Alyssa Woronik

TL;DR: This work investigates an unprecedented reorganization of the standard lepidopteran chromosome structure in the green-veined white butterfly (Pieris napi) and finds that gene content in P. napi has been extensively rearranged in large collinear blocks, suggesting both a mechanism and a possible role for selection in determining the boundaries of these genome-wide rearrangements.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided, through a long term behavioral study, that variation in mating behavior is influenced by population density in L. polyphemus and that low population density may lead to decreased mate finding ability and lost opportunities for spawning.

TL;DR: A transposable element insertion is associated with the switch between alternative life history strategies, central to life history theory and evolutionary biology, and characterize one such mechanism for a female-limited ALHS.

TL;DR: The first steps in localizing the region carrying Alba in Colias croceus, a species with no genomic resources, are taken by generating whole genome sequence of a single Alba mother and two sequencing pools, one for her Alba and another for her orange, offspring.

TL;DR: M measuring life history traits and conducting lipidomics on individuals reared at hot and cold temperatures in the Old World species Colias croceus suggest that the fitness of Alba and orange morphs likely varies with rearing temperature, where Alba females have higher fitness in cold conditions and orange in warm.