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New butterfly-plant rearing facilities at the #phylomigrationlab Institut Botànic de Barcelona for experimental and outreach purposes. Open visits through AAJBB & the Butterfly Migration project. #citizenscience #butterflymigration #InsectBehavior FECYT MCNB CSIC en Catalunya

El papallonari: un nou espai polivalent al #phylomigrationlab Institut Botànic de Barcelona per a recerca i divulgació. Visites obertes via AAJBB i el projecte Butterfly Migration. #cienciaciutadana #recerca #papallones FECYT MCNB CSIC en Catalunya

New preprint led by Aurora García-Berro Institut Botànic de Barcelona on the population dynamics of migratory butterflies. #butterflymigration #insectmigration #vanessacardui "Migratory behavior is positively associated with genetic diversity in butterflies" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Gene family expansions and detailed recombination map for Vanessa cardui. A step further in the study of migration genomics in butterflies! Led by Daria Shipilina k_nasvall sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #insectmigration #butterflymigration #genomics #vanessacardui #paintedlady

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/full/10.11… #insectmigration #butterflymigration #phylomigrationlab Institut Botànic de Barcelona

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/10.33…

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.2… Short description of the paper below: 1/13

“Found at last”: An international collaboration led by Gerard Talavera from the #PhyloMigrationLab Institut Botànic de Barcelona has identified the last leg of the longest butterfly migration. See the full paper in PNAS: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

The last leg of the longest butterfly migration has now been identified sciencenews.org/article/painte…

[Thread] New paper out in Molecular Ecology on the relationship between DNA methylation and gene expression in the migratory painted lady butterfly! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me… (Pic by Niclas Backström)

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

What a wonderful book by elvirawerkman.bsky.social and Maxime Beck! Highly recommended 👏 Find it here 👇 elvirawerkman.nl/webshop/

Fishing the sky! Back from a thrilling 3-week journey aboard #NationalGeographicExplorer in #SouthAmerica studying insects dispersing over the sea and the #AmazonRiver Lindblad Expeditions National Geographic National Geographic Society Institut Botànic de Barcelona CSIC #InsectMigration #Biodiversity #Research

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/10.1111/1365-2…

Swarms of painted ladies that descended on the Middle East, northern Africa and Europe have been traced to their source go.nature.com/3XeiscG

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 Institut Botànic de Barcelona

New study! We demonstrate a transatlantic flight for Vanessa cardui butterflies. An incredible feat for insects! Read the full paper here: nature.com/articles/s4146… #insectmigration #butterflymigration #PhyloMigrationLab Institut Botànic de Barcelona CSIC

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 Science Advances! doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…

Super stoked to share our latest research on the migratory patterns of painted lady butterflies across the Sahara! 🦋🏜️ cell.com/iscience/fullt…

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/pnasne…