Talavera, Gerard

Vlad Dincă is a researcher at the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra) in Barcelona, Spain. He has contributed to sample acquisition and wrote the manuscript for this study. Gerard Talavera is a researcher at the Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva (ICBiBE) - Universitat de València in Paterna, Spain, and St Petersburg State University in Russia. He performed phylogenetic analyses for this study. Sergio Montagud is a researcher at the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA. He contributed to sample acquisition for this study. Juan Hernández-Roldán, Miguel L. Munguira, and Enrique García-Barros are researchers at various institutions in Spain and contributed to the study by providing data and discussing the results.

Biography:  https://www.nature.com/articles/srep12395

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  • The painted ladies likely hitched rides on wind currents and alternated between flapping and gliding during their journey across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • The painted lady butterfly can cover up to 9,000 miles during its migration between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Two specific plant species found on the butterflies' wings, Guiera senegalensis and Ziziphus spina-christi, only flower at the end of the rainy season in West Africa.

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