TY - JOUR AU - Walters, James R. AU - Harrison, Richard G. PY - 2008 DA - 2008/12/08 TI - EST analysis of male accessory glands from Heliconius butterflies with divergent mating systems JO - BMC Genomics SP - 592 VL - 9 IS - 1 AB - Heliconius butterflies possess a remarkable diversity of phenotypes, physiologies, and behaviors that has long distinguished this genus as a focal taxon in ecological and evolutionary research. Recently Heliconius has also emerged as a model system for using genomic methods to investigate the causes and consequences of biological diversity. One notable aspect of Heliconius diversity is a dichotomy in mating systems which provides an unusual opportunity to investigate the relationship between sexual selection and the evolution of reproductive proteins. As a first step in pursuing this research, we report the generation and analysis of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from the male accessory gland of H. erato and H. melpomene, species representative of the two mating systems present in the genus Heliconius. SN - 1471-2164 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-9-592 DO - 10.1186/1471-2164-9-592 ID - Walters2008 ER -