New publication! Altitude and life‐history shape the evolution of Heliconius wings

We have a new paper out in Evolution about the effects of altitude and life history on wing size and shape in Heliconius butterflies. Work done by PhD student Gabriela Montejo‐Kovacevich, and former Masters student Jennifer Smith, shows that species found higher up the slopes of the Andes tend to have larger and rounder wings. We also found that in species with gregarious larvae, females were larger than males, while the opposite was the case for species with solitary larvae. This is the first publication from our NERC funded project on adaptation to altitude in tropical insects.