Authors
Akito Y Kawahara, Caroline Storer, Ana Paula S Carvalho, David M Plotkin, Fabien L Condamine, Mariana P Braga, Emily A Ellis, Ryan A St Laurent, Xuankun Li, Vijay Barve, Liming Cai, Chandra Earl, Paul B Frandsen, Hannah L Owens, Wendy A Valencia-Montoya, Kwaku Aduse-Poku, Emmanuel FA Toussaint, Kelly M Dexter, Tenzing Doleck, Amanda Markee, Rebeccah Messcher, Y-Lan Nguyen, Jade Aster T Badon, Hugo A Benítez, Michael F Braby, Perry AC Buenavente, Wei-Ping Chan, Steve C Collins, Richard A Rabideau Childers, Even Dankowicz, Rod Eastwood, Zdenek F Fric, Riley J Gott, Jason PW Hall, Winnie Hallwachs, Nate B Hardy, Rachel L Hawkins Sipe, Alan Heath, Jomar D Hinolan, Nicholas T Homziak, Yu-Feng Hsu, Yutaka Inayoshi, Micael GA Itliong, Daniel H Janzen, Ian J Kitching, Krushnamegh Kunte, Gerardo Lamas, Michael J Landis, Elise A Larsen, Torben B Larsen, Jing V Leong, Vladimir Lukhtanov, Crystal A Maier, Jose I Martinez, Dino J Martins, Kiyoshi Maruyama, Sarah C Maunsell, Nicolás Oliveira Mega, Alexander Monastyrskii, Ana BB Morais, Chris J Müller, Mark Arcebal K Naive, Gregory Nielsen, Pablo Sebastián Padrón, Djunijanti Peggie, Helena Piccoli Romanowski, Szabolcs Sáfián, Motoki Saito, Stefan Schröder, Vaughn Shirey, Doug Soltis, Pamela Soltis, Andrei Sourakov, Gerard Talavera, Roger Vila, Petr Vlasanek, Houshuai Wang, Andrew D Warren, Keith R Willmott, Masaya Yago, Walter Jetz, Marta A Jarzyna, Jesse W Breinholt, Marianne Espeland, Leslie Ries, Robert P Guralnick, Naomi E Pierce, David J Lohman
Publication date
2023/6
Journal
Nature ecology & evolution
Volume
7
Issue
6
Pages
903-913
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Description
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, these hypotheses have not been extensively tested because a comprehensive phylogenetic framework and datasets for butterfly larval hosts and global distributions are lacking. We sequenced 391 genes from nearly 2,300 butterfly species, sampled from 90 countries and 28 specimen collections, to reconstruct a new phylogenomic tree of butterflies representing 92% of all genera. Our phylogeny has strong support for nearly all nodes and demonstrates that at least 36 butterfly tribes require reclassification. Divergence time analyses imply an origin ~100 million years ago for butterflies and indicate that all but one family were present before the K/Pg extinction event. We aggregated larval host datasets and global distribution records and …
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