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Niklas Wahlberg
Researcher at Lund University
Publications - 220
Citations - 12806
Niklas Wahlberg is an academic researcher from Lund University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nymphalidae & Phylogenetic tree. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 207 publications receiving 11082 citations. Previous affiliations of Niklas Wahlberg include University of Helsinki & University of Turku.
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What causes latitudinal gradients in species diversity? Evolutionary processes and ecological constraints on swallowtail biodiversity
TL;DR: The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) observed in swallowtail butterflies is caused by climatically driven changes in both clades based on evidence of responses to cooling and warming events, and distinct biogeographical histories constrained by tropical niche conservatism and niche evolution.
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Timing and patterns in the taxonomic diversification of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths).
TL;DR: It is found that the diversification of major lineages in Lepidoptera are approximately equal in age to the crown group of angiosperms and that there appear to have been three significant increases in diversification rates among Lepidioptera over evolutionary time.
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The Glanville fritillary genome retains an ancient karyotype and reveals selective chromosomal fusions in Lepidoptera
Virpi Ahola,Rainer Lehtonen,Panu Somervuo,Leena Salmela,Patrik Koskinen,Pasi Rastas,Niko Välimäki,Lars Paulin,Jouni Kvist,Niklas Wahlberg,Jaakko Tanskanen,Emily A. Hornett,Emily A. Hornett,Laura Ferguson,Shiqi Luo,Zijuan Cao,Maaike A. de Jong,Maaike A. de Jong,Anne Duplouy,Olli-Pekka Smolander,Heiko Vogel,Rajiv C. McCoy,Kui Qian,Wong Swee Chong,Qin Zhang,Freed Ahmad,Jani K. Haukka,Aruj Joshi,Jarkko Salojärvi,Christopher W. Wheat,Ewald Grosse-Wilde,Daniel S.T. Hughes,Daniel S.T. Hughes,Riku Katainen,Esa Pitkänen,Johannes Ylinen,Robert M. Waterhouse,Robert M. Waterhouse,Robert M. Waterhouse,Mikko P. Turunen,Anna Vähärautio,Anna Vähärautio,Sami P. Ojanen,Alan H. Schulman,Minna Taipale,Minna Taipale,Daniel Lawson,Esko Ukkonen,Veli Mäkinen,Marian R. Goldsmith,Liisa Holm,Petri Auvinen,Mikko J. Frilander,Ilkka Hanski +53 more
TL;DR: The genome of the Glanville fritillary butterfly, a widely recognized model species in metapopulation biology and eco-evolutionary research, is reported, which shows that fusion chromosomes have retained the ancestral chromosome segments and very few rearrangements have occurred across the fusion sites.
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Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)
Reza Zahiri,Jeremy D. Holloway,Ian J. Kitching,J. Donald Lafontaine,Marko Mutanen,Niklas Wahlberg +5 more
TL;DR: The first large‐scale molecular phylogenetic analysis of the moth family Erebidae is undertaken, including almost all subfamilies, as well as most tribes and subtribes, revealing a well‐resolved skeleton phylogenetic hypothesis with 18 major lineages.
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Cretaceous origin and repeated tertiary diversification of the redefined butterflies
TL;DR: The results suggest that the butterflies, as traditionally understood, are paraphyletic, with Papilionidae being the sister-group to Hesperioidea, Hedyloidea and all other butterflies, and the families in the current three superfamilies should be placed in a single superfamily PapilionoideA.