@cellbionews

🤔 "And perhaps more importantly, how and when did [butterflies] reach the isolated continent of Australia? " Nice animation, indeed.

Have a look at the underlying analysis in the supplement: crossed back and forth 4000 km of (tropical) open ocean?!

But more intriguingly, how could they disperse from Australia (and elsewhere) to an ocean-divided "Indomalaya" (note the same-colouring in the animation) in the Late Cretaceous?

#Neontology #Bias

Following @RobLanfear 's plea.
I've worked (early retired) on #phylogenetics at evolution's coalface (from marine protozoans to extratropical trees), at the junction of #paleontology and #neontology, the crossroads of #bioinformatics and #application

Love to quick-help with graph interpretations—e.g. https://phylonetworks.blogspot.com/2019/12/trees-informing-networks-explaining.html and https://phylonetworks.blogspot.com/2019/04/next-generation-neighbor-nets.html

(Very) early user of #RAxML and #SplitsTree; too late to learn #R (you should!)