Niklas Wahlberg

- Docent,
Department of Biology (Faculty of Science)

niklas.wahlberg@utu.fi

Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4

Turku

ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1259-3363

Research

I am currently a University Researcher at the Laboratory of Genetics, Department of Biology, University of Turku. My main area of research is the systematics and evolution of the butterfly family Nymphalidae.

Publications

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Molecular phylogeny of Lymantriinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Erebidae) inferred from eight gene regions (2015)
- Cladistics
Wang HS, Wahlberg N, Holloway JD, Bergsten J, Fan XL, Janzen DH, Hallwachs W, Wen LJ, Wang M, Nylin S
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Morphological variation between populations of the expanding ectoparasitic deer ked Lipoptena cervi (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) in Fennoscandia (2015)
- Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Mervi Jaakola, Meri Ojanen, Eija Hurme, Marko Mutanen, Niklas Wahlberg, Panu Välimäki, Arja Kaitala
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Multilocus Species Trees Show the Recent Adaptive Radiation of the Mimetic Heliconius Butterflies (2015)
- Systematic Biology
Kozak KM, Wahlberg N, Neild AFE, Dasmahapatra KK, Mallet J, Jiggins CD
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Systematics and historical biogeography of the old world butterfly subtribe Mycalesina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) (2015)
- BMC Evolutionary Biology
Kwaku Aduse-Poku, Oskar Brattström, Ullasa Kodandaramaiah, David C. Lees, Paul M. Brakefield, Niklas Wahlberg3
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
The butterfly plant arms-race escalated by gene and genome duplications (2015)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Edger PP, Heidel-Fischer HM, Bekaert M, Rota J, Gloeckner G, Platts AE, Heckel DG, Der JP, Wafula EK, Tang M, Hofberger JA, Smithson A, Hall JC, Blanchette M, Bureau TE, Wright SI, dePamphilis CW, Schranz ME, Barker MS, Conant GC, Wahlberg N, Vogel H, Pires JC, Wheat CW
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Behind family trees: Secondary connections in Uralic language networks (2014)
- Language Dynamics and Change
Jyri Lehtinen, Terhi Honkola, Kalle Korhonen, Kaj Syrjänen, Niklas Wahlberg, Outi Vesakoski
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Causes of endemic radiation in the Caribbean: evidence from the historical biogeography and diversification of the butterfly genus Calisto (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Satyrini) (2014)
- BMC Evolutionary Biology
Pável Matos-Maraví, Rayner Núñez Águila, Carlos Peña, Jacqueline Y Miller, Andrei Sourakov, Niklas Wahlberg
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Paulogramma hydarnis (n. comb.) (Nymphalidae: Biblidinae): Distribution, Systematic Position, and Conservation Status of a Rare and Endangered Butterfly (2014)
- Neotropical Entomology
Freitas AVL, Kaminski LA, Iserhard CA, Magaldi LM, Wahlberg N, Silva-Brandao KL, Marini OJ
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Phylogenetic analysis of Maverick/Polinton giant transposons across organisms (2014)
- Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Haapa-Paananen S, Wahlberg N, Savilahti H
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Phylogeny and Evolution of Pharmacophagy in Tiger Moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) (2014)
- PLoS ONE
Zaspel JM, Weller SJ, Wardwell CT, Zahiri R, Wahlberg N
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Phylogeny of the Rhizobium-Allorhizobium-Agrobacterium clade supports the delineation of Neorhizobium gen. nov. (2014)
- Systematic and Applied Microbiology
Mousavi SA, Osterman J, Wahlberg N, Nesme X, Lavire C, Vial L, Paulin L, de Lajudiee P, Lindstrom K
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Relationships within the Melitaea phoebe species group (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): new insights from molecular and morphometric information (2014)
- Systematic Entomology
Toth JP, Bereczki J, Varga Z, Rota J, Sramko G, Wahlberg N
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Revised systematics and higher classification of pierid butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) based on molecular data (2014)
- Zoologica Scripta
Niklas Wahlberg, Jadranka Rota, Michael F. Braby, Naomi E. Pierce, Christopher W. Wheat
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Species Delineation of Malaysian Mangrove Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) using DNA Barcodes (2014)
- Coleopterists Bulletin
Wan F. A. Jusoh, Nor Rasidah Hashim, Ilari E. Sääksjärvi, Nur Azura Adam, Niklas Wahlberg
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
The Glanville fritillary genome retains an ancient karyotype and reveals selective chromosomal fusions in Lepidoptera (2014)
- Nature Communications
Virpi Ahola, Rainer Lehtonen, Panu Somervuo, Leena Salmela, Patrik Koskinen, Pasi Rastas, Niko Välimäki, Lars Paulin, Jouni Kvist, Niklas Wahlberg, Jaakko Tanskanen, Emily A. Hornett, Laura C. Ferguson, Shiqi Luo, Zijuan Cao, Maaike A. de Jong, Anne Duplouy, Olli-Pekka Smolander, Heiko Vogel, Rajiv C. McCoy, Kui Qian, Wong Swee Chong, Qin Zhang, Freed Ahmad, Jani K. Haukka, Aruj Joshi, Jarkko Salojärvi, Christopher W. Wheat, Ewald Grosse-Wilde, Daniel Hughes, Riku Katainen, Esa Pitkänen, Johannes Ylinen, Robert M. Waterhouse, Mikko Turunen, Anna Vähärautio, Sami P. Ojanen, Alan H. Schulman, Minna Taipale, Daniel Lawson, Esko Ukkonen, Veli Mäkinen, Marian R. Goldsmith, Liisa Holm, Petri Auvinen, Mikko J. Frilander, Ilkka Hanski
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of Ancient Canids Suggest a European Origin of Domestic Dogs (2013)
- Science
Thalmann O, Shapiro B, Cui P, Schuenemann VJ, Sawyer SK, Greenfield DL, Germonpre MB, Sablin MV, Lopez-Giraldez F, Domingo-Roura X, Napierala H, Uerpmann HP, Loponte DM, Acosta AA, Giemsch L, Schmitz RW, Worthington B, Buikstra JE, Druzhkova A, Graphodatsky AS, Ovodov ND, Wahlberg N, Freedman AH, Schweizer RM, Koepfli KP, Leonard JA, Meyer M, Krause J, Paabo S, Green RE, Wayne RK
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Critiquing blind dating: the dangers of over-confident date estimates in comparative genomics (2013)
- Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Wheat CW, Wahlberg N
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Cultural and climatic changes shape the evolutionary history of the Uralic languages (2013)
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Honkola T, Vesakoski O, Korhonen K, Lehtinen J, Syrjänen K, Wahlberg N
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Deceptive single-locus taxonomy and phylogeography: Wolbachia-associated divergence in mitochondrial DNA is not reflected in morphology and nuclear markers in a butterfly species (2013)
- Ecology and Evolution
Kodandaramaiah U, Simonsen TJ, Bromilow S, Wahlberg N, Sperling F
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Effects of changing climate on species diversification in tropical forest butterflies of the genus Cymothoe (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) (2013)
- Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Van Velzen R, Wahlberg N, Sosef MSM, Bakker FT
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)