A. Y. Kawahara

This study examines how urbanization affects moth populations in subtropical environments, finding declines in caterpillar biomass and adult abundance, reduced species richness, and trait-based differences in species responses.

This study constructs a comprehensive phylogeny of Automeris moths and related genera using DNA data, revealing paraphyly and divergence times.

This paper identifies disco as a potential master regulator of diel-activity diversification in moths by analyzing gene expression differences between day- and night-active species.

The paper examines how behavioral conditions affect silk characteristics in the Indian meal moth, finding that pupal silk is thicker than wandering silk and that elevated temperatures reduce pupal silk production.

This study links temperature stability and cool seasonal maxima to higher diversification rates in Pieridae butterflies, using a comprehensive phylogeny and distribution data.

The paper investigates anti-bat ultrasound production in moths, finding it widespread across 52 genera and identifying new subfamily origins and acoustic mimicry clusters.

This study constructs a comprehensive phylogenomic tree of butterflies and finds they originated in the Americas, diversified in the Paleotropics, and followed a 'cradle' pattern of dispersal.

The paper introduces a low-cost, portable device for tracking small animal activity in various conditions, showing it captures more motion data than commercial alternatives.

This study examines how adaptive shifts in wing morphology correlate with ecological and behavioral divergence in two moth families.

The paper examines genomic variation in three natural populations of Manduca sexta, identifying structural variations and genetic differentiation across the United States.

This study compares flight strategies in hawkmoths and silkmoths, finding two distinct aerodynamic approaches that support similar body masses but differ in force production and flight behavior.

This study compares spatial phylogenetic patterns of butterflies and flowering plants in North America, finding divergent biodiversity patterns and suggesting differences in habitat conservation.

This study investigates evolutionary trade-offs between body size and wing shape in arsenurine silkmoths using phylogenomics and geometric morphometrics, revealing complex relationships and phylogenetic challenges.

This study evaluates hypotheses for the latitudinal diversity gradient in Nymphalidae butterflies, finding that low extinction rates and historical dispersal patterns, rather than speciation rates, explain diversity patterns.

The paper examines opsin diversity in butterflies and moths, finding that high light environments drive opsin expansion and diversifying selection.

The paper optimizes subsampling in phylogenetic analysis to improve tree quality and reduce computational costs for Blaberoidea cockroaches.

This study uses phylogenomic analysis to resolve relationships and identify diversification rate shifts in Bombycoidea, linking them to bat predation pressures.