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64
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1878
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40

Overview

Sören Nylin is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and focuses their research within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. Their work encompasses multiple subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's research topics address diverse areas such as Plant and animal studies, Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Physiological and biochemical adaptations, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Nylin's publication record includes notable papers such as:

  • Conserved ancestral tropical niche but different continental histories explain the latitudinal diversity gradient in brush-footed butterflies, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Bayesian Inference of Ancestral Host-Parasite Interactions under a Phylogenetic Model of Host Repertoire Evolution, 2020, Systematic Biology
  • Phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral ecological networks through time for pierid butterflies and their host plants, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Structural plasticity of olfactory neuropils in relation to insect diapause, 2020, Ecology and Evolution
  • Extensive transcriptomic profiling of pupal diapause in a butterfly reveals a dynamic phenotype, 2021, Molecular Ecology

Their frequent coauthors include Christopher W. Wheat (19 collaborations), Niklas Wahlberg (9), Niklas Janz (8), Karl Gotthard (8), and David J. Lohman (6).

Nylin's research has been published repeatedly in several venues, with the most publications appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with five papers, followed by Ecology and Evolution and Molecular Ecology with three publications each, as well as Systematic Biology and Ecology Letters, each with two papers.

Best Publications

  • Plasticity in Life-History Traits

    S. Nylin;K. Gotthard

  • Adaptive plasticity and plasticity as an adaptation : a selective review of plasticity in animal morphology and life history

    Karl Gotthard;Sören Nylin

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

    Niklas Wahlberg;Julien Leneveu;Ullasa Kodandaramaiah;Carlos Peña

  • The Effect of Flexible Growth Rates on Optimal Sizes and Development Times in a Seasonal Environment

    Peter A. Abrams;Olof Leimar;Soren Nylin;Christer Wiklund

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

    Niklas Janz;Sören Nylin;Niklas Wahlberg

  • Climate-induced phenology shifts linked to range expansions in species with multiple reproductive cycles per year

    Callum J. Macgregor;Chris D. Thomas;David B. Roy;Mark A. Beaumont

  • Adaptive variation in growth rate: life history costs and consequences in the speckled wood butterfly,Pararge aegeria.

    Karl Gotthard;Sören Nylin;Christer Wiklund

  • 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

  • EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF HOST-PLANT SPECIALIZATION: A CASE STUDY OF THE TRIBE NYMPHALINI

    Niklas Janz;Klas Nyblom;Sören Nylin

  • BUTTERFLIES AND PLANTS: A PHYLOGENETIC STUDY

    Niklas Janz;Sören Nylin

  • Proximate causes of Rensch's rule: does sexual size dimorphism in arthropods result from sex differences in development time?

    Wolf U. Blanckenhorn;Anthony F. G. Dixon;Daphne J. Fairbairn;Matthias W. Foellmer

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

    Carlos Peña;Niklas Wahlberg;Elisabet Weingartner;Ullasa Kodandaramaiah

  • 15. The Oscillation Hypothesis Of Host-Plant Range And Speciation

    Sören Nylin;Niklas Janz

  • The role of female search behaviour in determining host plant range in plant feeding insects: a test of the information processing hypothesis

    Niklas Janz;Sören Nylin

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

    Niklas Wahlberg;Elisabet Weingartner;Sören Nylin

  • Intraspecific Variability in Number of Larval Instars in Insects

    Toomas Esperk;Toomas Tammaru;Sören Nylin

  • Sex-related variation in growth rate as a result of selection for large size and protandry in a bivoltine butterfly, Pieris napi

    Christer Wiklund;Soren Nylin;Johan Forsberg

  • Phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeography of tribes and genera in the subfamily Nymphalinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

    Niklas Wahlberg;Andrew V. Z. Brower;Sören Nylin

  • Absence of Trade-Offs Between Sexual Size Dimorphism and Early Male Emergence in a Butterfly

    Soren Nylin;Christer Wiklund;Per-Olof Wickman;Enrique Garcia-Barros

  • Phylogenetic approaches in ecology

    Hans-Erik Wanntorp;Daniel R. Brooks;Thomas Nilsson;Sören Nylin

  • Seasonal plasticity in life history traits: growth and development in Polygonia c-album (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

    Sören Nylin

Frequent Co-Authors

Niklas Janz
Niklas Janz Stockholm University
Karl Gotthard
Karl Gotthard Stockholm University
Niklas Wahlberg
Niklas Wahlberg Lund University
Christer Wiklund
Christer Wiklund Stockholm University
Per-Olof Wickman
Per-Olof Wickman Stockholm University
Fredrik Ronquist
Fredrik Ronquist Swedish Museum of Natural History
Constantí Stefanescu
Constantí Stefanescu Autonomous University of Barcelona
Heiko Vogel
Heiko Vogel Max Planck Society
Nina Wedell
Nina Wedell University of Exeter
Dick R. Nässel
Dick R. Nässel Stockholm University

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