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A Comprehensive and Dated Phylogenomic Analysis of Butterflies

scientific article

A combined genetic-morphometric analysis unravels the complex biogeographical history of Polyommatus icarus and Polyommatus celina common blue butterflies.

scientific article published on 24 August 2011

A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins ⬇️

scientific article published in 2023

A macroevolutionary role for chromosomal fusion and fission in Erebia butterflies

A mirage of cryptic species: Genomics uncover striking mitonuclear discordance in the butterfly Thymelicus sylvestris

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

A phylogenetic revision of the Glaucopsyche section (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), with special focus on the Phengaris–Maculinea clade

scientific article (publication date: October 2011)

A unified framework for diversity gradients: the adaptive trait continuum

scientific article published in 2012

An inducible helix-Gly-Gly-helix motif in the N-terminal domain of histone H1e: a CD and NMR study

scientific article

Ancient Neotropical origin and recent recolonisation: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea).

scientific article published on 8 August 2015

Assigning occurrence data to cryptic taxa improves climatic niche assessments: Biodecrypt, a new tool tested on European butterflies

scientific article published in 2020

Biogeography and systematics of Aricia butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae).

scientific article

Butterfly–parasitoid–hostplant interactions in Western Palaearctic Hesperiidae: a DNA barcoding reference library ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 July 2022

Climate change may cause the extinction of the butterfly Lasiommata petropolitana in the Apennines

Climatic niche evolution is faster in sympatric than allopatric lineages of the butterfly genus Pyrgus

scientific article

Complete DNA barcode reference library for a country's butterfly fauna reveals high performance for temperate Europe

scientific article published on 11 August 2010

Corrigendum: DNA barcodes highlight unique research models in European butterflies

scholarly article published in Genome

DNA Barcoding of an Assembly of Montane Andean Butterflies (Satyrinae): Geographical Scale and Identification Performance

scientific article

DNA barcode reference library for Iberian butterflies enables a continental-scale preview of potential cryptic diversity

scientific article published on 24 July 2015

DNA-induced alpha-helical structure in the NH2-terminal domain of histone H1.

scientific article

Delimiting Continuity: Comparison of Target Enrichment and ddRAD for Delineating Admixing Parapatric Melitaea Butterflies

Delimiting continuity: Comparison of target enrichment and double digest restriction‐site associated DNA sequencing for delineating admixing parapatric Melitaea butterflies

Dissecting the Effects of Selection and Mutation on Genetic Diversity in Three Wood White (Leptidea) Butterfly Species

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Do Holarctic ant species exist? Trans-Beringian dispersal and homoplasy in the Formicidae

Dynamic karyotype evolution and unique sex determination systems in Leptidea wood white butterflies.

scientific article published on 19 May 2015

Ecological specialization is associated with genetic structure in the ant-associated butterfly family Lycaenidae

scientific article published on 12 September 2018

Establishing criteria for higher-level classification using molecular data: the systematics of Polyommatus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) ⬇️

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Evolution of multiple sex-chromosomes associated with dynamic genome reshuffling in Leptidea wood-white butterflies

scientific article published on 09 June 2020

Exploitation of the invasive Asian Hornet Vespa velutina by the European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus

scientific article published on 26 September 2019

Gene expression profiling across ontogenetic stages in the wood white (Leptidea sinapis) reveals pathways linked to butterfly diapause regulation

scientific article published on 7 February 2018

Genetic assessment and climate modelling of the Iberian specialist butterfly Euchloe bazae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)

Genomics Reveal Admixture and Unexpected Patterns of Diversity in a Parapatric Pair of Butterflies

scientific article published on 20 December 2021

Genomics of extreme ecological specialists: multiple convergent evolution but no genetic divergence between ecotypes of Maculinea alcon butterflies

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Global invasion history of the agricultural pest butterfly Pieris rapae revealed with genomics and citizen science ⬇️

scientific article published on 10 September 2019

High resolution DNA barcode library for European butterflies reveals continental patterns of mitochondrial genetic diversity

scientific article published on 09 March 2021

Historical and contemporary factors generate unique butterfly communities on islands

scientific article

Host plant diet affects growth and induces altered gene expression and microbiome composition in the wood white (Leptidea sinapis) butterfly

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

How common are dot-like distributions? Taxonomical oversplitting in western European Agrodiaetus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) revealed by chromosomal and molecular markers

scholarly article by Roger Vila et al published 24 August 2010 in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

How long is 3 km for a butterfly? Ecological constraints and functional traits explain high mitochondrial genetic diversity between Sicily and the Italian Peninsula

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

In the shadow of phylogenetic uncertainty: the recent diversification of Lysandra butterflies through chromosomal change

scientific article

Induction of secondary structure in a COOH-terminal peptide of histone H1 by interaction with the DNA: an infrared spectroscopy study

scientific journal article

Integrating three comprehensive data sets shows that mitochondrial DNA variation is linked to species traits and paleogeographic events in European butterflies

scientific article published on 23 August 2019

Integrative Taxonomy Reveals a New Melitaea (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) Species Widely Distributed in the Iberian Peninsula ⬇️

scientific article published in March 2022

Integrative analyses on Western Palearctic Lasiommata reveal a mosaic of nascent butterfly species

scientific article published in 2020

Integrative analyses unveil speciation linked to host plant shift in Spialia butterflies

scientific article

Integrative taxonomy reveals cryptic diversity in North American Lasius ants, and an overlooked introduced species ⬇️

scientific article published on 8 April 2022

Lack of gene flow: Narrow and dispersed differentiation islands in a triplet of Leptidea butterfly species

scientific article published on 08 August 2019

Long-distance autumn migration across the Sahara by painted lady butterflies: exploiting resource pulses in the tropical savannah

scientific article published in October 2016

Migratory behavior is positively associated with genetic diversity in butterflies

scientific article published in 2022

Molecular evidence of hybridization in sympatric populations of the Enantia jethys complex (Lepidoptera: Pieridae).

scientific article

Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea): higher classification and biogeography

scholarly article by MICHAEL F. BRABY et al published June 2006 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Morphological and chemical analysis of male scent organs in the butterfly genus Pyrgus (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)

article by Juan L. Hernández-Roldán et al published 14 March 2014 in Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Out of the Orient: Post‐Tethyan transoceanic and trans‐Arabian routes fostered the spread of Baorini skippers in the Afrotropics

scientific article published in 2019

Patterns of DNA barcode diversity in butterfly species (Lepidoptera) introduced to the Nearctic

scientific article published in 2022

Phenotypic biomarkers of climatic impacts on declining insect populations: A key role for decadal drought, thermal buffering and amplification effects and host plant dynamics

scientific article published on 03 February 2019

Phylogeny and palaeoecology of Polyommatus blue butterflies show Beringia was a climate-regulated gateway to the New World

scientific article published on 26 January 2011

Phylogeny of the ants: diversification in the age of angiosperms

scientific article

Pollen metabarcoding as a tool for tracking long-distance insect migrations

scientific article published on 08 November 2018

Rapid Increase in Genome Size as a Consequence of Transposable Element Hyperactivity in Wood-White (Leptidea) Butterflies

scientific article published on October 2017

Rapid colour shift by reproductive character displacement in Cupido butterflies

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

Rearrangement of the Agrodiaetus dolus species group (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) using a new cytological approach and molecular data

article

Reproductive isolation and patterns of genetic differentiation in a cryptic butterfly species complex

scientific article

Round-trip across the Sahara: Afrotropical Painted Lady butterflies recolonize the Mediterranean in early spring

article

Sequence complexity of histone H1 subtypes.

scientific article published in March 2003

Species-Level Para- and Polyphyly in DNA Barcode Gene Trees: Strong Operational Bias in European Lepidoptera

scientific article (publication date: November 2016)

Synergistic effects of combining morphological and molecular data in resolving the phylogeny of butterflies and skippers

scientific article

The Pleistocene species pump past its prime: Evidence from European butterfly sister species

scientific article published in 2021

The Pleistocene species pump past its prime: evidence from European butterfly sister species

The atlas of mitochondrial genetic diversity for Western Palaearctic butterflies

scientific article published in 2022

The conundrum of species delimitation: a genomic perspective on a mitogenetically super-variable butterfly

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

The evolution of alternative parasitic life histories in large blue butterflies

scientific article

The genome sequence of the lesser marbled fritillary, Brenthis ino, and evidence for a segregating neo-Z chromosome

scientific article published on 01 May 2022

The genome sequence of the scarce swallowtail, <i>Iphiclides podalirius</i>

scientific article published in 2022

The sibling species Leptidea juvernica and L. sinapis (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) in the Balkan Peninsula: ecology, genetic structure, and morphological variation

scientific article published on 12 December 2015

Tracing the origin of disjunct distributions: a case of biogeographical convergence in Pyrgus butterflies

scholarly article by Juan L. Hernández-Roldán et al published 8 July 2011 in Journal of Biogeography

Two consecutive Wolbachia ‐mediated mitochondrial introgressions obscure taxonomy in Palearctic swallowtail butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae)

scientific article published in 2019

Unexpected layers of cryptic diversity in wood white Leptidea butterflies

scientific article (publication date: May 2011)

Unprecedented within-species chromosome number cline in the Wood White butterfly Leptidea sinapis and its significance for karyotype evolution and speciation

scientific article

Use of genetic, climatic, and microbiological data to inform reintroduction of a regionally extinct butterfly.

scientific article published on 22 March 2018

Versatility of multivalent orientation, inverted meiosis, and rescued fitness in holocentric chromosomal hybrids

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Why do cryptic species tend not to co-occur? A case study on two cryptic pairs of butterflies.

scientific article

recluster: an unbiased clustering procedure for beta-diversity turnover

scientific article published in 2013

More hidden diversity in a cryptic species complex: a new subspecies of (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) from Northern Iran

Unrecognized for centuries: distribution and sexual caste descriptions of the West European Aphaenogaster species of the subterranea group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 March 2023

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