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. 2020 Feb 6;18(2):e3000597. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000597

Table 1. Direct and indirect estimates of selection on colour pattern loci.

Combined estimates are integrating the effect of all loci involved in warning colouration. Regions/modules associated with optix: D, B; with cortex: Cr, Yb, N; with WntA: Sd, Ac; with aristaless: K.

Species Colour pattern region under consideration Estimated selection coefficient (s) Method Source
H. erato optix (red band) sD = 0.22 Pattern manipulation, survival and bird attack rate Benson [54]
(s estimate calculated in Mallet and colleagues [65])
H. erato
optix/cortex/WntA combined s = 0.52
avg. per locus s = 0.17
Reciprocal transplants, survival Mallet and Barton [55]
H. erato optix/cortex/WntA sD = 0.33
sCr = 0.15
sSd = 0.15
Reciprocal transplants, survival Mallet and colleagues[65]
H. erato
H. melpomene
optix/cortex/WntA
optix/cortex
avg. per locus s = 0.23
avg. per locus s = 0.25
Cline and LD analysis in a hybrid zone Mallet and colleagues[61]
H. erato cortex sCr = 0.20–0.22 Cline analysis in a hybrid zone Blum [66]
H. cydno (polymorphic mimic)
H. sapho (model)
H. eleuchia (model)
aristaless s = 0.64 Reciprocal transplant of polymorphic H. cydno Kapan [56]
H. erato optix/cortex/WntA avg. per locus s = 0.22
sD = 0.38
sCr = 0.17
sSd = 0.15
Cline and LD analysis in a hybrid zone Rosser and colleagues[62]
H. melpomene optix/cortex avg. per locus s = 0.3
sD = sYb = sN = 0.31
sB = 0.19/0.15
H. erato optix/WntA
sD = 0.15
sSd = 0.04
Cline analysis in a hybrid zone Salazar [63]
H. melpomene optix/WntA sD = 0.27
sAc = 0.04
H. erato cortex sCr = 0.05 Cline analysis in a hybrid zone Thurman and colleagues [64]

Abbreviations: LD, linkage disequilibrium