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2013

Mérot C, Mavárez J, Evin A, Dasmahapatra KK, Mallet J, Lamas G, Joron M. 2013. Genetic differentiation without mimicry shift in a pair of hybridizing Heliconius species (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society xxx: 000-000. REPRINT

eratosignis (2013). Introgression: Brower's criticisms. Part I. New evidence for hybridization and introgression is unsettling. www.heliconius.org. 7 January 2013. BLOG

eratosignis (2013). Introgression: Brower's criticisms. Part II. Itemized critiques by Brower (2012), and comments thereon. www.heliconius.org. 7 January 2013. BLOG

Rosser, N., Phillimore, A.B. & Mallet J. (2013). Extensive range overlap between Heliconius sister species: evidence for sympatric speciation in butterflies? Submitted. PREPRINT

Abbott, R., Albach, D., Ansell, S., Arntzen, J.W., Baird, S.J.E., Bierne, N., Boughman, J., Brelsford, A., Buerkle, C.A., Buggs, R., Butlin, R.K., Dieckmann, U., Eroukhmanoff, F., Grill, A., Cahan, S.H., Hermansen, J.S., Hewitt, G., Hudson, A.G., Jiggins, C., Jones, J., Keller, B., Marczewski, T., Mallet, J., Martínez-Rodriguez, P., Möst, M., Mullen, S., Nichols, R., Nolte, A.W., Parisod, C., Pfennig, K., Rice, A.M., Ritchie, M.G., Seifert, B., Smadja, C.M., Stelkens, R., Szymura, J.M., Väinölä, R., Wolf, J.B.W., & Zinner, D. 2013. Hybridization and speciation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26: 229-246. REPRINT

Nadeau, N.J., Martin, S.H., Kozak, K.M., Salazar, C., Dasmahaptra, K.K., Davey, J.W., Baxter, S.W., Blaxter, M.L., Mallet, J. & Jiggins, C. (2013). Genome-wide patterns of divergence and gene flow across a butterfly radiation. Molecular Ecology 22: 814-826. REPRINT

2012

The Heliconius Genome Consortium (2012). Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species. Nature (5 July 2012) 487: 94-98. REPRINT (Open Access)

Cook, L.M., Grant, B.S., Saccheri, I.J. & Mallet, J. (2012). Selective bird predation on the peppered moth: the last experiment of Michael Majerus. Biology Letters 8 (4): 609-612. REPRINT (Open Access)

Rosser, N., Phillimore, A.B., Huertas, B., Willmott, K.R., & Mallet, J. (2012). Testing historical explanations for gradients in species richness in heliconiine butterflies of tropical America. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 105: 479-497. REPRINT

Kronforst, M.R., Barsh, G.S., Kopp, A., Mallet, J., Monteiro, A., Mullen, S.P., Protas, M., Rosenblum, E.B., Schneider, C.J., & Hoekstra, H.E. (2012). Unraveling the thread of nature's tapestry: the genetics of diversity and convergence in animal pigmentation. Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research 25: 411-433. REPRINT (Open Access)

Mallet, J., & Dasmahapatra, K.K. (2012). Hybrid zones and the speciation continuum in Heliconius butterflies. Molecular Ecology 21:5643-5645. PREPRINT.

Merrill, R.M., Wallbank, R.W.R., Bull, V., Salazar, P.A., Mallet, J., Stevens, M. & Jiggins, C.D. (2012). Disruptive ecological selection on a mating cue. (published online). PREPRINT

Mallet, J. (2012). The struggle for existence. How the notion of carrying capacity, K, obscures the links between demography, Darwinian evolution and speciation. Evolutionary Ecology Research 14: 627–665. REPRINT. eReader/Kindle-friendly PREPRINT.

Hill, R.I., Elias, M., Dasmahapatra, K.K., Jiggins, C.D., Koong, V., Willmott, K.R. & Mallet, J. (2012). Ecologically relevant cryptic species in the highly polymorphic Amazonian butterfly Mechanitis mazaeus sensu lato (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae; Ithomiini). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 106: 540-560.  REPRINT

Boenigk,J., Ereshefsky,M., Hoef-Emden,K., Mallet, J., Bass, D. (2012). Concepts in protistology: species definitions and boundaries. European Journal of Protistology 48: 96-102 and supplementary text.  REPRINT, Suppl. text 1 Mallet & Dasmahapatra, Suppl. text 2 Ereshefsky, Suppl. text 3 Hoef-Emden & Bass

Nadeau, N.J., Whibley, A., Jones, R.T., Davey, J.W., Dasmahapatra, K.K., Baxter, S.W., Quail, M.A., Joron, M., ffrench-Constant, R.H., Blaxter, M.L., Mallet, J. &Jiggins, C.D. (2012). Genomic islands of divergence in hybridizing Heliconius butterflies identified by large-scale targeted sequencing. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 367: 343-353. REPRINT, Supplementary Info

2011

Hines, H.M., Counterman, B.A., Papa, R., Albuquerque de Moura, P., Cardoso, M.Z., Linares, M., Mallet, J., Reed, R.D., Jiggins, C.D., Kronforst, M.R., McMillan, W.O. (2011). A wing patterning gene redefines the mimetic history of Heliconius butterflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 108: 19666-19671. REPRINT

de Silva, D.L., Silva Vásquez, A., & Mallet, J. (2011). Selection for enemy-free space: eggs placed away from the host plant increase survival of a Neotropical ithomiine butterfly. Ecological Entomology 36: 667-672. REPRINT

Mallet, J., Wynne, I.R., Thomas, C.D. (2011). Hybridisation and climate change: brown argus butterflies in Britain (Polyommatus subgenus Aricia). Insect Conservation and Diversity 4: 192-199. REPRINT

Mallet, J. & Dasmahapatra, K. (2011). Catfish mimics (News and Views on Alexandrou et al. article in same issue). Nature 469: 41-42. REPRINT

2010

Baxter, S.W., Nadeau, N., Maroja, L., Wilkinson, P., Counterman, B.A., Dawson, A., Beltrán, M., Perez-Espona, S., Chamberlain, N., Ferguson, L., Clark, R., Davidson, C., Glithero, R., Mallet, J., McMillan, W.O., Kronforst, M., Joron, M., ffrench-Constant, R. & Jiggins, C.D. (2010). Genomic hotspots for adaptation: the population genetics of Müllerian mimicry in the Heliconius melpomene clade. PLoS Genetics 6(2): e1000794. LINK

Counterman, B.A., Araujo-Perez, F., Hines, H.M., Baxter, S.W., Morrison, C.M., Lindstrom, D.P., Papa, R., Ferguson, L., Joron, M., ffrench-Constant, R., Smith, C.P., Nielsen, D.M., Chen, R., Jiggins, C.D., Reed, R.D., Halder, G., Mallet, J. & McMillan, W.O. (2010). Genomic hotspots for adaptation: the population genetics of Müllerian mimicry in Heliconius erato. PLoS Genetics 6(2): e1000796. LINK

Dasmahapatra, K.K., Lamas, G., Simpson, F., & Mallet, J. (2010). The anatomy of a 'suture zone' in Amazonian butterflies: a coalescent-based test for vicariant geographic divergence and speciation. Molecular Ecology 19: 4283-4301.   REPRINT

Mallet, J. (2010). Why was Darwin's view of species rejected by 20th Century biologists? Biology and Philosophy 25: 497-527.   REPRINT

Mallet, J. (2010). Group selection and the development of the biological species concept. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 365: 1853-1863.   REPRINT

de Silva, D.L., Day, J.J., Elias, M., Willmott, K., Whinnett, A. & Mallet, J. (2010). Molecular phylogenetics of the neotropical butterfly subtribe Oleriina (Nymphalidae: Danainae: Ithomiini). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55: 1032-1041.  REPRINT

Dasmahapatra, K.K., Elias, M., Hill, R.I., Hoffman, J.I., & Mallet, J. (2010). Mitochondrial DNA barcoding detects some species that are real, and some that are not. Molecular Ecology Resources 10 (2): 264-273.  REPRINT

Mallet, J. (2010). Shift happens! Shifting balance and the evolution of diversity in warning colour and mimicry. Ecological Entomology 35 (Suppl. 1): 90-104.   REPRINT

Gourbière, S. & Mallet, J. (2010). Are species real? The shape of the species boundary with exponential failure, reinforcement, and the 'missing snowball.'  Evolution 64: 1-24.  REPRINT

2009

Mallet, J., Meyer, A., Nosil, P. and Feder, J. L. (2009). Space, sympatry and speciation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22:2332-2341.   REPRINT

Sachs, J.D., Baillie, J.E.M., Sutherland, W.J., Armsworth, P.R., Ash,N., Beddington, J., Blackburn, T.M., Collen, B., Gardiner, B., Gaston, K.J., Godfray, H.C.J., Green, R.E., Harvey, P.H., House, B., Knapp, S., Kümpel, N.F., Macdonald, D.W., Mace, G.M., Mallet, J., Matthews, A., May, R.M., Petchey, O., Purvis, A., Roe, D., Safi , K., Turner, K., Walpole, M., Watson, R. & Jones, K.E. (2009). Policy forum: Biodiversity conservation and the Millennium Development Goals. Science 325: 1502-1503. LINK

Mallet, J. (2009). Alfred Russel Wallace and the Darwinian species concept: his paper on the swallowtail butterflies (Papilionidae) of 1865. Gayana 73 (suppl. 1) 35-47.   REPRINT

Mallet, J. (2009). Ask the ecologist: Are genetic barcodes the magic tools we need to achieve a precise estimation of biodiversity in tropical ecosystems? What are the advantages and problems associated with this methodological proposal? Ecology Briefs. Informative Bulletin of the Centro Internacional de Ecología Tropical (CIET), Caracas Vol. 1 (2): 3.  REPRINT

2008

Mallet, J. (2008).  Mayr's view of Darwin: was Darwin wrong about speciation?  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 95: 3–16.  REPRINT

Mallet, J. (2008). Hybridization, ecological races, and the nature of species: empirical evidence for the ease of speciation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. 363: 2971–2986.   REPRINT

2007

Mallet, J., Beltrán, M., Neukirchen, W. & Linares, M. (2007).  Natural hybridization in heliconiine butterflies: the species boundary as a continuum.  BMC Evolutionary Biology 7:28.  Heliconiine hybrid database

Mallet, J. (2007).  Hybrid speciation.  Nature 446: 279-283. REPRINT

Anstead, J.A., Mallet, J. & Denholm, I. (2007). Temporal and spatial incidence of alleles conferring knockdown resistance to pyrethroids in the peach-potato aphid, Myzus persicae (Hemiptera: Aphididae), and their association with other insecticide resistance mechanisms. Bulletin of Entomological Research 97: 243-252. 

Dasmahapatra, K. K., Silva, A., Chung, J.-W., & Mallet, J. (2007). Genetic analysis of a wild-caught hybrid between non-sister Heliconius butterfly species. Biology Letters 3: 660-663. REPRINT

Elias, M., Hill, R.I., Willmott, K., Dasmahapatra, K., Brower, A.V.Z., Mallet, J. & Jiggins, C.D. (2007). Limited performance of DNA barcoding in a diverse community of tropical butterflies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274: 2881-2889. REPRINT

Beltrán, M., Jiggins, C.D., Brower, A.V.Z., Bermingham, E. & Mallet, J. (2007). Do pollen feeding and pupal-mating have a single origin in Heliconius? Inferences from multilocus sequence data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 92: 221-239. REPRINT

2006

Mallet, J. (2006). What has Drosophila genetics revealed about speciation? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21 (7): 186-193. REPRINT

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

Joron, M., Papa, R., Beltrán, M., Chamberlain, N., Mavárez, J., Baxter, S., Abanto, M., Bermingham, E., Humphray, S.J., Rogers, J., Beasley, H., Barlow, K., ffrench-Constant, R.H., Mallet, J., McMillan, W.O.& Jiggins, C.D. (2006). A conserved supergene locus controls colour pattern diversity in Heliconius butterflies. PLoS Biology 4(10): e303. REPRINT

Dasmahapatra, K.K. & Mallet, J. (2006). DNA barcodes: recent successes and future prospects. Heredity 97: 254 - 255. REPRINT

International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature (2006). Opinion 2152 (Case 3320). Papilio sapho, Drury, 1782 (Insecta, Lepidoptera): specific name conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 63: 144-145. REPRINT

2005

Mallet, J., Isaac, N.J.B. & Mace, G.M.  (2005).  Taxonomic inflation and divergence between species.  Reply to Harris and Knapp.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20(1): 8-9.  REPRINT

Mallet, J.  (2005).  Hybridization as an invasion of the genome.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20 (5): 229-237.  REPRINT; Appendix 1; Appendix 2

Gourbiere, S. & Mallet, J.  (2005).  Has adaptive dynamics contributed to the understanding of adaptive and sympatric speciation?  Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18:1201-1204.    REPRINT

Mallet, J. (2005). Speciation in the 21st Century. Review of "Speciation", by Jerry A. Coyne & H. Allen Orr. Heredity 95: 105-109. REPRINT

Whinnett, A., Brower, A.V.Z., Lee, M.-M., Willmott, K.R. & Mallet, J. (2005). Phylogenetic utility of Tektin, a novel region for inferring systematic relationships amongst Lepidoptera. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 98: 873-886. REPRINT

Whinnett, A., Willmott, K.R., Brower, A.V.Z., Simpson, F., Lamas, G. & Mallet, J. (2005). Mitochondrial DNA provides an insight into the mechanisms driving diversification in the ithomiine butterfly Hyposcada anchiala (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Ithomiinae). European Journal of Entomology 102: 633-639. REPRINT

Drès, M. & Mallet, J. (2005). Molecular and behavioural evidence for gene flow between host races of the larch budmoth Zeiraphera diniana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society B, submitted. PREPRINT

Whinnett, A., Zimmermann, M., Willmott, K.R., Herrera, N., Mallarino, R., Simpson, F., Joron, M., Lamas, G. & Mallet, J. (2005). Strikingly variable divergence times inferred across an Amazonian butterfly 'suture zone'. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 272: 2525-2533. REPRINT

Book chapters

Mallet, J. (2013).  Species, concepts of.  In Levin, S.A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. 2nd Edition. pp. xxx. Elsevier, Oxford.

Mallet, J. (2013).  Subspecies, semispecies, superspecies.  In Levin, S.A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. 2nd Edition. pp. xxx. Elsevier, Oxford.

Mallet, J. (2013) Darwin and species. In: Michael Ruse, ed. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought. Cambridge University Press. PREPRINT

Leimar, O., Tullberg, B., & Mallet, J. (2012) Mimicry, saltational evolution and the crossing of fitness valleys. In E.I. Svensson & R. Calsbeek, eds. The Adaptive Landscape in Evolutionary Biology. Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp. 259-270. REPRINT

Descimon, H. & Mallet, J. (2009) Bad species. In J. Settele, T. G. Shreeve, M. Konvicka, and H. Van Dyck eds. Ecology of Butterflies in Europe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp. 219-249. PREPRINT (somewhat earlier version, but with plates and references), REPRINT (as published, but with no plates or references).

Mallet, J. (2009) Introduction. In Chan, C.-L. and G. W. Beccaloni (eds) Alfred Russel Wallace (1865). "On the Phenomena of Variation and Geographical Distribution as illustrated by the Papilionidae of the Malayan Region." Reprint edition. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota-Kinabalu, Malaysia. PREPRINT

Mallet, J. (2009) Rapid speciation, hybridization and adaptive radiation in the Heliconius melpomene group. In Butlin, R. Bridle, J. & Schluter, D. (eds.):  Speciation and Patterns of Diversity. Cambridge University Press. pp. 177-194. REPRINT

Mallet, J. (2008) Wallace and the species concept of the early Darwinians. In Smith, C.R. and Beccaloni, G.W. (eds.):  Natural Selection and Beyond: The Intellectual Legacy of Alfred Russell Wallace. Oxford University Press. pp. 102-113. REPRINT

Mallet, J. (2007).  Species, concepts of.  In Levin, S.A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. Elsevier, Oxford. Online update, pp. 1-15. REPRINT

Mallet, J. (2007).  Subspecies, semispecies, superspecies.  In Levin, S.A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. Elsevier, Oxford. Online update, pp. 1-5. REPRINT

Mallet, J. (2006). Species concepts. In: Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts and Case Studies (eds. Fox, C.W. & Wolf, J.B.). Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 367-373. REPRINT

Jiggins, C.D., Emelianov, I. & Mallet, J. (2005). Pleiotropy promotes speciation: examples from phytophagous moths and mimetic butterflies. In: Insect Evolutionary Ecology. (eds. M. Fellowes, G. Holloway & J. Rolff). CABI Publishing, Wallingford, Oxon., pp. 455-478. REPRINT (with incorrect pagination)

Mallet, J. (2001).  Gene flow.  In: Woiwod, I.P., Reynolds, D.R. & Thomas, C.D.  (eds.) Insect Movement: Mechanisms and Consequences. CAB International, Wallingford, UK. pp. 337-360. REPRINT     [read only REPRINT]