Publications

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Some recent highlights:

 Elias, M., Gompert, Z., Jiggins, C.D., Willmott, K. (2008) Mutualistic Interactions Drive Ecological Niche Convergence in a Diverse Butterfly Community. PLoS Biology 6, e300. Selected for the issue featured image. Supplementary material. Also featured in Science as Editors Choice.

 Papanicolaou, A., Gebauer-Jung, S., Blaxter, M. L., McMillan, W.O., Jiggins, C. D. (2007) ButterflyBase: A tool for Lepidopteran Genomics. Nucleic Acids Research. Database Issue. doi:10.1093/nar/gkm853. Cited by the Faculty of 1000.

 Mavárez, J., Salazar, C., Bermingham, E., Salcedo, C., Jiggins, CD., Linares, M. (2006) Speciation by hybridization in Heliconius butterflies Nature. 441: 868-871. Supplementary material here

 Joron, M, Papa, R, Beltrán, M, Chamberlain, N, Mavárez, J, Baxter, S, Bermingham, E, Humphray, S, Rogers, J, Beasley, H, Barlow, K, ffrench-Constant, R, Mallet, J, McMillan, WO, Jiggins, CD (2006) A Conserved Supergene Locus Controls Colour Pattern Diversity in Heliconius Butterflies Plos Biology. Vol. 4, No. 10, e303.

Publications in prep/in review

 Willmott, K. R., Robinson Willmott, J. C., Elias, M., Jiggins, C.D. Maintaining mimicry diversity: microhabitat partitioning by clearwing butterflies and their avian predators. submitted to Ecology.

Refereed publications

List of publications indexed on PubMed (not necessarily a complete list)

2009

 Elias. M., Joron, M., Willmott, K. R., Kaiser, V., Silva-Brandao, K. L., Freitas, A. V. L., Arias, C. F., Gomez-Pineres, L. M. Uribe, S., Brower, A. V. Z., Jiggins, C. D. Out of the Andes: Patterns of diversification in clearwing butterflies. In press. Molecular Ecology.

 Ferguson, L., Jiggins, C.D. Both shared and divergent expression domains underlie a convergent mimetic phenotype in Heliconius butterflies. Accepted subject to revision. Evolution and Development.

 Melo, MC, Salazar, C., Jiggins, C.D., Linares, M. Assortative mating preferences among hybrids offers a route to hybrid speciation. In press. Evolution.

 Perez-Espona, S., Perez-Barberia, Goodall-Copestake, W. P., Jiggins, C. D., Gordon, I.J. and Pemberton, J.M. Genetic structure and population structure of Scottish Highland red deer (Cervus elaphus) populations: a mitochondrial survey) Heredity in press.

2008

 Giraldo, N., Salazar, C., Jiggins, C.D., Bermingham, E., Linares, M. Two sisters in the same dress: Heliconius cryptic species. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 8:324.

 Elias, M., Gompert, Z., Jiggins, C.D., Willmott, K. (2008) Mutualistic Interactions Drive Ecological Niche Convergence in a Diverse Butterfly Community. PLoS Biology 6, e300. Selected for the issue featured image. Supplementary material. Also featured in Science as Editors Choice.

 Arias, C.F., Munoz, A.G., Jiggins, C.D., Mavarez, J., Bermingham, E., Linares, M. A bimodal hybrid zone provides evidence for incipient speciation in Heliconius butterflies. Molecular Ecology 17: 4699-4712.

 Papa, R., Morrison, C.M., Walters, J.R., Counterman, B.A., Chen, R., Halder, G., Laura Roberts, L., Kapan, D.D., Jiggins, C.D., Reed R.D. and McMillan, W.O. Highly conserved gene order and numerous novel repetitive elements in genomic regions linked to wing pattern variation in Heliconius butterflies. BMC Genomics. 9:345. A BMC 'HIGHLY ACCESSED' article.

 Baxter, S. W., Johnston, S. and C. D. Jiggins. Butterfly speciation and the distribution of gene effect sizes fixed during adaptation. Heredity. 102:57-65. doi: 10.1038/hdy.2008.109.

 Baxter, S., McMillan, W.O., Chamberlain, N., ffrench-Constant, R. and Jiggins, C. D. Prospects for locating genes of interest in lepidopteran genomes: A case study of butterfly colour patterns. Lepidopteran Molecular Biology and Genetics. Eds. Marian Goldsmith et al. In press.

 Jiggins, C.D., Salazar, C., Linares, M., Mavarez, J. Hybrid trait speciation and Heliconius butterflies. Speciation special issue of Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. 363: 3047-3054.

 Salazar, C., Jiggins, C. D., Taylor, J., Kronforst, M. J., and Linares, M. Hybrid speciation and the genealogical history of Heliconius heurippa. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:132. A BMC 'HIGHLY ACCESSED' article.

 Baxter, S. W., R. Papa, N. Chamberlain, S. J. Humphray, M. Joron, R. H. ffrench-Constant, W. O. McMillan and C. D. Jiggins. Convergent evolution in the genetic basis of Mullerian mimicry in Heliconius butterflies. Genetics. 180: 1567-1577.

 Estrada, C., and Jiggins, C. D. Interspecific sexual attraction due to convergence in warning colouration: Is there a conflict between natural and sexual selection in mimetic species? Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 21: 749-760. Supplementary Material. See cover of JEB.

 Jiggins, C.D. Ecological speciation in mimetic butterflies. Bioscience. 58: 541-8

 Clark, R., Brown, S. M., Collins, S. C., Jiggins, C.D., Heckel, D. G., Vogler, A. Colour pattern specification in the Mocker Swallowtail Papilio dardanus: the transcription factor invected is a candidate for the mimicry locus H. Proc. Roy. Soc. B. 275:1181-1188.

 Perez-Espona, S., Perez-Barberia, FJ, McCleod, J.E., Jiggins, C. D., Gordon, I.J. and Pemberton, J.M. Landscape features affect gene flow of scottish Highand red deer (Cervus elaphus) Molecular Ecology 17: 981-996.

2007

 Papanicolaou, A., Gebauer-Jung, S., Blaxter, M. L., McMillan, W.O., Jiggins, C. D. ButterflyBase: A tool for Lepidopteran Genomics. Nucleic Acids Research. Database Issue. doi:10.1093/nar/gkm853. Cited by the Faculty of 1000.

  Elias, M., Hill, R.I., Willmott, K., Dasmahapatra, K., Brower, A.V.Z., Mallet, J., Jiggins, C.D. Limited performance of DNA barcoding in a diverse community of tropical butterflies. Proc. Roy. Soc. Ser. B. 274: 2881-2889. Cited as 'Must Read' by the Faculty of 1000.

 Pringle, B., Baxter, S. W., Webster, C. L., Papanicolaou, A., Lee, S. F. and Jiggins, C. D. Synteny and chromosome evolution in the Lepidoptera: Evidence from mapping in Heliconius melpomene. Genetics. 177: 417-426. Cited by the Faculty of 1000.

 Beltrán, M., Jiggins, CD., Brower AVZ, Bermingham, E., and Mallet, J. Do pollen feeding, pupal-mating and larval gregariousness have a single origin in Heliconius butterflies? Inferences from multilocus DNA sequence data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 92: 221-239. Sequence alignment file

2006

 Joron, M, Papa, R, Beltrán, M, Chamberlain, N, Mavárez, J, Baxter, S, Bermingham, E, Humphray, S, Rogers, J, Beasley, H, Barlow, K, ffrench-Constant, R, Mallet, J, McMillan, WO, Jiggins, CD A Conserved Supergene Locus Controls Colour Pattern Diversity in Heliconius Butterflies Plos Biology. Vol. 4, No. 10, e303 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040303.

 Mavárez, J., Salazar, C., Bermingham, E., Salcedo, C., Jiggins, CD., Linares, M. Speciation by hybridization in Heliconius butterflies Nature. 441: 868-871. Supplementary material here

 Joron, M. Jiggins, CD., Papanicolaou, A. McMillan, WO. Heliconius wing patterns: an evo-devo model for understanding phenotypic diversity Heredity. 97: 157-167..

 Jiggins, CD., Mallarino, R., Willmott, KW, Bermingham, E. The phylogenetic pattern of speciation and wing pattern change in neotropical Ithomia butterflies (Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae). Evolution. 60:1454-1466.

 Bull, V., Beltrán, M., Jiggins, C.D., McMillan, W.O., Bermingham, E. & Mallet, J. (2006) Polyphyly and gene flow between non-sibling Heliconius species. BMC Biology 4:11

2005

 Papanicolaou, AP, Joron, M. Blaxter, M., McMillan, WO and Jiggins, CD. (2005) Genomic tools and cDNA derived markers for butterflies. Molecular Ecology. 14; 2883-2897.
[This is an electronic version of an article published in Molecular Ecology: complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of Molecular Ecology, is available online at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/mec or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.]

 Jiggins, C.D, Mavárez, J., Beltrán, M., W. O. McMillan, J.S. Johnston and E. Bermingham. (2005) A genetic linkage map of the mimetic butterfly, Heliconius melpomene. Genetics 171: 557-570.

 Tobler, A., N. Flanagan, C. D. Jiggins, D. Heckel, D. Kapan and W. O. McMillan. (2005). A genetic map of microsatellite, AFLP, allozyme and colour pattern genes in Heliconius erato . Heredity. 94; 408-417.

 Mallarino, R., Bermingham, E., Willmott, K. R., Whinnett, A. & Jiggins, C. D. (2005) Molecular systematics of the butterfly genus Ithomia (Lepidoptera: Ithomiinae): a composite phylogenet ic hypothesis based on seven genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34; 625-644. Download sequence alignment file

 Salazar, C., Jiggins, C.D., Arias, C.F., Tobler, A., Bermingham, E., & Linares, M. (2005). Hybrid incompatibility is consistent with a hybrid origin of Heliconius heurippa Hewitson from its close relatives, Heliconius cydno Doubleday and Heliconius melpomene Linnaeus. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 18; 247-256.

  Merchán, A., Jiggins, C. D. and Linares, M. (2005). A narrow Heliconius cydno (Nymphalidae; Heliconiini) hybrid zone with differences in morph sex ratios. Biotropica . 37; 119-128. As featured on the cover of Biotropica.

2004

 Jiggins, C. D., Estrada, C., & Rodrigues, A. (2004). Mimicry and the evolution of pre-mating isolation in Heliconius melpomene. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 17: 680-691.

 Jiggins, C. D., & Bridle, J. M. (2004). Speciation in the apple maggot fly: A blend of vintages? Trends in ecology and Evolution 19: 111-114.

2003

  Sweeney, A., Jiggins, C. & Johnsen, S (2003). Insect communication: Polarized light as a butterfly mating signal. Nature, 423, 31-32.Cited by Faculty of 1000.

  Naisbit, R. E., C. D. Jiggins, and J. Mallet. 2003. Mimicry: developmental genes that contribute to speciation. Evolution & Development 5:269-280. Cited by Faculty of 1000.

2002

  Estrada, C. and C. D. Jiggins (2002). Patterns of pollen feeding and habitat preference between incipient Heliconius species. Ecological Entomology, 27, 448-456.

  Beltrán, M., Jiggins, C. D., Bull, V., Linares, M., McMillan, W.O., Mallet, J. and Bermingham, E. (2002). Phylogenetic discordance at the species boundary: gene genealogies in Heliconius butterflies. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 19: 2176-2190. Sequence alignments

  Naisbit, R.E., Jiggins, C.D., Linares, M., Salazar, C., and Mallet, J. (2002). Hybrid sterility, Haldane's rule, and speciation in Heliconius cydno and H. melpomene . Genetics161: 1517-1526.

2001

 Jiggins, C. D., Linares, M., Naisbit, R. E., Salazar, C., Yang, Z. & Mallet, J. (2001) Sex-linked hybrid sterility in a butterfly. Evolution. 55 : 1631-1638.

  Jiggins, C. D., R. E. Naisbit, R. L. Coe, and J. Mallet (2001). Reproductive isolation caused by colour pattern mimicry. Nature (London) . 411: 302-305.Cited by Faculty of 1000. Supplementary information

  Naisbit, R., Jiggins, C.D., & Mallet, J. (2001). Disruptive sexual selection against hybrids contributes to speciation between Heliconius cydno and H. melpomene . Proceedings of the Royal Society B . 268: 1849-1854.

2000

  F. M. Jiggins, G. D. D. Hurst, C. D. Jiggins, J. H. G. Schulenburg and M. E. N. Majerus (2000). The butterfly Danaus chrysippus is infected by a male-killing Spiroplasma bacterium. Parasitology120: 439-446.

  Jiggins, C. D. and J. Mallet (2000). Bimodal hybrid zones and speciation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 250-255.

1999 and before

  Davison, A., W. O. McMillan, A. S. Griffin, C. D. Jiggins and J. Mallet (1999). Behavioural and physiological differences between two parapatric Heliconius species. Biotropica 31: 661-668.

  Mallet, J., W. O. McMillan and C. D. Jiggins (1998). Estimating the mating behavior of a pair of hybridizing Heliconius species in the wild. Evolution52: 503-510.

  Jiggins, C. D. and N. Davies (1998). Genetic evidence for a sibling species of Heliconius charithonia (Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 64: 57-67.

  McMillan, W. O., C. D. Jiggins and J. Mallet (1997). What initiates speciation in passion vine butterflies? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 94: 8628-8633.

  Jiggins, C. D., P. King, W. O. McMillan and J. Mallet (1997). The maintenance of species differences across a Heliconius hybrid zone. Heredity 79: 495-505.

 Jiggins, C. D. and W. O. McMillan (1997). The genetic basis of an adaptive radiation; mimicry in two Heliconius sibling species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 264: 1167-1175.

  Jiggins, C. D., W. O. McMillan and J. Mallet (1997). Host plant adaptation has not played a role in the recent speciation of Heliconius erato and Heliconius himera (Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae). Ecological Entomology 22: 361-365.

  Mallet, J., C. D. Jiggins and W. O. McMillan (1996). Mimicry meets the mitochondrion. Current Biology 6: 937-940. BEWARE - LARGE FILE (3.4MB)

 Jiggins, C. D., W. O. McMillan, W. Neukirchen and J. Mallet (1996). What can hybrid zones tell us about speciation? The case of Heliconius erato and H. himera (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 59: 221-242.

Jiggins, C. D., M. Majerus and U. Gough (1993). Ant defence of colonies of Aphis fabae Scopoli (Hemiptera:Aphididae), against predation by aphids. British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 6: 129-137.

Web publications

 Jiggins, C.D. (2005). http://wwww.tolweb.org/Ithomia/27607 Tree of Life Web Project

Beltran, M., Brower, A. V. Z. and Jiggins, C.D. (2005). Heliconius Kluk 1780. http://tolweb.org/Heliconius/72231/2007.02.18 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/

Reviews, letters and books

 Jiggins, C.D. (2005).Sympatric speciation: Why the controversy?. Current Biology 16:R333-R334. News and Commentary.

 Jiggins, C.D. (2005). Reinforced butterfly speciation. Heredity 96. 107-108. News and Commentary.

 Jiggins, C.D. (2004). Recipes for ecological genetics. A Review of 'Ecological Genetics' by Lowe, Harris and Ashton. Genetical Research 84. 130-132.

 Jiggins, C.D., Emelianov, I., & Mallet, J. (2005) Assortative mating and speciation as pleiotropic effects of ecological adaptation: Examples in moths and butterflies. Pgs 451-473, Insect Evolutionary Ecology. Eds M. Fellowes, G. Holloway and J. Rolff. Royal Entomological Society, London, UK

Jiggins, C. D. (2004). A Checkered History. Review of 'On the wings of Checkerspots' by Ehrlich and Hanski. Science 305 1913.

Jiggins, C. D. and M. S. Beltrán (1999). Conserved Ecological Niches. Science 286 (5438): 240-241.

  Bridle, J. R. and C. D. Jiggins (2000). Adaptive dynamics: Is speciation too easy? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 225-226.

 Bridle, J. R., Jiggins, C. D. & Tregenza, T. (2000) Reply from JR Bridle, CD Jiggins and T Tregenza. Trends in Ecology and Evolution15: 420.

Mallet, J., W. O. McMillan and C. D. Jiggins (1998). Mimicry and warning colour at the boundary between races and species. Endless Forms: Species and Speciation. D. J. Howard and S. H. Berlocher. New York, Oxford University Press: pp. 390-403.

  Jiggins, C. D. & Mallet, J. (2000) Bimodal hybrid zones and the scale of a snail - Reply. Trends in Ecology & Evolution15: 469-469.


Jiggins, C. D., P. Andrade, E. Cueva, S. Dixon, I. Isherwood and J. Willis (1999). The conservation of three forests in south-west Ecuador. Otley, UK, Biosphere Publications. 130 pages. [Available from the Natural History Book Service for £12- all profits go to conservation]



Jiggins, C. D., P. Andrade, E. Cueva, S. Dixon, I. Isherwood and J. Willis (2001). Ecuador Nature Guide: South-west forests. Illustrated by Ian Sheldon. Edmonton, Canada, Lone Pine Publishing. NOW PUBLISHED IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH - Available from the Natural History Book Service, Libri Mundi, Quito and Fundacion Arcoiris, Loja, Ecuador. Click here for more details .

PhD thesis

Jiggins, C. D. (1997). The ecology and genetics of speciation in Heliconius butterflies. PhD thesis. London, University College London.

Beltrán, M. B. (2004). The speciation history of Heliconius: inferences from multilocus DNA sequence data. PhD thesis. London, University College London.