Hybrid effects in field populations of the African monarch butterfly, <i>Danaus chrysippus</i> (L.) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).

ABSTRACT: Heterosis, Haldane and Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller effects have been widely documented amongst a range of plants and animals. However, typically these effects are shown by taking parents of known genotype into the laboratory and measuring components of the F₁ progeny under laboratory conditions. This leaves in doubt the real significance of such effects in the field. Here we use the well-known colour pattern genotypes of the African monarch or queen (Danaus chrysippus), which also control wing length, to test these effects both in the laboratory and in a contact zone in the field. By measuring the wing lengths in animals of known colour pattern genotype we show clear evidence for all three hybrid effects at the A and BC colour patterning loci, and importantly, that these sa

SUBMITTER: Smith DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8444992 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature