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

A diversification relay race from Caribbean-Mesoamerica to the Andes: historical biogeography of Xylophanes hawkmoths

(2022) Xuankun Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Global geographical and latitudinal variation in butterfly species richness captured through a comprehensive country‐level occurrence database

(2022) Stefan Pinkert et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The unresolved phylogenomic tree of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera): Assessing the potential causes and consequences

(2022) Jadranka Rota et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research

(2022) Adriano Rutz et al.   eLife

LepTraits 1.0 A globally comprehensive dataset of butterfly traits

(2022) Vaughn Shirey et al.   Scientific Data

Genome-wide macroevolutionary signatures of key innovations in butterflies colonizing new host plants

(2021) Rémi Allio et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2021) Wendy A. Valencia-Montoya et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Adding leaves to the Lepidoptera tree: capturing hundreds of nuclear genes from old museum specimens

(2021) Christoph Mayer et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral ecological networks through time for pierid butterflies and their host plants

(2021) Mariana P. Braga et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Conserved ancestral tropical niche but different continental histories explain the latitudinal diversity gradient in brush-footed butterflies

(2021) Nicolas Chazot et al.   Nature Communications

IQ-TREE 2: New Models and Efficient Methods for Phylogenetic Inference in the Genomic Era

(2020) Bui Quang Minh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Great American Biotic Interchange revisited: a new perspective from the stable isotope record of Argentine Pampas fossil mammals

(2020) Laura Domingo et al.   Scientific Reports

Bayesian Inference of Ancestral Host-parasite Interactions under a Phylogenetic Model of Host Repertoire Evolution

(2020) Mariana P Braga et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Disproportionate extinction of South American mammals drove the asymmetry of the Great American Biotic Interchange

(2020) Juan D. Carrillo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Afrotropics on the wing: phylogenomics and historical biogeography of awl and policeman skippers

(2020) Emmanuel F.A. Toussaint et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Priors and Posteriors in Bayesian Timing of Divergence Analyses: The Age of Butterflies Revisited

(2019) Nicolas Chazot et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Whole genome shotgun phylogenomics resolves the pattern and timing of swallowtail butterfly evolution

(2019) Rémi Allio et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogenomics reveals the evolutionary timing and pattern of butterflies and moths

(2019) Akito Y. Kawahara et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Constructing a broadly inclusive seed plant phylogeny

(2018) Stephen A. Smith et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Anchored phylogenomics illuminates the skipper butterfly tree of life

(2018) Emmanuel F. A. Toussaint et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A Comprehensive and Dated Phylogenomic Analysis of Butterflies

(2018) Marianne Espeland et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Phylogenetics of moth-like butterflies (Papilionoidea: Hedylidae) based on a new 13-locus target capture probe set

(2018) Akito Y. Kawahara et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Unifying host-associated diversification processes using butterfly–plant networks

(2018) Mariana P. Braga et al.   Nature Communications

Four hundred shades of brown: Higher level phylogeny of the problematic Euptychiina (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae) based on hybrid enrichment data

(2018) Marianne Espeland et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation

(2017) Diep Thi Hoang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Resolving Relationships among the Megadiverse Butterflies and Moths with a Novel Pipeline for Anchored Phylogenomics

(2017) Jesse W. Breinholt et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Fossil butterflies, calibration points and the molecular clock (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)

(2017) RIENK DE JONG   ZOOTAXA

Larval host records of butterflies in Japan

(2016) Masayuki U. Saito et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Detecting Hidden Diversification Shifts in Models of Trait-Dependent Speciation and Extinction

(2016) Jeremy M. Beaulieu et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Improved community detection in weighted bipartite networks

(2016) Stephen J. Beckett   Royal Society Open Science

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

(2015) Zofia A. Kaliszewska et al.   EVOLUTION

Dispersal is a major driver of the latitudinal diversity gradient of Carnivora

(2015) Jonathan Rolland et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A metacalibrated time-tree documents the early rise of flowering plant phylogenetic diversity

(2015) Susana Magallón et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The butterfly plant arms-race escalated by gene and genome duplications

(2015) Patrick P. Edger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Model Inadequacy and Mistaken Inferences of Trait-Dependent Speciation

(2015) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Automatic Detection of Key Innovations, Rate Shifts, and Diversity-Dependence on Phylogenetic Trees

(2014) Daniel L. Rabosky   PLoS One

The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores

(2014) Matthew L. Forister et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence for global cooling in the Late Cretaceous

(2014) Christian Linnert et al.   Nature Communications

BAMMtools: an R package for the analysis of evolutionary dynamics on phylogenetic trees

(2014) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

TESTING THE MUSEUM VERSUS CRADLE TROPICAL BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY HYPOTHESIS: PHYLOGENY, DIVERSIFICATION, AND ANCESTRAL BIOGEOGRAPHIC RANGE EVOLUTION OF THE ANTS

(2013) Corrie S. Moreau et al.   EVOLUTION

Ultrafast Approximation for Phylogenetic Bootstrap

(2013) B. Q. Minh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Large-Scale, Higher-Level, Molecular Phylogenetic Study of the Insect Order Lepidoptera (Moths and Butterflies)

(2013) Jerome C. Regier et al.   PLoS One

Timing and Patterns in the Taxonomic Diversification of Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

(2013) Niklas Wahlberg et al.   PLoS One

treePL: divergence time estimation using penalized likelihood for large phylogenies

(2012) Stephen A. Smith et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Biogeographic and diversification patterns of Neotropical Troidini butterflies (Papilionidae) support a museum model of diversity dynamics for Amazonia

(2012) Fabien L Condamine et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Anchored Hybrid Enrichment for Massively High-Throughput Phylogenomics

(2012) Alan R. Lemmon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Cretaceous origin and repeated tertiary diversification of the redefined butterflies

(2011) M. Heikkila et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations

(2011) James F. Parham et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Arthropod relationships revealed by phylogenomic analysis of nuclear protein-coding sequences

(2010) Jerome C. Regier et al.   NATURE

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Taking into account phylogenetic and divergence-time uncertainty in a parametric biogeographical analysis of the Northern Hemisphere plant clade Caprifolieae

(2009) Stephen A. Smith   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Maximum Likelihood Inference of Geographic Range Evolution by Dispersal, Local Extinction, and Cladogenesis

(2008) Richard H. Ree et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY