Out of Africa: the journey of the #Mauritiinae #palm from #Africa to the #Amazon, where it now is a #hyperdominant endemic. Inspiring collaboration with Nicolas Chazot and team | Biology Letters royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

New paper! When we metabarcode a bottle of arthropods, we get a lot of sequences. But in many regions most species have not been barcoded before, so there is nothing to match to and we find unknown species. Then what? Introducing BayesANT: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20…

New paper out with Jens Svenning with where we find that climate warming and habitat conversion have had synergistic effects on biodiversity change, both in terms of which species have done worse, and which have done better over the past 60 years. doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Our bimonthly newsletter is out today ahead of the holiday period, with announcements, progress info and team, photo and researcher of the month. You can find all our newsletters here: helsinki.fi/en/projects/li…

@krushnamegh Dipendra Vaishali Bhaumik National Centre for Biological Sciences Congratulations to all the authors!!

Our new paper about diversification rates and what patterns can be inferred from phylogenies in the light of non-identifiability is out now. Great work lead by Bjørn Kopperud and @afmagee42 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Registration for the Biology of #Butterflies 2023 Conference #BoB2023 has been OPENED! Deadline for Abstract Submission is on 14th April 2023, but do not miss our excursions and/or accommodation directly in the conference venue. Please RT! bob2023.cz/registration-a…

Reminder of the gaps in our understanding of insect classification -- a new family of large moths! "Hiding in Plain Sight: Phylogenomics Reveals a New Branch on the Noctuoidea Tree of Life" biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #NMNH #Lepidoptera #Smithsonian #DNA

Now online in the "just accepted" article list @ASNAmNat: with Anna Wisniewski and Jon Nations Bayesian prediction of multivariate ecology from phenotypic data yields new insights into the diets of extant and extinct taxa journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Our latest study on macroevolutionary patterns of phenology in european geometrid moths: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/je…

Our new #butterfly🦋 #evolution paper is finally out in Science Advances. "Evidence for a single, ancient origin of a genus-wide alternative life history strategy": science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #Butterflies🦋 #Color #AncientPolymorphisms #introgression #CRISPR🧵🧵🧵

Introducing symposia for #BoB2023: "Butterfly communities: Evolutionary assembly, ecological dynamics, and multi-trophic interactions" chaired by Marianne Elias and @krushnamegh. Submit your contribution till 14 April! #ecology Please RT and share with lepidopterists!

🚨Our paper showing the impact of extinctions on diversity facets is out🚨 We combine data on interaction networks, species distribution modeling and extinction simulations, to examine how extinction, driven by climate and land use changes affect different facets of diversity

rtrees: an R package to assemble phylogenetic trees from megatrees onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #rstats #phylogeny #supertree

We've cracked the code on 100’s bird species' demographic responses to #ClimateChange over the past million years! 🐦🌏 #genomics Congrats to our members @Ryan__Germain as first author and David Nogues-Bravo Peter Hosner Carsten Rahbek Jon Fjeldsa nature.com/articles/s4155…

Macroecological diversification of ants is linked to angiosperm evolution 🐜 doi.org/10.1093/evlett… Now Evolution Letters by Matthew P Nelsen, Corrie S Moreau, C Kevin Boyce, and Richard H Ree

Are you interested in geometrid moths? I am happy to share our latest phylogenomic study. With thousand genes from whole genome assemblies, we provide new classifications and some thoughts on the deepest relationships. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/Q3VTIA8C…

📢New study🦋"Rapid radiation of ant parasitic butterflies during the Miocene aridification of Africa" analysed phylogeography of Lepidochrysops, African butterflies associated with ants. By Marianne Espeland, co-authored by Robert Tropek in Ecology and Evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Does the acquisition of symbionts lead to higher or lower rates of diversification in insects? Trick question - its's both! nature.com/articles/s4155… Lee Henry Toby Kiers Charlie Cornwallis

In this paper we summarize how the Amazon flora evolved in the past 20 million years, from wetland to riverscape and from high to low diverse annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…