
@article {142310,
	title = {Comprehensive phylogeny of Pieridae butterflies reveals strong correlation between diversification and temperature.},
	journal = {iScience},
	volume = {27},
	year = {2024},
	month = {2024 Apr 19},
	pages = {109336},
	abstract = {<p>Temperature is thought to be a key factor influencing global species richness patterns. We investigate the link between temperature and diversification in the butterfly family Pieridae by combining next generation DNA sequences and published molecular data with fine-grained distribution data. We sampled nearly 600 pierid butterfly species to infer the most comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the family and curated a distribution dataset of more than 800,000 occurrences. We found strong evidence that species in environments with more stable daily temperatures or cooler maximum temperatures in the warm seasons have higher speciation rates. Furthermore, speciation and extinction rates decreased in tandem with global temperatures through geological time, resulting in a constant net diversification.</p>
},
	issn = {2589-0042},
	doi = {10.1016/j.isci.2024.109336},
	author = {Carvalho, Ana Paula S and Owens, Hannah L and St Laurent, Ryan A and Earl, Chandra and Dexter, Kelly M and Messcher, Rebeccah L and Willmott, Keith R and Aduse-Poku, Kwaku and Collins, Steve C and Homziak, Nicholas T and Hoshizaki, Sugihiko and Hsu, Yu-Feng and Kizhakke, Athulya G and Kunte, Krushnamegh and Martins, Dino J and Mega, Nicol{\'a}s O and Morinaka, Sadaharu and Peggie, Djunijanti and Romanowski, Helena P and S{\'a}fi{\'a}n, Szabolcs and Vila, Roger and Wang, Houshuai and Braby, Michael F and Espeland, Marianne and Breinholt, Jesse W and Pierce, Naomi E and Kawahara, Akito Y and Lohman, David J}
}
@article {129156,
	title = {A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins.},
	journal = {Nat Ecol Evol},
	year = {2023},
	month = {2023 May 15},
	abstract = {<p>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 found that butterflies are likely to have first fed on Fabaceae and originated in what is now the Americas. Soon after the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum, butterflies crossed Beringia and diversified in the Palaeotropics. Our results also reveal that most butterfly species are specialists that feed on only one larval host plant family. However, generalist butterflies that consume two or more plant families usually feed on closely related plants.</p>
},
	issn = {2397-334X},
	doi = {10.1038/s41559-023-02041-9},
	author = {Kawahara, Akito Y and Storer, Caroline and Carvalho, Ana Paula S and Plotkin, David M and Condamine, Fabien L and Braga, Mariana P and Ellis, Emily A and St Laurent, Ryan A and Li, Xuankun and Barve, Vijay and Cai, Liming and Earl, Chandra and Frandsen, Paul B and Owens, Hannah L and Valencia-Montoya, Wendy A and Aduse-Poku, Kwaku and Toussaint, Emmanuel F A and Dexter, Kelly M and Doleck, Tenzing and Markee, Amanda and Messcher, Rebeccah and Nguyen, Y-Lan and Badon, Jade Aster T and Ben{\'\i}tez, Hugo A and Braby, Michael F and Buenavente, Perry A C and Chan, Wei-Ping and Collins, Steve C and Rabideau Childers, Richard A and Dankowicz, Even and Eastwood, Rod and Fric, Zdenek F and Gott, Riley J and Hall, Jason P W and Hallwachs, Winnie and Hardy, Nate B and Sipe, Rachel L Hawkins and Heath, Alan and Hinolan, Jomar D and Homziak, Nicholas T and Hsu, Yu-Feng and Inayoshi, Yutaka and Itliong, Micael G A and Janzen, Daniel H and Kitching, Ian J and Kunte, Krushnamegh and Lamas, Gerardo and Landis, Michael J and Larsen, Elise A and Larsen, Torben B and Leong, Jing V and Lukhtanov, Vladimir and Maier, Crystal A and Martinez, Jose I and Martins, Dino J and Maruyama, Kiyoshi and Maunsell, Sarah C and Mega, Nicol{\'a}s Oliveira and Monastyrskii, Alexander and Morais, Ana B B and M{\"u}ller, Chris J and Naive, Mark Arcebal K and Nielsen, Gregory and Padr{\'o}n, Pablo Sebasti{\'a}n and Peggie, Djunijanti and Romanowski, Helena Piccoli and S{\'a}fi{\'a}n, Szabolcs and Saito, Motoki and Schr{\"o}der, Stefan and Shirey, Vaughn and Soltis, Doug and Soltis, Pamela and Sourakov, Andrei and Talavera, Gerard and Vila, Roger and Vlasanek, Petr and Wang, Houshuai and Warren, Andrew D and Willmott, Keith R and Yago, Masaya and Jetz, Walter and Jarzyna, Marta A and Breinholt, Jesse W and Espeland, Marianne and Ries, Leslie and Guralnick, Robert P and Pierce, Naomi E and Lohman, David J}
}
