Mathieu Joron
Mathieu Joron’s work is about how natural selection shapes genetic varation and phenotypes in nature. He uses use butterflies as models, whose wing patterns are naturally diverse, play an important role in population ecology, and are amenable to experimental and genetic study. With a PhD from Montpellier, he has worked in Leiden, Edinburgh, London, Paris, and Amazonian Peru. His research has focused on the evolution and maintenance of supergenes underlying mimicry in Amazonian butterflies. Other lines of research include how butterfly species form, how they adapt along the altitudinal gradient, and on the evolution of melanism in moths.
