O caso do melanismo industrial na mariposa Biston betularia é bastante popular, mas foi alvo de fortes críticas. Afinal, será que é mesmo um bom exemplo de seleção natural?
Design de capa: Agência ND — Nícolas Vargas.
Posts do Jerry Coyne sobre o tema:
Artigos:
A.E. van’t Hof, N. Edmonds, M. Dalíková, F. Marec, and I. J Saccheri. 2011. Industrial melanism in British peppered moths has a singular and recent mutational origin,” Science 332:958-960.
Cook, L. M., B. S. Grant, I. J. Saccheri and J. Mallet. 2012. Selective bird predation on the peppered moth: the last experiment of Michael Majerus. Biology Letters online,:doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1136.
Hoekstra, H. E., J. M. Hoekstra, D. Berrigan, S. N. Vignieri, A. Hoang, C. E. Hill, P. Beerli, and J. G. Kingsolver. 2001. Strength and tempo of directional selection in the wild. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 98:9157-9160.
Kingsolver, J. G., H. E. Hoekstra, J. M. Hoekstra, D. Berrigan, S. N. Vignieri, C. E. Hill, A. Hoang, P. Gibert, and P. Beerli. 2001. The strength of phenotypic selection in natural populations. American Naturalist 157:245-261.
van’t Hof, A. et al. 2016. The industrial melanism mutation in British peppered moths is a transposable element. Nature 534:102-105.
Nadeau, N. J. et al. 2016. The gene cortex controls mimicry and crypsis in butterflies and moths. Nature 534:106-110.
