Insect Migration and Phylodiversity Lab

@phylomigrationlab.bsky.social @evobiouppsala.bsky.social @rogervilalab.bsky.social @mczharvard.bsky.social @ibb-botanic.bsky.social

A migratory divide in insects! 🦋 Vanessa cardui butterflies migrate in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern hemispheres 🌍, a pattern driven by a chromosomal inversion 🧬

Paper @natcomms.nature.com
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1/6) New paper out in Molecular Ecology! We uncover the intriguing biogeographic history behind the Holarctic disjunct distributions in Vanessa butterflies. @phylomigrationlab.bsky.social
#biogeography #insectmigration #butterflymigration #butterflies #evolution
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New paper! We uncover the intriguing biogeographic history behind the Holarctic disjunct distributions in Vanessa butterflies.

#butterflymigration #biogeography #evolution #PhyloMigrationLab @aleixpalahi.bsky.social
@ibb-botanic.bsky.social @csic.es

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It’s not the head, it’s the butt!
Meet a completely unknown organism: a blow fly (Calliphoridae) that evolved social integration in termite nests using a false termite head in the posterior part of the body.
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Isotope geolocation and population genomics in Vanessa cardui: Short- and long-distance migrants are genetically undifferentiated Abstract. The painted lady butterfly Vanessa cardui is renowned for its virtually cosmopolitan distribution and the remarkable long-distance migrations as

Check out our new paper, "Isotope geolocation and population genomics
in Vanessa cardui: Short- and long-distance migrants
are genetically undifferentiated," out in PNAS Nexus!

doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Trans-Saharan migratory patterns in Vanessa cardui and evidence for a southward leapfrog migration Chemistry; Nature conservation; Ecology; Entomology

Super stoked to share our latest research on the migratory patterns of painted lady butterflies across the Sahara! 🦋🏜️

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