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Keith R. Willmott
Researcher at Florida Museum of Natural History
Publications - 151
Citations - 3642
Keith R. Willmott is an academic researcher from Florida Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nymphalidae & Satyrinae. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 130 publications receiving 3141 citations. Previous affiliations of Keith R. Willmott include University of Florida & American Museum of Natural History.
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Integration of DNA Barcoding Into An Ongoing Inventory of Complex Tropical Biodiversity
Daniel H. Janzen,Winnie Hallwachs,Patrick Blandin,John M. Burns,Jean Marie Cadiou,Isidro Chacón,Tanya Dapkey,Andrew R. Deans,Marc E. Epstein,Bernardo Espinoza,John G. Franclemont,William A. Haber,Mehrdad Hajibabaei,Jason P. W. Hall,Paul D. N. Hebert,I. D. Gauld,Donald J. Harvey,Axel Hausmann,Ian J. Kitching,Don Lafontaine,Jean Fran Çois Landry,Claude Lemaire,Jacqueline Y. Miller,James Miller,Lee M. Miller,Scott E. Miller,Jose Montero,Eugene Munroe,Suzanne Rab Green,Sujeevan Ratnasingham,John E. Rawlins,Robert K. Robbins,Josephine J. Rodriguez,Rodolphe Rougerie,Michael J. Sharkey,M. Alex Smith,M. Alma Solis,J. Bolling Sullivan,Paul Thiaucourt,David B. Wahl,Susan J. Weller,James B. Whitfield,Keith R. Willmott,D. Monty Wood,Norman E. Woodley,John J. Wilson +45 more
TL;DR: Adding DNA barcoding to the inventory of the caterpillars, their food plants and parasitoids in northwestern Costa Rica has substantially improved the quality and depth of the inventory, and greatly multiplied the number of situations requiring further taxonomic work for resolution.
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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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A Comprehensive and Dated Phylogenomic Analysis of Butterflies
Marianne Espeland,Marianne Espeland,Jesse W. Breinholt,Keith R. Willmott,Andrew D. Warren,Roger Vila,Emmanuel F. A. Toussaint,Sarah C. Maunsell,Kwaku Aduse-Poku,Gerard Talavera,Gerard Talavera,Rod Eastwood,Marta A. Jarzyna,Robert P. Guralnick,David J. Lohman,David J. Lohman,David J. Lohman,Naomi E. Pierce,Akito Y. Kawahara +18 more
TL;DR: This study overturns prior notions of the taxon's evolutionary history, as many long-recognized subfamilies and tribes are para- or polyphyletic, and provides a much-needed backbone for a revised classification of butterflies and for future comparative studies including genome evolution and ecology.
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Taxonomy: renaissance or Tower of Babel?
TL;DR: To reform and build on what taxonomists have already accomplished, the biology community must now begin to seek consensus, and avoid fragmenting into vociferous subdisciplines with multiple, competing aims.
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Out of the Andes: patterns of diversification in clearwing butterflies
Marianne Elias,Marianne Elias,Marianne Elias,Mathieu Joron,Mathieu Joron,Keith R. Willmott,Karina L. Silva-Brandão,Karina L. Silva-Brandão,Vera B. Kaiser,Carlos Arias,L M Gomez Piñerez,Sandra Uribe,Andrew V. Z. Brower,André V. L. Freitas,Chris D. Jiggins +14 more
TL;DR: The role of the Andes in the evolution of a diverse Neotropical insect group, the clearwing butterflies, is studied and it is shown that both genera likely originated at middle elevations in the Andean mountains in the Middle Miocene, contrasting with most published results in vertebrates that point to a lowland origin.