{"id":534215,"date":"2024-11-07T14:18:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T17:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=534215"},"modified":"2024-11-07T14:18:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T17:18:51","slug":"a-rare-hybrid-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/a-rare-hybrid-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"A rare hybrid butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_534182\" style=\"max-width: 1150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-534182 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/RPF-notas-borboleta-hibrida-2024-06-1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/RPF-notas-borboleta-hibrida-2024-06-1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/RPF-notas-borboleta-hibrida-2024-06-1140-250x131.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/RPF-notas-borboleta-hibrida-2024-06-1140-700x367.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/RPF-notas-borboleta-hibrida-2024-06-1140-120x63.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Andrew Neild<\/span><em>Heliconius elevatus<\/em><span class=\"media-credits\">Andrew Neild<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The butterfly <em>Heliconius elevatus<\/em>, native to the Amazon, is a hybrid <em>H. melpomene<\/em> and <em>H. pardalinus<\/em>, a crossing that occurred naturally around 180,000 years ago. The case is rare because hybridization usually leads to genetic dilution in the DNA of subsequent generations due to crossing back with one or both parental populations. Despite having resisted complete dilution, 99% of the DNA of <em>H. elevatus<\/em> is identical to that of<em> H. pardalinus<\/em> and just 1% matches <em>H. melpomene<\/em>. And it is this 1% that is responsible for the visual pattern on the wings that defines the butterfly\u2019s appearance. The pattern offers a form of protection, warning predatory birds that the prey would taste bad. \u201cThis puts <em>H. elevatus<\/em> on a unique adaptive peak \u2014 it was what allowed the species to continue to exist,\u201d explains biologist Andr\u00e9 Freitas of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). The data was collected during an expedition to the Amazon that covered around 900 kilometers in three months, traveling from north to south along the highway that connects Manaus to Boa Vista (<em>Nature<\/em>, April 17).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<em>Heliconius elevatus<\/em>, a <em>hybrid of H. pardalinus<\/em> and <em>H. melpomene<\/em>, has more genes from the former, but inherited the coloration capable of scaring off predators from the latter","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[206,231,237,266],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-534215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-biodiversity","tag-evolution","tag-genetics","tag-zoology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534216,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534215\/revisions\/534216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534215"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=534215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}