eprintid: 1516844 rev_number: 25 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/51/68/44 datestamp: 2016-09-25 01:13:20 lastmod: 2020-02-13 00:47:28 status_changed: 2017-01-26 11:56:52 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Mallet, J creators_name: Hoekstra, HE title: Ecological Genetics: A Key Gene for Mimicry and Melanism. ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B02 divisions: C08 divisions: D09 divisions: F99 note: © 2016. This manuscript version is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Access may be initially restricted by the publisher. abstract: Mimicry and melanism in Lepidoptera provided the first convincing examples of natural selection in action. Genetic analysis has now shown that, surprisingly, mimicry in Heliconius butterflies and melanism in peppered moths are switched at precisely the same gene: cortex. date: 2016-09-12 date_type: published official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.031 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Journal Article verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1159716 doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.031 pii: S0960-9822(16)30782-5 lyricists_name: Mallet, James lyricists_id: JMALL47 full_text_status: public publication: Current Biology volume: 26 number: 17 pagerange: R802-R804 event_location: England issn: 1879-0445 citation: Mallet, J; Hoekstra, HE; (2016) Ecological Genetics: A Key Gene for Mimicry and Melanism. Current Biology , 26 (17) R802-R804. 10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.031 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.031>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1516844/1/Mallet_Ecological%20genetics%20-%20Biston%20%26%20Heliconius.v3.1.pdf