| Phylogenomics reveals the evolutionary timing and pattern of butterflies and moths AY Kawahara, D Plotkin, M Espeland, K Meusemann, EFA Toussaint, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (45), 22657-22663, 2019 | 380 | 2019 |
| A Comprehensive and Dated Phylogenomic Analysis of Butterflies M Espeland, J Breinholt, KR Willmott, AD Warren, R Vila, EFA Toussaint, ... Current Biology 28 (5), 770-778.e5, 2018 | 346 | 2018 |
| Ancient Neotropical origin and recent recolonisation: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) M Espeland, JPW Hall, PJ DeVries, DC Lees, M Cornwall, YF Hsu, ... Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 93, 296-306, 2015 | 99 | 2015 |
| Anchored phylogenomics illuminates the skipper butterfly tree of life EFA Toussaint, JW Breinholt, C Earl, AD Warren, AVZ Brower, M Yago, ... BMC Evolutionary Biology 18, 1-11, 2018 | 68 | 2018 |
| Dichlorvos exposure impedes extraction and amplification of DNA from insects in museum collections M Espeland, M Irestedt, KA Johanson, M Åkerlund, JE Bergh, M Källersjö Frontiers in Zoology 7, 1-7, 2010 | 63 | 2010 |
| Four hundred shades of brown: Higher level phylogeny of the problematic Euptychiina (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae) based on hybrid enrichment data M Espeland, JW Breinholt, EP Barbosa, MM Casagrande, B Huertas, ... Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 131, 116-124, 2019 | 60 | 2019 |
| Image-based species identification of wild bees using convolutional neural networks K Buschbacher, D Ahrens, M Espeland, V Steinhage Ecological Informatics 55, 101017, 2020 | 59 | 2020 |
| Diversity dynamics in New Caledonia: towards the end of the museum model? M Espeland, J Murienne BMC Evolutionary Biology 11, 1-13, 2011 | 57 | 2011 |
| Phylogenetics of moth-like butterflies (Papilionoidea: Hedylidae) based on a new 13-locus target capture probe set AY Kawahara, JW Breinholt, M Espeland, C Storer, D Plotkin, KM Dexter, ... Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 127, 600-605, 2018 | 48 | 2018 |
| A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins AY Kawahara, C Storer, APS Carvalho, DM Plotkin, FL Condamine, ... Nature ecology & evolution 7 (6), 903-913, 2023 | 46 | 2023 |
| Is it time to describe new species without diagnoses?—A comment on Sharkey et al. (2021) D Ahrens, ST Ahyong, A Ballerio, MVL Barclay, J Eberle, M Espeland, ... Zootaxa 5027 (2), 151-159, 2021 | 45 | 2021 |
| Adding leaves to the Lepidoptera tree: capturing hundreds of nuclear genes from old museum specimens C Mayer, L Dietz, E Call, S Kukowka, S Martin, M Espeland Systematic Entomology 46 (3), 649-671, 2021 | 44 | 2021 |
| The diversity and radiation of the largest monophyletic animal group on New Caledonia (Trichoptera: Ecnomidae: Agmina) M Espeland, KA Johanson Journal of evolutionary biology 23 (10), 2112-2122, 2010 | 39 | 2010 |
| The effect of environmental diversification on species diversification in New Caledonian caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae) M Espeland, KA Johanson Journal of Biogeography 37 (5), 879-890, 2010 | 38* | 2010 |
| Phylogeny of the Polycentropodidae (Insecta: Trichoptera) based on protein-coding genes reveal non-monophyletic genera KA Johanson, T Malm, M Espeland, E Weingartner Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 65 (1), 126-135, 2012 | 37 | 2012 |
| Pleistocene climate change promoted rapid diversification of aquatic invertebrates in Southeast Australia O Hawlitschek, L Hendrich, M Espeland, EFA Toussaint, MJ Genner, ... BMC Evolutionary Biology 12, 1-16, 2012 | 35 | 2012 |
| Phylogeny of the Ecnomidae (Insecta: Trichoptera) KA Johanson, M Espeland Cladistics 26 (1), 36-48, 2010 | 35 | 2010 |
| Early Xanthochorema (Trichoptera, Insecta) radiations in New Caledonia originated on ultrabasic rocks M Espeland, KA Johanson, R Hovmöller Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 48 (3), 904-917, 2008 | 35 | 2008 |
| Phylogeny of the A phnaeinae: myrmecophilous A frican butterflies with carnivorous and herbivorous life histories JH Boyle, ZA Kaliszewska, M Espeland, TR Suderman, J Fleming, ... Systematic Entomology 40 (1), 169-182, 2015 | 34 | 2015 |
| Remarkable sexual dimorphism, rarity and cryptic species: a revision of the ‘aegrota species group’of the Neotropical butterfly genus Caeruleuptychia Forster, 1964 with the … S Nakahara, T Zacca, B Huertas, AFE Neild, JPW Hall, G Lamas, ... Insect Systematics & Evolution 49 (2), 130-182, 2018 | 31 | 2018 |
