Two rainforest butterflies have evolved to look more alike, likely to confuse shared predators. But why don’t they get confused themselves?
To avoid mating with the wrong species, they’ve cleverly evolved distinct scents.
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In #Oikos (e11567) #OpenAccess
"Vertical and temporal niche partitioning in Amazonian butterflies: implications for the evolution of thermal tolerance"
#Tropical_forests #thermal_factors #sympatry
@titouanbouinier.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr , Smadi,C., & Llaurens,V.
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Autre extrait du docu. #Ushuaïa_TV "ATLASea, à la poursuite des génomes marins", diffusé sur Instagram.
Line Le Gall @isyeb.mnhn.fr et son équipe explorent les fonds marin de Marseille, à la découverte de paysages insoupçonnés, sous la surface un autre monde
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🦋☀️Vertical and temporal niche partitioning in Amazonian butterflies: implications for the evolution of thermal tolerance
🎨 © Céline Louis-Clyiss
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#Butterfly #Community #EvolutionaryEcology #TemporalNiche #ThermalResistance #VerticalStratification
The illustration art was provided by the talented scientific illustrator @clyiss.bsky.social !
Very excited to release our new paper !
We characterized the thermal and temporal niches of a community of closely related Morpho butterflies, and found very significant ties between micro-habitat and thermal traits.
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Super nice study by @titouanbouinier.bsky.social on niche partitioning in Morpho butterflies!
Oikos - Wiley Online Library nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
a thin butterfly with black and orange patterns on its long, lobed wings is at rest on the shiny surface of a leaf next to what might be small eggs
A new study tracks the recent and rapid diversification of glasswing butterflies, which evolved within the last two million years in the tropics of South America.
Story:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/geno...
Study:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Congrats to Violaine for this well deserved prize!! Champagne!
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Really happy to share our new paper ! We characterized the Morpho butterfly visual system, and found a link between opsin evolution, wing coloration and light habitat. We also highlight correlated evolution between amino acids from different opsin genes at a molecular scale !
