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Paul Marek
Department of Entomology
Virginia Tech (MC0319)
Price Hall, Room 216A
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
email: pmarek@vt.eduTags
- Apheloria
- Appalachia
- Appalachioria
- arthropods
- Australia
- beetle
- biodiversity
- bioluminescent
- Brachoria
- Brachycybe
- California
- centipede
- Costa Rica
- cyanide
- decomposer
- Eumillipes
- fieldwork
- Illacme plenipes
- Japan
- laboratory
- Lepidoptera
- millipede
- mimicry
- Motyxia
- Mozambique
- Nannaria
- Narceus
- photography
- tarantula
- Vietnam
- Virginia
- wasps
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Recent Posts
What we’re reading…
Wojcieszek & Simmons (2012) Evidence for stabilizing selection and slow divergent evolution of male genitalia in a millipede (Antichiropus variabilis). Evolution, 66, 1138-1153.
Lozano-Fernandez, et al. (2016) A molecular palaeobiological exploration of arthropod terrestrialization. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 371, 1-12.
Derkarabetian & Hedin (2014) Integrative Taxonomy and Species Delimitation in Harvestmen: A Revision of the Western North American Genus Sclerobunus (Opiliones: Laniatores: Travunioidea). PLOSONE, 9, 1-25.
McKenna et al. (2015) The beetle tree of life reveals that Coleoptera survived end-Permian mass extinction to diversify during the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution. Systematic Entomology, 40, 835-880.
Conniff (2014) Useless Creatures. New York Times, September 14, 2014
Thomas & Hedin (2008) Multigenic phylogeographic divergence in the paleoendemic southern Appalachian opilionid Fumontana deprehendor Shear (Opiliones, Laniatores, Triaenonychidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 46, 645-658.
Emata & Hedin (2016) From the mountains to the coast and back again: Ancient biogeography in a radiation of short-range endemic harvestmen from California, Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, 98, 233-243.
Shear (2015) The chemical defenses of millipedes (Diplopoda): biochemistry, physiology and ecology. Biochemical Systematics & Ecology, 61, 78-117.
Kawahara & Breinholt (2014) Phylogenomics provides strong evidence for relationships of butterflies and moths. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 281, 1-8.
Hendrixson, et al. (2013) An exploration of species boundaries in turret-building tarantulas of the Mojave Desert (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae, Aphonopelma). Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, 66, 327-340.
de Queiroz (2007) Species concepts and species delimitation. Systematic Biology, 56, 879-886.
Werth & Shear (2014) The evolutionary truth about living fossils. American Scientist, 20, 434-443.
Kelley, et al. (2014) Compact genome of the Antarctic midge is likely an adaptation to an extreme environment. Nature Communications, 5, 1-8.
Moroz, Kocot, et al. (2014). The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems. Nature, 510, 109–114
Mallet & Joron (1999) Evolution of diversity in warning color and mimicry: polymorphisms, shifting balance, and speciation. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 201-233.
Hoffman (2012) The garden of biotic delights. Banisteria, 40, 87-89.
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