Document Type
Peer-Review Article
Abstract
Traits distinguishing the closely related tiger swallowtail butterfly species, Papilio canadensis and P. glaucus, include fixed differences in diagnostic sex-linked and autosomal allozymes as well as sex-linked diapause regulation, and sex-linked differences in oviposition behavior. Larval detoxification abilities for plants of the Salicaceae and Magnoliaceae families are dramatically different and basically diagnostic as well. The distinguishing morphological traits of the adults and larvae have not been genetically characterized. Here we describe the segregation of diagnostic larval banding traits in offspring from the 2 species in their hybrid and reciprocal backcross combinations. Elucidation of genetic basis, and linkage relationships of a suite of distinguishing biochemical, physiological, morphological, and ecological traits with regard to their geographic concordance across the hybrid zone is fundamental to understanding the pattern and process of speciation.
Recommended Citation
Scriber, J. Mark
1998.
"The Inheritance of Diagnostic Larval Traits for Interspecific Hybrids of Papilio Canadensis and P. Glaucus (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae),"
The Great Lakes Entomologist, vol 31
(2)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22543/0090-0222.1955
Available at:
https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol31/iss2/4