| Phylogeny of the ants: diversification in the age of angiosperms CS Moreau, CD Bell, R Vila, SB Archibald, NE Pierce science 312 (5770), 101-104, 2006 | 986 | 2006 |
| A comprehensive and dated phylogenomic analysis of butterflies M Espeland, J Breinholt, KR Willmott, AD Warren, R Vila, EFA Toussaint, ... Current Biology 28 (5), 770-778. e5, 2018 | 376 | 2018 |
| Synergistic effects of combining morphological and molecular data in resolving the phylogeny of butterflies and skippers N Wahlberg, MF Braby, AVZ Brower, R de Jong, MM Lee, S Nylin, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 272 (1572), 1577-1586, 2005 | 374 | 2005 |
| Factors affecting species delimitations with the GMYC model: insights from a butterfly survey G Talavera, V Dincă, R Vila Methods in Ecology and Evolution 4 (12), 1101-1110, 2013 | 346 | 2013 |
| The evolution of alternative parasitic life histories in large blue butterflies TD Als, R Vila, NP Kandul, DR Nash, SH Yen, YF Hsu, AA Mignault, ... Nature 432 (7015), 386-390, 2004 | 289 | 2004 |
| Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea): higher classification and biogeography MF Braby, R Vila, NE Pierce Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 147 (2), 239-275, 2006 | 258 | 2006 |
| Unexpected layers of cryptic diversity in wood white Leptidea butterflies V Dincă, VA Lukhtanov, G Talavera, R Vila Nature communications 2 (1), 324, 2011 | 243 | 2011 |
| Complete DNA barcode reference library for a country's butterfly fauna reveals high performance for temperate Europe V Dincă, EV Zakharov, PDN Hebert, R Vila Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1704), 347-355, 2011 | 226 | 2011 |
| Species-level para-and polyphyly in DNA barcode gene trees: strong operational bias in European Lepidoptera M Mutanen, SM Kivelä, RA Vos, C Doorenweerd, S Ratnasingham, ... Systematic biology 65 (6), 1024-1040, 2016 | 217 | 2016 |
| Establishing criteria for higher‐level classification using molecular data: the systematics of Polyommatus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) G Talavera, VA Lukhtanov, NE Pierce, R Vila Cladistics 29 (2), 166-192, 2013 | 187 | 2013 |
| An updated checklist of the European butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) M Wiemers, E Balletto, V Dincă, ZF Fric, G Lamas, V Lukhtanov, ... ZooKeys, 9, 2018 | 185 | 2018 |
| DNA barcode reference library for Iberian butterflies enables a continental-scale preview of potential cryptic diversity V Dincă, S Montagud, G Talavera, J Hernández-Roldán, ML Munguira, ... Scientific Reports 5 (1), 12395, 2015 | 173 | 2015 |
| Phylogeny and palaeoecology of Polyommatus blue butterflies show Beringia was a climate-regulated gateway to the New World R Vila, CD Bell, R Macniven, B Goldman-Huertas, RH Ree, CR Marshall, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1719), 2737-2744, 2011 | 145 | 2011 |
| What is the phylogenetic signal limit from mitogenomes? The reconciliation between mitochondrial and nuclear data in the Insecta class phylogeny G Talavera, R Vila BMC Evolutionary Biology 11, 1-15, 2011 | 121 | 2011 |
| The determinants of genetic diversity in butterflies A Mackintosh, DR Laetsch, A Hayward, B Charlesworth, M Waterfall, ... Nature communications 10 (1), 3466, 2019 | 120 | 2019 |
| Rapid Increase in Genome Size as a Consequence of Transposable Element Hyperactivity in Wood-White (Leptidea) Butterflies V Talla, A Suh, F Kalsoom, V Dincă, R Vila, M Friberg, C Wiklund, ... Genome Biology and Evolution 9 (10), 2491-2505, 2017 | 115 | 2017 |
| Unprecedented within-species chromosome number cline in the Wood White butterfly Leptidea sinapis and its significance for karyotype evolution and speciation VA Lukhtanov, V Dincă, G Talavera, R Vila BMC evolutionary biology 11, 1-11, 2011 | 115 | 2011 |
| A mirage of cryptic species: Genomics uncover striking mitonuclear discordance in the butterfly Thymelicus sylvestris JC Hinojosa, D Koubínová, MA Szenteczki, C Pitteloud, V Dincă, ... Molecular ecology 28 (17), 3857-3868, 2019 | 108 | 2019 |
| Ancient Neotropical origin and recent recolonisation: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) M Espeland, JPW Hall, PJ DeVries, DC Lees, M Cornwall, YF Hsu, ... Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 93, 296-306, 2015 | 107 | 2015 |
| A combined genetic‐morphometric analysis unravels the complex biogeographical history of Polyommatus icarus and Polyommatus celina Common Blue butterflies V Dincă, L Dapporto, R Vila Molecular Ecology 20 (18), 3921-3935, 2011 | 103 | 2011 |
Gerard TalaveraCSIC Tenured Scientist, Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB,CSIC)Verified email at csic.es