PhD student at QMUL and UCL CBER working on seasonality in Amazonian butterflies
Oostra group
Marcus Hicks
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We reveal widespread occurrence of seasonal reproductive plasticity, including reproductive diapause, in butterflies in a seasonal rainforest in the Amazon. This highlights that not only in temperate but also tropical habitats, seasonality is an important driver of plastic life history strategies.
Our new paper is out now in Ecology Letters, completely open access! doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Many thanks go out to all of our co-authors, especially those who helped with the fieldwork in Peru - it wouldn't have been possible without you
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Marcus Hicks
Please share: last week to apply for a PhD position on comparative and population genomics in high elevation butterflies 🦋
We reveal widespread occurrence of seasonal reproductive plasticity, including reproductive diapause, in Nymphalid butterflies in a seasonal rainforest in the Amazon. This highlights that, not only i...
🧬🦋 New preprint out! 🦋🧬
What mechanisms underlie large-scale chromosomal rearrangements? Why do rearrangement rates vary so massively across taxa?
We explored these questions in Erebia butterflies, a genus with extraordinary chromosome number diversity, from 7 to 52!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Marcus Hicks
Huge congrats to Mar, who led this study published in @ecography.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
Nymphalidae butterfly diversity in the Atlantic Forest was shaped by repeated dispersal, over millions of years, from Amazonia and the Andes, rather than by high in situ diversification
Day 3 of the @projectpsyche.bsky.social spring meeting at @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Summary sessions brought together the ideas we’ve developed so far, followed by a visit to the entomological collection 🧬🦋
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X Biology of Butterflies + IX Encontro de Lepidoptera Neotropicais
📅 30 Mar–3 Apr 2027
📍 Unicamp, Campinas, BR
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Brooke Zanco and co-authors found flies fed low cholesterol diets have greater levels of gut permeability and epithelial cell disorganisation than those fed high cholesterol diets. Lifespan was maximised on a high cholesterol diet www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pável Matos
Pável Matos
10kLepGenomes
Camille Cornet
New PhD position: Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️🧬
The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of Andean white butterflies using genomics.
DEADLINE: May 8, 2026
Start: Autumn 2026 (Czechia)
More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Regular open positions If you have an exciting research idea and are interested in applying for your own funding, feel free to get i…
