Gerard Talavera

9.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Gerard Talavera is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerard Talavera has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Genetics, 42 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 21 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Gerard Talavera's work include Plant and animal studies (42 papers), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (34 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (21 papers). Gerard Talavera is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (42 papers), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (34 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (21 papers). Gerard Talavera collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Canada. Gerard Talavera's co-authors include José Castresana, Roger Vila, Vlad Dincă, Vladimir A. Lukhtanov, Naomi E. Pierce, Leonardo Dapporto, David J. Lohman, Mattia Menchetti, Víctor Soria‐Carrasco and Javier Igea and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Gerard Talavera

56 papers receiving 6.3k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Improvement of Phylogenies after Removing Divergent and Ambiguously Aligned Blocks from Protein Sequence Alignments

2007 4.2k citations Gerard Talavera, José Castresana Systematic Biology profile →
A Comprehensive and Dated Phylogenomic Analysis of Butterflies

2018 235 citations Marianne Espeland, Roger Vila et al. Current Biology profile →

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Paul B. Frandsen United States

Lê Sỹ Vinh Vietnam

Johan A. A. Nylander Sweden

Diep Thi Hoang Vietnam

Michael P. Cummings United States

Sebastián E. Ramos‐Onsins Spain

Alejandro Sánchez‐Gracia Spain

Arnaud Couloux France

Sylvain Glémin France

Jessica Leigh Canada

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerard Talavera

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Laetsch, Dominik R., et al.. (2025). Wolbachia Host Shifts and Widespread Occurrence of Reproductive Manipulation Loci in European Butterflies. Molecular Ecology. 34(21). e70125–e70125.

Koutecký, Petr, et al.. (2025). Polyommatine Blue Butterflies Reveal Unexpected Integrity of the W Sex Chromosome Amid Extensive Chromosomal Fragmentation Linked to Telomere Restoration. Genome Biology and Evolution. 17(9).

Schär, Sämi, Gerard Talavera, Leonardo Dapporto, et al.. (2025). Blow fly larvae socially integrate termite nests through morphological and chemical mimicry. Current Biology. 35(5). 1121–1127.e3.

Vila, Roger, et al.. (2024). Regional differences in thermoregulation between two European butterfly communities. Journal of Animal Ecology. 93(2). 183–195. 3 indexed citations

Sáez, Llorenç, Mattia Menchetti, Stefano Scalercio, et al.. (2024). Pollen metabarcoding reveals the origin and multigenerational migratory pathway of an intercontinental-scale butterfly outbreak. Current Biology. 34(12). 2684–2692.e6. 9 indexed citations

Kučka, Marek, I. Gordon, Gerard Talavera, et al.. (2024). Transposable Element Insertions Are Associated with Batesian Mimicry in the Pantropical Butterfly Hypolimnas misippus. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 41(3). 4 indexed citations

Dapporto, Leonardo, et al.. (2024). The opposed forces of differentiation and admixture across glacial cycles in the butterfly Aglais urticae. Molecular Ecology. 33(7). e17304–e17304. 2 indexed citations

Corre, Matthieu Le, Steve C. Collins, Dino J. Martins, et al.. (2024). Trans-Saharan migratory patterns in Vanessa cardui and evidence for a southward leapfrog migration. iScience. 27(12). 111342–111342. 7 indexed citations

Suchan, Tomasz, et al.. (2024). A trans-oceanic flight of over 4,200 km by painted lady butterflies. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5205–5205. 14 indexed citations

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Bataille, Clément P., et al.. (2023). Temporal stability of δ2H in insect tissues: Implications for isotope-based geographic assignments. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 6 indexed citations

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Talavera, Gerard, Gabriel J. Bowen, Roger Vila, et al.. (2023). A hydrogen isoscape for tracing the migration of herbivorous lepidopterans across the Afro‐Palearctic range. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 38(3). e9675–e9675. 3 indexed citations

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Vila, Roger, et al.. (2023). Environmental stress during larval development induces DNA methylation shifts in the migratory painted lady butterfly ( Vanessa cardui ). Molecular Ecology. 32(13). 3513–3523. 8 indexed citations

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Talla, Venkat, Roger Vila, Kar‐Wai Hong, et al.. (2022). Migratory behaviour is positively associated with genetic diversity in butterflies. Molecular Ecology. 32(3). 560–574. 28 indexed citations

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Valencia‐Montoya, Wendy A., Tiago B. Quental, João F. R. Tonini, et al.. (2021). Evolutionary trade-offs between male secondary sexual traits revealed by a phylogeny of the hyperdiverse tribe Eumaeini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1950). 20202512–20202512. 8 indexed citations

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Suchan, Tomasz, Gerard Talavera, Llorenç Sáez, Michał Ronikier, & Roger Vila. (2018). Pollen metabarcoding as a tool for tracking long‐distance insect migrations. Molecular Ecology Resources. 19(1). 149–162. 63 indexed citations

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Dincă, Vlad, Gerard Talavera, & Roger Vila. (2017). First record of Euchloe tagis (Hübner, 1804) in the province of Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain) based on morphology and DNA data (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 7–15. 1 indexed citations

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Dincă, Vlad, Gerard Talavera, Miguel L. Munguira, et al.. (2015). DNA barcode reference library for Iberian butterflies enables a continental-scale preview of potential cryptic diversity. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 12395–12395. 106 indexed citations

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Espeland, Marianne, Jason P. W.‏ Hall, David C. Lees, et al.. (2015). Ancient Neotropical origin and recent recolonisation: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 93. 296–306. 59 indexed citations

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Talavera, Gerard & Roger Vila. (2011). What is the phylogenetic signal limit from mitogenomes? The reconciliation between mitochondrial and nuclear data in the Insecta class phylogeny. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11(1). 315–315. 98 indexed citations

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Talavera, Gerard & José Castresana. (2007). Improvement of Phylogenies after Removing Divergent and Ambiguously Aligned Blocks from Protein Sequence Alignments. Systematic Biology. 56(4). 564–577. 4203 indexed citations breakdown →

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