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Akito Y. Kawahara is affiliated with the Florida Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these areas, they have worked extensively in ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics, as well as genetics and molecular biology, ecological modeling, and nature and landscape conservation.

The scientist's research spans multiple topics, including plant and animal studies, Lepidoptera biology and taxonomy, species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, and genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Akito Y. Kawahara has published research in several venues, with frequent publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Systematic Entomology
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Systematic Biology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • David Plotkin
  • David J. Lohman
  • Caroline Storer
  • Paul B. Frandsen
  • Ryan A. St Laurent

Examples of recent papers authored or co-authored by Akito Y. Kawahara include:

  • "A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins," 2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Eight simple actions that individuals can take to save insects from global declines," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Climate change effects on animal ecology: butterflies and moths as a case study," 2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (authored by Geena M. Hill)
  • "Conserved ancestral tropical niche but different continental histories explain the latitudinal diversity gradient in brush-footed butterflies," 2021, Nature Communications (authored by Nicolas Chazot)
  • "Predator-induced stress responses in insects: A review," 2020, Journal of Insect Physiology (authored by Scott D. Cinel)

Best Publications

  • Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

    Bernhard Misof;Shanlin Liu;Karen Meusemann;Ralph S. Peters

  • Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In : Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

    Erik J. Van Nieukerken;Lauri Kaila;Ian J. Kitching;Niels P. Kristensen

  • Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

    Zhi-Qiang Zhang;John Na Hooper;Rob Wm Van Soest;Andrzej Pisera

  • Phylogenomics Reveals the Evolutionary Timing and Pattern of Butterflies and Moths

    Akito Y Kawahara;David Plotkin;Marianne Espeland;Karen Meusemann;Karen Meusemann

  • A Comprehensive and Dated Phylogenomic Analysis of Butterflies

    Marianne Espeland;Marianne Espeland;Jesse Breinholt;Keith R. Willmott;Andrew D. Warren

  • A Large-Scale, Higher-Level, Molecular Phylogenetic Study of the Insect Order Lepidoptera (Moths and Butterflies)

    Jerome C. Regier;Charles Mitter;Andreas Zwick;Adam L. Bazinet

  • A framework to assess evolutionary responses to anthropogenic light and sound.

    John P. Swaddle;Clinton D. Francis;Jesse R. Barber;Caren B. Cooper

  • Toward reconstructing the evolution of advanced moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia): an initial molecular study

    Jerome C. Regier;Andreas Zwick;Michael P. Cummings;Akito Y. Kawahara

  • Phylogenomics provides strong evidence for relationships of butterflies and moths.

    Akito Y. Kawahara;Jesse W. Breinholt

  • Resolving Relationships among the Megadiverse Butterflies and Moths with a Novel Pipeline for Anchored Phylogenomics.

    Jesse W. Breinholt;Chandra Earl;Alan R. Lemmon;Emily Moriarty Lemmon

  • Evidence for common horizontal transmission of Wolbachia among butterflies and moths.

    Muhammad Z. Ahmed;Jesse W. Breinholt;Akito Y. Kawahara

  • An improved method for utilizing high-throughput amplicon sequencing to determine the diets of insectivorous animals.

    Michelle A. Jusino;Michelle A. Jusino;Mark T. Banik;Jonathan M. Palmer;Amy K. Wray

  • A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins

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  • Climate change effects on animal ecology: butterflies and moths as a case study

    Geena M Hill;Akito Y Kawahara;Akito Y Kawahara;Jaret C Daniels;Jaret C Daniels;Craig C Bateman

  • Phylogeny and Biogeography of Hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae): Evidence from Five Nuclear Genes

    Akito Y. Kawahara;Andre A. Mignault;Jerome C. Regier;Ian J. Kitching

  • A molecular phylogeny for the oldest (nonditrysian) lineages of extant Lepidoptera, with implications for classification, comparative morphology and life-history evolution

    Jerome C. Regier;Charles Mitter;Niels P. Kristensen;Donald R. Davis

  • A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera).

    Ian J Kitching;Rodolphe Rougerie;Andreas Zwick;Chris A Hamilton

  • Can Deliberately Incomplete Gene Sample Augmentation Improve a Phylogeny Estimate for the Advanced Moths and Butterflies (Hexapoda: Lepidoptera)?

    Soowon Cho;Andreas Zwick;Jerome C. Regier;Charles Mitter

  • Phylotranscriptomics: saturated third codon positions radically influence the estimation of trees based on next-gen data.

    Jesse W. Breinholt;Akito Y. Kawahara

  • Moth tails divert bat attack: Evolution of acoustic deflection

    Jesse R. Barber;Brian C. Leavell;Adam L. Keener;Jesse W. Breinholt

  • Wolbachia in butterflies and moths: geographic structure in infection frequency

    Muhammad Z. Ahmed;Muhammad Z. Ahmed;Eli V. Araujo-Jnr;John J. Welch;Akito Y. Kawahara

Frequent Co-Authors

Jesse W. Breinholt
Jesse W. Breinholt Florida Museum of Natural History
Jesse R. Barber
Jesse R. Barber Boise State University
Jerome C. Regier
Jerome C. Regier University of Maryland, College Park
Charles Mitter
Charles Mitter University of Maryland, College Park
Ian J. Kitching
Ian J. Kitching Natural History Museum
Michael P. Cummings
Michael P. Cummings University of Maryland, College Park
Gerardo Lamas
Gerardo Lamas National University of San Marcos
Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde
Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Robert P. Guralnick
Robert P. Guralnick Florida Museum of Natural History
Xin Zhou
Xin Zhou China Agricultural University

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