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  • Can Deliberately Incomplete Gene Sample Augmentation Improve a Phylogeny Estimate for the Advanced Moths and Butterflies (Hexapoda: Lepidoptera)? 
    Cho, Soowon; Zwick, Andreas; Regier, Jerome C.; Mitter, Charles; Cummings, Michael P.; Yao, Jianxiu; Du, Zaile; Zhao, Hong; Kawahara, Akito Y.; Weller, Susan; Davis, Donald R.; Baixeras, Joaquin; Brown, John W.; Parr, Cynthia Sims (2011)
    This paper addresses the question of whether one can economically improve the robustness of a molecular phylogeny estimate by increasing gene sampling in only a subset of taxa, without having the analysis invalidated by ...
  • Conserved ancestral tropical niche but different continental histories explain the latitudinal diversity gradient in brush-footed butterflies 
    Chazot, Nicolas; Condamine, Fabien L.; Dudas, Gytis; Pena, Carlos; Kodandaramaiah, Ullasa; Matos-Maravi, Pavel; Aduse-Poku, Kwaku; Elias, Marianne; Warren, Andrew D.; Lohman, David J.; Penz, Carla M.; DeVries, Phil; Fric, Zdenek F.; Nylin, Soren; Muller, Chris; Kawahara, Akito Y.; Silva-Brandao, Karina L.; Lamas, Gerardo; Kleckova, Irena; Zubek, Anna; Ortiz-Acevedo, Elena; Vila, Roger; Vane-Wright, Richard, I.; Mullen, Sean P.; Jiggins, Chris D.; Wheat, Christopher W.; Freitas, Andre V. L.; Wahlberg, Niklas (2021)
    The global increase in species richness toward the tropics across continents and taxonomic groups, referred to as the latitudinal diversity gradient, stimulated the formulation of many hypotheses to explain the underlying ...
  • Data from: A diversification relay race from Caribbean-Mesoamerica to the Andes: historical biogeography of Xylophanes hawkmoths 
    Li, Xuankun; Hamilton, Chris A.; St. Laurent, Ryan; Ballesteros-Mejia, Liliana; Markee, Amanda; Rougerie, Rodolphe; Kitching, Ian J.; Kawahara, Akito Y. (Dryad, 2021)
    The regions of the Andes and Caribbean-Mesoamerica are both hypothesized to be the cradle for many Neotropical lineages, but few studies have fully investigated the dynamics and interactions between Neotropical bioregions. ...
  • Data from: Phylogeny of gracillariid leaf-mining moths: evolution of larval behaviour inferred from phylogenomic and Sanger data 
    Li, Xuankun; St Laurent, Ryan; Earl, Chandra; Doorenweerd, Camiel; Van Nieukerken, Erik J.; Davis, Donald R.; Kawakita, Atsushi; Kobayashi, Shigeki; Zwick, Andreas; Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos; Ohshima, Issei; Kawahara, Akito Y. (Dryad, 2021)
    Gracillariidae is the most taxonomically diverse cosmopolitan leaf-mining moth family, consisting of nearly 2000 named species in 105 described genera, classified into eight extant subfamilies. The majority of gracillariid ...
  • A diversification relay race from Caribbean-Mesoamerica to the Andes: historical biogeography of Xylophanes hawkmoths 
    Li, Xuankun; Hamilton, Chris A.; St Laurent, Ryan; Ballesteros-Mejia, Liliana; Markee, Amanda; Haxaire, Jean; Rougerie, Rodolphe; Kitching, Ian J.; Kawahara, Akito Y. (2022)
    The regions of the Andes and Caribbean-Mesoamerica are both hypothesized to be the cradle for many Neotropical lineages, but few studies have fully investigated the dynamics and interactions between Neotropical bioregions. ...
  • Eight simple actions that individuals can take to save insects from global declines 
    Kawahara, Akito Y.; Reeves, Lawrence E.; Barber, Jesse R.; Black, Scott H. (2021)
  • Evolutionary Framework for Lepidoptera Model Systems 
    Roe, Amanda D.; Weller, Susan J.; Baixeras, Joaquin; Brown, John; Cummings, Michael P.; Davis, Donald R.; Kawahara, Akito Y.; Parr, Cynthia Sims; Regier, Jerome C.; Rubinoff, Daniel; Simonsen, T. J. (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2009)
  • Evolutionary trade-offs between male secondary sexual traits revealed by a phylogeny of the hyperdiverse tribe Eumaeini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) 
    Valencia-Montoya, Wendy A.; Quental, Tiago B.; Tonini, João Filipe R.; Talavera, Gerard; Crall, James D.; Lamas, Gerardo; Busby, Robert C.; Carvalho, Ana Paula S.; Morais, Ana B.; Oliveira Mega, Nicolás; Romanowski, Helena Piccoli; Liénard, Marjorie A.; Salzman, Shayla; Whitaker, Melissa R. L.; Kawahara, Akito Y.; Lohman, David J.; Robbins, Robert K.; Pierce, Naomi E. (2021)
    Male butterflies in the hyperdiverse tribe Eumaeini possess an unusually complex and diverse repertoire of secondary sexual characteristics involved in pheromone production and dissemination. Maintaining multiple sexually ...
  • First annotated genome of a mandibulate moth, <I>Neomicropteryx cornuta</I> , generated using PacBio HiFi sequencing 
    Li, Xuankun; Ellis, Emily; Plotkin, David; Imada, Yume; Yago, Masaya; Heckenhauer, Jacqueline; Cleland, Timothy P.; Dikow, Rebecca B.; Dikow, Torsten; Storer, Caroline G.; Kawahara, Akito Y.; Frandsen, Paul B. (2021)
    We provide a new, annotated genome assembly of Neomicropteryx cornuta, a species of the so-called "mandibulate archaic moths" (Lepidoptera: Micropterigidae). These moths belong to a lineage that is thought to have split ...
  • The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): Developing Community Resources to Study Diverse Invertebrate Genomes 
    Bracken-Grissom, Heather; Collins, Allen Gilbert; Collins, Timothy; Crandall, Keith; Distel, Daniel; Dunn, Casey; Giribet, Gonzalo; Haddock, Steven; Knowlton, Nancy; Martindale, Mark; Medina, Monica; Messing, Charles; O'Brien, Stephen J.; Paulay, Gustav; Putnam, Nicolas; Ravasi, Timothy; Rouse, Greg W.; Ryan, Joseph F.; Schulze, Anja; Worheide, Gert; Adamska, Maja; Bailly, Xavier; Breinholt, Jesse; Browne, William E.; Diaz, M. Christina; Evans, Nathaniel M.; Flot, Jean-Francois; Fogarty, Nicole; Johnston, Matthew; Kamel, Bishoy; Kawahara, Akito Y.; Laberge, Tammy; Lavrov, Dennis; Michonneau, Francois; Moroz, Leonid L.; Oakley, Todd; Osborn, Karen J.; Pomponi, Shirley A.; Rhodes, Adelaide; Rodriguez-Lanetty, Mauricio; Santos, Scott R.; Satoh, Nori; Thacker, Robert W.; Van de Peer, Yves; Voolstra, Christian R.; Welch, David Mark; Winston, Judith; Zhou, Xin (2014)
    Over 95% of all metazoan (animal) species comprise the invertebrates, but very few genomes from these organisms have been sequenced. We have, therefore, formed a Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA). Our intent is ...
  • A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins 
    Kawahara, Akito Y.; Storer, Caroline; Carvalho, Ana Paula S.; Plotkin, David M.; Condamine, Fabien L.; Braga, Mariana P.; Ellis, Emily A.; St Laurent, Ryan A.; Li, Xuankun; Barve, Vijay; Cai, Liming; Earl, Chandra; Frandsen, Paul B.; Owens, Hannah L.; Valencia-Montoya, Wendy A.; Aduse-Poku, Kwaku; Toussaint, Emmanuel F. A.; Dexter, Kelly M.; Doleck, Tenzing; Markee, Amanda; Messcher, Rebeccah; Nguyen, Y-Lan; Badon, Jade Aster T.; Benítez, Hugo A.; Braby, Michael F.; Buenavente, Perry A. C.; Chan, Wei-Ping; Collins, Steve C.; Rabideau Childers, Richard A.; Dankowicz, Even; Eastwood, Rod; Fric, Zdenek F.; Gott, Riley J.; Hall, Jason P. W.; Hallwachs, Winnie; Hardy, Nate B.; Sipe, Rachel L. Hawkins; Heath, Alan; Hinolan, Jomar D.; Homziak, Nicholas T.; Hsu, Yu-Feng; Inayoshi, Yutaka; Itliong, Micael G. A.; Janzen, Daniel H.; Kitching, Ian J.; Kunte, Krushnamegh; Lamas, Gerardo; Landis, Michael J.; Larsen, Elise A.; Larsen, Torben B.; Leong, Jing V.; Lukhtanov, Vladimir; Maier, Crystal A.; Martinez, Jose I.; Martins, Dino J.; Maruyama, Kiyoshi; Maunsell, Sarah C.; Mega, Nicolás Oliveira; Monastyrskii, Alexander; Morais, Ana B. B.; Müller, Chris J.; Naive, Mark Arcebal K.; Nielsen, Gregory; Padrón, Pablo Sebastián; Peggie, Djunijanti; Romanowski, Helena Piccoli; Sáfián, Szabolcs; Saito, Motoki; Schröder, Stefan; Shirey, Vaughn; Soltis, Doug; Soltis, Pamela; Sourakov, Andrei; Talavera, Gerard; Vila, Roger; Vlasanek, Petr; Wang, Houshuai; Warren, Andrew D.; Willmott, Keith R.; Yago, Masaya; Jetz, Walter; Jarzyna, Marta A.; Breinholt, Jesse W.; Espeland, Marianne; Ries, Leslie; Guralnick, Robert P.; Pierce, Naomi E.; Lohman, David J. (2023)
    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 ...
  • Increased gene sampling strengthens support for higher-level groups within leaf-mining moths and relatives (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) 
    Kawahara, Akito Y.; Ohshima, Issei; Kawakita, Atsushi; Regier, Jerome C.; Mitter, Charles; Cummings, Michael P.; Davis, Donald R.; Wagner, David L.; De Prins, Jurate; Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos (2011)
    Background: Researchers conducting molecular phylogenetic studies are frequently faced with the decision of what to do when weak branch support is obtained for key nodes of importance. As one solution, the researcher may ...
  • A Large-Scale, Higher-Level, Molecular Phylogenetic Study of the Insect Order Lepidoptera (Moths and Butterflies) 
    Regier, Jerome C.; Mitter, Charles; Zwick, Andreas; Bazinet, Adam L.; Cummings, Michael P.; Kawahara, Akito Y.; Sohn, Jae-Cheon; Zwickl, Derrick J.; Cho, Soowon; Davis, Donald R.; Baixeras, Joaquin; Brown, John W.; Parr, Cynthia Sims; Weller, Susan; Lees, David; Mitter, Kim T. (2013)
  • Long-read HiFi sequencing correctly assembles repetitive heavy fibroin silk genes in new moth and caddisfly genomes 
    Kawahara, Akito Y.; Storer, Caroline G.; Markee, Amanda; Heckenhauer, Jacqueline; Powell, Ashlyn; Plotkin, David; Hotaling, Scott; Cleland, Timothy P.; Dikow, Rebecca B.; Dikow, Torsten; Kuranishi, Ryoichi B.; Messcher, Rebeccah; Pauls, Steffen U.; Stewart, Russell J.; Tojo, Koji; Frandsen, Paul B. (2022)
  • A molecular phylogeny and revised higher-level classification for the leaf-mining moth family Gracillariidae and its implications for larval host-use evolution 
    Kawahara, Akito Y.; Plotkin, David; Ohshima, Issei; Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos; Houlihan, Peter R.; Breinholt, Jesse W.; Kawakita, Atsushi; Xiao, Lei; Regier, Jerome C.; Davis, Donald R.; Kumata, Tosio; Sohn, Jae-Cheon; De Prins, Jurate; Mitter, Charles (2017)
    Gracillariidae are one of the most diverse families of internally feeding insects, and many species are economically important. Study of this family has been hampered by lack of a robust and comprehensive phylogeny. In the ...
  • A molecular phylogeny for the oldest (nonditrysian) lineages of extant Lepidoptera, with implications for classification, comparative morphology and life-history evolution 
    Regier, Jerome C.; Mitter, Charles; Kristensen, Niels P.; Davis, Donald R.; Van Nieukerken, Erik J.; Rota, Jadranka; Simonsen, Thomas J.; Mitter, Kim T.; Kawahara, Akito Y.; Yen, Shen-Horn; Cummings, Michael P.; Zwick, Andreas (2015)
    Within the insect order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies), the so-called nonditrysian superfamilies are mostly species-poor but highly divergent, offering numerous synapomorphies and strong morphological evidence for ...
  • Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In : Zhang, Z.Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness 
    van Nieukerken, Erik J.; Kaila, Lauri; Kitching, Ian J.; Kristensen, Niels P.; Lees, David C.; Minet, Joël; Mitter, Charles; Mutanen, Marko; Regier, Jerome C.; Simonsen, Thomas J.; Wahlberg, Niklas; Yen, Shen-Horn; Zahiri, Reza; Adamski, David; Baixeras, Joaquin; Bartsch, Daniel; Bengtsson, Bengt Å.; Brown, John W.; Bucheli, Sibyl Rae; Davis, Donald R.; Prins, Jurate De; Prins, Willy De; Epstein, Marc E.; Gentili-Poole, Patricia; Gielis, Cees; Hättenschwiler, Peter; Hausmann, Axel; Holloway, Jeremy D.; Kallies, Axel; Karsholt, Ole; Kawahara, Akito Y.; Koster, Sjaak J. C.; Kozlov, Mikhail V.; Lafontaine, J. D.; Lamas, Gerardo; Landry, Jean-François; Lee, Sangmi; Nuss, Matthias; Park, Kyu-Tek; Penz, Carla; Rota, Jadranka; Schintlmeister, Alexander; Schmidt, B. C.; Sohn, Jae-Cheon; Solis, M. A.; Tarmann, Gerhard M.; Warren, Andrew D.; Weller, Susan; Yakovlev, Roman V.; Zolotuhin, Vadim V.; Zwick, Andreas (2011)
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  • Phylogenetic systematics, diversification, and biogeography of Cerurinae (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) and a description of a new genus 
    St Laurent, Ryan A.; Goldstein, Paul Z.; Miller, James S.; Markee, Amanda; Staude, Hermann S.; Kawahara, Akito Y.; Miller, Scott E.; Robbins, Robert K. (2023)
    We present the first dated molecular phylogeny of the Cerurinae moths (Notodontidae), based on sequence data for 666 loci generated by anchored hybrid enrichment. Monophyly of Cerurinae is corroborated, which includes the ...
  • Phylogenomics reveals the evolutionary timing and pattern of butterflies and moths 
    Kawahara, Akito Y.; Plotkin, David; Espeland, Marianne; Meusemann, Karen; Toussaint, Emmanuel F. A.; Donath, Alexander; Gimnich, France; Frandsen, Paul B.; Zwick, Andreas; Dos Reis, Mario; Barber, Jesse R.; Peters, Ralph S.; Liu, Shanlin; Zhou, Xin; Mayer, Christoph; Podsiadlowski, Lars; Storer, Caroline; Yack, Jayne E.; Misof, Bernhard; Breinholt, Jesse W. (2019)
    Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) are one of the major superradiations of insects, comprising nearly 160,000 described extant species. As herbivores, pollinators, and prey, Lepidoptera play a fundamental role in almost ...
  • Phylogeny and feeding trait evolution of the mega-diverse Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera: Obtectomera): new insight from 19 nuclear genes 
    Sohn, Jae-Cheon; Regier, Jerome C.; Mitter, Charles; Adamski, David; Landry, Jean-François; Heikkilä, Maria; Park, Kyu-Tek; Harrison, Terry; Mitter, Kim; Zwick, Andreas; Kawahara, Akito Y.; Cho, Soowon; Cummings, Michael P.; Schmitz, Patric (2016)
    The Gelechioidea (&gt;18 000 species), one of the largest superfamilies of Lepidoptera, are a major element of terrestrial ecosystems and include important pests and biological model species. Despite much recent progress, ...

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