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Wonderful inter-lab retreat in the Pyrenees! Sharing and planning research with colleagues with common interests in #butterflymigration: Isotope and movement ecology, population dynamics, evolutionary genomics, and comparative phylogenetics. Research is even better with friends!

Congratulations Mukta! A very interesting paper and a great collaboration.

Our Atlas of genetic diversity of w-palearctic #butterflies is finally out! You can download it for free at: github.com/leondap/iodata… DOI: doi.org/10.1111/geb.13…

A new method for ancestral range estimation (ARE) that models the geographic distribution of extinct species: AREs improve when rates of vicariant speciation are higher than rates of in situ speciation, and at high rates of extinction and range evolution doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14…

See how genetic diversity increases with time since introduccion. J. D'Ercole et al, Patterns of DNA barcode diversity in butterfly species (Lepidoptera) introduced to the Nearctic eje.cz/artkey/eje-202… Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) ZEN LAB - Numerical and Experimental Zoology Lab Butterfly Migration Vlad Dinca International Barcode of Life Consortium (iBOL)

Our newest review published in Insect Conservation and Diversity is showing how genomics can be used in butterfly/insect conservation 🐛🦋and what we need to do to make it real. The idea originated as #writingchallenge ✍️in Pável Matos lab Biology Centre CAS resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ic…

Researchers predicted the location of the winter breeding grounds of painted lady butterflies with ecological niche modeling and validated the results with field observations over 2yrs at sites in tropical Africa. In PNAS: ow.ly/EcNQ50NGjO5

So many great lepidopterists together in one place! #bob2023

#NationalMothWeek, day 4! This is one of my favorite examples of camouflage in nature - the Dead Leaf Moth! Moth looks like a rolled dead leaf. Uropyia meticulodina. Photo: WC Chang. #MothWeek

PHD CONTRACT ON BUTTERFLY GENOMICS The Butterfly Diversity & Evolution Lab in Barcelona offers a 4-year PhD contract. If you are interested, please send to Roger Vila ([email protected]) a brief letter of motivation, CV, and the BS and MS academic record (with average grades).

⚠ Bad news! We report for the first time the establishment of a population of the #invasive fire #ant #Solenopsis invicta in Europe (#Sicily, #Italy). Researchgate - tinyurl.com/yc63tzz2 Current Biology doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

Fishing the sky! Back from a thrilling 3-week journey aboard #NationalGeographicExplorer in #SouthAmerica studying insects dispersing over the sea and the #AmazonRiver Lindblad Expeditions National Geographic National Geographic Society Institut Botànic de Barcelona CSIC #InsectMigration #Biodiversity #Research

In today's nature, a study shows that remote teams produce fewer breakthroughs! Disruptive science is more likely to come from groups working in close collaboration. 'Night science' discussions may require the kind of energy that's communicated in person. nature.com/articles/s4158…

How dot-maps can be deceiving. On the left a 5km grid of the Grizzled Skipper (Pyrgus malvae) in NL. In reality many of its populations are very small (right map), some less than a hectare and barely visible. And the right map is actually too positive, as the period is longer.

Important new paper on the rare endemic Piedmont anomalous blue (Polyommatus humedasae), threatened by woody encroachment, climate change, fires and collection. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Nice overview of some brilliant studies of butterfly parasites and their hyperparasites. Yet more miracles of evolution

Out in ME! New study by Valéria Marques, Butterfly Diversity & Evolution Lab et al. on the small tortoiseshell butterfly reveals the impacts of glacial cycles on the genetic structure and evolution of cold-tolerant species! 🧬🦋🏔️ Wiley Ecology & Evolution Read more: buff.ly/3UW83kF 📷: Vlad Dinca

1/7 I’m pleased to announce that my main PhD Chapter on the impact of chromosomal fusions and fissions on speciation of Erebia butterflies is now out in Science Advances: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 🥳🦋✨

How did the Quaternary ice ages shape W Palearctic biodiversity? Using 31,000+🧬sequences of ~500 butterfly🦋 species we objectively identified glacial refugia, colonization routes, and dispersal barriers at an unprecedented level! Out in Science Advances! doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…

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…