Niklas Wahlberg
niklas.wahlberg@utu.fi Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4 Turku |
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.
- Timing major conflict between mitochondrial and nuclear genes in species relationships of Polygonia butterflies (Nymphalidae: Nymphalini) (2009)
- BMC Evolutionary BiologyBiological Journal of the Linnean Society
- Varying rates of diversification in the genus Melitaea (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) during the past 20 million yearsDoes plasticity drive speciation? Host-plant shifts and diversification in nymphaline butterflies (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) during the tertiary (2009)
- (2008)
- Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
- Genomic outposts serve the phylogenomic pioneers: Designing novel nuclear markers for genomic DNA extractions of lepidopteraNiche separation in space and time between two sympatric sister species - a case of ecological pleiotropy (2008) Wahlberg N, Wheat CW
- (2008)
- Evolutionary Ecology
- Phylogenetic relationships of butterflies of the tribe Acraeini (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Heliconiinae) and the evolution of host plant use (2008) Silva-Brandao KL, Wahlberg N, Francini RB, Azeredo-Espin AML, Brown KS, Paluch M, Lees DC, Freitas AVL
- Prehistorical climate change increased diversification of a group of butterflies (2008)
- Biology Letters
- Chromosomal evolution in the South American nymphalidae (2007) Brown KS, Freitas AVL, Wahlberg N, von Schoultz B, Saura AO, Saura A
- Cleorodes Warren, 1894 does not belong in the tribe Boarmiini (Lepidoptera : Geometridae) (2007)
- European Journal of Entomology
- Colonization of and radiation in South America by butterflies in the subtribe Phyciodina (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) (2007) Wahlberg N, Freitas AVL



