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Rosser, N., Seixas, F., Queste, L. M., Cama, B., Mori-Pezo, R., Kryvokhyzha, D., Nelson, M., Waite-Hudson, R., Goringe, M., Costa, M., Elias, M., Mendes Eleres de Figueiredo, C., Freitas, A. V. L., Joron, M., Kozak, K., Lamas, G., Martins, A. R. P., McMillan, W. O., Ready, J., … Dasmahapatra, K. K. (2024). Hybrid speciation driven by multilocus introgression of ecological traits. Nature, 628(8009), 811–817. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07263-w

Rossi, M., Hausmann, A. E., Alcami, P., Moest, M., Roussou, R., Van Belleghem, S. M., Wright, D. S., Kuo, C.-Y., Lozano-Urrego, D., Maulana, A., Melo-Flórez, L., Rueda-Muñoz, G., McMahon, S., Linares, M., Osman, C., McMillan, W. O., Pardo-Diaz, C., Salazar, C., & Merrill, R. M. (2024). Adaptive introgression of a visual preference gene. Science, 383(6689), 1368–1373. DOI: 10.1126/science.adj9201

Pirani, R. M., Arias, C. F., Charles, K., Chung, A. K., Curlis, J. D., Nicholson, D. J., Vargas, M., Cox, C. L., McMillan, W. O., & Logan, M. L. (2024). A high-quality genome for the slender anole (Anolis apletophallus): An emerging model for field studies of tropical ecology and evolution. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 14(1), jkad248. DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkad248

Martins, A. R. P., Warren, N. B., McMillan, W. O., & Barrett, R. D. H. (2024). Spatiotemporal dynamics in butterfly hybrid zones. Insect Science, 31(2), 328–353. DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.13262

Page, E., Queste, L. M., Rosser, N., Salazar, P. A., Nadeau, N. J., Mallet, J., Srygley, R. B., McMillan, W. O., & Dasmahapatra, K. K. (2024). Pervasive mimicry in flight behavior among aposematic butterflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(11), e2300886121. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2300886121

Rosso, A. A., Casement, B., Chung, A. K., Curlis, J. D., Folfas, E., Gallegos, M. A., Neel, L. K., Nicholson, D. J., Williams, C. E., McMillan, W. O., Logan, M. L., & Cox, C. L. (2024). Plasticity of Gene Expression and Thermal Tolerance: Implications for Climate Change Vulnerability in a Tropical Forest Lizard. Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology, 97(2), 81–96. DOI: 10.1086/729927

Kuo, C.-Y., Melo-Flóres, L., Aragón, A., Oberweiser, M. M., McMillan, W. O., Pardo-Diaz, C., Salazar, C., & Merrill, R. M. (2024). Divergent warning patterns influence male and female mating behaviours in a tropical butterfly. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 37(3), 267–273. DOI: 10.1093/jeb/voae010

Cicconardi, F., Milanetti, E., Pinheiro de Castro, E. C., Mazo-Vargas, A., Van Belleghem, S. M., Ruggieri, A. A., Rastas, P., Hanly, J., Evans, E., Jiggins, C. D., Owen McMillan, W., Papa, R., Di Marino, D., Martin, A., & Montgomery, S. H. (2023). Evolutionary dynamics of genome size and content during the adaptive radiation of Heliconiini butterflies. Nature Communications, 14(1), 5620. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41412-5

Hanly, J. J., Loh, L. S., Mazo-Vargas, A., Rivera-Miranda, T. S., Livraghi, L., Tendolkar, A., Day, C. R., Liutikaite, N., Earls, E. A., Corning, O. B. W. H., D’Souza, N., Hermina-Perez, J. J., Mehta, C., Ainsworth, J. A., Rossi, M., Papa, R., McMillan, W. O., Perry, M. W., & Martin, A. (2023). Frizzled2 receives WntA signaling during butterfly wing pattern formation. Development, 150(18), dev201868. DOI: 10.1242/dev.201868

Cama B, Ehlers S, Szczerbowski D, Thomas-Oates J, Jiggins CD, Schulz S, … & Dasmahapatra KK (2022) Exploitation of an ancestral pheromone biosynthetic pathway contributes to diversification in Heliconius butterflies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289(1979), 20220474. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0474

Hebberecht L, Melo‐Flórez L, Young FJ, McMillan WO, & Montgomery SH (2022) The evolution of adult pollen feeding did not alter postembryonic growth in Heliconius butterflies. Ecology and Evolution, 12(6), e8999. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8999

Dell’Aglio DD, Mena S, Mauxion R, McMillan WO, & Montgomery SH (2022) Divergence in Heliconius flight behaviour is associated with local adaptation to different forest structures. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91(4), 727-737. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13675

Dell’Aglio DD, McMillan WO, & Montgomery SH (2022) Shifting balances in the weighting of sensory modalities are predicted by divergence in brain morphology in incipient species of Heliconius butterflies. Animal Behaviour, 185, 83-90. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.01.003

Hanly JJ, Livraghi L, Heryanto C, McMillan WO, Jiggins CD, Gilbert LE, & Martin A (2022) A large deletion at the cortex locus eliminates butterfly wing patterning. G3, 12(4), jkac021. DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkac021

Ogilvie JG, Van Belleghem S, Range R, Papa R, McMillan OW, Chouteau M, & Counterman BA (2021) Balanced polymorphisms and their divergence in a Heliconius butterfly. Ecology and Evolution, 11(24), 18319-18330. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8423