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Journal articles

Mallarino, R., Bermingham, E., Willmott, K.R., Whinnett, A., & Jiggins, C.D. (2005).  Molecular systematics of the butterfly genus Ithomia (Lepidoptera: Ithomiinae): a composite phylogenetic hypothesis based on seven genes.  Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 34: 625–644.   REPRINT

Joron, M. & Iwasa, Y. (2005). The evolution of a Müllerian mimic in a spatially-distributed community. Journal of Theoretical Biology 237: 87–103. REPRINT

Papanicolaou, A., Joron, M., McMillan, W.O., Blaxter, M.L. & Jiggins, C.D. (2005). Genomic tools and cDNA derived markers for butterflies. Molecular Ecology 14: 2883-2897. REPRINT

Joron, M. (2005). Polymorphic mimicry, microhabitat use, and sex-specific behaviour. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18: 547-556. REPRINT

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

Lamas, G. & Mallet, J.L.B. (2005). Case 3320. Papilio sapho Drury, 1782 (currently Heliconius sapho; Insecta, Lepidoptera): proposed conservation of the specific name. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 62(1): 21-24. 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. 
 
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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. and Mallet, J. (2005). Strikingly variable divergence times inferred across an Amazonian butterfly 'suture zone'. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 272: 2525-2533. REPRINT

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

Brower, A.V.Z., Freitas, A.V.L., Lee, M.-M., Silva-Brandão, K.L., Whinnett, A., Willmott, K.R. (2006). Phylogenetic relationships among the Ithomiini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) inferred from one mitochondrial and two nuclear gene regions. Systematic Entomology 31: 288-301. REPRINT

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

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

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

Dasmahapatra, K.K., Elias, M., Hill, R.I., Hoffman, J.I., & Mallet, J. (2009). Mitochondrial DNA barcoding detects some species that are real, and some that are not. Molecular Ecology Resources (in press).   PREPRINT

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

Mallet, J. (2009). Shift happens! Evolution of warning colour and mimetic diversity in tropical butterflies. Ecological Entomology (in press).   PREPRINT

Mallet, J. (2009). Why was Darwin's view of species rejected by mid-20th Century biologists, and how does it fare today? Biology and Philosophy (in press).   PREPRINT

Mallet, J. (2009). Group selection and the development of the biological species concept. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (in press).   PREPRINT

Mallet, J. (2009). Alfred Russel Wallace and the Darwinian species concept: his paper on the swallowtail butterflies (Papilionidae) of 1865. Gayana (in press).   PREPRINT

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

Gourbière, S. & Mallet, J. (2009). Are species real? The shape of the species boundary with exponential failure, reinforcement, and the 'missing snowball.' Evolution (in press).  PREPRINT

de Silva, D.L., Day, J.J., Elias, M., Willmott, K., Whinnett, A. & Mallet, J. (2009). Molecular phylogenetics of the neotropical butterfly tribe Oleriini (Nymphalidae: Ithomiinae) inferred from multiple gene sequences suggest introgressive hybridization between genera. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (submitted).   PREPRINT

Mallet, J., Wynne, I.R., Thomas, C.D. (2009). Introgression, species limits and conservation implications of climate change: brown argus butterflies in Britain (Polyommatus subgenus Aricia). Insect Conservation and Biodiversity (submitted). PREPRINT

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. (2009). Genomic hotspots for adaptation: the population genetics of Müllerian mimicry in the Heliconius melpomene clade. PLoS Genetics (accepted).

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. (2009). Genomic hotspots for adaptation: the population genetics of Müllerian mimicry in Heliconius erato. PLoS Genetics (accepted).


Book chapters

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

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). Royal Entomological Society, London: pp. 451-473. PREPRINT

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

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. (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

Descimon, H. & Mallet, J. (2009) Bad species. In: Ecology of Butterflies in Europe (eds. Settele, J., Konvicka, M., Shreeve, T., Dennis, R. & Van Dyck, H.). Cambridge University Press. (in press). PREPRINT

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


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