Marianne Espeland

This study uses a meta-analysis of 1,361 Neotropical butterfly species to show that the Pebas wetland selectively constrained dispersal between the Andes and Amazonia, contributing to the modern diversity imbalance.

This study uses phylogenetic analysis to show that long-distance dispersal, not vicariance, primarily shaped the pantropical distribution of the moth genus Parasa.

The paper uses genomic data and phylogenetic methods to resolve the origins of two Satyrinae butterfly genera, finding Calisto originated from Old World ancestors and Llorenteana split early in Euptychiina.

This study uses phylogenomic data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of caddisflies, finding that portable case-making evolved independently in three lineages.

The paper shows that nuclear-encoded universal single-copy orthologs (USCOs) outperform mitochondrial DNA barcoding in species discrimination and taxonomic assignment across metazoans.