The study, published in Current Biology, investigates the neural foundations of behavioral innovation in Heliconius ...

W hen it comes to mating, two things matter for Heliconius butterflies: the look and the smell of their potential partner. The black and orange butterflies have incredibly small brains, yet they ...

To answer this question, the study authors delved deeper into the changes that occurred in the neural circuits that support learning and memory in Heliconius butterflies. Neural circuits are quite ...

Distantly related, lookalike Heliconius species arrive at the same appearance using the same few genes ... Learn about our Editorial Policies. How the butterflies evolved to resemble one another has ...

Postman butterflies use the striking red bands of colour across their wings to find each other. But then they use other tricks - maybe chemical cues - to avoid mating with other Heliconius species, ...

Below: Butterflies of two different species (Heliconius cydno chioneus and H. melpomene rosina) mating on a Psychotria poeppigiana flower in Gamboa, Panama. Advanced Search Home ...

Butterflies display a remarkable diversity of wing patterns, caused by evolution, interbreeding and the mixing of genes. Tiger longwings (Heliconius hecale), can be found in Central America and ...

Butterfly mimicry Species: Postman butterfly, Heliconius melpomene Genome size: 295 million base pairs The Heliconius Genome Consortium, “Butterfly genome reveals ...