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Research Plan
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)
2008
Molecular 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
1973
Evolution
DOI: 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)
1996
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Article
Adaptive significance of pigment polymorphism in Colias butterflies. I. Variation of melanin pigment in relation to thermoregulation
1968
Evolution
DOI: 10.2307/2406873
Article
Naturally occurring variation in larval color of Colias butterflies: isolation from two Colorado populations
1974
Evolution
DOI: 10.2307/2407334
Article
Metabolic resource allocation vs. mating attractions: adaptive pressure on the "alba" polymorphism of Colias butterflies
1980
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Article
Population structure of pierid butterflies. I. Numbers and movements of some montane <i>Colias</i> species
1977
Oecologia
Article
A reconnaissance of population genetic variation in artic and subarctic sulfur butterflies (Colias spp.; Lepidopetera, Pieridae)
2005
Canadian Journal of Zoology
Article
The thermal ecology of some Colias butterfly larvae
1973
Journal of Comparative Physiology
Article
Nectar resource use by <i>Colias</i> butterflies: chemical and visual aspects
1974
Oecologia
Article
Adaptive significance of pigment polymorphism in Colias butterflies. II. Thermoregulation and photoperiodically controlled melanin variation in Colias eurytheme
1969
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
Article
From DNA to fitness differences: sequences and structures of adaptive variants of Colias Phosphoglucose Isomerase (PGI)
2006
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Article
Adaptation at specific loci. III. Field behavior and survivorship differences among Colias PGI genotypes are predictable from in vitro biochemistry
1983
Genetics
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
2023
Science Advances
Article
A genetic polymorphism evolving in parallel in two cell compartments and in two clades
2013
BMC Evolutionary Biology
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-9
Article
Molecular-functional studies of adaptive genetic variation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes
2000
Annual Review of Genetics
DOI: 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
1989
Functional Ecology
DOI: 10.2307/2389300
Article
Evolutionary genetics of dorsal wing color in Colias butterflies
2004
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Article
A study of hybrids in Colias (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)
1959
Evolution
DOI: 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
1958
Proc 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
1970
Nature
Article
Genetics of populations of Lepidoptera
1956
Proceedings 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
1975
Science
DOI: 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
1984
Journal 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
1977
Evolution
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1977.tb01045.x
Article
Hawkmoths and the geographic patterns of floral variation in Aquilegia caerulea
1981
Evolution
DOI: 10.2307/2408246
Student Paper
Specificity of pollinating butterflies
1973
Article
Interspecific hybridization and mimicry in butterflies
1960
New Scientist
Article
Specific-gene studies of evolutionary mechanisms in an age of genome-wide surveying
2013
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12139
Article
The green-veined white (Pieris napi L.), its Pierine relatives, and the systematics of divergent character sets (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)
2006
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
DOI: 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)
2003
Molecular Ecology
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.2003.01804.x
Chapter
The evolution of population biology
2003
Article
Avoiding paradigm-based limits to knowledge of evolution
2000
Evolutionary Biology
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-4135-6_4
Article
Allozymes in evolutionary genetics: self-imposed burden or extraordinary tool?
1994
Genetics
DOI: 10.1093/genetics/136.1.11
Article
Eggs, enzymes, and evolution - natural genetic variants change insect fecundity
1992
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.22.10608
Article
On the appropriateness of performance measures for studying the evolution of metabolism
1992
Functional Ecology
Chapter
Genes in Ecology
1992
Article
Biochemistry, physiological ecology, and population genetics -- the mechanistic tools of evolutionary biology
1991
Functional Ecology
Article
Testing the 'mimicry' explanation for the Colias 'alba' polymorphism: platability of Colias and other butterflies to wild bird predators
1989
Functional Ecology
DOI: 10.2307/2389299
Article
Adaptation at specific loci. V. Metabolically adjacent enzyme loci may have very distinct experiences of selective pressures
1988
Genetics
DOI: 10.1093/genetics/119.4.913
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