Marcus Hicks
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Marcus Hicks
@marcushicks.bsky.social
PhD student at QMUL and UCL CBER working on seasonality in Amazonian butterflies

Oostra group
I'm looking forward to sharing how this project has matured into genomic and transcriptomic work in the next few months, with exciting results to come!
January 23, 2026 at 9:49 AM
and (2) that maximum temperature was the principal driver of distinct seasonal responses in two Catonephele species, suggesting diapause evolution combines cue conservation with species-specific divergence of trait plasticity
January 23, 2026 at 9:45 AM
We combined phenotypic and climatic data, with two key findings:
(1) that some species diapause while others don’t, indicating that diapause has evolved many times during butterfly diversification
January 23, 2026 at 9:43 AM
We tested seasonal reproductive dynamics across the Nymphalids in the seasonally dry tropical forests of Peru using long-term collections to perform *lots* of dissections across nine species
January 23, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Would be great to be on there! Cheers
February 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM