Ramprasad Neethiraj

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: 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 findings suggest that V. cardui may use two sets of expressed genes to achieve polyphagy, one associated with the ancestral capability to consume Rosids and Asterids, and another allowing the caterpillar to incorporate a wide range of novel host-plants.

TL;DR: Using Pool‐Seq data for both genome assembly and SNP frequency estimation, followed by scanning for FST outliers to identify divergent genomic regions, new regions of high divergence and new annotations are discovered that together suggest novel parallels between birds and butterflies in the origins of their colour pattern variation.

TL;DR: Extensive chromosomal rearrangements in the genome of the green-veined white butterfly are reported, revealing that the evolutionary dynamics acting on Lepidopteran genome structure are more complex than previously envisioned.