The Worldwide #PaintedLady Migration: a #CitizenScience program on #Vanessacardui #ButterflyMigration #InsectMigration @IBB_botanic @CSIC @GerardTalavera Lab
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Joined May 2018
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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 @NatureComms
doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-6…
#insectmigration #migratorydivide #evolution
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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/pnasnexus/pg…
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Super stoked to share our latest research on the migratory patterns of painted lady butterflies across the Sahara! 🦋🏜️
cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S…
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How did the Quaternary ice ages shape W Palearctic biodiversity? Using 31,000+🧬sequences of ~500 butterfly🦋 species we objectively identified glacial refugia, colonization routes, and dispersal barriers at an unprecedented level! Out in @ScienceAdvances! doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adm85…
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New study! We demonstrate a transatlantic flight for Vanessa cardui butterflies. An incredible feat for insects!
Read the full paper here: nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
#insectmigration #butterflymigration #PhyloMigrationLab @IBB_botanic @CSIC
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New paper! Using pollen DNA metabarcoding, citizen science and remote sensing we track origin and movements of the massive 2019 #PaintedLady butterfly outbreak. 🦋🌍
#ButterflyMigration #InsectMigration #vanessacardui #PhyloMigrationLab @IBB_botanic
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Swarms of painted ladies that descended on the Middle East, northern Africa and Europe have been traced to their source go.nature.com/3XeiscG
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New paper! Butterfly communities in Spain & the UK use different mechanisms to alter their body temperature- while Spanish butterflies change their posture relative to the sun, British butterflies rely on microclimates. Great work led by Eric Toro-Delgado doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14…
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Fishing the sky! Back from a thrilling 3-week journey aboard #NationalGeographicExplorer in #SouthAmerica studying insects dispersing over the sea and the #AmazonRiver
@LindbladExp @NatGeo @InsideNatGeo @IBB_botanic @CSIC #InsectMigration #Biodiversity #Research
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What a wonderful book by @elvirawerkman and Maxime Beck! Highly recommended 👏
Find it here 👇
elvirawerkman.nl/webshop/
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After ~7 yr of work, it's finally out! We present a molecular phylogeny of butterflies sampling >90% of genera & >2000 spp. Butterflies emerged ~100 million yr ago in North America and first fed on legumes. Thanks to all 87 co-authors from 28 countries! rdcu.be/dcaVU
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[Thread] New paper out in @molecology on the relationship between DNA methylation and gene expression in the migratory painted lady butterfly! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
(Pic by @niclasbackstrom)
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The last leg of the longest butterfly migration has now been identified sciencenews.org/article/pain…
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“Found at last”: An international collaboration led by @GerardTalavera from the #PhyloMigrationLab @IBB_botanic has identified the last leg of the longest butterfly migration. See the full paper in PNAS:
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22…
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Did you know that your hair can pick up metals from the environment? Well, it seems that butterfly wings can too! Check out our new paper to learn more! doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.10… Short description of the paper below: 1/13
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So excited to share my first senior-author paper led by the amazing Eve Lindroos🦋"Temporal stability of δ2H in insect tissues: Implications for isotope-based geographic assignments" frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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A new study comparing 97 genomes reveals high genetic diversity and demographic stability in migratory butterflies. Revisiting insect migratory population dynamics in García-Berro et al.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
#insectmigration #butterflymigration #phylomigrationlab @IBB_botanic
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Gene family expansions and detailed recombination map for Vanessa cardui. A step further in the study of migration genomics in butterflies! Led by @ShipilinaD @KNasvall sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
#insectmigration #butterflymigration #genomics #vanessacardui #paintedlady
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New preprint led by Aurora García-Berro @IBB_botanic on the population dynamics of migratory butterflies.
#butterflymigration #insectmigration #vanessacardui
"Migratory behavior is positively associated with genetic diversity in butterflies"
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Wonderful inter-lab retreat in the Pyrenees! Sharing and planning research with colleagues with common interests in #butterflymigration: Isotope and movement ecology, population dynamics, evolutionary genomics, and comparative phylogenetics. Research is even better with friends!
