A migratory divide in insects! 🦋 Vanessa cardui butterflies migrate in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern hemispheres 🌍, a pattern driven by a chromosomal inversion 🧬

Paper @natcomms.nature.com
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Beautiful new paper showing a latitudinal migratory divide in Painted Ladies. Longitudinal divides in migratory species are quite common, but seeing a latitudinal gradient, as well as the chromosomal inversion causing it, is exciting! 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out this lovely article featuring some of our research! 👩‍🔬🦋🗺️

www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...

Revealing snapdragon secrets: Together with international experts, the Barton group, Arka Pal, Daria Shipilina, and more now share new snapdragon insights in Molecular Ecology.

Check out our most recent publication in PNAS Nexus! 🦋👩‍🔬

Check out new paper on the evolution of a complex trait - the transition from egg-laying to live-bearing in Littorina snails! Led by Sean Stankowski and a fantastic team I was lucky enough to be a part of. Out now in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Genome-wide cline analysis identifies new locus contributing to a barrier to gene flow across an Antirrhinum hybrid zone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.17.638607v1

Painted lady butterflies that migrate from Europe to the Mediterranean are not genetically distinct from those that migrate from Europe to West Africa. Instead, environmental cues likely determine migration distance. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...