CSIC CSIC en Catalunya Biomedicina BCN UPF Medicine and Life Sciences Butterfly Diversity & Evolution Lab The study includes the first-ever report on this unique morphology among fly larvae: a "termite mask" on the back of the body, complete with false eyes and antennae. It is the first blow fly capable of socially integrating with harvester termites.🪰🪱 👉youtu.be/Gl-PRFsii08

Congratulations Mattia! Well deserved!

📣 AGCTually Annotating Genomes🧬🧩 The Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) Biodiversity Program launches the Workshop on Genome Annotation at UPF Barcelona, bringing together researchers, technicians, and master’s & PhD students. #UnravellingEvolution 👉ibe.upf-csic.es/home/-/asset_p…

New paper! We uncover the intriguing biogeographic history behind the Holarctic disjunct distributions in Vanessa butterflies. Led by Aleix Palahí i Torres (he/they) #butterflymigration #insectmigration #biogeography #evolution #PhyloMigrationLab Institut Botànic de Barcelona CSIC Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Another paper on polyommatine blue butterflies just published in GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution). Blues have high chromosome numbers associated with increased diversification and their karyotypes reveal strategies to maintain genomic integrity amidst profound karyotypic changes

La història de l'animal amb més cromosomes🧬🦋 📕 Un equip del Wellcome Sanger Institute i l'Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) ha confirmat genèticament que la papallona Blaveta de l’Atles posseeix el nombre més gran de cromosomes de tots els animals multicel·lulars del món.🧵 👉 ibe.upf-csic.es/es/home/-/asse…

Experts have found that chromosomes of the Atlas blue butterfly were split up over the last 3 million years, leading to 229 pairs. 🦋 This confirms that it has the highest number of chromosomes out of all animals, and now, researchers can explore why. sanger.ac.uk/news_item/the-…

A first comprehensive quantitative approach at the taxonomy of the Temnothorax algiricus group brings recognizes only 3 good species out of 13 described taxa... Researchgate: tinyurl.com/3wpambh3 Zootaxa updates  doi.org/10.1093/isd/ix…

🦋 La Niña del Atlas, la mariposa que se rompió en 200 pedazos y sobrevivió ver.abc.es/zmpna

Polyommatine Blue Butterflies Reveal Unexpected Integrity of the W Sex Chromosome Amid Extensive Chromosomal Fragmentation Linked to Telomere Restoration GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution) academic.oup.com/gbe/article/17…

📣 Mattia Menchetti’s PhD thesis at Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) “Exploring the genetic diversity of European ants and butterflies” 🐜🦋 has received both the Extraordinary Doctoral Award from #UPFBarcelona and the III Premio Tesis Doctoral Relevante from CSIC. 🏆 👉shorturl.at/hbOjE