Nymphalid butterflies diversify following near demise at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1677, 2009, Pages 4295-4302

  Wahlberg, Niklas ^a,b   Leneveu, Julien ^a   Kodandaramaiah, Ullasa ^b   Pena, Carlos ^b   Nylin, Sören ^b   Freitas, André V L ^c   Brower, Andrew V Z ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^d MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversification; Lepidoptera; Mass extinction; Nymphalidae; Times of divergence

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; MASS EXTINCTION; MORPHOLOGY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CRETACEOUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TERTIARY (PERIOD);

DROSOPHILIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 72749085282     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1303     Document Type: Article

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