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Nymphalid butterflies diversify following near demise at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary
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By dating the branching events, it is inferred that Nymphalidae originated in the Cretaceous at 90 Ma, but that the ancestors of 10–12 lineages survived the end-Cretaceous catastrophe in the Neotropical and Oriental regions.
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Cretaceous origin and repeated tertiary diversification of the redefined butterflies
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The results suggest that the butterflies, as traditionally understood, are paraphyletic, with Papilionidae being the sister-group to Hesperioidea, Hedyloidea and all other butterflies, and the families in the current three superfamilies should be placed in a single superfamily PapilionoideA.
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Timing and Patterns in the Taxonomic Diversification of Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
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It is found that the diversification of major lineages in Lepidoptera are approximately equal in age to the crown group of angiosperms and that there appear to have been three significant increases in diversification rates among Lepidioptera over evolutionary time.
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VoSeq: A Voucher and DNA Sequence Web Application
There is an ever growing number of molecular phylogenetic studies published, due to, in part, the advent of new techniques that allow cheap and quick DNA sequencing. Hence, the demand for relational…
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Higher level phylogeny of Satyrinae butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on DNA sequence data.
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Prehistorical climate change increased diversification of a group of butterflies
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It is suggested that the adaptive radiation of grass feeders in Satyrini has been facilitated by the ubiquitousness of grasses since 25 Myr ago, which was triggered by a change in global climate.
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Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns
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A novel Bayesian model is developed to simultaneously estimate correlations between diversification dynamics and multiple environmental trajectories and indicates that the prime driver of fern diversity dynamics is environmentally driven extinction, with origination being an opportunistic response to diminishing ecospace occupancy.
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Adaptive radiations in butterflies: evolutionary history of the genus Erebia (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)
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It is argued that the characteristics of the evolutionary history of Erebia are consistent with a density-dependent scenario, with species radiation limited by filling of niche space and reduced resources, which implies an early rapid diversification followed by deceleration due to a decrease in speciation.
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The radiation of Satyrini butterflies (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae): a challenge for phylogenetic methods
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The most comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis to date of butterflies in the tribe Satyrini is inferred using maximum parsimony and model-b to obtain a hypothesis of relationships.
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Revision of the butterfly genus Forsterinaria Gray, 1973 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)
A taxonomic review of the Neotropical satyrine butterfly genus Forsterinaria Gray is presented herein, including a discussion of the classification and geogr...
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