• DOI:10.1002/ece3.3624
Corpus ID: 3309539

Facultative pupal mating in Heliconius erato: Implications for mate choice, female preference, and speciation

@article{Thurman2018FacultativePM,
  title={Facultative pupal mating in Heliconius erato: Implications for mate choice, female preference, and speciation},
  author={Timothy J. Thurman and Emily Brodie and Elizabeth F. Evans and W. McMillan},
  journal={Ecology and Evolution},
  year={2018},
  volume={8},
  pages={1882 - 1889}
}

Timothy J. Thurman, Emily Brodie, +1 author W. McMillan

Published 2018

Biology, Medicine

Ecology and Evolution

Abstract Mating systems have broad impacts on how sexual selection and mate choice operate within a species, but studies of mating behavior in the laboratory may not reflect how these processes occur in the wild. Here, we examined the mating behavior of the neotropical butterfly Heliconius erato in the field by releasing larvae and virgin females and observing how they mated. H. erato is considered a pupal‐mating species (i.e., males mate with females as they emerge from the pupal case… CONTINUE READING

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