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

An updated checklist of the European Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea)

(2019) Martin Wiemers et al.   ZooKeys

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

(2019) Leonardo Dapporto et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

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

(2019) Vlad Dincă et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Optimising trait and source selection for explaining occurrence and abundance changes: A case study using British butterflies

(2018) Joe Middleton-Welling et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Historical and current patterns of gene flow in the butterfly Pararge aegeria

(2018) Luca Livraghi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Large Variation in the Ratio of Mitochondrial to Nuclear Mutation Rate across Animals: Implications for Genetic Diversity and the Use of Mitochondrial DNA as a Molecular Marker

(2017) Remi Allio et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Island biogeography: Taking the long view of nature’s laboratories

(2017) Robert J. Whittaker et al.   SCIENCE

Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits

(2016) Marco Moretti et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Toward a paradigm shift in comparative phylogeography driven by trait-based hypotheses

(2016) Anna Papadopoulou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Historical and contemporary factors generate unique butterfly communities on islands

(2016) Raluca Vodă et al.   Scientific Reports

Why Do Cryptic Species Tend Not to Co-Occur? A Case Study on Two Cryptic Pairs of Butterflies

(2015) Raluca Vodă et al.   PLoS One

Cryptic matters: overlooked species generate most butterfly beta-diversity

(2014) Raluca Vodă et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Comparative population genomics in animals uncovers the determinants of genetic diversity

(2014) J. Romiguier et al.   NATURE

Dispersal and the transition to sympatry in vertebrates

(2014) A. L. Pigot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ecology has contrasting effects on genetic variation within species versus rates of molecular evolution across species in water beetles

(2014) T. Fujisawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

CLIMBER: Climatic niche characteristics of the butterflies in Europe

(2014) Oliver Schweiger et al.   ZooKeys

Mitochondrial lineage sorting in action – historical biogeography of the Hyles euphorbiae complex (Sphingidae, Lepidoptera) in Italy

(2013) Michael B Mende et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phylogeography: spanning the ecology-evolution continuum

(2013) Katharine Ann Marske et al.   ECOGRAPHY

MIGRATION, MITOCHONDRIA, AND THE YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER

(2013) David P. L. Toews et al.   EVOLUTION

Palaearctic biogeography revisited: evidence for the existence of a North African refugium for Western Palaearctic biota

(2013) Martin Husemann et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Identifying zones of phenetic compression in West Mediterranean butterflies (Satyrinae): refugia, invasion and hybridization

(2012) Leonardo Dapporto et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Species interactions constrain geographic range expansion over evolutionary time

(2012) Alex L. Pigot et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Nestedness in island faunas: novel insights into island biogeography through butterfly community profiles of colonization ability and migration capacity

(2012) Roger L. H. Dennis et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Mentawai’s endemic, relictual fauna: is it evidence for Pleistocene extinctions on Sumatra?

(2012) Andreas Wilting et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Founder takes all: density-dependent processes structure biodiversity

(2012) Jonathan M. Waters et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Barcoding's next top model: an evaluation of nucleotide substitution models for specimen identification

(2012) Rupert A. Collins et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Differences in the climatic debts of birds and butterflies at a continental scale

(2012) Vincent Devictor et al.   Nature Climate Change

On the inappropriate use of Kimura-2-parameter (K2P) divergences in the DNA-barcoding literature

(2011) Amrita Srivathsan et al.   CLADISTICS

A meta-analysis of the traits affecting dispersal ability in butterflies: can wingspan be used as a proxy?

(2011) Sandhya Sekar   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

A combined genetic-morphometric analysis unravels the complex biogeographical history of Polyommatus icarus and Polyommatus celina Common Blue butterflies

(2011) VLAD DINCĂ et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Invading a refugium: post glacial replacement of the ancestral lineage of a Nymphalid butterfly in the West Mediterranean

(2011) Leonardo Dapporto et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Shift happens! Shifting balance and the evolution of diversity in warning colour and mimicry

(2010) JAMES MALLET   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Ecology Predicts Levels of Genetic Differentiation in Neotropical Birds

(2009) Curtis W. Burney et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The erratic mitochondrial clock: variations of mutation rate, not population size, affect mtDNA diversity across birds and mammals

(2009) Benoit Nabholz et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Mitochondrial DNA as a marker of molecular diversity: a reappraisal

(2009) N. GALTIER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Modelling the effect of habitat fragmentation on range expansion in a butterfly

(2009) R. J Wilson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Identification and dynamics of a cryptic suture zone in tropical rainforest

(2009) C Moritz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Determination of Mitochondrial Genetic Diversity in Mammals

(2008) Benoit Nabholz et al.   GENETICS

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: A general dynamic theory of oceanic island biogeography

(2008) Robert J. Whittaker et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY