Pável Matos

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Extensive fieldwork in the tropical Andes of Peru, supplemented by analyses of climatic niche evolution, morphometry, and flight performance.

Join us Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Fully-funded PhD position The project aims to understand rapid evolution and adaptation in white butterflies flying at high elevatio…

New PhD position: Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️
The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of white butterflies at high elevations.
DEADLINE: January 11, 2025
More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

Un video de divulgación grabado en la Reserva Nacional Tambopata, Perú. En colaboración con la ONG AIDER y el Servicio Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, Sernanp.

Muchas gracias por la invitación, un lugar fantástico para realizar investigación científica 🦋
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nterested in seeing the diversity of the birds we studied? Found them in our recently published field guides:

English: science.fieldmuseum.org/fieldguides/...
Español: science.fieldmuseum.org/es/fieldguid...

Over 2 years, we recorded 262 bird-butterfly interactions across tropical forest and urban sites in Peru.

We found that predation pressure is shared collectively across prey types. Bird age and family-level traits explained the success of butterflies in evading predation.

Quantifying the success of prey crypsis, aposematism, and evasiveness in avoiding predator attack Antipredator defenses typically act at distinct stages of the predation sequence—encounter, identification, approach, and subjugation. However, their effectiveness has rarely been quantified and comp...

Huge congrats to Daniel and co-authors! 🤩
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Prey avoid predators through camouflage, chemical defences, or rapid escape. But what drives their co-existence?

Also happy that our lab hosted two MSc students from Switzerland, Joanne and Lola, who spent two weeks working with Irena Klečková and Honza Kollross on climatic niche modelling. A very productive and inspiring visit! 👩‍💻👩‍💻🌎

Had a great workshop on population and conservation genomics with Kay Lucek. We revisited key concepts and metrics, and streamlined our ongoing projects in Czechia 🦋

🚨PhD offer 👩‍🎓:
Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years.
Deadline: 27 Oct 2025
Selection: ~November
Starting: ~January 2026
Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me
More info👇

It's been great hosting you, @marcinwiorek.bsky.social! Looking forward to more collaborations together 🦋🧬

Many thanks to the opponents, Anne Duplouy (Uni Helsinki) and Radka Reifova (Charles Uni in Prague), and to our close collaborator Kay Lucek @kaybiodiversity.bsky.social (Uni Neuchatel), who has attended the defence.

Our lab is celebrating! 🥳 Pedro Ribeiro @pedrogribeiro.bsky.social has excellently defended his PhD thesis: theses.cz/id/9gnm91/

Pedro has used genome data to study the evolution of butterflies and their endosymbiont bacteria Wolbachia.

We wish you all the best, Dr. Pedro! 🦋

Join us Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. PhD position (full-time doctoral funding) We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join our team. The goal of the project is…

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10kLepGenomes | COST Action CA23122 The 10kLepGenomes COST Action aims to take advantage of the massive amount of data being produced by genome initiatives, in order to understand pressing issues of biodiversity loss, pest control, and ...

Opportunities for international networking, hands-on training and mobility are available through the @10klepgenomes.bsky.social COST Action (10klepgenomes.eu) and close collaboration with Project Psyche @projectpsyche.bsky.social (projectpsyche.org) and the LepEU Consortium (lepeu.github.io).

Join us Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. PhD position (full-time doctoral funding) We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join our team. The goal of the project is…

New PhD position: Butterfly Conservation Genomics 🦋
The project focuses on threatened butterflies in Czech dry grasslands and steppes.
Deadline: September 12, 2025
More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

Big congrats to Daniel Linke and to @vincentdebat.bsky.social for such a fantastic collaboration!

Convergent evolution of skipper wings assessed through anti-predator defences, flight proxies and geographical distribution 1. Phenotypic evolution is shaped by phylogenetic, ecological and biomechanical constraints. Butterfly wings offer an ideal system to explore these constraints as their evolution is strongly influence...

In skipper butterflies, the evolution of iridescence and "wing tails" comes together with particular changes in the size and shape of their two wing pairs. This points to evolutionary trade-offs between flight performance and antipredator defences
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Logo of the LepEU initiative: a noctuid moth with a wing pattern resembling Europe, accompanied by the text “LepEU” in white and orange.

(1/3) Have you heard about #LepEU?
The European Lepidoptera Population Genomics Consortium is a group focused on unveiling patterns of differentiation and local adaptation in butterfly and moth populations across Europe 🦋🌍

Logo of the 10kLepGenomes COST Action. Orange text "10K LEP GENOMES" accompanied by a design that combines the number 10 and the letter "K" to represent a butterfly and DNA.

(1/4) Exciting news 📣 Announcing the #COST10KLepGenomes initiative! 🦋🧬
We're leveraging genomic data to tackle biodiversity loss, disentangle Lepidoptera evolution and address climate change impacts on European butterflies and moths.

Logo of the 10kLepGenomes COST Action. Orange text "10K LEP GENOMES" accompanied by a design that uses the number 10 and the letter "K" to represent a butterfly and DNA.

(1/4) 📣 Exciting news! 📣
The #10KLepGenomes COST Action has opened the first call for Short Term Scientific Missions #STSMs
Keep reading for all the details 👇

Huge thanks to everyone involved: our amazing collaborators, the PhD committee, and external opponent Tom Sherratt, co-author of "Avoiding Attack", a major reference for Dani's work.

A milestone for our lab: Daniel Linke is our first PhD graduate! 🦋🥳
Over 4 years, he studied the evolution of antipredator defences in skipper butterflies, combining experiments in the lab and field in Peru.
All the best in what's coming next, Dani! 🎓
Thesis: theses.cz/id/tyfekz/?l...

In this interview by the A-magazine (Czech Academy of Sciences), I highlighted our latest research on butterfly evolution, ecology, and conservation. Many thanks @akademievedcr.bsky.social

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Foto: Jana Plavec, Akademie věd ČR

(1/4)🦋 Introducing Project Psyche! A groundbreaking initiative to sequence the genomes of all 11,000 species of butterflies and moths in Europe. The goal is to analyse this data to understand global climate insecurity and threats to biodiversity on a genomic level🧬 #ProjectPsyche #Genomics

On our way to the COST 10kLepGenomes meeting in Lund!! A little stop in Copenhagen with Irena Klečková before the great discussions in the frame of Project Psyche @projectpsyche.bsky.social