Dincă V*, Dapporto L*, Somervuo P, Vodă R, Cuvelier S, Gascoigne-Pees M, Huemer P, Mutanen M, Hebert PDN, Vila R (2021) High resolution DNA barcode library for European butterflies reveals continental patterns of mitochondrial genetic diversity. Commun Biol 4: 315. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-01834-7 (*co-first authors)
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New video following the extraordinary trip of the butterfly Vanessa cardui from Northern Europe to the tropical savannah!
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Vila, R., Stefanescu, C. & Sesma, J.M. (2018) Guia de les papallones diürnes de Catalunya. Lynx Edicions, Bellaterra, 508 pages.
Check out our new website of the Worldwide Painted Lady Migration Project.
Thanks to a Ramón y Cajal fellowship to Gerard Talavera, “The Insect Migration Lab” has become an independent group at IBB
Hinojosa JC, Koubínová D, Dincă V, Hernández-Roldán J, Munguira ML, García-Barros E, Vila M, Alvarez N, Mutanen M & Vila R (2020) Rapid colour shift by reproductive character displacement in Cupido butterflies. Molecular Ecology (published online as early view); DOI: 10.1111/mec.15682
Kaminski LA, Volkmann L, Callaghan CJ, DeVries PJ, Vila R, (2021) The first known riodinid ‘cuckoo’ butterfly reveals deep-time convergence and parallelism in ant social parasites. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (published online as early view). DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa150
Hinojosa JC, Dapporto L, Brockmann E, Dincă V, Tikhonov V, Grishin N, Lukhtanov VA, Vila R, (2020) Overlooked cryptic diversity in Muschampia (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) adds two species to the European butterfly fauna Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (published online ahead of print). DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa171
Menchetti M*, Talavera G*, Cini A, Salvati V, Dinca V, Platania L, Bonelli S, Balletto E, Vila R, Dapporto L (2021). Two ways to be endemic. Alps and Apennines are different functional refugia during climatic cycles. Molecular Ecology 30:1297–1310. (* co-first authors)
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