Morphology-Aware Multimodal Representation Learning for Insect Phylogenetic Reconstruction (opens in new tab)

Morphological traits provide important evidence for phylogenetic reconstruction and evolutionary relationship analysis. Recent image-based approaches have introduced deep learning, particularly convolutional models, to derive morphological features from specimen images, but these methods generally rely on single-modality visual representations and do not explicitly incorporate morphological semantics. This study proposes a morphology-aware multi...