Butterflies are a diverse and charismatic insect group that are thought to have evolved with
plants and dispersed throughout the world in response to key geological events. However …

Museum collections around the world contain billions of specimens, including rare and
extinct species. If their genetic information could be retrieved at a large scale, this would …

The diverse, largely Neotropical subtribe Euptychiina is widely regarded as one of the most
taxonomically challenging groups among all butterflies. Over the last two decades …

The genus Amolops (“torrent frogs”) is one of the most species-rich genera in Ranidae, with
59 recognized species. This genus currently includes six species groups diagnosed mainly …

Further genomic sequencing of butterflies by our research group expanding the coverage of
species and specimens from different localities, coupled with genome-scale phylogenetic …

Billions of specimens can be found in natural history museum collections around the world,
holding potential molecular secrets to be unveiled. Among them are intriguing specimens of …

Reconstructing a robust phylogenetic framework is key to understanding the ecology and
evolution of many economically important taxa. The crambid moth genus Ostrinia contains …

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have revolutionized phylogenomics by
decreasing the cost and time required to generate sequence data from multiple markers or …

A new genus of Neotropical Satyrinae butterflies, Viloriodes Pyrcz & Espeland gen. n. is
described in the Pedaliodes Butler complex comprising 11–13 genera and more than 400 …

Species losses are increasing and may have an impact on our understanding of patterns of
evolutionary pathways and phylogenetic relationships among the groups being lost. The …