🦋☀️Vertical and temporal niche partitioning in Amazonian butterflies: implications for the evolution of thermal tolerance

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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!

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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 !