Daria Shipilina

Huge thanks to Lars Höök, Gerard Talavera @ibb-botanic.bsky.social, Niclas Backstöm @evobiouppsala.bsky.social, Elenia Parkes and Venkat Talla

Why do insects migrate? One major driver is resource limitation. In the painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui), we show how resource cues reshape gene expression across development.
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New study led by @dariashipilina.bsky.social links resource limitation as a driver of migration in the painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui). The authors show how resource cues reshape gene expression across development.
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What a cute and informative doodle!

Globetrotting not in the genes | New findings about painted lady butterfly’s annual migration
Painted lady butterflies are world travelers. The ones we encounter in Europe fly from Africa to Sweden, ultimately returning to areas north and sou...
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Les papallones migren en direccions oposades segons l’hemisferi 🦋

📕Un equip internacional liderat per l’@ibb-botanic.bsky.social, amb participació de l’ @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social, documenta el primer cas de “divisió migratòria” en la papallona Vanessa cardui.🧬

👉https://shorturl.at/LVbhf

A migratory divide in insects! 🦋 Vanessa cardui butterflies migrate in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern hemispheres 🌍, a pattern driven by a chromosomal inversion 🧬

Paper @natcomms.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

#butterflymigration #insectmigration #migratorydivide #evolution

A north-south hemispheric migratory divide in the butterfly Vanessa cardui - Nature Communications Here authors find a latitudinal migratory divide in a butterfly across Earth’s hemispheres, highlighting how hemisphere-specific seasonality and navigational cues shape migratory strategies. They find...

Beautiful new paper showing a latitudinal migratory divide in Painted Ladies. Longitudinal divides in migratory species are quite common, but seeing a latitudinal gradient, as well as the chromosomal inversion causing it, is exciting! 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This Butterfly’s Epic Migration Is Written into Its Chemistry Painted ladies travel the globe every year on massive journeys—including across the Sahara

Check out this lovely article featuring some of our research! 👩‍🔬🦋🗺️

www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...

Thank you for your presentation and insights on pannel discussion, Bettina! Fantastic science! 🐳 included

Revealing snapdragon secrets: Together with international experts, the Barton group, Arka Pal, Daria Shipilina, and more now share new snapdragon insights in Molecular Ecology.

Check out our most recent publication in PNAS Nexus! 🦋👩‍🔬

Check out new paper on the evolution of a complex trait - the transition from egg-laying to live-bearing in Littorina snails! Led by Sean Stankowski and a fantastic team I was lucky enough to be a part of. Out now in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Genome-wide cline analysis identifies new locus contributing to a barrier to gene flow across an Antirrhinum hybrid zone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.17.638607v1

Painted lady butterflies that migrate from Europe to the Mediterranean are not genetically distinct from those that migrate from Europe to West Africa. Instead, environmental cues likely determine migration distance. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...