Moth lineage provides a key to species diversification
Friday, March 28, 2014 - 09:00
in Biology & Nature
To many, moths are just the dull relatives of butterflies that often startle us in the dark. But for UH Mānoa Junior Researcher Dr. William Haines, former Junior Researcher Dr. Patrick Schmitz and Professor Daniel Rubinoff, these fascinating creatures provide insights into Hawai'i's ancient, vanished ecosystems. The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources entomologists published their findings in an article, "Ancient diversification of Hyposmocoma moths in Hawaiʻi," in the March 20 edition of the online journal Nature Communications.