Michal Bartak

Studying the ecology and evolution of moths and butterflies • Currently at @helsinkiuni • @science_charles alumnus

[Michal Bartak @MichalBartak2]

New paper on tropical moth pollination @RobertTropek and I wrote @GroupInsect is out! Our new review highlights moths’ vital role in pollination and outlines research gaps, challenges and biases. Link: https://t.co/2YRRQzcDEx (PS: Find the summary thread on Bluesky)

[Michal Bartak @MichalBartak2]

@fpgaona1 @GroupInsect @RobertTropek @WileyGlobal Congratulations!

[Michal Bartak @MichalBartak2]

Better late than never. You can now find me at the @michalbartak.bsky.social handle. Exciting moth stuff coming up. See you there!

[Insect Community Ecology Group @GroupInsect]

Yesterday, @MichalBartak2 successfuly defended his MSc thesis on effects of plant and flower divesity on nectaring butterflies in Czech wet meadows. Congratulations! 🥳🥳

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@RobertTropek Thank you for all the support! I had a blast.

[@EcoEvoRxiv @ecoevorxiv]

"When the day ends: Shedding light on the role of nocturnal moths as pollinators in tropical ecosystems" https://t.co/vaVx8voxGl

[Michal Bartak @MichalBartak2]

Dive in with us to the fascinating world of nocturnal #moths and find out about their role in #pollination of #tropical plants in this new review me and @RobertTropek wrote.

[Insect Community Ecology Group @GroupInsect]

New #preprint from our group: Interested in the contribution of night shift of #pollinators to the dynamics of tropical ecosystems? See our review on the role of tropical #moth #pollination by @MichalBartak2 and @RobertTropek placed in @ecoevorxiv #ecology
https://t.co/2eLRom5tY4

[Insect Community Ecology Group @GroupInsect]

!!LAST CALL FOR PLANT-POLLINATOR NETWORK DATA!!

For detailed analysis of changes in network characteristics, specifically specialization, along latitude we have collated already ~600 networks.

Are you interested in collaboration? Please let us know ASAP! #pollination #ecology

[Michal Bartak @MichalBartak2]

The pre-print of this study is avalable here: https://t.co/ZmNB3wdLk1

[Michal Bartak @MichalBartak2]

Fascinating talk by @AnnaOrteu, presenting how are transposable elements associated with Batesian mimicry in the pantropical butterfly Hypolimnas misippus, an instance of convergent evolution and adaptive atavism. #bob2023

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Another great talk of the Eco-evo-devo session at #bob2023, @Kallekarlhugo talks about female wing color polymorphism, present in numerous butterfly species; here, demonstrated on Colias sp. and Pieris napi representatives.

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The Eco-evo-devo session at #bob2023 continues, @martikATGC presents how transcription factor bric-a-brac (bab) regulates pigmentation, patterning and scale structure genes across Lepidoptera. What a visually striking presentation with nice illustrations and figures!

[Michal Bartak @MichalBartak2]

@RachelCThayer presented a meta-analysis of butterfly structural colors: color range and phylogenetic distribution of various optical nanostructures in wing scales during the eco-evo-devo session at #bob2023

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Great talk by @tarunyumnam about evolution of false head in butterflies, the morphology of this feature or behaviour of butterflies with false head, such as hindwing movement. #bob2023

[Michal Bartak @MichalBartak2]

The first speaker of the Eco-evo-devo session at the #bob2023 was @guissantapattes, who talked about how convergence in sympatric swallowtail butterflies reveals the ecological interactions as a key driver of worldwide diversification.

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James Walters talking about the assembly and characterization of the W chromosome in monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) during the Genome structure and evolution session #bob2023

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Petr Nguyen @mao_626 from the @BiologyCentre talked about the Strange genome architecture in Ghost moths (Hepialidae), slowly leading us into the chromosome part of the session #bob2023

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Another great talk of the Genome evolution session was delivered by @JesperBoman, who talked about chromosomal specition in Leptidea #bob2023

[Michal Bartak @MichalBartak2]

@CharJWright opened the Genome structure and evolution session at #bob2023 by a wonderful keynote talk about Chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera.

[Michal Bartak @MichalBartak2]

Very excited to present my poster at this conference! So many interesting talks so far! And thanks for the promo Sailee!😄

[Sailee Sakhalkar @SaileeSakhalkar]

@MichalBartak2 from my lab @GroupInsect is presenting his poster @ConfButterfly. Stop by to hear all about moth pollination, which he's building up on for his Master's thesis. Michal's going to be looking for PhD positions soon, I can't wait to follow his career path! #BoB2023