A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F23%3A00573120" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/23:00573120 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60076658:12310/23:43906703
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02041-9.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02041-9.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02041-9" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41559-023-02041-9</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins
Original language description
Butterflies are a diverse and charismatic insect group that are thought to have evolved with plants and dispersed throughout the world in response to key geological events. However, these hypotheses have not been extensively tested because a comprehensive phylogenetic framework and datasets for butterfly larval hosts and global distributions are lacking. We sequenced 391 genes from nearly 2,300 butterfly species, sampled from 90 countries and 28 specimen collections, to reconstruct a new phylogenomic tree of butterflies representing 92% of all genera. Our phylogeny has strong support for nearly all nodes and demonstrates that at least 36 butterfly tribes require reclassification. Divergence time analyses imply an origin ~100 million years ago for butterflies and indicate that all but one family were present before the K/Pg extinction event. We aggregated larval host datasets and global distribution records and found that butterflies are likely to have first fed on Fabaceae and originated in what is now the Americas. Soon after the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum, butterflies crossed Beringia and diversified in the Palaeotropics. Our results also reveal that most butterfly species are specialists that feed on only one larval host plant family. However, generalist butterflies that consume two or more plant families usually feed on closely related plants.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nature Ecology & Evolution
ISSN
2397-334X
e-ISSN
2397-334X
Volume of the periodical
7
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
903-913
UT code for WoS article
000992481800002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85159289987