Well done to Eva on publishing her thesis chapter work in PNAS on Mechanitis and Melinaea genomics - these rapidly radiating and diverse genera are a complex of genome rearrangements and introgression, offering insights into the genomic basis for tropical diversity
Read the paper: E.S.M. van der Heijden, K. Näsvall, F.A. Seixas, C.E. Beserra Nobre, A.C.D. Maia, P. Salazar-Carrión, J.M. Walker, D. Szczerbowski, S. Schulz, I.A. Warren, K.G. Gavilanes Córdova, M.J. Sánchez-Carvajal, F. Chandi, A.P. Arias-Cruz, N. Rueda-M, C. Salazar, K.K. Dasmahapatra, S.H. Montgomery, M. McClure, D.E. Absolon, T.C. Mathers, C.A. Santos, S. McCarthy, J.M.D. Wood, G. Lamas, C. Bacquet, A.V.L. Freitas, K.R. Willmott, C.D. Jiggins, M. Elias & J.I. Meier, Genomics of Neotropical biodiversity indicators: Two butterfly radiations with rampant chromosomal rearrangements and hybridization, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (31) e2410939122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2410939122 (2025).