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List of works by Gerard Talavera

A Comprehensive and Dated Phylogenomic Analysis of Butterflies

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2023

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

scientific article published on 8 August 2015

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

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

scientific article published on 20 July 2022

Corrigendum: DNA barcodes highlight unique research models in European butterflies

scholarly article published in Genome

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

scientific article published on 24 July 2015

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

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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Evolutionary trade-offs between male secondary sexual traits revealed by a phylogeny of the hyperdiverse tribe Eumaeini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

scientific article published in 2021

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

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

scientific article published on 10 September 2019

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

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

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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 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

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

scientific article published on 8 April 2022

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

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

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published on 08 November 2018

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

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Spatio-temporal ecological niche modelling of multigenerational insect migrations

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

The K tree score: quantification of differences in the relative branch length and topology of phylogenetic trees

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The atlas of mitochondrial genetic diversity for Western Palaearctic butterflies

scientific article published in 2022

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

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

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What is the phylogenetic signal limit from mitogenomes? The reconciliation between mitochondrial and nuclear data in the Insecta class phylogeny

scientific article (publication date: 27 October 2011)

When caterpillars attack: Biogeography and life history evolution of the Miletinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).

scientific article published on 27 February 2015

recluster: an unbiased clustering procedure for beta-diversity turnover

scientific article published in 2013