Research Affiliate
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Unit 0948
APO AA 34002-0948
Email: j.mallet at ucl.ac.uk
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim/
Research Interests
Research mainly focuses on butterflies in the nymphalid subfamilies Ithomiinae and Heliconiinae
Current Research Projects
Evolution and hybridization, speciation and gene flow, especially in neotropical butterflies (Rhopalocera). Tests of Pleistocene refuge theory.
Recent Publications
Mallet, J. (2007). Hybrid speciation. Nature 446: 279-283.
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
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.
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.
Mallet, J. (2005). Hybridization as an invasion of the genome. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20 (5): 229-237.
Beltrán, M., Jiggins, C. D., Bull, V., Linares, M., Mallet, J., McMillan, W.O. & Bermingham, E. (2002). Phylogenetic discordance at the species boundary: comparative gene genealogies among rapidly radiating Heliconius butterflies. Molecular Biology and Evolution 19: 2176-2190.
Dasmahapatra, K.K., Blum, M.J., Aiello, A., Hackwell, S., Davies, N., Bermingham, E.P. & Mallet, J. (2002). Inferences from a rapidly moving hybrid zone. Evolution 56: 741-753.
Naisbit, R.E., Jiggins, C.D., Linares, M., Salazar, C., & Mallet, J. (2002). Hybrid sterility, Haldane's rule, and speciation in Heliconius cydno and H. melpomene. Genetics 161: 1517-1526.
Naisbit, R., Jiggins, C.D., & Mallet, J. (2001). Disruptive sexual selection against hybrids contributes to speciation between Heliconius cydno and H. melpomene. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 268: 1849-1854.
Jiggins, C.D., Naisbit, R.E., Coe, R.L. & Mallet, J. (2001). Reproductive isolation caused by colour pattern mimicry. Nature 411: 302-305.
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