Niklas Wahlberg

TL;DR: A dispersal-vicariance analysis suggests that dispersal has had a major effect on the distributions of extant species, and three biotic regions are identified as being centres of diversification of three major clades: the Palaearctic for the Nymphalis -group, the Afrotropics for Junoniini and the Nearctic for Melitaeini.

TL;DR: The approach offers little support for optimal foraging theory, but shows how novel combinations of genetic markers can be used to test general theory, targeting patterns at both the level of prey communities and individual predators.

TL;DR: It is argued that phylogenomics stands to benefit by embracing the many heterogeneous genomic signals emerging from the first decade of large-scale phylogenetic analysis spawned by high-throughput sequencing (HTS), and that an integrative cyberinfrastructure linking all steps of the process of building the ToL, from specimen acquisition in the field to publication and tracking of phylogenomic data, are essential for progress.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the age of Nymphalidae is older than the 70 million years speculated to be the age as a whole, and a plausible history of lineage splits appears to be correlated with known paleogeological events.

TL;DR: It is argued that dispersal is as important as vicariance, if not more, in the global diversification of butterflies.