McMillan, Owen

Fellowship Advisor

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute staff

awards and honors

Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2019
Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2018
Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2017

selected publications

article
- Dell'aglio, Denise D., Mena, Sebastian, Mauxion, Remi, McMillan, W. Owen, and Montgomery, Stephen H. 2022. "Divergence in Heliconius flight behaviour is associated with local adaptation to different forest structures." Journal of Animal Ecology, Hoboken; New Jersey: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13675. 2022
- Darragh, Kathy, Orteu, Anna, Black, Daniella, Byers, Kelsey J. R. P., Szczerbowski, Daiane, Warren, Ian A., Rastas, Pasi, Pinharanda, Ana, Davey, John W., Fernanda Garza, Sylvia, Abondano Almeida, Diana, Merrill, Richard M., McMillan, W. Owen, Schulz, Stefan, and Jiggins, Chris D. 2021. "A novel terpene synthase controls differences in anti-aphrodisiac pheromone production between closely related Heliconius butterflies." Plos Biology 19 (1):e3001022-e3001022. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001022 2021
- Byers, Kelsey J. R. P., Darragh, Kathy, Fernanda Garza, Sylvia, Abondano Almeida, Diana, Warren, Ian A., Rastas, Pasi M. A., Merrill, Richard M., Schulz, Stefan, McMillan, W. Owen, and Jiggins, Chris D. 2021. "Clustering of loci controlling species differences in male chemical bouquets of sympatric Heliconius butterflies." Ecology and Evolution 11 (1):89-107. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6947 2021
- Livraghi, Luca, Hanly, Joseph J., Van Bellghem, Steven M., Montejo-Kovacevich, Gabriela, van Der Heijden, Eva S. M., Loh, Ling Sheng, Ren, Anna, Warren, Ian A., Lewis, James J., Concha, Carolina, Hebberecht, Laura, Wright, Charlotte J., Walker, Jonah M., Foley, Jessica, Goldberg, Zachary H., Arenas-Castro, Henry, Salazar, Camilo, Perry, Michael W., Papa, Riccardo, Martin, Arnaud, McMillan, W. Owen, and Jiggins, Chris D. 2021. "Cortex cis-regulatory switches establish scale colour identity and pattern diversity in Heliconius." Elife 10:https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.68549 2021
- Arias, Carlos F., Dikow, Rebecca B., McMillan, W. Owen, and De Leon, Luis F. 2021. "De Novo Genome Assembly of the Electric Fish Brachyhypopomus occidentalis (Hypopomidae, Gymnotiformes)." Genome Biology and Evolution, 13, (10). Oxford; England: Oxford University Press, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab223. 2021
- Avila-Cervantes, Jose, Arias, Carlos, Venegas-Anaya, Miryam, Vargas, Marta, Larsson, Hans C. E., and McMillan, W. Owen. 2021. "Effect of the Central American Isthmus on gene flow and divergence of the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus)." Evolution 75 (2):245-259. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14139 2021
- Mattila, Anniina L. K., Jiggins, Chris D., Opedal, Oystein H., Montejo-Kovacevich, Gabriela, de Castro, Erika C. Pinheiro, McMillan, W. Owen, Bacquet, Caroline, and Saastamoinen, Marjo. 2021. "Evolutionary and ecological processes influencing chemical defense variation in an aposematic and mimetic Heliconius butterfly." Peerj 9:https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11523 2021
- Meier, Joana, I., Salazar, Patricio A., Kucka, Marek, Davies, Robert William, Dreau, Andreea, Aldas, Ismael, Power, Olivia Box, Nadeau, Nicola J., Bridle, Jon R., Rolian, Campbell, Barton, Nicholas H., McMillan, W. Owen, Jiggins, Chris D., and Chan, Yingguang Frank. 2021. "Haplotype tagging reveals parallel formation of hybrid races in two butterfly species." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (25):https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2015005118 2021
- Montgomery, Stephen H., Rossi, Matteo, McMillan, W. Owen, and Merrill, Richard M. 2021. "Neural divergence and hybrid disruption between ecologically isolated Heliconius butterflies." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (6):e2015102118-e2015102118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2015102118 2021
- de Castro, Erika C. P., Musgrove, Jamie, Bak, Soren, McMillan, W. Owen, and Jiggins, Chris D. 2021. "Phenotypic plasticity in chemical defence of butterflies allows usage of diverse host plants." Biology Letters 17 (3):https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0863 2021
- Van Belleghem, Steven M., Cole, Jared M., Montejo-Kovacevich, Gabriela, Bacquet, Caroline N., McMillan, W. Owen, Papa, Riccardo, and Counterman, Brian A. 2021. "Selection and isolation define a heterogeneous divergence landscape between hybridizing Heliconius butterflies." Evolution https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14272 2021
- Bennett, Kelly L., McMillan, W. Owen, and Loaiza, Jose R. 2021. "The genomic signal of local environmental adaptation in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes." Evolutionary Applications https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13199 2021
- Bennett, Kelly L., McMillan, W. Owen, Enriquez, Vanessa, Barraza, Elia, Diaz, Marcela, Baca, Brenda, Whiteman, Ari, Cerro Medina, Jaime, Ducasa, Madeleine, Gomez Martinez, Carmelo, Almanza, Alejandro, Rovira, Jose R., and Loaiza, Jose R. 2021. "The role of heterogenous environmental conditions in shaping the spatiotemporal distribution of competing Aedes mosquitoes in Panama: implications for the landscape of arboviral disease transmission." Biological Invasions, Dordrecht; Netherlands: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02482-y. 2021
- Byers, Kelsey J. R. P., Darragh, Kathy, Musgrove, Jamie, Almeida, Diana Abondano, Garza, Sylvia Fernanda, Warren, Ian A., Rastas, Pasi M., Kučka, Marek, Chan, Yingguang Frank, Merrill, Richard M., Schulz, Stefan, McMillan, W. O., and Jiggins, Chris D. 2020. "A major locus controls a biologically active pheromone component in Heliconius melpomene." Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 74 (2):349-364. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13922 2020
- Pierotti, Michele E. R., Wandycz, Anna, Wandycz, Pawel, Rebelein, Anja, Corredor, Vitor H., Tashiro, Juliana H., Castillo, Armando, Wcislo, William T., McMillan, W. Owen, and Loew, Ellis R. 2020. "Aggressive mimicry in a coral reef fish: The prey's view." Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6883 2020
- Concha, Carolina, Yan, Ying, Arp, Alex, Quilarque, Evelin, Sagel, Agustin, de Leon, Adalberto Perez, McMillan, W. Owen, Skoda, Steven, and Scott, Maxwell J. 2020. "An early female lethal system of the New World screwworm, Cochliomyia hominivorax, for biotechnology-enhanced SIT." Bmc Genetics, 143–143. 21, London; England: BMC. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12863-020-00948-x. 2020
- Kapheim, Karen M., Jones, Beryl M., Pan, Hailin, Li, Cai, Harpur, Brock A., Kent, Clement F., Zayed, Amro, Ioannidis, Panagiotis, Waterhouse, Robert M., Kingwell, Callum, Stolle, Eckart, Avalos, Arián, Zhang, Guojie, McMillan, W. O., and Wcislo, William T. 2020. "Developmental plasticity shapes social traits and selection in a facultatively eusocial bee." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (24):13615-13625. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2000344117 2020
- Cox, Christian L., Alexander, Sean, Casement, Brianna, Chung, Albert K., Curlis, John David, Degon, Zachariah, Dubois, Madeline, Falvey, Cleo, Graham, Zackary A., Folfas, Edita, Gallegos Koyner, Maria A., Neel, Lauren K., Nicholson, Daniel J., Perez, Dylan J. Padilla, Ortiz-Ross, Xochitl, Rosso, Adam A., Taylor, Quinn, Thurman, Timothy J., Williams, Claire E., McMillan, W. O., and Logan, Michael L. 2020. "Ectoparasite extinction in simplified lizard assemblages during experimental island invasion." Biology Letters 16 (8):1-5. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0474 2020
- Nguyen, Bryan N., Shen, Elaine W., Seemann, Janina, Correa, Adrienne M. S., O'Donnell, James L., Altieri, Andrew H., Knowlton, Nancy, Crandall, Keith A., Egan, Scott P., McMillan, W. Owen, and Leray, Matthieu. 2020. "Environmental DNA survey captures patterns of fish and invertebrate diversity across a tropical seascape." Scientific Reports 10 (1):Article 6729. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-63565-9 2020
- Toure, M. Wyatt, Young, Fletcher J., McMillan, W. Owen, and Montgomery, Stephen H. 2020. "Heliconiini butterflies can learn time-dependent reward associations." Biology Letters 16 (9):https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0424 2020
- Rosso, Adam A., Nicholson, Daniel J., Logan, Michael L., Chung, Albert K., Curlis, John David, Degon, Zachariah M., Knell, Robert J., Garner, Trenton W. J., McMillan, W. Owen, and Cox, Christian L. 2020. "Sex-biased parasitism and expression of a sexual signal." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 131 (4):785-800. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa162 2020
- Darragh, Kathy, Montejo‐Kovacevich, Gabriela, Kozak, Krzysztof M., Morrison, Colin R., Figueiredo, Clarisse M. E., Ready, Jonathan S., Salazar, Camilo, Linares, Mauricio, Byers, Kelsey J. R. P., Merrill, Richard M., McMillan, W. O., Schulz, Stefan, and Jiggins, Chris D. 2020. "Species specificity and intraspecific variation in the chemical profiles of Heliconius butterflies across a large geographic range." Ecology and Evolution 10 (9):3895-3918. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6079 2020
- Pierotti, Michele E. R., Wandycz, Anna, Wandycz, Pawel, Rebelein, Anja, Corredor, Vitor H., Tashiro, Juliana H., Castillo, Armando, Wcislo, William T., McMillan, W. O., and Loew, Ellis R. 2020. "The visual ecology of a color polymorphic reef fish: the role of aggressive mimicry." bioRxiv 1-48. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.03.970988 2020
- Rossi, Matteo, Hausmann, Alexander E., Thurman, Timothy J., Montgomery, Stephen H., Papa, Riccardo, Jiggins, Chris D., McMillan, W. Owen, and Merrill, Richard M. 2020. "Visual mate preference evolution during butterfly speciation is linked to neural processing genes." Nature Communications 11:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18609-z 2020
- Whiteman, Ari, Gomez, Carmelo, Rovira, Jose, Chen, Gang, McMillan, W. O., and Loaiza, Jose. 2019. "Aedes Mosquito Infestation in Socioeconomically Contrasting Neighborhoods of Panama City." EcoHealth 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-019-01417-3 2019
- Zhang, Wei, Leon-Ricardo, Brian, Van Schooten, Bas, Van Belleghem, Steven M., Counterman, Brian A., McMillan, W. O., Kronforst, Marcus R., and Papa, Riccardo. 2019. "Comparative transcriptomics provides insights into reticulate and adaptive evolution of a butterfly radiation." Genome Biology and Evolution 11 (10):2963-2975. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evz202 2019
- Hanly, Joseph J., Wallbank, Richard W. R., McMillan, W. O., and Jiggins, Chris D. 2019. "Conservation and flexibility in the gene regulatory landscape of heliconiine butterfly wings." EvoDevo 10 (1):1-14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13227-019-0127-4 2019
- Bennett, Kelly L., Gómez-Martínez, Carmelo, Chin, Yamileth, Saltonstall, Kristin, McMillan, W. Owen, Rovira, José R., and Loaiza, José R. 2019. "Dynamics and diversity of bacteria associated with the disease vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus." Scientific Reports 9:Article 12160. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48414-8 2019
- Merrill, Richard M., Rastas, Pasi, Martin, Simon H., Melo, Maria C., Barker, Sarah, Davey, John, McMillan, W. O., and Jiggins, Chris D. 2019. "Genetic dissection of assortative mating behavior." PLoS biology 17 (2):1-21. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2005902 2019
- Edelman, Nathaniel B., Frandsen, Paul B., Miyagi, Michael, Clavijo, Bernardo, Davey, John, Dikow, Rebecca B., Garcia-Accinelli, Gonzalo, Van Belleghem, Steven M., Patterson, Nick, Neafsey, Daniel E., Challis, Richard, Kumar, Sujai, Moreira, Gilson R. P., Salazar, Camilo, Chouteau, Mathieu, Counterman, Brian A., Papa, Riccardo, Blaxter, Mark, Reed, Robert D., Dasmahapatra, Kanchon K., Kronforst, Marcus, Joron, Mathieu, Jiggins, Chris D., McMillan, W. Owen, Di Palma, Federica et al. 2019. "Genomic architecture and introgression shape a butterfly radiation." Science 366 (6465):594- . https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw2090 2019
- Bennett, Kelly L., Almanza, Alejandro, McMillan, W. O., Saltonstall, Kristin, Vdovenko, Evangelina López, Vinda, Jorge S., Mejía, Luis, Driesse, Kaitlin, De León, Luis F., and Loaiza, José R. 2019. "Habitat disturbance and the organization of bacterial communities in Neotropical hematophagous arthropods." PLOS ONE 14:1-19. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222145 2019
- Bennett, Kelly L., Gómez Martínez, Carmelo, Almanza, Alejandro, Rovira, Jose R., McMillan, W. O., Enriquez, Vanessa, Barraza, Elia, Diaz, Marcela, Sanchez-Galan, Javier, Whiteman, Ari, Gittens, Rolando A., and Loaiza, Jose R. 2019. "High infestation of invasive Aedes mosquitoes in used tires along the local transport network of Panama." Parasites & Vectors 12 (1):264. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3522-8 2019
- Strickland, Lynette R., Arias, Carlos F., Rodriguez, Viterbo, Johnston, J. S., McMillan, W. O., and Windsor, Donald M. 2019. "Inheritance, distribution and genetic differentiation of a color polymorphism in Panamanian populations of the tortoise beetle, Chelymorpha alternans (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)." Heredity 122:558-569. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-018-0149-z 2019
- Hench, Kosmas, Vargas, Marta, Höppner, Marc P., McMillan, W. O., and Puebla, Oscar. 2019. "Inter-chromosomal coupling between vision and pigmentation genes during genomic divergence." Nature Ecology & Evolution 3:657-667. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0814-5 2019
- Concha, Carolina, Wallbank, Richard W. R., Hanly, Joseph J., Fenner, Jennifer, Livraghi, Luca, Rivera, Edgardo Santiago, Paulo, Daniel F., Arias, Carlos, Vargas, Marta, Sanjeev, Manu, Morrison, Colin, Tian, David, Aguirre, Paola, Ferrara, Sabrina, Foley, Jessica, Pardo-Diaz, Carolina, Salazar, Camilo, Linares, Mauricio, Massardo, Darli, Counterman, Brian A., Scott, Maxwell J., Jiggins, Chris D., Papa, Riccardo, Martin, Arnaud, and McMillan, W. O. 2019. "Interplay between Developmental Flexibility and Determinism in the Evolution of Mimetic Heliconius Wing Patterns." Current Biology 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.010 2019
- Thurman, Timothy J., Szejner‐Sigal, Andre, and McMillan, W. O. 2019. "Movement of a Heliconius hybrid zone over 30 years: A Bayesian approach." Journal of Evolutionary Biology 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13499 2019
- Paulo, Daniel F., Williamson, Megan E., Arp, Alex P., Li, Fang, Sagel, Agustin, Skoda, Steven R., Sanchez-Gallego, Joel, Vasquez, Mario, Quintero, Gladys, Pérez, de Le, Belikoff, Esther J., Azeredo-Espin, Ana, McMillan, W. O., Concha, Carolina, and Scott, Maxwell J. 2019. "Specific Gene Disruption in the Major Livestock Pests Cochliomyia hominivorax and Lucilia cuprina Using CRISPR/Cas9." G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 9 (9):3045-3055. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.119.400544 2019
- Moran, Benjamin M., Hench, Kosmas, Waples, Robin S., Hoeppner, Marc P., Baldwin, Carole C., McMillan, William Owen, and Puebla, Oscar. 2019. "The evolution of microendemism in a reef fish (Hypoplectrus maya)." Molecular ecology 28 (11):2872-2885. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15110 2019
- Tollis, Marc, Hutchins, Elizabeth D., Stapley, Jessica, Rupp, Shawn M., Eckalbar, Walter L., Maayan, Inbar, Lasku, Eris, Infante, Carlos R., Dennis, Stuart R., Robertson, Joel A., May, Catherine M., Crusoe, Michael R., Bermingham, Eldredge, DeNardo, Dale F., Hsieh, Shi-Tong Tonia, Kulathinal, Rob J., McMillan, William Owen, Menke, Douglas B., Pratt, Stephen C., Rawls, Jeffery Alan, Sanjur, Oris, Wilson-Rawls, Jeanne, Sayres, Mellissa A. Wilson, Fisher, Rebecca E., and Kusumi, Kenro. 2018. "Comparative Genomics Reveals Accelerated Evolution in Conserved Pathways during the Diversification of Anole Lizards." Genome Biology and Evolution 10 (2):489-506. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evy013 2018
- Van Schooten, Bas, Godoy-Vitorino, Filipa, McMillan, W. Owen, and Papa, Riccardo. 2018. "Conserved microbiota among young Heliconius butterfly species." PeerJ 6:e5502. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5502 2018
- Seymoure, Brett M., Raymundo, Andrew, McGraw, Kevin J., McMillan, W. Owen, and Rutowski, Ronald L. 2018. "Environment-dependent attack rates of cryptic and aposematic butterflies." Current Zoology 64 (5):663-669. https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zox062 2018
- Thurman, Timothy J., Brodie, Emily, Evans, Elizabeth, and McMillan, William Owen. 2018. "Facultative pupal mating in Heliconius erato: Implications for mate choice, female preference, and speciation." Ecology and Evolution 8 (3):1882-1889. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3624 2018
- Eskildsen, Gilberto A., Rovira, Jose R., Smith, Octavio, Miller, Matthew J., Bennett, Kelly L., McMillan, W. O., and Loaiza, Jose. 2018. "Maternal invasion history of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus into the Isthmus of Panama: Implications for the control of emergent viral disease agents." PloS One 13 (3):https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194874 2018
- Alda, Fernando, Adams, Alexandria J., Chakrabarty, Prosanta, and McMillan, W. O. 2018. "Mitogenomic divergence between three pairs of putative geminate fishes from Panama." Mitochondrial DNA Part B. Resources 3 (1):1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2017.1413288 2018
- Campbell, Matthew A., Robertson, D. Ross, Vargas, Marta I., Allen, Gerald R., and McMillan, W. O. 2018. "Multilocus molecular systematics of the circumtropical reef-fish genus Abudefduf (Pomacentridae): history, geography and ecology of speciation." PeerJ 6 (e5357):https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5357 2018
- Van Belleghem, Steven M., Baquero, Margarita, Papa, Riccardo, Salazar, Camilo, McMillan, W. O., Counterman, Brian A., Jiggins, Chris D., and Martin, Simon H. 2018. "Patterns of Z chromosome divergence among Heliconius species highlight the importance of historical demography." Molecular ecology 27 (19):3852-3872. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14560 2018
- Dell'Aglio, Denise Dalbosco, Troscianko, Jolyon, McMillan, W. O., Stevens, Martin, and Jiggins, Chris D. 2018. "The appearance of mimetic Heliconius butterflies to predators and conspecifics." Evolution 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13583 2018
- Van Belleghem, Steven M., Papa, Riccardo, Ortiz-Zuazaga, Humberto, Hendrickx, Frederik, Jiggins, Chris D., McMillan, W. O., and Counterman, Brian A. 2018. "patternize: An R package for quantifying colour pattern variation." Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9 (2):390-398. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12853 2018
- Arias, Carlos F., Giraldo, Nathalia, McMillan, W. Owen, Jiggins, Chris D., and Salazar, Camilo. 2017. "A new subspecies in a Heliconius butterfly adaptive radiation (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 180 (4):805-818. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlw010 2017
- Rodgers, Torrey W., Xu, Charles C. Y., Giacalone, Jacalyn, Kapheim, Karen M., Saltonstall, Kristin, Vargas, Marta, Yu, Douglas W., Somervuo, Panu, McMillan, W. O., and Jansen, Patrick A. 2017. "Carrion fly-derived DNA metabarcoding is an effective tool for mammal surveys: evidence from a known tropical mammal community." Molecular Ecology Resources 17 (6):e133-e145. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.12701 2017
- Van Belleghem, Steven M., Rastas, Pasi, Papanicolaou, Alexie, Martin, Simon H., Arias, Carlos F., Supple, Megan A., Hanly, Joseph J., Mallet, James, Lewis, James J., Hines, Heather M., Ruiz, Mayte, Salazar, Camilo, Linares, Mauricio, Moreira, Gilson R. P., Jiggins, Chris D., Counterman, Brian A., McMillan, W. O., and Papa, Riccardo. 2017. "Complex modular architecture around a simple toolkit of wing pattern genes." Nature Ecology & Evolution 1 (3):52. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-016-0052 2017
- Dalbosco Dell'Aglio, Denise, Akkaynak, Derya, McMillan, W. Owen, and Jiggins, Chris D. 2017. "Estimating the age of Heliconius butterflies from calibrated photographs." PeerJ 5:e3821. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3821 2017
- Enciso-Romero, Juan, Pardo-Díaz, Carolina, Martin, Simon H., Arias, Carlos F., Linares, Mauricio, McMillan, William Owen, Jiggins, Chris D., and Salazar, Camilo. 2017. "Evolution of novel mimicry rings facilitated by adaptive introgression in tropical butterflies." Molecular ecology 26 (19):5160-5172. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14277 2017
- Mazo-Vargas, Anyi, Concha, Carolina, Livraghi, Luca, Massardo, Darli, Wallbank, Richard W. R., Zhang, Linlin, Papador, Joseph D., Martinez-Najera, Daniel, Jiggins, Chris D., Kronforst, Marcus R., Breuker, Casper J., Reed, Robert D., Patel, Nipam H., McMillan, W. O., and Martin, Arnaud. 2017. "Macroevolutionary shifts of WntA function potentiate butterfly wing-pattern diversity." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (40):10701-10706. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1708149114 2017
- Davey, John W., Barker, Sarah L., Rastas, Pasi M., Pinharanda, Ana, Martin, Simon H., Durbin, Richard, McMillan, W. O., Merrill, Richard M., and Jiggins, Chris D. 2017. "No evidence for maintenance of a sympatric Heliconius species barrier by chromosomal inversions: Heliconius INVERSIONS AND SPECIATION." Evolution Letters 1 (3):138-154. https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.12 2017
- Hench, K., McMillan, W. O., Betancur-R, R., and Puebla, O. 2017. "Temporal changes in hamlet communities (Hypoplectrus spp., Serranidae) over 17 years." Journal of fish biology 91 (5):1475-1490. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13481 2017
- Concha, Carolina, Palavesam, Azhahianambi, Guerrero, Felix D., Sagel, Agustin, Li, Fang, Osborne, Jason A., Hernandez, Yillian, Pardo, Trinidad, Quintero, Gladys, Vasquez, Mario, Keller, Gwen P., Phillips, Pamela L., Welch, John B., McMillan, W. O., Skoda, Steven R., and Scott, Maxwell J. 2016. "A transgenic male-only strain of the New World screwworm for an improved control program using the sterile insect technique." BMC biology 14:72. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-016-0296-8 2016
- Miller, Matthew J., Aguilar, Celestino, De León, Luis Fernando, Loaiza, José R., and McMillan, W. Owen. 2016. "Complete mitochondrial genomes of the New World jacanas: Jacana spinosa and Jacana jacana." Mitochondrial DNA. Part A. DNA Mapping, Sequencing, and Analysis 27 (1):764-765. https://doi.org/10.3109/19401736.2014.915530 2016
- Wallbank, Richard W. R., Baxter, Simon W., Pardo-Diaz, Carolina, Hanly, Joseph J., Martin, Simon H., Mallet, James, Dasmahapatra, Kanchon K., Salazar, Camilo, Joron, Mathieu, Nadeau, Nicola, McMillan, W. O., and Jiggins, Chris D. 2016. "Evolutionary Novelty in a Butterfly Wing Pattern through Enhancer Shuffling." PLoS biology 14 (1):1-16. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002353 2016
- Aguilar, Celestino, De Leon, Luis Fernando, Loaiza, Jose R., McMillan, William Owen, and Miller, Matthew J. 2016. "Extreme sequence divergence between mitochondrial genomes of two subspecies of White-breasted Wood-wren (Henicorhina leucosticta, Cabanis, 1847) from western and central Panama." Mitochondrial DNA. Part A. DNA Mapping, Sequencing, and Analysis 27 (2):956-957. https://doi.org/10.3109/19401736.2014.926503 2016
- Chaves, Jaime A., Cooper, Elizabeth A., Hendry, Andrew P., Podos, Jeffrey, De León, Luis F., Raeymaekers, Joost A. M., McMillan, W. Owen, and Uy, J. Albert C. 2016. "Genomic variation at the tips of the adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches." Molecular ecology 25 (21):5282-5295. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13743 2016
- Arias, Carlos F., Van Belleghem, Steven, and McMillan, W. Owen. 2016. "Genomics at the evolving species boundary." Current Opinion in Insect Science 13:7-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2015.10.004 2016
- Loaiza, Jose R., Aguilar, Celestino, De Leon, Luis Fernando, McMillan, W. Owen, and Miller, Matthew J. 2016. "Mitochondrial genome organization of the Ochre-bellied Flycatcher, Mionectes oleagineus." Mitochondrial DNA. Part A. DNA Mapping, Sequencing, and Analysis 27 (2):890-891. https://doi.org/10.3109/19401736.2014.919491 2016
- Martin, Simon Henry, Möst, Markus, Palmer, William J., Salazar, Camilo, McMillan, W. Owen, Jiggins, Francis M., and Jiggins, Chris D. 2016. "Natural Selection and Genetic Diversity in the Butterfly Heliconius melpomene." Genetics: A Periodical Record of Investigations Bearing on Heredity and Variation 203 (1):525-541. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.183285 2016
- Perez-Buitrago, Nestor, Sabat, Alberto M., and McMillan, William Owen. 2016. "Nesting Migrations and Reproductive Biology of the Mona Rhinoceros Iguana, Cyclura Stejnegeri." Herpetological Conservation and Biology 11 (6):197-213. 2016
- Picq, Sophie, McMillan, William Owen, and Puebla, Oscar. 2016. "Population genomics of local adaptation versus speciation in coral reef fishes (Hypoplectrus spp, Serranidae)." Ecology and Evolution 6 (7):2109-2124. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2028 2016
- Nadeau, Nicola J., Pardo-Diaz, Carolina, Whibley, Annabel, Supple, Megan A., Saenko, Suzanne V., Wallbank, Richard W. R., Wu, Grace C., Maroja, Luana, Ferguson, Laura, Hanly, Joseph J., Hines, Heather, Salazar, Camilo, Merrill, Richard M., Dowling, Andrea J., ffrench-Constant, Richard, Llaurens, Violaine, Joron, Mathieu, McMillan, W. O., and Jiggins, Chris D. 2016. "The gene cortex controls mimicry and crypsis in butterflies and moths." Nature 534 (7605):106-110. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17961 2016
- Huber, B., Whibley, A., Poul, Y. L., Navarro, N., Martin, A., Baxter, S., Shah, A., Gilles, B., Wirth, T., McMillan, William Owen, and Joron, M. 2015. "Conservatism and novelty in the genetic architecture of adaptation in Heliconius butterflies." Heredity 114:515-524. https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2015.22 2015
- Ceron-Souza, Ivania, Gonzalez, Elena G., Schwarzbach, Andrea E., Salas-Leiva, Dayana, Rivera-Ocasio, Elsie, Toro-Perea, Nelson, Bermingham, Eldredge, and McMillan, William Owen. 2015. "Contrasting demographic history and gene flow patterns of two mangrove species on either side of the Central American Isthmus." Ecology and Evolution 5 (16):3486-3499. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1569 2015
- Supple, Megan A., Papa, Riccardo, Hines, Heather M., McMillan, W. O., and Counterman, Brian A. 2015. "Divergence with gene flow across a speciation continuum of Heliconius butterflies." BMC Evolutionary Biology 15 (1):204. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0486-y 2015
- López, Krisangel, Angeli, Cody, Aguilar, Celestino, Loaiza, Jose R., De León, Luis Fernando, McMillan, W. Owen, and Miller, Matthew J. 2015. "Extreme mitogenomic divergence between two syntopic specimens of Arremon aurantiirostris (Aves: Emberizidae) in central Panama suggests possible cryptic species." Mitochondrial DNA 1-3. https://doi.org/10.3109/19401736.2015.1066344 2015
- Piperno, Dolores R., Holst, Irene, Winter, Klaus, and McMillan, William Owen. 2015. "Teosinte before domestication: Experimental study of growth and phenotypic variability in Late Pleistocene and early Holocene environments." Quaternary International 363:65-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.12.049 2015
- Puebla, Oscar, Bermingham, Eldredge, and McMillan, William Owen. 2014. "Genomic atolls of differentiation in coral reef fishes (Hypoplectrus spp, Serranidae)." Molecular ecology 23 (21):5291-5303. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12926 2014
- Hammer, Tobin J., McMillan, William Owen, and Fierer, Noah. 2014. "Metamorphosis of a Butterfly-Associated Bacterial Community." PLoS ONE 9 (1):1-8. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0086995 2014
- Arias, Carlos F., Salazar, Camilo, Rosales, Claudia, Kronforst, Marcus R., Linares, Mauricio, Bermingham, Eldredge, and McMillan, William Owen. 2014. "Phylogeography of Heliconius cydno and its closest relatives: disentangling their origin and diversification." Molecular ecology 23 (16):4137-4152. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12844 2014
- Nadeau, Nicola J., Ruiz, Mayte, Salazar, Patricio, Counterman, Brian, Medina, Jose A., Ortiz-Zuazaga, Humberto, Morrison, Anna, McMillan, William Owen, Jiggins, Chris D., and Papa, Riccardo. 2014. "Population genomics of parallel hybrid zones in the mimetic butterflies, H. melpomene and H. erato." Genome research 24:1316-1333. https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.169292.113 2014
- Supple, Megan A., Hines, Heather M., Dasmahapatra, Kanchon K., Lewis, James J., Nielsen, Dahlia M., Lavoie, Christine, Ray, David A., Salazar, Camilo, McMillan, William Owen, and Counterman, Brian A. 2013. "Genomic architecture of adaptive color pattern divergence and convergence in Heliconius butterflies." Genome research 23 (8):1248-1257. https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.150615.112 2013
- Papa, Riccardo, Kapan, Durrell D., Counterman, Brian A., Maldonado, Karla, Lindstrom, Daniel P., Reed, Robert D., Nijhout, H. F., Hrbek, Tomas, and McMillan, William Owen. 2013. "Multi-allelic major effect genes interact with minor effect QTLs to control adaptive color pattern variation in Heliconius erato." PLoS ONE 8 (3):1-19. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0057033 2013
- Pardo-Diaz, Carolina, Salazar, Camilo, Baxter, Simon W., Merot, Claire, Figueiredo-Ready, Wilsea, Joron, Mathieu, McMillan, William Owen, and Jiggins, Chris D. 2012. "Adaptive Introgression across Species Boundaries in Heliconius Butterflies." Plos Genetics 8 (6):1-13. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002752 2012
- Dasmahapatra, Kanchon K., Walters, James R., Briscoe, Adriana D., Davey, John W., Whibley, Annabel, Nadeau, Nicola J., Zimin, Aleksey V., Hughes, Daniel S. T., Ferguson, Laura C., Martin, Simon H., Salazar, Camilo, Lewis, James J., Adler, Sebastian, Ahn, Seung-Joon, Baker, Dean A., Baxter, Simon W., Chamberlain, Nicola L., Chauhan, Ritika, Counterman, Brian A., Dalmay, Tamas, Gilbert, Lawrence E., Gordon, Karl, Heckel, David G., Hines, Heather M., Hoff, Katharina J. et al. 2012. "Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species." Nature 487 (7405):94-98. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11041 2012
- Cerón-Souza, Ivania, Bermingham, Eldredge, McMillan, William Owen, and Jones, Frank. 2012. "Comparative genetic structure of two mangrove species in Caribbean and Pacific estuaries of Panama." BMC Evolutionary Biology 12:205. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-12-205 2012
- Martin, Arnaud, Papa, Riccardo, Nadeau, Nicola J., Hill, Ryan I., Counterman, Brian A., Halder, Georg, Jiggins, Chris D., Kronforst, Marcus R., Long, Anthony D., McMillan, William Owen, and Reed, Robert D. 2012. "Diversification of complex butterfly wing patterns by repeated regulatory evolution of a Wnt ligand." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 (31):12632-12637. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1204800109 2012
- Puebla, Oscar, Bermingham, Eldredge, and McMillan, William Owen. 2012. "On the spatial scale of dispersal in coral reef fishes." Molecular ecology 21 (23):5675-5688. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05734.x 2012
- Maroja, Luana S., Alschuler, Rebecca, McMillan, William Owen, and Jiggins, Chris D. 2012. "Partial Complementarity of the Mimetic Yellow Bar Phenotype in Heliconius Butterflies." Plos One 7 (10):1-8. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048627 2012
- Arias, Carlos F., Rosales, Claudia, Salazar, Camilo, Castaño, Jully, Bermingham, Eldredge, Linares, Mauricio, and McMillan, William Owen. 2012. "Sharp genetic discontinuity across a unimodal Heliconius hybrid zone." Molecular ecology 21 (23):5778-5794. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05746.x 2012
- Hines, Heather M., Papa, Riccardo, Ruiz, Mayte, Papanicolaou, Alexie, Wang, Charles, Nijhout, Frederik, McMillan, William Owen, and Reed, Robert D. 2012. "Transcriptome analysis reveals novel patterning and pigmentation genes underlying Heliconius butterfly wing pattern variation." BMC Genomics 13:288. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-13-288 2012
- Hines, Heather M., Counterman, Brian A., Papa, Riccardo, de Moura, Priscila Albuquerque, Cardoso, Marcio Z., Linares, Mauricio, Mallet, James, Reed, Robert D., Jiggins, Chris D., Kronforst, Marcus R., and McMillan, W. Owen. 2012. "Wing patterning gene redefines the mimetic history of Heliconius butterflies." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108 (49):19666-19671. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1110096108 2012
- Merrill, Richard M., Gompert, Zachariah, Dembeck, Lauren M., Kronforst, Marcus R., McMillan, William Owen, and Jiggins, Chris D. 2011. "Mate preference across the speciation continuum in a clade of mimetic butterflies." Evolution 65 (5):1489-1500. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01216.x 2011
- Reed, Robert D., Papa, Riccardo, Martin, Arnaud, Hines, Heather M., Counterman, Brian A., Pardo-Diaz, Carolina, Jiggins, Chris D., Chamberlain, Nicola L., Kronforst, Marcus R., Chen, Rui, Halder, Georg, Nijhout, H. Frederik, and McMillan, William Owen. 2011. "optix Drives the Repeated Convergent Evolution of Butterfly Wing Pattern Mimicry." Science 333 (6046):1137-1141. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1208227 2011
- Baxter, Simon W., Nadeau, Nicola J., Maroja, Luana, Wilkinson, Paul, Counterman, Brian A., Dawson, Anna, Beltran, Margarita, Perez-Espona, Silvia, Chamberlain, Nicola, Ferguson, Laura, Clark, Richard, Davidson, Claire, Glithero, Rebecca, Mallet, James, McMillan, William Owen, Kronforst, Marcus, Joron, Mathieu, Ffrench-Constant, Richard H., and Jiggins, Chris D. 2010. "Genomic Hotspots for Adaptation: The Population Genetics of Mullerian Mimicry in the Heliconius melpomene Clade." Plos Genetics 6 (2):e1000794-e1000794. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000794 2010
- Cerón-Souza, Ivania, Rivera-Ocasio, Elsie, Medina, Ernesto, Jimenez, Jorge A., McMillan, William Owen, and Bermingham, Eldredge. 2010. "Hybridization and introgression in New World red mangroves, Rhizophora (Rhizophoraceae)." American Journal of Botany 97 (6):945-957. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.0900172 2010
- Perez-Buitrago, Nestor, Sabat, Alberto M., and McMillan, William Owen. 2010. "Spatial Ecology of the Endangered Mona Island Iguana Cyclura Cornuta Stejnegeri: Does Territorial Behavior Regulate Density?." Herpetological Monographs 24 (1):86-110. https://doi.org/10.1655/HERPMONOGRAPHS-D-09-039.1 2010
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- Supple, Megan, Papa, Riccardo, Counterman, Brian A., and McMillan, William Owen. 2014. "The Genomics of an Adaptive Radiation: Insights Across the Heliconius Speciation Continuum." in Ecological Genomics: Ecology and the Evolution of Genes and Genomes, edited by Landry, Christian R. and Aubin-Horth, Nadia., 249-271. Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7347-9_13 2014
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- Edelman, Nathaniel B., Frandsen, Paul B., Miyagi, Michael, Clavijo, Bernardo, Davey, John, Dikow, Rebecca, García-Accinelli, Gonzalo, Van Belleghem, Steven, Patterson, Nick, Neafsey, Daniel E., Challis, Richard, Kumar, Sujai, Moreira, Gilson, Salazar, Camilo, Chouteau, Mathieu, Counterman, Brian, Papa, Riccardo, Blaxter, Mark, Reed, Robert D., Dasmahapatra, Kanchon, Kronforst, Marcus, Joron, Mathieu, Jiggins, Chris D., McMillan, W. O., Di Palma, Federica et al. 2018. [Report] Genomic architecture and introgression shape a butterfly radiation. Evolutionary Biology. http://biorxiv.org/lookup/doi/10.1101/466292. 2018
Hench, Kosmas, Helmkampf, Martin, McMillan, W. Owen, and Puebla, Oscar. 2022. "Rapid radiation in a highly diverse marine environment." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, (4). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2020457119. 2022
Ogilvie, James G., Van Belleghem, Steven, Range, Ryan, Papa, Riccardo, McMillan, W. O., Chouteau, Mathieu, and Counterman, Brian A. 2021. "Balanced polymorphisms and their divergence in a Heliconius butterfly." Ecology and Evolution, ece3.8423. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8423. 2021
Leray, Matthieu, Wilkins, Laetitia G. E., Apprill, Amy, Bik, Holly M., Clever, Friederike, Connolly, Sean R., De Leon, Marina E., Duffy, J. Emmett, Ezzat, Leila, Gignoux-Wolfsohn, Sarah, Herre, Edward Allen, Kaye, Jonathan Z., Kline, David I., Kueneman, Jordan G., McCormick, Melissa K., McMillan, W. Owen, O'Dea, Aaron, Pereira, Tiago J., Petersen, Jillian M., Petticord, Daniel F., Torchin, Mark E., Vega Thurber, Rebecca, Videvall, Elin, Wcislo, William T., Yuen, Benedict et al. 2021. "Natural experiments and long-term monitoring are critical to understand and predict marine host-microbe ecology and evolution." Plos Biology, 19, (8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001322. 2021
González-Rojas, M. F., Darragh, K., Robles, J., Linares, M., Schulz, S., McMillan, W. O., Jiggins, C. D., Pardo-Diaz, C., and Salazar, C. 2020. "Chemical signals act as the main reproductive barrier between sister and mimetic Heliconius butterflies." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287, (1926) 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0587. 2020
Van Schooten, Bas, Meléndez-Rosa, Jesyka, Van Belleghem, Steven M., Jiggins, Chris D., Tan, John D., McMillan, W. Owen, and Papa, Riccardo. 2020. "Divergence of chemosensing during the early stages of speciation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117, (28) 16438–16447. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1921318117. 2020
McMillan, W. Owen, Livraghi, Luca, Concha, Carolina, and Hanly, Joseph J. 2020. "From Patterning Genes to Process: Unraveling the Gene Regulatory Networks That PatternHeliconiusWings." Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.00221. 2020
Hammer, Tobin J., Dickerson, Jacob C., McMillan, W. Owen, and Fierer, Noah. 2020. "Heliconius Butterflies Host Characteristic and Phylogenetically Structured Adult-Stage Microbiomes." Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 86, (24). https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02007-20. 2020
Alda, Fernando, Adams, Alexandria J., McMillan, W. Owen, and Chakrabarty, Prosanta. 2017. "Complete mitochondrial genomes of three Neotropical sleeper gobies: Eleotris amblyopsis, E. picta and Hemieleotris latifasciata (Gobiiformes: Eleotridae)." Mitochondrial Dna Part B-Resources, 2, (2) 747–750. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2017.1390412. 2017
Darragh, Kathy, Vanjari, Sohini, Mann, Florian, Gonzalez-Rojas, Maria F., Morrison, Colin R., Salazar, Camilo, Pardo-Diaz, Carolina, Merrill, Richard M., McMillan, W. Owen, Schulz, Stefan, and Jiggins, Chris D. 2017. "Male sex pheromone components in Heliconius butterflies released by the androconia affect female choice." Peerj, 5. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3953. 2017
Theodosiou, L., McMillan, William Owen, and Puebla, Oscar. 2016. "Recombination in the eggs and sperm in a simultaneously hermaphroditic vertebrate." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1821. 2016

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