@article{THESIS,
      recid = {1676},
      author = {Palmer, Daniela Helena Droguett},
      title = {The Genetic Basis and Evolution of Polymorphic Mimicry in  Swallowtail Butterflies},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2018-06},
      number = {THESIS},
      pages = {94},
      abstract = {A major goal in evolutionary genetics is to understand the  molecular changes underlying adaptations and the  evolutionary processes that have shaped adaptation and  biodiversity. To this end, the ability to pinpoint the  genetic basis of complex adaptive phenotypes has been a  major advancement in current biology, establishing crucial  links between genotypes, phenotypes, and evolutionary  processes. Classic biological systems are being revisited  with a genomics lens, building on traditional approaches in  evolution, ecology, and natural history. By applying new  genomic methods to classic biological questions, we are  making progress along two major fronts: uncovering the  genes, molecular mechanisms, and genetic architectures that  generate adaptive phenotypes, and exploring the  evolutionary processes that give rise to these adaptations.  

Through the work included in this dissertation, I have  sought to explore the evolutionary processes that generate  and maintain adaptive biodiversity in two focal systems.  First, I reviewed new insights based on genomic analyses of  a classic system, Darwin’s finches, and connected these  findings to the growing literature on adaptive  introgression and its contributions to phenotypic evolution  (Chapter 1). I then looked to another classic system in  evolutionary biology with a long tradition of theoretical  and empirical research: polymorphic wing pattern mimicry in  Papilio swallowtail butterflies. In Papilio, I studied i)  natural selection on polymorphic wing pattern phenotypes in  the field (Chapter 2), and ii) the genetic basis and  evolution of convergent polymorphic wing pattern mimicry  (Chapter 3).},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/1676},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.1676},
}