2022

Aduse-Poku, K., van Bergen, E., Sáfián, S., Collins, S. C., Etienne, R. S., Herrera-Alsina, L., Brakefield, P. M., Brattström, O. , Lohman, D. J. and Wahlberg, N. (2022) Miocene climate and habitat change drove diversification in Bicyclus, Africa’s largest radiation of satyrine butterflies. Systematic Biology, 71(3), pp. 570-588. (doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syab066) (PMID:34363477) (PMCID:PMC9016770)

2021

Halali, S., Halali, D., Barlow, H. S., Molleman, F., Kodandaramaiah, U., Brakefield, P. M. and Brattström, O. (2021) Predictability of temporal variation in climate and the evolution of seasonal polyphenism in tropical butterfly communities. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 34(9), pp. 1362-1375. (doi: 10.1111/jeb.13895) (PMID:34173293)

Halali, S., van Bergen, E., Breuker, C. J., Brakefield, P. M. and Brattström, O. (2021) Seasonal environments drive convergent evolution of a faster pace‐of‐life in tropical butterflies. Ecology Letters, 24(1), pp. 102-112. (doi: 10.1111/ele.13626) (PMID:33099881)

2020

Brattström, O. , Aduse-Poku, K., van Bergen, E., French, V. and Brakefield, P. M. (2020) A release from developmental bias accelerates morphological diversification in butterfly eyespots. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(44), pp. 27474-27480. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2008253117) (PMID:33093195) (PMCID:PMC7959562)

Halali, S., Brakefield, P. M., Collins, S. C. and Brattström, O. (2020) To mate, or not to mate: the evolution of reproductive diapause facilitates insect radiation into African savannahs in the Late Miocene. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89(5), pp. 1230-1241. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13178) (PMID:31955425)

Martin, S. H. et al. (2020) Whole-chromosome hitchhiking driven by a male-killing endosymbiont. PLoS Biology, 18(2), e3000610. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000610) (PMID:32108180) (PMCID:PMC7046192)

2019

Woronik, A. et al. (2019) A transposable element insertion is associated with an alternative life history strategy. Nature Communications, 10, 5757. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-13596-2) (PMID:31848330) (PMCID:PMC6917731)

2017

Aduse-Poku, K., Brakefield, P. M., Wahlberg, N. and Brattström, O. (2017) Expanded molecular phylogeny of the genus Bicyclus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) shows the importance of increased sampling for detecting semi-cryptic species and highlights potentials for future studies. Systematics and Biodiversity, 15(2), pp. 115-130. (doi: 10.1080/14772000.2016.1226979)

2016

van Bergen, E., Barlow, H. S., Brattström, O. , Griffiths, H., Kodandaramaiah, U., Osborne, C. P. and Brakefield, P. M. (2016) The stable isotope ecology of mycalesine butterflies: implications for plant-insect co-evolution. Functional Ecology, 30(12), pp. 1936-1946. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12673)

Sáfián, S., Pyrcz, T. and Brattström, O. (2016) Two new species of Bebearia Hemming, 1960, as further evidence of centre of endemism of butterflies in Western Nigeria (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Limenitinae). Zootaxa, 4175(5), pp. 449-462. (doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.5.3) (PMID:27811753)

Aduse-Poku, K., Lees, D. C., Brattström, O. , Kodandaramaiah, U., Collins, S. C., Wahlberg, N. and Brakefield, P. M. (2016) Molecular phylogeny and generic-level taxonomy of the widespread palaeotropical ‘Heteropsis clade’ (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Mycalesina). Systematic Entomology, 41(4), pp. 717-731. (doi: 10.1111/syen.12183)

Bacquet, P. M. B. et al. (2016) Differentiation in putative male sex pheromone components across and within populations of the African butterfly Bicyclus anynana as a potential driver of reproductive isolation. Ecology and Evolution, 6(17), pp. 6064-6084. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.2298) (PMID:27648226) (PMCID:PMC5016632)

van Velzen, R., Collins, S. C., Brattström, O. and Congdon, C. E. (2016) Description of a new Cymothoe Hübner, 1819 from northern Mozambique (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Limenitidinae). Metamorphosis, 27, pp. 34-41.

Timmermans, M.J.T.N., Lees, D.C., Thompson, M.J., Sáfián, S. and Brattström, O. (2016) Mitogenomics of ‘Old World Acraea’ butterflies reveals a highly divergent ‘Bematistes’. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 97, pp. 233-241. (doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.12.009) (PMID:26724404)

Brattström, O. , Aduse-Poku, K., Collins, S. C., Di Micco De Stanto, T. and Brakefield, P. M. (2016) Revision of the Bicyclus sciathis species group (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) with descriptions of four new species and corrected distributional records. Systematic Entomology, 41(1), pp. 207-228. (doi: 10.1111/syen.12150) (PMID:27076698) (PMCID:PMC4810357)

2015

Brattström, O. , Aduse-Poku, K., Collins, S. C. and Brakefield, P. M. (2015) Revision of the Bicyclus ignobilis species-group (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa, 4018(1), pp. 57-59. (doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4018.1.3) (PMID:26624028)

Aduse-Poku, K., Brattström, O. , Kodandaramaiah, U., Lees, D. C., Brakefield, P. M. and Wahlberg, N. (2015) Systematics and historical biogeography of the old world butterfly subtribe Mycalesina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15, 167. (doi: 10.1186/s12862-015-0449-3) (PMID:26289424) (PMCID:PMC4545879)

Tropek, R., Leština, D., Janšta, P., Brattström, O. , Espeland, M. and Sáfián, S. (2015) First records of Hypolycaena anara Larsen, 1986 from Cameroon (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterologia, 43(170), pp. 235-239.

Bacquet, P.M.B., Brattström, O. , Wang, H.-L., Allen, C.E., Löfstedt, C., Brakefield, P.M. and Nieberding, C.M. (2015) Selection on male sex pheromone composition contributes to butterfly reproductive isolation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 282(1804), 20142734. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2734) (PMID:25740889) (PMCID:PMC4375863)

Hedenström, E., Wallin, E.A., Andersson, J., Bång, J., Wang, H.-L., Löfstedt, C., Brattström, O. and Baquet, P. (2015) Stereoisomeric analysis of 6,10,14-trimethylpentadecan-2-ol and the corresponding ketone in wing extracts from African Bicyclus butterfly species. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 41(1), pp. 44-51. (doi: 10.1007/s10886-014-0539-5) (PMID:25527347)

2014

Brattström, O. , Mey, W., De Vos, R. and Brakefield, P. M. (2014) A century old mistake set right: the identities of Mydosama marginata and Mydosama pitana pinned down. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 24(2), pp. 96-101.

Oostra, V., Brakefield, P. M., Hiltermann, Y., Zwann, B. J. and Brattström, O. (2014) On the fate of seasonally plastic traits in a rainforest butterfly under relaxed selection. Ecology and Evolution, 4(13), pp. 2654-2667. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.1114) (PMID:25077017) (PMCID:PMC4113290)

Wang, H.-L., Brattström, O. , Brakefield, P. M., Francke, W. and Löfstedt, C. (2014) Identification and biosynthesis of novel male specific esters in the wings of the tropical butterfly, Bicyclus martius sanaos. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 40(6), pp. 549-559. (doi: 10.1007/s10886-014-0452-y) (PMID:24894159) (PMCID:PMC4090810)

2012

Brattström, O. (2012) Bicyclus brakefieldi (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae), a new species of Bicyclus from the Congo River basin. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 22(2), pp. 62-65.

2011

Nazari, V., Larsen, T. B., Lees, D. C., Brattström, O. , Bouyer, T., Van de Poel, G. and Hebert, P. D.N. (2011) Phylogenetic systematics of Colotis and associated genera (Lepidoptera: Pieridae): evolutionary and taxonomic implications. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 49(3), pp. 204-215. (doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2011.00620.x)

2010

Brattström, O. , Nemscj, S., Wassenaar, L. I., Hobson, K. A. and Åkesson, S. (2010) Understanding the migration ecology of European red admirals Vanessa atalanta using stable hydrogen isotopes. Ecography, 33(4), pp. 720-729. (doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.05748.x)

Brattström, O. , Åkesson, S. and Bensch, S. (2010) AFLP reveals cryptic population structure in migratory European red admirals (Vanessa atalanta). Ecological Entomology, 35(2), pp. 248-252. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2009.01163.x)

2008

Brattström, O. , Kjellén, N., Alerstam, T. and Åkesson, S. (2008) Effects of wind and weather on red admiral, Vanessa atalanta, migration at a coastal site in southern Sweden. Animal Behaviour, 76(2), pp. 335-344. (doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.02.011)

Brattström, O. , Wassenaar, L. I., Hobson, K. A. and Åkesson, S. (2008) Placing butterflies on the map - testing regional geographical resolution of three stable isotopes in Sweden using the monophagus peacock Inachis io. Ecography, 31(4), pp. 490-498. (doi: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2008.05267.x)

2006

Brattström, O. (2006) Is there seasonal variation in size and mass of Red Admirals Vanessa atalanta on Capri, Italy? Ornis Svecica, 16(1-2), pp. 69-73. (doi: 10.34080/os.v16.22722)

Articles

Aduse-Poku, K., van Bergen, E., Sáfián, S., Collins, S. C., Etienne, R. S., Herrera-Alsina, L., Brakefield, P. M., Brattström, O. , Lohman, D. J. and Wahlberg, N. (2022) Miocene climate and habitat change drove diversification in Bicyclus, Africa’s largest radiation of satyrine butterflies. Systematic Biology, 71(3), pp. 570-588. (doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syab066) (PMID:34363477) (PMCID:PMC9016770)

Halali, S., Halali, D., Barlow, H. S., Molleman, F., Kodandaramaiah, U., Brakefield, P. M. and Brattström, O. (2021) Predictability of temporal variation in climate and the evolution of seasonal polyphenism in tropical butterfly communities. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 34(9), pp. 1362-1375. (doi: 10.1111/jeb.13895) (PMID:34173293)

Halali, S., van Bergen, E., Breuker, C. J., Brakefield, P. M. and Brattström, O. (2021) Seasonal environments drive convergent evolution of a faster pace‐of‐life in tropical butterflies. Ecology Letters, 24(1), pp. 102-112. (doi: 10.1111/ele.13626) (PMID:33099881)

Brattström, O. , Aduse-Poku, K., van Bergen, E., French, V. and Brakefield, P. M. (2020) A release from developmental bias accelerates morphological diversification in butterfly eyespots. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(44), pp. 27474-27480. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2008253117) (PMID:33093195) (PMCID:PMC7959562)

Halali, S., Brakefield, P. M., Collins, S. C. and Brattström, O. (2020) To mate, or not to mate: the evolution of reproductive diapause facilitates insect radiation into African savannahs in the Late Miocene. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89(5), pp. 1230-1241. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13178) (PMID:31955425)

Martin, S. H. et al. (2020) Whole-chromosome hitchhiking driven by a male-killing endosymbiont. PLoS Biology, 18(2), e3000610. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000610) (PMID:32108180) (PMCID:PMC7046192)

Woronik, A. et al. (2019) A transposable element insertion is associated with an alternative life history strategy. Nature Communications, 10, 5757. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-13596-2) (PMID:31848330) (PMCID:PMC6917731)

Aduse-Poku, K., Brakefield, P. M., Wahlberg, N. and Brattström, O. (2017) Expanded molecular phylogeny of the genus Bicyclus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) shows the importance of increased sampling for detecting semi-cryptic species and highlights potentials for future studies. Systematics and Biodiversity, 15(2), pp. 115-130. (doi: 10.1080/14772000.2016.1226979)

van Bergen, E., Barlow, H. S., Brattström, O. , Griffiths, H., Kodandaramaiah, U., Osborne, C. P. and Brakefield, P. M. (2016) The stable isotope ecology of mycalesine butterflies: implications for plant-insect co-evolution. Functional Ecology, 30(12), pp. 1936-1946. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12673)

Sáfián, S., Pyrcz, T. and Brattström, O. (2016) Two new species of Bebearia Hemming, 1960, as further evidence of centre of endemism of butterflies in Western Nigeria (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Limenitinae). Zootaxa, 4175(5), pp. 449-462. (doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.5.3) (PMID:27811753)

Aduse-Poku, K., Lees, D. C., Brattström, O. , Kodandaramaiah, U., Collins, S. C., Wahlberg, N. and Brakefield, P. M. (2016) Molecular phylogeny and generic-level taxonomy of the widespread palaeotropical ‘Heteropsis clade’ (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Mycalesina). Systematic Entomology, 41(4), pp. 717-731. (doi: 10.1111/syen.12183)

Bacquet, P. M. B. et al. (2016) Differentiation in putative male sex pheromone components across and within populations of the African butterfly Bicyclus anynana as a potential driver of reproductive isolation. Ecology and Evolution, 6(17), pp. 6064-6084. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.2298) (PMID:27648226) (PMCID:PMC5016632)

van Velzen, R., Collins, S. C., Brattström, O. and Congdon, C. E. (2016) Description of a new Cymothoe Hübner, 1819 from northern Mozambique (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Limenitidinae). Metamorphosis, 27, pp. 34-41.

Timmermans, M.J.T.N., Lees, D.C., Thompson, M.J., Sáfián, S. and Brattström, O. (2016) Mitogenomics of ‘Old World Acraea’ butterflies reveals a highly divergent ‘Bematistes’. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 97, pp. 233-241. (doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.12.009) (PMID:26724404)

Brattström, O. , Aduse-Poku, K., Collins, S. C., Di Micco De Stanto, T. and Brakefield, P. M. (2016) Revision of the Bicyclus sciathis species group (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) with descriptions of four new species and corrected distributional records. Systematic Entomology, 41(1), pp. 207-228. (doi: 10.1111/syen.12150) (PMID:27076698) (PMCID:PMC4810357)

Brattström, O. , Aduse-Poku, K., Collins, S. C. and Brakefield, P. M. (2015) Revision of the Bicyclus ignobilis species-group (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa, 4018(1), pp. 57-59. (doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4018.1.3) (PMID:26624028)

Aduse-Poku, K., Brattström, O. , Kodandaramaiah, U., Lees, D. C., Brakefield, P. M. and Wahlberg, N. (2015) Systematics and historical biogeography of the old world butterfly subtribe Mycalesina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15, 167. (doi: 10.1186/s12862-015-0449-3) (PMID:26289424) (PMCID:PMC4545879)

Tropek, R., Leština, D., Janšta, P., Brattström, O. , Espeland, M. and Sáfián, S. (2015) First records of Hypolycaena anara Larsen, 1986 from Cameroon (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterologia, 43(170), pp. 235-239.

Bacquet, P.M.B., Brattström, O. , Wang, H.-L., Allen, C.E., Löfstedt, C., Brakefield, P.M. and Nieberding, C.M. (2015) Selection on male sex pheromone composition contributes to butterfly reproductive isolation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 282(1804), 20142734. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2734) (PMID:25740889) (PMCID:PMC4375863)

Hedenström, E., Wallin, E.A., Andersson, J., Bång, J., Wang, H.-L., Löfstedt, C., Brattström, O. and Baquet, P. (2015) Stereoisomeric analysis of 6,10,14-trimethylpentadecan-2-ol and the corresponding ketone in wing extracts from African Bicyclus butterfly species. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 41(1), pp. 44-51. (doi: 10.1007/s10886-014-0539-5) (PMID:25527347)

Brattström, O. , Mey, W., De Vos, R. and Brakefield, P. M. (2014) A century old mistake set right: the identities of Mydosama marginata and Mydosama pitana pinned down. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 24(2), pp. 96-101.

Oostra, V., Brakefield, P. M., Hiltermann, Y., Zwann, B. J. and Brattström, O. (2014) On the fate of seasonally plastic traits in a rainforest butterfly under relaxed selection. Ecology and Evolution, 4(13), pp. 2654-2667. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.1114) (PMID:25077017) (PMCID:PMC4113290)

Wang, H.-L., Brattström, O. , Brakefield, P. M., Francke, W. and Löfstedt, C. (2014) Identification and biosynthesis of novel male specific esters in the wings of the tropical butterfly, Bicyclus martius sanaos. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 40(6), pp. 549-559. (doi: 10.1007/s10886-014-0452-y) (PMID:24894159) (PMCID:PMC4090810)

Brattström, O. (2012) Bicyclus brakefieldi (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae), a new species of Bicyclus from the Congo River basin. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 22(2), pp. 62-65.

Nazari, V., Larsen, T. B., Lees, D. C., Brattström, O. , Bouyer, T., Van de Poel, G. and Hebert, P. D.N. (2011) Phylogenetic systematics of Colotis and associated genera (Lepidoptera: Pieridae): evolutionary and taxonomic implications. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 49(3), pp. 204-215. (doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2011.00620.x)

Brattström, O. , Nemscj, S., Wassenaar, L. I., Hobson, K. A. and Åkesson, S. (2010) Understanding the migration ecology of European red admirals Vanessa atalanta using stable hydrogen isotopes. Ecography, 33(4), pp. 720-729. (doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.05748.x)

Brattström, O. , Åkesson, S. and Bensch, S. (2010) AFLP reveals cryptic population structure in migratory European red admirals (Vanessa atalanta). Ecological Entomology, 35(2), pp. 248-252. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2009.01163.x)

Brattström, O. , Kjellén, N., Alerstam, T. and Åkesson, S. (2008) Effects of wind and weather on red admiral, Vanessa atalanta, migration at a coastal site in southern Sweden. Animal Behaviour, 76(2), pp. 335-344. (doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.02.011)

Brattström, O. , Wassenaar, L. I., Hobson, K. A. and Åkesson, S. (2008) Placing butterflies on the map - testing regional geographical resolution of three stable isotopes in Sweden using the monophagus peacock Inachis io. Ecography, 31(4), pp. 490-498. (doi: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2008.05267.x)

Brattström, O. (2006) Is there seasonal variation in size and mass of Red Admirals Vanessa atalanta on Capri, Italy? Ornis Svecica, 16(1-2), pp. 69-73. (doi: 10.34080/os.v16.22722)