Insect populations including butterflies are declining worldwide, and they are becoming an
urgent conservation priority in many regions. Understanding which butterfly species migrate …

Until recently, deep-level phylogeny in Lepidoptera, the largest single radiation of plant-
feeding insects, was very poorly understood. Over the past two decades, building on a …

Summary Butterflies (Papilionoidea), with over 18,000 described species [1], have
captivated naturalists and scientists for centuries. They play a central role in the study of …

The need for robust estimates of times of divergence is essential for downstream analyses,
yet assessing this robustness is still rare. We generated a time-calibrated genus-level …

Coevolutionary models suggest that herbivores drive diversification and community
composition in plants. For herbivores, many questions remain regarding how plant defenses …

With the aim of supporting ecological analyses in butterflies, the third most species-rich
superfamily of Lepidoptera, this paper presents the first time-calibrated phylogeny of all 496 …

The unparalleled biodiversity found in the American tropics (the Neotropics) has attracted
the attention of naturalists for centuries. Despite major advances in recent years in our …

Continuing with comparative genomic exploration of worldwide butterfly fauna, we use all
protein-coding genes as they are retrieved from the whole genome shotgun sequences for …

Characterizing and quantifying genome size variation among organisms and understanding
if genome size evolves as a consequence of adaptive or stochastic processes have been …

Amazonia (defined herein as the Amazon basin) is home to the greatest concentration of
biodiversity on Earth, providing unique genetic resources and ecological functions that …