Professor in Biological Systematics, and Director of the Biological Museum, Lund University, Sweden
Butterflies and moths are my thing, especially their systematics and evolutionary history
Niklas Wahlberg
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Finally we know where the enigmatic Caribbean genus Calisto goes in the tree of life, thanks to the amazing work by Rayner Nunez! Mixture models seem to be the way to go!
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🦋 Biodiversity genomics is helping researchers explore one of the largest branches of life on Earth.
Lepidoptera — butterflies and moths — make up nearly 10% of all known eukaryotic species, making them a key part of global biodiversity.
#BiodiversityGenomics #Butterflies #Moths #GenomeSequencing
I am hiring a postdoc for a project on herbivory of Rhododendron by insects in North Wales! Genomics expertise required, field experience preferred. Hoping to hire quickly! Bangor is awesome! Get in touch if you want any more details! jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
We are very glad to introduce a new method for designing phylogenetically informative target-enrichment datasets that leverages recent whole-genome alignment methods to identify thousands of shared and homologous regions across a broad range of reference taxa!
Please, check out Benjamin's preprint!
We provide the first reliable hypothesis on the phylogenetic position of Calisto and Llorenteana within the tribe Satyrini, based on genomic data representing all subtribes.
We apply for the first t.....
guess who got accepted! 📝
fancy formatted PDF incoming, unformatted final submission now available for your reading pleasure, and maybe keep in mind for your next sample shipping, skip on the dry ice and save moneys while still making beautiful reference genomes!
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Niklas Wahlberg
Latest paper lead by Asia Hoile with @peterhox.bsky.social is out! 🦋
Nymphalid butterflies have reduced forelegs. Gene expression patterns show support for more palp-like genes involved in sensory processes in the forelegs relative to the walking legs.
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A few summers ago, we individually reared 1200 wood tiger moth caterpillars with the aim to understand the associations and genetic basis of different traits; colour, chemical defences, behaviour, pheromones and more. The results are here!
New #OpenAccess work by @raynerlep.bsky.social, @lepphylo.bsky.social, @lepidochrysops.bsky.social et al. in #RESSystematicEnt used mixture models to unveil the origin of the enigmatic #Satyrinae #butterfly genera #Calisto and #Llorenteana.
doi.org/10.1111/syen.70057
#Phylogenies #Phylogenetics
Earth BioGenome Project 🌍
Rémi Allio
(1/4)📣The #LepEU training and hackathon workshop was a great success!
From May 26 to May 29, researchers from diverse backgrounds gathered at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Portugal), to explore how bioinformatic choices impact genomic research 🧬🦋
#genomics #popgen
New paper on Biorxiv by Raphaël Dupillier, analyzing escape flight in Morpho menelaus : huge field work effort! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Benjamin Jarrett
Transcriptome analysis reveals that the small non-walking front legs of a butterfly have distinct gene expression to the four walking legs. Reduced front legs express a gene with putative mechanosen...
AbstractBackground. The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) is a global endeavour to produce reference genomes for all described eukaryotic species. The majority
LepEU Workshop 2026 DescriptionThe LepEU Workshop 2026 is a joint training and hackathon event focused on the analysis of Lepidoptera genomic data (butterflies and moths). The […]
A new method based on genome alignments provides a highly resolutive target enrichment set for weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.09.724036v1
