2022
Deep cis-regulatory homology of the butterfly wing pattern ground plan.
Mazo-Vargas, A., A.M. Langmüller, A. Wilder, K.R.L. van der Burg, J.J. Lewis, P.W. Messer, A. Martin, L. Zhang, R.D. Reed.
Science. 378: 304-308.
Patterns of selection across gene regulatory networks.
McDonald, J.M.C., R.D. Reed.
Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology. 69: 82-87.
2021
The Dryas iulia genome supports multiple gains of a W chromosome from a B chromosome in butterflies.
Lewis, J.J, F. Cicconardi, S.H. Martin, R.D. Reed, C.G. Danko, S.H. Montgomery.
Genome Biology and Evolution. 13: evab128.
Chromosome fusion affects genetic diversity and evolutionary turnover of functional loci, but consistently depends on chromosome size.
Cicconardi, F., J.J. Lewis, S.H. Martin, R.D. Reed, C.G. Danko, S.H. Montgomery.
Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38: 4449-4462.
High-quality genome assembly and comprehensive transcriptome of the butterfly Vanessa cardui.
Zhang, L., R.A. Steward, C.W. Wheat, R.D. Reed
Genome Biology and Evolution. 13: 7.
Seasonal plasticity: how do butterfly wing pattern traits evolve environmental responsiveness?
van der Burg, K.R.L., R.D. Reed
Current Opinion in Genetics and Development. 69: 82-87.
2020
Genomic architecture of a genetically assimilated seasonal color pattern.
van der Burg, K.R.L., J.J. Lewis, B.J. Brack, R.A. Fandino, A. Mazo-Vargas, R.D. Reed.
Science. 370: 721-725.
Many functionally connected loci foster adaptive diversification along a neotropical hybrid zone.
Lewis, J.J., S.M. Van Belleghem, R. Papa, C.G. Danko, R.D. Reed.
Science Advances. 6: eabb8617.
Transcription factors underlying butterfly wing margin color patterns and pupal cuticle markings.
Reed, R.D., J.E. Selegue, L. Zhang, C.R. Brunetti.
EvoDevo. 11: 10.
Multiple roles for laccase2 in butterfly wing pigmentation, scale morphology, and cuticle tanning.
Peng, C., A. Mazo-Vargas, B.J. Brack, R.D. Reed.
Evolution & Development. 22: 336-341.
2019
Dichotomy of dosage compensation on the single Z chromosome of the monarch butterfly.
Gu, L., P.F. Reilly, J.J. Lewis, R.D. Reed, P. Andolfatto, J.R. Walters.
Current Biology. 29: 4071-4077.
Parallel evolution of ancient, pleiotropic enhancers underlies butterfly wing pattern mimicry.
Lewis, J.J., R.C. Geltman, P.C. Pollak, K.E. Rondem, S.M. Van Belleghem, M. Hubisz, P.R. Munn, L. Zhang, C. Benson, A. Mazo-Vargas, C.G. Danko, B.A. Counterman, R. Papa, R.D. Reed.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 48: 24174-24183.
Genomic architecture and introgression shape a butterfly radiation.
Edelman, N.B., P.B. Frandsen, M. Miyagi, B. Clavijo, J. Davey, R. Dikow, G. Garcia-Accinelli, S. van Belleghem, N. Patterson, D.E. Neafsey, R. Challis, S. Kumar, G. Moreira, C. Salazar, M. Choteau, B. Counterman, R. Papa, M. Blaxter, R.D. Reed, K. Dasmahapatra, M. Kronforst, M. Joron, C.D. Jiggins, W.O. McMillan, F. Di Palma, A.J. Blumberg, J. Wakeley, D. Jaffe, J. Mallet.
Science. 366: 594-599.
Contrasting roles of transcription factors spineless and EcR in the highly dynamic chromatin landscape of butterfly wing metamorphosis.
van der Burg, K.R.L., J.J. Lewis, N. Patel, A. Martin, H.F. Nijhout, C. Danko, R.D. Reed.
Cell Reports. 27: 1027-1038.
Seasonal plasticity in Junonia coenia (Nymphalidae): Linking wing color, temperature dynamics, and behavior.
Järvi, V.V., K.R.L. van der Burg, R.D. Reed.
Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society. 73: 34-42.
Genome-wide regulatory adaptation shapes population-level genomic landscapes in Heliconius.
Lewis, J.J., R.D. Reed.
Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36: 159-173.
2017
Single master regulatory gene coordinates the evolution and development of butterfly color and iridescence.
Zhang, L, A. Mazo-Vargas, R.D. Reed.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 114: 10707-10712.
Macro-evolutionary shifts of WntA function potentiate butterfly wing pattern diversity.
Mazo-Vargas, A., C. Concha, L. Livraghi, D. Massardo, R. Wallbank, L. Zhang, J. Papador, D. Martinez-Najera, M.R. Kronforst, C.J. Breuker, R.D. Reed, N.H. Patel, W.O. McMillan, A. Martin.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 114: 10701-10706.
A practical guide to CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in Lepidoptera.
Zhang, L., R.D. Reed
In Diversity and Evolution of Butterfly Wing Patterns.
Genetic basis of melanin pigmentation in butterfly wings.
Zhang, L., A. Martin, M.W. Perry., K.R.L. van der Burg, Y. Matsuoka, A. Monteiro, R.D. Reed
Genetics. 205: 1537-1550.
2016
ChIP-seq-annotated Heliconius erato genome highlights cis-regulatory evolution in Lepidoptera.
Lewis, J.J., K.R.L. van der Burg, A. Mazo-Vargas, R.D. Reed.
Cell Reports. 16: 2855-2863.
Genome editing in butterflies reveals that spalt promotes and Distal-less represses eyespot colour patterns.
Zhang, L., R.D. Reed
Nature Communications. 7: 11769.
– Featured in Science News
2014
Extensive transcriptional response associated with seasonal plasticity of butterfly wing patterns.
Daniels, E.V., R. Murad, A. Mortazavi, R.D. Reed
Molecular Ecology. 23: 6123-6134
Wnt signaling underlies evolution and development of the butterfly wing pattern symmetry systems.
Martin, A., R.D. Reed
Developmental Biology. 395: 367-378.
Warning signals are seductive: Relative contributions of color and pattern to predator avoidance and mate attraction in Heliconius butterflies.
Finkbeiner, S.D., A.D. Briscoe, R.D. Reed
Evolution. 68: 3410-3420.
Ancient homology underlies adaptive mimetic diversity across butterflies.
Gallant, J.R., V.E. Imhoff, A. Martin, W.K. Savage, N. Chamberlain, B.L. Pote, B. Evans, R.D. Reed, M.R. Kronforst, S.P. Mullen
Nature Communications. 5: 4817.
doublesex is a mimicry supergene.
Kunte, K., W. Zhang, A. Tenger-Trolander, D. Palmer, A. Martin, R.D. Reed, S.P. Mullen, M.R. Kronforst
Nature. 507: 229-232.
– Perspective in Nature by David Loehilin and Sean Carroll
– Featured in New York Times and Science NOW
– Featured in National Geographic, ScienceDaily, The Scientist, and others
Multiple recent co-options of Optix associated with novel traits in adaptive butterfly wing radiations.
Martin, A., K.J. McCulloch, N.H. Patel, A.D. Briscoe, L.E. Gilbert, R.D. Reed
EvoDevo. 5: 7.
2013
Multi-allelic major effect genes interact with minor effect QTLs to control adaptive color pattern variation in Heliconius erato.
Papa, R., D.D. Kapan, B.A. Counterman, K. Maldonado, D. Lindstrom, R.D. Reed, H.F. Nijhout, T. Hrbek, W.O. McMillan
PLoS One. 8: e57033.
2012
Diversification of complex butterfly wing patterns by repeated regulatory evolution of a Wnt ligand.
Martin, A., R. Papa, N. Nadeau, R.I. Hill, B.A. Counterman, C.D. Jiggins, M.R. Kronforst, A.D. Long, W.O. McMillan, R.D. Reed
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 109: 12632-12637.
– Featured in New York Times
Xanthurenic acid is a pigment in Junonia coenia butterfly wings.
Daniels, E.V., R.D. Reed
Biochemical Systematics and Ecology. 44: 161-163.
Transcriptome analysis reveals novel patterning and pigmentation genes underlying Heliconius butterfly wing pattern variation.
Hines, H.M, R. Papa, M. Ruiz, A. Papanicoloau, W.O. McMillan, R.D. Reed
BMC Genomics. 13: 288.
Genomic evidence for promiscuous exchange of adaptations among Heliconius butterfly species.
The Heliconius Genome Consortium
Nature. 487: 94-98.
– Faculty of 1000 selection
– Featured in New York Times
Seasonal wing colour plasticity varies dramatically between buckeye butterfly populations in different climatic zones.
Daniels, E.V., K.A. Mooney, R.D. Reed
Ecological Entomology. 37: 155-159.
The benefit of being a social butterfly: communal roosting deters predation.
Finkbeiner, S.D., A.D. Briscoe, R.D. Reed
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279: 2769-2776.
– One of PRSB’s most-read articles of March 2012.
– Featured in Science and National Geographic
– Coverage in ABC News (Australia), and Spiegel (Germany)
– Featured in Science 2012 Year in Pictures
UV photoreceptors and UV-yellow wing pigments in Heliconius butterflies allow a color signal to serve both mimicry and intraspecific communication.
Bybee, S.M., F. Yuan, M.D. Ramstetter, J.L. Bousquets, R.D. Reed, D. Osorio, A.D. Briscoe
American Naturalist. 179: 38-51.
2011
A wing patterning gene redefines the mimetic history of Heliconius butterflies.
Hines, H.M., B.A. Counterman, R. Papa, P. A. de Moura, M.A. Cardoso, M. Linares, J. Mallet, R.D. Reed, C.D. Jiggins, M. Kronforst, W.O. McMillan
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 108: 19666-19671.
– Featured in New York Times
optix drives the repeated convergent evolution of butterfly wing pattern mimicry.
Reed, R.D., R. Papa, A. Martin, H.M. Hines, B.A. Counterman, C. Pardo-Diaz, C.D. Jiggins, N.L. Chamberlain, M.R. Kronforst, R. Chen, G. Halder, H.F. Nijhout, W.O. McMillan
Science. 333: 1137-1141.
– Faculty of 1000 selection
– Science perspective by Sean Carroll
– Featured in This Week in Science
– Featured in New York Times, Washington Post, and Scientific American
The role of environmental factors in the northeastern range expansion of Papilio cresphontes Cramer (Papilionidae).
Finkbeiner, S.D., R.D. Reed, R. Dirig, J.E. Losey
Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society. 65: 119-125.
2010
Reply to Nozawa et al.: Complementary statistical methods support positive selection of a duplicated UV opsin gene in Heliconius.
Briscoe, A.D., S.M. Bybee, G.D. Bernard, F. Yuan, M.P. Sison-Magnus, R.D. Reed, A.D. Warren, J. Llorente-Bousquets, C.-C. Chiao.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 107: E97.
wingless and aristaless2 define a developmental ground plan for moth and butterfly wing pattern evolution.
Martin, A., R.D. Reed
Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27: 2864-2878.
Butterfly wings shaped by a molecular cookie cutter: Evolutionary radiation of lepidopteran wing shapes associated with a derived Cut / wingless wing margin boundary system.
Macdonald W.P., A. Martin, R.D. Reed
Evolution & Development. 12: 296-304.
Positive selection of a duplicated UV-sensitive visual pigment coincides with wing pigment evolution in Heliconius butterflies.
Briscoe, A.D., S.M. Bybee, G.D. Bernard, F. Yuan, M.P. Sison-Magnus, R.D. Reed, A.D. Warren, J. Llorente-Bousquets, C.-C. Chiao.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 107: 3628-3633.
– Faculty of 1000 selection
Genomic hotspots for adaptation: The population genetics of Müllerian mimicry in Heliconius erato.
Counterman, B. A., F. Arajuo-Perez, H.M. Hines, S.W. Baxter, C.M. Morrison, D.P. Lindstrom, R. Papa, L. Ferguson, M. Joron, R. ffrench-Constant, C. Smith, D.M. Nielsen, R. Chen, C.D. Jiggins, R.D. Reed, G. Halder, J. Mallet, W. O. McMillan.
PLoS Genetics. 6: e1000796.
– Faculty of 1000 selection
– Featured in PLoS Genetics perspective
2008
Genomic hotspots of adaptation in butterfly wing pattern evolution.
Papa, R., A. Martin, R.D. Reed
Current Opinion in Genetics and Development. 18: 559-564.
Highly conserved gene order and numerous novel repetitive elements in genomic regions linked to wing pattern variation in Heliconius butterflies.
Papa R., C.M. Morrison, J.R. Walters, B.A. Counterman, R. Chen, G. Halder,L. Ferguson, N. Chamberlain, R. ffrench-Constant, D.D. Kapan, C.D. Jiggins, R.D. Reed, W.O McMillan.
BMC Genomics. 9: 345.
– BMC Highly Accessed article
Gene expression underlying adaptive variation in Heliconius wing patterns: non-modular regulation of overlapping cinnabar and vermilion prepatterns.
Reed, R.D., W.O. McMillan, L.M. Nagy
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 275: 37-45.
2007
Cryptic variation in butterfly eyespot development: the importance of sample size in gene expression studies.
Reed, R.D., P.-H. Chen, H.F. Nijhout
Evolution & Development. 9: 2-9.
2006
Localization of Müllerian mimicry genes on a dense linkage map of Heliconius erato.
Kapan, D.D., N.S. Flanagan, A. Tobler, R. Papa, R.D. Reed, J.A. Gonzalez, M.R. Restrepo, L. Martinez, K. Maldonado, C. Ritschoff, D.G. Heckel, W.O. McMillan
Genetics. 173: 735-757.
2005
Evolutionary redeployment of a biosynthetic module: expression of eye pigment genes vermilion, cinnabar, and white in butterfly wing development.
Reed, R.D., L.M. Nagy
Evolution & Development. 7: 301-311.
Gregarious oviposition in butterflies.
Reed, R.D.
Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society. 59: 40-43.
2004
Wing venation and Distal-less expression in Heliconius butterfly wing pattern development.
Reed, R.D., L.E. Gilbert
Development Genes and Evolution. 214: 628-634.
Butterfly wing pattern evolution is associated with changes in a Notch/Distal-less temporal pattern formation process.
Reed, R.D., M.S. Serfas
Current Biology. 14: 1159-1166.
– Current Biology dispatch by French and Brakefield
– Featured in Science NOW
Evidence for Notch-mediated lateral inhibition in organizing butterfly wing scales.
Reed, R.D.
Development Genes and Evolution. 214: 43-46.
1999-2003
Gregarious oviposition and clutch size adjustment by a Heliconius butterfly.
Reed, R.D.
Biotropica. 35: 555-559.
A partitioned likelihood analysis of swallowtail butterfly phylogeny (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae).
Caterino, M., R.D. Reed, M.M. Kuo, F.A.H. Sperling
Systematic Biology. 50: 106-127.
The interaction of process partitions in phylogenetic analysis: an example from the swallowtail butterfly genus Papilio.
Reed, R.D., F.A.H. Sperling
Molecular Biology and Evolution. 16: 286-297.