, Eds), pp.714-726. Academic Press, New York.
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Joron M (2003). Aposematic coloration. In Encyclopedia of Insects (R.T. Cardé & V.H. Resh, Eds), pp.39-45. Academic Press, New York.
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Joron M, IR Wynne, G Lamas & J Mallet (2001). Variable selection and the coexistence of multiple mimetic forms of the butterfly Heliconius numata. Evolutionary Ecology 13: 721-754 [dated 1999 by publisher].
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Mallet J & M Joron (1999). Evolution of diversity in warning color and mimicry: polymorphisms, shifting balance, and speciation. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 30: 201-233.
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Joron M & J Mallet (1998). Diversity in mimicry: paradox or paradigm? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 13: 461-466.
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Joron M & J Mallet (1999). Diversity in Mimicry: Reply. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14: 151.
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Doctoral thesis

Joron M (2000). Aposematic coloration and Müllerian mimicry: the diversification puzzle, Université de Montpellier, Ecole Doctorale "Biologie de l'Evolution et Ecologie", Montpellier, France 
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