Mushroom Body Expansion in Heliconius butterflies

Project Information

MuBoEx

Grant agreement ID: 758508

DOI

10.3030/758508

Project closed

EC signature date 4 October 2017

Start date 1 February 2018

End date 31 January 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 940,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 940,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
United Kingdom

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Publications

Book chapters (1)

The Sensory Ecology of Speciation

Author(s): Denise Dalbosco Dell'Aglio, David F. Rivas-Sánchez, Daniel Shane Wright, Richard M. Merrill and Stephen H. Montgomery
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a041428

Peer reviewed articles (22)

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

Author(s): Francesco Cicconardi; Edoardo Milanetti; Erika C. Pinheiro de Castro; Anyi Mazo-Vargas; Steven M. Van Belleghem; Angelo Alberto Ruggieri; Pasi Rastas; Joseph Hanly; Elizabeth Evans; Chris D Jiggins; W Owen McMillan; Riccardo Papa; Daniele Di Marino; Arnaud Martin; Stephen H Montgomery
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 14, 2023, Page(s) 5620, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1101/2022.08.12.503723

Shifting balances in the weighting of sensory modalities are predicted by divergence in brain morphology in incipient species of Heliconius butterflies

Author(s): Denise D. Dell’Aglio, W. Owen McMillan, Stephen H.Montgomery
Published in: Animal Behaviour, Issue 185, 2022, Page(s) 83-90, ISSN 1095-8282
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.01.003

Heliconiini butterflies can learn time-dependent reward associations

Author(s): M. Wyatt Toure, Fletcher J. Young, W. Owen McMillan, Stephen H. Montgomery
Published in: Biology Letters, Issue 16/9, 2020, Page(s) 20200424, ISSN 1744-9561
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0424

A modified method to analyse cell proliferation using EdU labelling in large insect brains

Author(s): Amaia Alcalde Anton; Max S. Farnworth; Laura Hebberecht; C. Jill Harrison; Stephen H. Montgomery
Published in: PLoS ONE, Vol 18, Iss 10, p e0292009 (2023), Issue 1, 2023, Page(s) e0292009, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292009

The Dryas iulia Genome Supports Multiple Gains of a W Chromosome from a B Chromosome in Butterflies

Author(s): James J Lewis, Francesco Cicconardi, Simon H Martin, Robert D Reed, Charles G Danko, Stephen H Montgomery
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, Issue 17596653, 2021, Page(s) evab128, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab128

Linking ecological specialisation to adaptations in butterfly brains and sensory systems

Author(s): A Couto, JB Wainwright, BJ Morris, SH Montgomery
Published in: Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2020, ISSN 2214-5745
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2020.09.002

No evidence of social learning in a socially roosting butterfly in an associative learning task

Author(s): Priscila A. Moura; Marcio Z. Cardoso; Stephen H. Montgomery
Published in: Biology Letters, Issue 19 (5), 2023, Page(s) 20220490, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2022.0490

Patterns of host plant use do not explain mushroom body expansion in Heliconiini butterflies

Author(s): Fletcher J. Young, Monica Monllor, W. Owen McMillan, Stephen H. Montgomery
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Societ B, Issue 290 (2003), 2023, ISSN 1471-2954
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.1155

The evolution of adult pollen feeding did not alter postembryonic growth in Heliconius butterflies

Author(s): Laura Hebberecht, Lina Melo-Flórez, Fletcher J. Young, W. Owen McMillan, Stephen H. Montgomery
Published in: Ecology and Evolution, Issue 12 (6), 2022, Page(s) e8999, ISSN 2045-7758
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8999

Divergence in Heliconius flight behaviour is associated with local adaptation to different forest structures

Author(s): Denise D. Dell'Aglio, Sebastián Mena, Rémi Mauxion, W. Owen McMillan, Stephen H. Montgomery
Published in: Journal of Animal Ecology, Issue 91 (4), 2022, Page(s) 727-737, ISSN 1365-2656
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13675

Plasticity and genetic effects contribute to different axes of neural divergence in a community of mimetic Heliconius butterflies

Author(s): Laura Hebberecht; J. Benito Wainwright; Charlotte Thompson; Simon Kershenbaum; W. Owen McMillan; Stephen H. Montgomery
Published in: Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Issue 36(8), 2023, Page(s) 1116-1132, ISSN 1010-061X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.14188

A butterfly pan-genome reveals that a large amount of structural variation underlies the evolution of chromatin accessibility

Author(s): Angelo A. Ruggieri, Luca Livraghi, James J. Lewis, Elizabeth Evans, Francesco Cicconardi, Laura Hebberecht, Yadira Ortiz-Ruiz, Stephen H. Montgomery, Alfredo Ghezzi, José Arcadio Rodriguez-Martinez, Chris D. Jiggins, W. Owen McMillan, Brian A. Counterman, Riccardo Papa and Steven M Van Belleghem
Published in: Genome Research, 2022, ISSN 1549-5469
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
DOI: 10.1101/gr.276839.122

Pollen feeding in Heliconius butterflies: the singular evolution of an adaptive suite

Author(s): Fletcher J. Young, Stephen H. Montgomery
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 287/1938, 2020, Page(s) 20201304, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1304

Complexity of biological scaling suggests an absence of systematic trade-offs between sensory modalities in Drosophila

Author(s): Max S. Farnworth, Stephen H. Montgomery
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 20411723, 2022, Page(s) 2944, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30579-y

Long-term spatial memory across large spatial scales in Heliconius butterflies

Author(s): Priscila A. Moura, Fletcher J. Young, Monica Monllor, Marcio Z. Cardoso, Stephen H. Montgomery
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 33 (15), 2023, Page(s) PR797-R798, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.009

Rapid expansion and visual specialization of learning and memory centers in Heliconiini butterflies

Author(s): Antoine Couto; Fletcher J Young; Daniele Atzeni; Simon Marty; Lina Melo-Flórez; Laura Hebberecht; Monica Monllor; Chris Neal; Francesco Cicconardi; W Owen McMillan; Stephen H. Montgomery
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 14, 2023, Page(s) 4024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1101/2022.09.23.509163

True site fidelity in pollen feeding butterflies

Author(s): Priscila Albuquerque de Moura; Giberto Corso; Stephen H. Montgomery; Márcio Zikán Cardoso; Márcio Zikán Cardoso
Published in: Functional Ecology, Issue 36, 2022, Page(s) 572-582, ISSN 1365-2435
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13976

Pollen-feeding delays reproductive senescence and maintains toxicity of<i>Heliconius erato</i>

Author(s): Erika C. Pinheiro de Castro; Josie McPherson; Glennis Jullian; Anniina L. K. Mattila; Søren Bak; Stephen H. Montgomery; Chris Jiggins
Published in: PCI Evolutionary Biology, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2551-668X
Publisher: PCI
DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.13.523799

Enhanced long-term memory and increased mushroom body plasticity in Heliconius butterflies

Author(s): Fletcher J. Young, Amaia Alcalde Anton, Lina Melo-Flórez, Antoine Couto, Jessica Foley, Monica Monllor, W. Owen McMillan, Stephen H. Montgomery
Published in: iScience, Issue 27(2), 2023, Page(s) 108949, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.108949

Reversal learning of visual cues in Heliconiini butterflies

Author(s): Fletcher J. Young , Lina Melo-Flórez, W. Owen McMillan, Stephen H. Montgomery
Published in: Animal Behaviour, Issue 208, 2023, Page(s) 69-77, ISSN 1095-8282
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.11.016

Adult neurogenesis does not explain the extensive post-eclosion growth of Heliconius mushroom bodies

Author(s): Amaia Alcalde Anton, Fletcher J. Young, Lina Melo-Flórez, Antoine Couto, Stephen Cross, W. Owen McMillan and Stephen H. Montgomery
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 10 (10), 2023, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.230755

Heliconiini butterflies as a case study in evolutionary cognitive ecology: behavioural innovation and mushroom body expansion

Author(s): Fletcher J Young, Stephen H Montgomery
Published in: Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, Issue 77 (131), 2023, ISSN 0340-5443
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-023-03399-3

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Chromosome fusion affects genetic diversity and evolutionary turnover of functional loci, but consistently depends on chromosome size

Author(s): Francesco Cicconardi; Francesco Cicconardi; James J. Lewis; Simon H. Martin; Robert D. Reed; Charles G. Danko; Stephen H. Montgomery
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution, Issue 15371719, 2021, Page(s) 4449-4462, ISSN 1537-1719
Publisher: OUP
DOI: 10.1101/2021.01.06.425547