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A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins

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Kawahara, Akito Y., Storer, Caroline, Carvalho, Ana Paula S., Plotkin, David M., Condamine, Fabien L., Braga, Mariana P., Ellis, Emily A., St Laurent, Ryan A., Li, Xuankun, Barve, Vijay, Cai, Liming, Earl, Chandra, Frandsen, Paul B., Owens, Hannah L., Valencia-Montoya, Wendy A., Aduse-Poku, Kwaku, Toussaint, Emmanuel F. A., Dexter, Kelly M., Doleck, Tenzing, Markee, Amanda, Messcher, Rebeccah, Nguyen, Y-Lan, Badon, Jade Aster T., Benítez, Hugo A., Braby, Michael F., Buenavente, Perry A. C., Chan, Wei-Ping, Collins, Steve C., Rabideau Childers, Richard A., Dankowicz, Even, Eastwood, Rod, Fric, Zdenek F., Gott, Riley J., Hall, Jason P. W., Hallwachs, Winnie, Hardy, Nate B., Sipe, Rachel L. Hawkins, Heath, Alan, Hinolan, Jomar D., Homziak, Nicholas T., Hsu, Yu-Feng, Inayoshi, Yutaka, Itliong, Micael G. A., Janzen, Daniel H., Kitching, Ian J., Kunte, Krushnamegh, Lamas, Gerardo, Landis, Michael J., Larsen, Elise A., Larsen, Torben B., Leong, Jing V., Lukhtanov, Vladimir, Maier, Crystal A., Martinez, Jose I., Martins, Dino J., Maruyama, Kiyoshi, Maunsell, Sarah C., Mega, Nicolás Oliveira, Monastyrskii, Alexander, Morais, Ana B. B., Müller, Chris J., Naive, Mark Arcebal K., Nielsen, Gregory, Padrón, Pablo Sebastián, Peggie, Djunijanti, Romanowski, Helena Piccoli, Sáfián, Szabolcs, Saito, Motoki, Schröder, Stefan, Shirey, Vaughn, Soltis, Doug, Soltis, Pamela, Sourakov, Andrei, Talavera, Gerard, Vila, Roger, Vlasanek, Petr, Wang, Houshuai, Warren, Andrew D., Willmott, Keith R., Yago, Masaya, Jetz, Walter, Jarzyna, Marta A., Breinholt, Jesse W., Espeland, Marianne, Ries, Leslie, Guralnick, Robert P., Pierce, Naomi E., Lohman, David J. (2023): A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7 (6): 903-913, DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02041-9, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02041-9

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