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Andrew V. Z. Brower
Researcher at United States Department of Agriculture
Publications - 109
Citations - 7124
Andrew V. Z. Brower is an academic researcher from United States Department of Agriculture. The author has contributed to research in topics: Phylogenetic tree & Heliconius. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 105 publications receiving 6745 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrew V. Z. Brower include University of Florida & American Museum of Natural History.
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Rapid morphological radiation and convergence among races of the butterfly Heliconius erato inferred from patterns of mitochondrial DNA evolution
TL;DR: A phylogenetic hypothesis based on mitochondrial DNA sequences for 14 divergent races of Heliconius erato reveals that similar wing patterns have evolved rapidly and convergently within the species, suggesting a simultaneous radiation of races within the last 200,000 years.
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Nymphalid butterflies diversify following near demise at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary
Niklas Wahlberg,Julien Leneveu,Ullasa Kodandaramaiah,Carlos Peña,Sören Nylin,André V. L. Freitas,Andrew V. Z. Brower +6 more
TL;DR: By dating the branching events, it is inferred that Nymphalidae originated in the Cretaceous at 90 Ma, but that the ancestors of 10–12 lineages survived the end-Cretaceous catastrophe in the Neotropical and Oriental regions.
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Limited performance of DNA barcoding in a diverse community of tropical butterflies
Marianne Elias,Ryan I. Hill,Keith R. Willmott,Kanchon K. Dasmahapatra,Andrew V. Z. Brower,James Mallet,Chris D. Jiggins +6 more
TL;DR: This work assesses the applicability of DNA barcoding to a diverse community of butterflies from the upper Amazon, using a group with a well-established morphological taxonomy to serve as a reference and recommends the addition of nuclear sequence data.
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Patterns of mitochondrial versus nuclear DNA sequence divergence among nymphalid butterflies: the utility of wingless as a source of characters for phylogenetic inference
Andrew V. Z. Brower,Rob DeSalle +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that wg will be a useful source of characters for phylogenetic studies of butterflies, and perhaps other insect taxa, with divergence times up to 60 million years ago.
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Synergistic effects of combining morphological and molecular data in resolving the phylogeny of butterflies and skippers
Niklas Wahlberg,Michael F. Braby,Andrew V. Z. Brower,Rienk De Jong,Ming Min Lee,Sören Nylin,Naomi E. Pierce,Felix A. H. Sperling,Roger Vila,Andrew D. Warren,Evgueni V. Zakharov +10 more
TL;DR: This work presents the first well supported phylogenetic hypothesis for the butterflies and skippers based on a total-evidence analysis of both traditional morphological characters and new molecular characters from three gene regions (COI, EF-1α and wingless).