Mariana Braga

DDLS Fellow, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Key Publications

Braga, M. P., Janz, N., Nylin, S., Ronquist, F., & Landis, M. J. (2021). Phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral ecological networks through time for pierid butterflies and their host plants. Ecology Letters, 24(10), 2134-2145.

Braga, M. P., Landis, M. J., Nylin, S., Janz, N., & Ronquist, F. (2020). Bayesian inference of ancestral host–parasite interactions under a phylogenetic model of host repertoire evolution. Systematic biology, 69(6), 1149-1162.

Braga, M. P., Guimaraes Jr, P. R., Wheat, C. W., Nylin, S., & Janz, N. (2018). Unifying host-associated diversification processes using butterfly–plant networks. Nature communications, 9(1), 5155.

Mo, S., Zhu, Y., Braga, M. P., Lohman, D. J., Nylin, S., Moumou, A., … & Wang, H. (2025). Rapid evolution of host repertoire and geographic range in a young and diverse genus of montane butterflies. Systematic Biology, 74(1), 141-157.

Senderov, V., Kudlicka, J., Lundén, D., Palmkvist, V., Braga, M. P., Granqvist, E., … & Ronquist, F. (2023). TreePPL: a universal probabilistic programming language for phylogenetics. bioRxiv, 2023-10.

Kawahara, A. Y., Storer, C., Carvalho, A. P. S., Plotkin, D. M., Condamine, F. L., Braga, M. P., … & Lohman, D. J. (2023). A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins. Nature ecology & evolution, 7(6), 903-913.

Research in the Evolving Networks lab centers around understanding how species interactions change over time and space, with a focus on butterfly caterpillar-plant interactions and development of phylogenetic methods. These methods are used for reconstruction of past evolutionary history and prediction of potential interactions in the present that could be realised in nature in the future, as a response to environmental changes.

Group Members

Sille Holm
Martina Bovolenta
Karin Alexandersson Ros
Stenio Foerster
Katharina Schneider
Elena Quintero

Last updated: 2025-10-17

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