Browsing by Author "Farrell, Brian"
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9-Genes Reinforce the Phylogeny of Holometabola and Yield Alternate Views on the Phylogenetic Placement of Strepsiptera
McKenna, Duane D; Farrell, Brian Dorsey (Public Library of Science, 2010)Background: The extraordinary morphology, reproductive and developmental biology, and behavioral ecology of twisted wing parasites (order Strepsiptera) have puzzled biologists for centuries. Even today, the phylogenetic ... -
Carabid beetle diversity and distribution in Boston Harbor Islands national park area (Coleoptera, Carabidae)
Farrell, BrianAs part of an All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory in Boston Harbor Islands national park area, an inventory of carabid beetles on 13 islands was conducted. Intensive sampling on ten of the islands, using an assortment of passive ... -
Comparison of Methods for Species-Tree Inference in the Sawfly Genus Neodiprion (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae)
Linnen, Catherine R.; Farrell, Brian D. (Taylor & Francis, 2008)Conifer-feeding sawflies in the genus Neodiprion provide an excellent opportunity to investigate the origin and maintenance of barriers to reproduction, but obtaining a phylogenetic estimate for comparative studies of ... -
Diversification of Carnivorous Parasitic Insects: Extraordinary Radiation or Specialized Dead End?
Wiegmann, Brian M.; Mitter, Charles; Farrell, Brian (University of Chicago Press, 1993-11)The spectacular diversity of insects has often been attributed to accelerated radiation of groups acquiring specialized trophic habits. In accord with this hypothesis, a previous study demonstrated consistently greater ... -
The Effects of Biogeography on Ant Diversity and Activity on the Boston Harbor Islands, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Clark, Adam T.; Rykken, Jessica J.; Farrell, Brian Dorsey (Public Library of Science, 2011)Many studies have examined how island biogeography affects diversity on the scale of island systems. In this study, we address how diversity varies over very short periods of time on individual islands. To do this, we ... -
Evaluating insect-host interactions as a driver of species divergence in palm flower weevils
de Medeiros, Bruno A. S.; Farrell, Brian (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-12)Plants and their specialized flower visitors provide valuable insights into the evolutionary consequences of species interactions. In particular, antagonistic interactions between insects and plants have often been invoked ... -
Evolution of Parasitism in the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera)
Kaliszewska, Zofia (2015-10-01)Of the four most diverse insect orders, the Lepidoptera contain remarkably few predatory and/or parasitic taxa, and while species with carnivorous life histories have evolved independently numerous times in moths and ... -
Evolutionary Origins of Gondwanan Interactions: How Old Are Araucaria Beetle Herbivores?
Farrell, Brian; Sequeira, Andrea S. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2001-12)Studies of a variety of phenomena, ranging from rates of molecular substitution to rates of diversification, draw on estimates of geological age. Studies incorporating estimates of timing from fossils or other geological ... -
Evolutionary Radiation of an Inbreeding Haplodiploid Beetle Lineage (Curculionidae, Scolytinae)
Farrell, Brian; Jordal, Bjarte H.; Normark, Benjamin B. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2000-11) -
Extraordinary Sex Ratios and the Evolution of Male Neoteny in Sib-Mating Ozopemon Beetles
Farrell, Brian; Jordal, Bjarte H.; Beaver, Roger A.; Normark, Benjamin B. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2002-03)The weevil subfamily Scolytinae includes at least seven groups of regularly sib-mating species with extremely female-biased offspring sex ratios. The enigmatic SE-Asian bark beetle genus Ozopemon (25 spp.) belong to the ... -
First phylogenetic analysis of Dryophthorinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) based on structural alignment of ribosomal DNA reveals Cenozoic diversification
Chamorro, Maria Lourdes; de Medeiros, Bruno; Farrell, Brian (Wiley, 2021-02-09)Dryophthorinae is an economically important, ecologically distinct, and ubiquitous monophyletic group of pantropical weevils with more than 1,200 species in 153 genera. This study provides the first comprehensive phylogeny ... -
Laboulbeniales (Ascomycota) of the Boston Harbor Islands I: Species Parasitizing Coccinellidae and Staphylinidae, with Comments on Typification
Haelewaters, Danny; Zhao, Serena Y.; Kesel, André De; Handlin, Rebecca E.; Royer, Isabel R.; Farrell, Brian Dorsey; Pfister, Donald H. (Humboldt Field Research Institute, 2015)This paper, based on a recent comprehensive sampling of insects, is the first report of Laboulbeniales from the New England region since the 1930s. We present 7 new records of laboulbenialean parasites on Staphylinidae ... -
Phylogenetic Analysis of Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genes Reveals Evolutionary Relationships and Mitochondrial Introgression in the Sertifer Species Group of the Genus Neodiprion (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae)
Linnen, Catherine R.; Farrell, Brian D. (Elsevier, 2008)Neodiprion Rohwer (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae) is a Holarctic genus of conifer-feeding sawflies with a remarkable amount of inter- and intraspecific diversity in host use, behavior, and development. This var- iation is ... -
The Phyylogenetic Study of Adaptive Zones: Has Phytophagy Promoted Insect Diversification?
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A preliminary survey of the non-biting midges (Diptera: Chironomidae) of the Dominican Republic
Silva, Fabio Laurindo da; Wiedenbrug, Sofia; Farrell, Brian Dorsey (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Library, 2015)Chironomidae (Diptera) are among the most diverse and widespread aquatic insects, with roughly 5,500 described species. However, prior to the present work, no species of Chironomidae had been documented from the island of ... -
Temporal lags and overlap in the diversification of weevils and flowering plants
McKenna, Duane D; Sequeira, Andrea; Marvaldi, A. E.; Farrell, Brian Dorsey (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009)The extraordinary diversity of herbivorous beetles is usually attributed to coevolution with angiosperms. However, the degree and nature of contemporaneity in beetle and angiosperm diversification remain unclear. Here we ... -
The Thoracic Morphology of Archostemata and the Relationships of the Extant Suborders of Coleoptera (Hexapoda)
Friederich, Frank; Farrell, Brian; Beutel, Rolf G. (Elsevier, 2009)Thoracic structures of Tetraphalerus bruchi are described in detail. The results were compared with features found in other representatives of Archostemata and other coleopteran suborders. Differences between thoracic ... -
The Timing of Insect/Plant Diversification: Might Tetraopes (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) and Asclepias (Asclepiadaceae) Have Co-Evolved?
Farrell, Brian (Oxford University Press (OUP), 1998-04)Ehrlich and Raven's essay on coevolution has stimulated voluminous work on the mechanisms of insect/plant interaction, but few explicit tests of their model's prediction that the evolutionary success of entire insect and ... -
Tropical forests are both evolutionary cradles and museums of leaf beetle diversity
McKenna, Duane; Farrell, Brian (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006-07-03)The high extant species diversity of tropical lineages of organisms is usually portrayed as a relatively recent and rapid development or as a consequence of the gradual accumulation or preservation of species over time. ... -
Whole-genome amplification in double-digest RADseq results in adequate libraries but fewer sequenced loci
de Medeiros, Bruno A S; Farrell, Brian D. (PeerJ, 2018)Whole-genome amplification by multiple displacement amplification (MDA) is a promising technique to enable the use of samples with only limited amount of DNA for the construction of RAD-seq libraries. Previous work has ...