Contact
Florida Museum of Natural History
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity
3215 Hull Road
Gainesville, Florida 32611-2710
352-273-2012
kwillmott@flmnh.ufl.edu
Collections & Programs
Systematics of Neotropical Butterflies Lab
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity
Other Affiliations
Education
Ph.D. University of Florida
B.S. Cambridge University
Research Interests
Neotropical butterfly systematics, diversity, evolution, biodiversity conservation
Publications
Recent Research News
Genome sequencing of butterflies resolves centuries-old conundrum
When conditions are just right, organisms can undergo rapid bursts of diversification, and what starts out as one species can…
Remembering Florida Museum curator Jacqueline Miller
Jacqueline Miller, Allyn curator emerita at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the Florida Museum of Natural History,…
Butterfly tree of life reveals an origin in North America
About 100 million years ago, a group of trendsetting moths started flying during the day rather than at night, taking…
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