Manuela López‐Villavicencio

The paper examines opsin gene evolution in Morpho butterflies, finding positive selection and co-evolving amino acids linked to light environment and wing coloration.

This study examines the Z-chromosome evolution in Morpho butterflies, finding increased genomic rearrangements and positive selection, suggesting a role in speciation through pre- and post-zygotic isolation.

This study examines the genome evolution and transmission patterns of Spiroplasma endosymbionts in Morpho butterflies, revealing genome size inflation, horizontal gene transfer, and contrasting transmission dynamics between sympatric species.

The paper assembles and annotates the genomes of three sympatric Morpho butterfly species to study chromosomal rearrangements and pre-zygotic isolation mechanisms.