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October 2010

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Host plant adaptation and reproductive isolation in a butterfly.
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While this female lays small clutches of eggs near the plant's tip, females of the same species, Euphydryas editha, from allopatric populations that specialize on a different host plant, lay large clutches near the ground. Field studies (see McBride and Singer, e1000529) show that "hybrids" have intermediate traits that cause them to suffer reduced fitness, revealing a form of reproductive isolation can provide a substantial barrier to gene flow at the early stages of ecological divergence and speciation.

Image Credit: Damien Caillaud, University of Texas at Austin

Editorial

Open Education, Open Minds

Cheryl A. Kerfeld, Liza Gross

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Synopses

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Robin Meadows

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Stress May Drive Plant Patterns

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Day and Night: Circadian Rhythms in Worms

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Nuclear Fission without Microtubules—a Return to the Past?

Kira Heller

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Axonal Signaling Proteins Take the ER Highway

Richard Robinson

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Education

In Living Color: Bacterial Pigments as an Untapped Resource in the Classroom and Beyond

Louise K. Charkoudian, Jay T. Fitzgerald, Chaitan Khosla, Andrea Champlin

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Primers

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Jessica P. Lao, Neil Hunter

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Parasite Evolution and Life History Theory

Beth F. Kochin, James J. Bull, Rustom Antia

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Community Pages

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Ask A Biologist: Bringing Science to the Public

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Research Articles

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