Mallick, S., Granados-Tello, J., van Bergen, E., Kodandaramaiah, U., Brattström, O., Brakefield, P.M. & Molleman, F. 2024. Seasonal plasticity in sympatric Bicyclus butterflies in a tropical forest where temperature does not predict rainfall. Biotropica, In Press.

Halali, S., Brakefield, P.M. & Brattström, O. 2024. Phenotypic plasticity in tropical butterflies is linked to climatic seasonality on a macroevolutionary scale. Evolution, 78(7): 1302–1316.

Aduse-Poku, K., van Bergen, E., Sáfián, S., Collins, S.C., Etienne R.S., Herrera-Alsina, L., Brakefield, P.M*., Brattström, O*., Lohman, D.J*. & Wahlberg, N*. 2021. Miocene Climate and Habitat Change Drove Diversification in Bicyclus, Africa’s Largest Radiation of Satyrine Butterflies. Systematic Biology, 71(3), 570-588.

Halali, S., Halali, D., Barlow, H.S., Molleman, F., Kodandaramaiah, U., Brakefield, P.M. & Brattström, O. 2021. Predictability of temporal variation in climate and the evolution of seasonal polyphenism in tropical butterfly communities. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 34: 1362–1375.

Halali, S., van Bergen, E., Breuker, C.J., Brakefield, P.M. & Brattström, O. 2021. Seasonal environments favour convergent evolution of a faster pace-of-life in tropical butterflies. Ecology Letters, 24, 102-112.

Brattström, O., Aduse-Poku, K., van Bergen, E., French, V. & Brakefield, P.M. 2020. A release from developmental bias accelerates morphological diversification in butterfly eyespots. PNAS, 117(44), 27474-27480.

Singh, P., van Bergen, E., Brattström, O., Osbaldeston, D., Brakefield, P.M. & Oostra, V. 2020. Complex multi-trait responses to multivariate environmental cues in a seasonal butterfly. Evolutionary Ecology, 34, 713-734. doi: 10.1007/s10682-020-10062-0

Halali, S., Brakefield, P.M., Collins, S.C. & Brattström, O., 2020. To mate, or not to mate: The evolution of reproductive diapause facilitates insect radiation in to African savannahs in the late-Miocene. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89, 1230-1241.

Martin, S.H., Singh, K.S., Gordon, I.J., Omufwoko, K.S., Collins, S.C., Warren, I.J., Munby, H., Brattström, O., Traut, W., Martins, D.J., Smith, D.A.S., Jiggins, C.D., Bass, C. & ffrench-Constant, R.H. 2020. Whole-chromosome hitchhiking driven by a male-killing endosymbiont. PLOS Biology, 18(2): e3000610.

Woronik, A., Tunström, K., Perry, M.W., Neethiraj, R., Stefanescu, C., de la Paz Celorio-Mancera, M., Brattström, O., Hill, J., Lehmann, P., Käkelä, R. & Wheat, C.W. 2019. A transposable element insertion is the switch between alternative life history strategies. Nature Communications, 10:5757.

Warren-Thomas, E., Nelson, L., Juthong, W., Bumrungsri, S., Brattström, O., Stroesser, L., Chambon, B., Penot, E., Tongkaemkaew, U., Edwards, D. & Dolman, P. 2019. Rubber agroforestry in Thailand provides some biodiversity benefits without reducing yields. Journal of Applied Ecology, 57(1), 17-30.

Holzem, M., Braak, Brattström, O., McGregor, A.P. & Breuker, C.J. 2019. Wnt gene expression during early embryogenesis in the nymphalid butterfly Bicyclus anynana. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7:468.

Bayliss, J., Brattström, O., Bampton, I. & Collins, S.C. 2019. A new species of Leptomyrina Butler, 1898 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from Mts Mecula, Namuli, Inago, Nallume and Mabu in Northern Mozambique. Metamorphosis, 30, 19-24.

Sáfián, Sz., Collins, S.C., Belcastro, C., Brattström, O., & Tropek, R. 2019. Description of previously unknown females of three Euriphene Boisduval, 1847 species and the unknown male of Bebearia inepta Hecq, 2001 from Western Africa, with notes on their taxonomy, bionomy, and distribution (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Limenitidinae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología, 47(188), 581-591. .

Brattström, O., Shapoval, A., Wassenaar, L.I., Hobson, K.A. & Åkesson, S. 2018. Geographic origin and migration phenology of European red admirals (Vanessa atalanta) as revealed by stable isotopes. BMC Movement Ecology, 6:25.

Balmer, J.A., Brakefield, P.M., Brattström, O., van Bergen, E. 2018. Developmental plasticity for male secondary sexual traits in a group of polyphenic tropical butterflies. Oikos, 127, 1812-1821.

Sahoo, R.J., Lohman, D.J., Wahlberg, N., Müller, C.J., Brattström, O., Collins, S.C., Peggie, D., Aduse-Poku, K. & Kodandaramaiah, U. 2018. Evolution of Hypolimnas butterflies (Nymphalidae): Out-of-Africa origin and Wolbachia-mediated introgression. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 123, 50-58.

Duplouy, A. & Brattström, O. 2018. Wolbachia in the genus Bicyclus: a forgotten player. Microbial Ecology, 75(1), 255-263.

van Bergen, E., Osbaldeston, D., Kodandaramaiah, U., Brattström, O., Aduse-Poku, K. & Brakefield, P.M. 2017. Conserved patterns of integrated developmental plasticity in a group of polyphenic tropical butterflies. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 17: 59.

Aduse-Poku, K., Brakefield, P.M., Wahlberg, N. & Brattström, O. 2017. Expanded molecular phylogeny of the genus Bicyclus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) shows the importance of increased sampling for detecting semi-cryptic species and highlights potentials for future studies. Systematics and Biodiversity, 15(2), 115-130.

Sáfián, S., Pyrcz, T. & Brattström, O. 2016. Two new species of Bebearia Hemming, 1960, as further evience of centre of endemism of butterflies in Western Nigeria (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Limenitinae). Zootaxa, 4175(5), 449-462. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.5.3

Bacquet, P.M.B., de Jong, M.A., Brattström, O.,  Wang, H-L., Molleman, F., Heuskin, S., Lognay, G., Löfstedt, C., Brakefield, P.M., Vanderpoorten, A. & Nieberding, C.M. 2016. Differentiation in putative male sex pheromone components across and within populations of the African butterfly Bicyclus anynana as a potential driver of reproductive isolation. Ecology and Evolution, 6(17), 6064-6084.

van Velzen, R., Collins, S.C., Brattström, O.,  & Congdon, T.C.E. 2016. Description of a new Cymothoe Hübner, 1819 from northern Mozambique (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Limenitidinae). Metamorphosis, 27, 34-41.

Aduse-Poku, K., Lees, D.C., Brattström, O., Kodandaramaiah, U., Collins, S.C., Wahlberg, N. & Brakefield, P.M. 2016. Molecular phylogeny and generic-level taxonomy of the widespread palaeotropical 'Heteropsis clade' (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Mycalesina). Systematic Entomology, 41(4), 717-731.

van Bergen, E., Barlow, H., Brattström, O., Griffiths, H., Kodandaramaiah, U., Osborne, C. & Brakefield, P.M. 2016. The stable isotope ecology of mycalesine butterflies: implications for plant-insect co-evolution. Functional Ecology, 30(12), 1936-1946.

Timmermans, M.J., Lees, D.C., Thompson, M.J., Sáfián, S. & Brattström, O. 2016. Mitogenomics of 'Old World Acraea' butterflies reveals a highly divergent 'Bematistes'. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 97, 233-241.

Brattström, O., Aduse-Poku, K., Collins, S.C., Di Micco de Santo, T. & Brakefield, P.M. 2016. Revision of the Bicyclus sciathis species group (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) with descriptions of four new species and corrected distributional records. Systematic Entomology, 41(1), 207-228.

Brattström, O., Aduse-Poku, K., Collins, S.C. & Brakefield, P.M. 2015. Revision of the Bicyclus ignobilis species-group (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa, 4018(1), 57-79.

Aduse-Poku, K., Brattström, O., Kodandaramaiah, U., Lees, D.C., Brakefield, P.M. & Wahlberg, N. 2015. Systematics and historical biogeography of the Old World butterfly subtribe Mycalesina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15: 167.

Tropek, R., Leština, D., Janšta, P., Brattström, O., Espeland, M. & Sáfián, Sz. 2015. First records of Hypolycaena anara  Larsen, 1986 from Cameroon (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología, 43(170), 235-239.

Bacquet, P.M.B*., Brattström, O*.,  Wang, H-L., Allen, C.E., Löfstedt, C., Brakefield, P.M. & Nieberding, C.M. 2015. Selection on male sex pheromone composition contributes to butterfly reproductive isolation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 282: 20142734. (* co-first authors)

Hedenström, E., Wallin, E.A., Andersson, J., Bång, J., Wang, H-L, Löfstedt, C., Brattström, O. & Bacquet, P.M.B. 2015. Stereoisomeric Analysis of 6,10,14-Trimethylpentadecan-2-ol and the Corresponding Ketone in Wing Extracts from African Bicyclus Butterfly Species. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 41(1), 44-51.

Brattström, O., Mey, W., de Vos, R. & P.M. Brakefield. 2014. A century old mistake set right, the identities of Mydosama marginata and Mydosama pitana pinned down. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 24(2), 96-101.

Wang, H-L., Brattström, O., Brakefield, P.M., Francke, W. & Löfstedt, C. 2014. Identification and biosynthesis of novel male specific esters in the wings of the tropical butterfly, Bicyclus martius sanaos. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 40(6), 549-559.

Oostra, V., Brakefield, P.M., Hiltemann, Y., Zwaan, B.J. & Brattström, O. 2014. On the fate of seasonally plastic traits in a rainforest butterfly under relaxed selection. Ecology and Evolution, 4(13), 2654-2667.

Brattström, O. 2012. Bicyclus brakefieldi (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae), a new species of Bicyclus from the Congo River basin. Tropical Lepidoptera, 22, 62-65.

Nazari, V., Larsen, T.B., Lees, D.C., Brattström, O., Bouyer, T., Van de Poel, G. & Hebert, P.D.N. 2011. Phylogenetic systematics of Colotis and associated genera (Lepidoptera: Pieridae): evolutionary and taxonomic implications. Journal of Systematic Evolutionary Research, 49, 204-215.

Brattström, O., Åkesson, S. & Bensch, S. 2010. AFLP reveals cryptic population structure in European red admirals (Vanessa atalanta). Ecological Entomology, 35, 248-252.

Brattström, O., Bensch, S., Wassenaar, L.I., Hobson, K.A. & Åkesson, S. 2010. Understanding migration ecology of European red admirals (Vanessa atalanta) using stable hydrogen isotopes. Ecography, 33, 720-729.

Brattström, O., Wassenaar, L. I., Hobson, K. A. & Åkesson, S. 2008. Placing butterflies on the map – testing the regional geographical resolution of three stable isotopes in Sweden using a monofagus Nymphalid, the Peacock (Inachis io). Ecography, 31, 490-498.

Brattström, O., Kjellén, N., Alerstam, T. & Åkesson, S. 2008. Effects of wind and weather on red admiral (Vanessa atalanta) migration at a coastal site in southern Sweden. Animal Behaviour, 76, 335-344.

Brattström, O. 2006. Is there seasonal variation in size and mass of Red Admirals Vanessa atalanta on Capri, Italy? Ornis Svecica. 16, 69-73.

Brattström, O. 2010. Butterflies at Sapo National Park. Report for Liberia Forestry Development Authority and FFI International.

Brattström, O. 2010. Butterflies of Yankari. Report for APLORI/Bauchi State Nigeria.

Brattström, O. 2009. Butterflies at Afi Mountains Wildlife Sanctuary. Report for Cross River State Forestry Commission.

Brattström, O. 2009. Butterflies in Ologbo Forest. Report for Presco Plc, Nigeria.

Brattström, O. 2008. Results from a butterfly survey around Bashu, Southern Okwangwo Division of Cross River National Park, Nigeria. Report for Cross River State Forestry Commission.

Brattström, O. 2007. Ecology of red admiral migration. Doctoral thesis, Lund University, Sweden. (ISBN: 978-91-7105-259-9).