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The scarce swallowtail, Iphiclides feisthamelii
The scarce swallowtails Iphiclides feisthamelii and Iphiclides podalirius meet at a contact zone north of the Pyrenees. Ebdon et al. capture their speciation dynamics by contrasting patterns of gene flow acting on different time scales. They show that these papilionid butterflies continue to hybridise after over a million years, and there is concordance in barriers to gene flow acting across recent and deep time. See Ebdon et al.
Image Credit: Roger Vila
Citation: (2025) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 21(4) May 2025. PLoS Genet 21(4): ev21.i04. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v21.i04
Published: May 7, 2025
Copyright: © 2025 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The scarce swallowtails Iphiclides feisthamelii and Iphiclides podalirius meet at a contact zone north of the Pyrenees. Ebdon et al. capture their speciation dynamics by contrasting patterns of gene flow acting on different time scales. They show that these papilionid butterflies continue to hybridise after over a million years, and there is concordance in barriers to gene flow acting across recent and deep time. See Ebdon et al.
Image Credit: Roger Vila