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Niklas Wahlberg

Niklas Wahlberg

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Ecology and Evolution

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76
Citations
18882
World Ranking
1009
National Ranking
18

Overview

Niklas Wahlberg is a researcher affiliated with Lund University in Sweden. Their scholarly work spans multiple areas within biological sciences, focusing particularly on genetics, molecular biology, ecology, evolution, and entomology.

The researcher's output includes studies predominantly in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their subfields of specialization consist of Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Ecological Modeling, and Molecular Biology. Wahlberg's topics of work highlight areas such as Lepidoptera biology and taxonomy, plant and animal studies, genetic diversity and population structure, species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, genomics and phylogenetic studies, and Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Systematic Entomology
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Zoologica Scripta

Notable recent papers by Wahlberg include:

  • The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education (2020, PeerJ)
  • Airborne environmental DNA metabarcoding for the monitoring of terrestrial insects-A proof of concept from the field (2022, Environmental DNA)
  • A complete time-calibrated multi-gene phylogeny of the European butterflies (2020, ZooKeys)
  • Conserved ancestral tropical niche but different continental histories explain the latitudinal diversity gradient in brush-footed butterflies (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Toward a Stable Global Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) Taxonomy (2021, Insect Systematics and Diversity)

Collaborations feature frequently in Wahlberg's work. Regular coauthors include Christopher W. Wheat, Victoria Twort, Leidys Murillo-Ramos, Nicolas Chazot, and Hamid Reza Ghanavi.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of Ancient Canids Suggest a European Origin of Domestic Dogs

    O. Thalmann;B. Shapiro;Pin Cui;V. J. Schuenemann

  • Nymphalid butterflies diversify following near demise at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary

    Niklas Wahlberg;Julien Leneveu;Ullasa Kodandaramaiah;Carlos Peña

  • The butterfly plant arms-race escalated by gene and genome duplications.

    Patrick P. Edger;Patrick P. Edger;Patrick P. Edger;Hanna M. Heidel-Fischer;Michaël Bekaert;Jadranka Rota

  • Genomic Outposts Serve the Phylogenomic Pioneers: Designing Novel Nuclear Markers for Genomic DNA Extractions of Lepidoptera

    Niklas Wahlberg;Christopher West Wheat

  • Comprehensive gene and taxon coverage elucidates radiation patterns in moths and butterflies

    Marko Mutanen;Niklas Wahlberg;Lauri Kaila

  • Diversity begets diversity: host expansions and the diversification of plant-feeding insects

    Niklas Janz;Sören Nylin;Niklas Wahlberg

  • A new molecular phylogeny offers hope for a stable family level classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera)

    Reza Zahiri;Ian J. Kitching;J. Donald Lafontaine;Marko Mutanen

  • Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)

    Reza Zahiri;Jeremy D. Holloway;Ian J. Kitching;J. Donald Lafontaine

  • Synergistic effects of combining morphological and molecular data in resolving the phylogeny of butterflies and skippers

    Niklas Wahlberg;Michael F Braby;Andrew V.Z Brower;Rienk de Jong

  • What causes latitudinal gradients in species diversity? Evolutionary processes and ecological constraints on swallowtail biodiversity

    Fabien L. Condamine;Felix A. H. Sperling;Niklas Wahlberg;Jean‐Yves Rasplus

  • Timing and patterns in the taxonomic diversification of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths).

    Niklas Wahlberg;Christopher W. Wheat;Carlos Peña

  • Cretaceous origin and repeated tertiary diversification of the redefined butterflies

    Maria Heikkilä;Lauri Kaila;Marko Mutanen;Carlos Peña

  • Higher level phylogeny of Satyrinae butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on DNA sequence data.

    Carlos Peña;Niklas Wahlberg;Elisabet Weingartner;Ullasa Kodandaramaiah

  • Predicting the Occurrence of Endangered Species in Fragmented Landscapes

    Niklas Wahlberg;Atte Moilanen;Ilkka Hanski

  • Multilocus Species Trees Show the Recent Adaptive Radiation of the Mimetic Heliconius Butterflies

    Krzysztof M Kozak;Niklas Wahlberg;Andrew Fe Neild;Kanchon K Dasmahapatra

  • Towards a better understanding of the higher systematics of Nymphalidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea).

    Niklas Wahlberg;Elisabet Weingartner;Sören Nylin

  • The Glanville fritillary genome retains an ancient karyotype and reveals selective chromosomal fusions in Lepidoptera

    Virpi Ahola;Rainer Lehtonen;Panu Somervuo;Leena Salmela

  • Phylogeny of the Rhizobium-Allorhizobium-Agrobacterium clade supports the delineation of Neorhizobium gen. nov.

    Seyed Abdollah Mousavi;Janina Österman;Niklas Wahlberg;Xavier Nesme

  • Phylogeny, classification and evolutionary insights into pestiviruses.

    Lihong Liu;Hongyan Xia;Niklas Wahlberg;Sándor Belák

Frequent Co-Authors

Sören Nylin
Sören Nylin Stockholm University
André V. L. Freitas
André V. L. Freitas State University of Campinas
David C. Lees
David C. Lees Natural History Museum
Marko Mutanen
Marko Mutanen University of Oulu
Lauri Kaila
Lauri Kaila University of Helsinki
Alexandre Antonelli
Alexandre Antonelli University of Gothenburg
Paul M. Brakefield
Paul M. Brakefield University of Cambridge
Ian J. Kitching
Ian J. Kitching Natural History Museum
Toomas Tammaru
Toomas Tammaru University of Tartu
Gerardo Lamas
Gerardo Lamas National University of San Marcos

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