First Comprehensive Map of Butterfly Evolution (IMAGE)

Florida Museum of Natural History

First Comprehensive Map of Butterfly Evolution

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Researchers have produced a bigger, better butterfly evolutionary tree with a 35-fold increase in genetic data and three times as many taxa as previous studies.

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Figure by Espeland et al. in Current Biology

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