Heliconius butterflies, a speciose genus of Müllerian mimics, represent a classic example of an adaptive radiation that includes a range of derived dietary, life history, physiological and neural traits. However, key lineages within the genus, and across the broader Heliconiini tribe, lack genomic resources, limiting our understanding of how adaptive and neutral processes shaped genome evolution during their radiation. Here, we generate highly contiguous genome assemblies for nine Heliconiini, 29 additional reference-assembled genomes, and improve 10 existing assemblies. Altogether, we provide a dataset of annotated genomes for a total of 63 species, including 58 species within the Heliconiini tribe. We use this extensive dataset to generate a robust and dated heliconiine phylogeny, describe major patterns of introgression, explore the evolution of genome architecture, and the genomic basis of key innovations in this enigmatic group, including an assessment of the evolution of putative regulatory regions at the Heliconius stem. Our work illustrates how the increased resolution provided by such dense genomic sampling improves our power to generate and test gene-phenotype hypotheses, and precisely characterize how genomes evolve.

Evolutionary dynamics of genome size and content during the adaptive radiation of Heliconiini butterflies / 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.. - In: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. - ISSN 2041-1723. - 14:1(2023). [10.1038/s41467-023-41412-5]

Evolutionary dynamics of genome size and content during the adaptive radiation of Heliconiini butterflies

Papa R.;
2023-01-01

Abstract

Heliconius butterflies, a speciose genus of Müllerian mimics, represent a classic example of an adaptive radiation that includes a range of derived dietary, life history, physiological and neural traits. However, key lineages within the genus, and across the broader Heliconiini tribe, lack genomic resources, limiting our understanding of how adaptive and neutral processes shaped genome evolution during their radiation. Here, we generate highly contiguous genome assemblies for nine Heliconiini, 29 additional reference-assembled genomes, and improve 10 existing assemblies. Altogether, we provide a dataset of annotated genomes for a total of 63 species, including 58 species within the Heliconiini tribe. We use this extensive dataset to generate a robust and dated heliconiine phylogeny, describe major patterns of introgression, explore the evolution of genome architecture, and the genomic basis of key innovations in this enigmatic group, including an assessment of the evolution of putative regulatory regions at the Heliconius stem. Our work illustrates how the increased resolution provided by such dense genomic sampling improves our power to generate and test gene-phenotype hypotheses, and precisely characterize how genomes evolve.
2023
Evolutionary dynamics of genome size and content during the adaptive radiation of Heliconiini butterflies / 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.. - In: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. - ISSN 2041-1723. - 14:1(2023). [10.1038/s41467-023-41412-5]
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