Niklas Wahlberg

- Docent,
Department of Biology (Faculty of Science)

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.

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Timing major conflict between mitochondrial and nuclear genes in species relationships of Polygonia butterflies (Nymphalidae: Nymphalini) (2009)
- BMC Evolutionary Biology
Wahlberg N, Weingartner E, Warren AD, Nylin S
Varying rates of diversification in the genus Melitaea (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) during the past 20 million years (2009)
- Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Leneveu J, Chichvarkhin A, Wahlberg N
Does plasticity drive speciation? Host-plant shifts and diversification in nymphaline butterflies (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) during the tertiary (2008)
- Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Nylin S, Wahlberg N
Genomic outposts serve the phylogenomic pioneers: Designing novel nuclear markers for genomic DNA extractions of lepidoptera (2008) Wahlberg N, Wheat CW
Niche separation in space and time between two sympatric sister species - a case of ecological pleiotropy (2008)
- Evolutionary Ecology
Friberg M, Bergman M, Kullberg J, Wahlberg N, Wiklund C
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
Pena C, Wahlberg N
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
Viidalepp J, Tammaru T, Snäll N, Ruohomäki K, Wahlberg N
Colonization of and radiation in South America by butterflies in the subtribe Phyciodina (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) (2007) Wahlberg N, Freitas AVL
How many genes should a systematist sample? Conflicting insights from a phylogenomic matrix characterized by replicated incongruence (2007) Gatesy J, DeSalle R, Wahlberg N
Molecular phylogenetic analysis of bovine viral diarrhoea virus: A Bayesian approach (2007)
- Virus Research
Xia H, Liu L, Wahlberg N, Baule C, Belak S
Out-of-Africa origin and dispersal-mediated diversification of the butterfly genus Junonia (Nymphalidae : Nymphalinae) (2007) Kodandaramaiah U, Wahlberg N
Phylogenetic relationships of the tribe Operophterini (Lepidoptera, Geometridae): a case study of the evolution of female flightlessness (2007)
- Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Snäll N, Tammaru T, Wahlberg N, Viidalepp J, Ruohomäki K, Savontaus ML, Huoponen K
Phylogeny and classification of the Phengaris-Maculinea clade (Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae): total evidence and phylogenetic species concepts (2007)
- Systematic Entomology
Fric Z, Wahlberg N, Pech P, Zrzavy J
Quantitative phylogenetic analysis in the 21(st) century (2007)
- Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad
Brooks DR, Bilewitch J, Condy C, Evans DC, Folinsbee KE, Frobisch J, Halas D, Hill S, McLennan DA, Mattern M, Tsuji LA, Ward JL, Wahlberg N, Zamparo D, Zanatta D
The effects of Pleistocene glaciations on the phylogeography of Melitaea cinxia (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) (2007)
- European Journal of Entomology
Wahlberg N, Saccheri I
Diversity begets diversity: host expansions and the diversification of plant-feeding insects (2006)
- BMC Evolutionary Biology
Janz N, Nylin S, Wahlberg N
Dynamics of host plant use and species diversity in Polygonia butterflies (Nymphalidae) (2006) Weingartner E, Wahlberg N, Nylin S
Higher level phylogeny of Satyrinae butterflies (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) based on DNA sequence data (2006) Pena C, Wahlberg N, Weingartner E, Kodandaramaiah U, Nylin S, Freitas AVL, Brower AVZ