Happy to see coverage of @ButterflyNetNSF teams work in Indian newspaper "A new comprehensive evolutionary tree of butterflies published" https://t.co/ZH5uCG6jdp [https://t.co/dHuOmnRxga]
But they're not stopping there. As part of the #NSFFunded@ButterflyNetNSF project, the team aims to make an evolutionary tree that encompasses all 18,800 described species of butterflies & their associated data: https://t.co/4rlJhkTKlm
Hot of the web press - A Comprehensive and Dated Phylogenomic Analysis of Butterflies https://t.co/52EpK3WCer Espeland Breinholt Willmott @AndyBugGuy Vila @EmmanuelTouss1@SarahCMaunsell Aduse-Poku Talavera Eastwood @majarzyna Guralnick Lohman Pierce @akito_kawahara
The Apefly (Spalgis epeus), is a small butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the lycaenids or the blues. It gets its common name due to resemblance of the pupa to face of Ape. The caterpillars feed on scale insects. More pictures https://t.co/jutJjWYbOp
Did you know that the majority of Lepidoptera superfamilies lack a genome? Read the review here - Lepidoptera genomes: current knowledge, gaps and future directions https://t.co/x0ugRlVQOJ @akito_kawahara