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Farrell Lab Publications

 

McKenna, D.D., and Farrell, B.D. 2010. 9-Genes Reinforce the Phylogeny of Holometabola and Yield Alternate Views on the Phylogenetic Placement of Strepsiptera. PLoS ONE 5(7): e11887. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011887. abstract | pdf

Archibald, S. B., Bossert, W.H., Greenwood, D.R., and Farrell, B.D. 2010. Seasonaility, the latitudinal gradient of diversity, and Eocene insects. Paleobiology 36(3), 374–398. abstract | pdf

Catherine Linnen and Brian D. Farrell. 2010. A test of the sympatric host race formation hypothesis in Neodiprion (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae). Proc Roy Soc B. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.0577 abstract | pdf

Duane D. McKenna, Andrea S. Sequeira, Adriana E. Marvaldi, and Brian D. Farrell. 2009. Temporal lags and overlap in the diversification of weevils and flowering plant. PNAS 106:7083-7088. doi:10.1073/pnas.0810618106 abstract | pdf

Duane McKenna and Brian Farrell. 2009. Beetles (Coleoptera). Pp. 278–289 in The Timetree of Life, (S. B. Hedges and S. Kumar, Eds.). Oxford University Press.

Frank Friedrich, Brian D. Farrell, and Rolf G. Beutel. 2009. The thoracic morphology of Archostemata and the relationships of the extant suborders of Coleoptera (Hexapoda). Cladistics 25: 1–37. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00233.x pdf

Catherine R. Linnen and Brian D. Farrell. 2008. Comparison of methods for species-tree inference in the sawfly genus Neodiprion (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae). Systematic Biology 57(6): 876-890. doi: 10.1080/10635150802580949

Catherine R. Linnen and Brian D. Farrell. 2008. Phylogenetic analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial genes reveals evolutionary relationships and mitochondrial introgression in the sertifer species group of the genus Neodiprion (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48: 240-257. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.03.021 pdf

Farrell, Brian. 2007. Insects and Internet: Saving a national treasure in Hispaniola. ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, Fall 2007: 80-81. pdf

Catherine R. Linnen and Brian D. Farrell. 2007. Mitonuclear Discordance is Caused by Rampant Mitochondrial Introgression in Neodiprion (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae) Sawflies. Evolution 61-6: 1417–1438. abstract | pdf

McKenna D. D. , & B. D. Farrell. 2006. Tropical forests are both evolutionary cradles and museums of leaf beetle diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 103 (29): 10947-10951. abstract | pdf

Nyman, T., A.G. Zinovjev, V. Vikberg, and B.D. Farrell. 2006. Molecular phylogeny of the sawfly family Nematinae (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae). Systematic Entomology 31. 569-583. abstract | pdf

Nyman, T., B.D. Farrell., A.G. Zinovjev, and V. Vikberg. 2006. Larval habits, host- plant associations, and speciation in Nematine sawflies (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) Evolution 60(8): 1622-1637. abstract | pdf

Smith, C.I. and B.D. Farrell. 2006. Evolutionary consequences of dispersal ability in cactus-feeding insects. Genetica 126: 323-334. abstract | pdf

Eastwood, R., S.L. Boyce and B.D. Farrell. 2006. The provenance of old world swallowtail butterflies, Papilio demoleus (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), recently discovered in the new World. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am 99(1): 164-168. abstract | pdf

Smith, C.I. and B.D. Farrell. 2005. Historical biogeography of longhorn cactus beetles: The influence of Pleistocene climate changes on American desert communities. USDA Forest Service Proceedings RMRS-P-36. 135 -139. abstract | pdf

McKenna, D.D. and B.D. Farrell. 2005. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of host plant use in the Neotropical rolled leaf "hispine" beetle genus Cephaloleia (Chevrolat) (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 37: 117-131. abstract | pdf

Smith, C. I. and B.D. Farrell. 2005. Phylogeography of the longhorn cactus beetle Moneilema appressum Leconte (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae): Was the differentiation of the Madrean sky-islands driven by Pleistocene climate changes?. Molecular Ecology. 14: 3049-3065. abstract | pdf

Farrell, B. D. 2005. From agronomics to international relations: Building an online encyclopedia of life in the Dominican Republic. Revista: Harvard Review of Latin America. Fall 2004/Winter 2005: 6-9. pdf

Smith, C. I., and B. D. Farrell. 2005. Range expansion in flightless longhorn cactus beetles Moneilema gigas and M. armatum in response to Pleistocene climate changes. Molecular Ecology 14: 1025-1044. abstract | pdf

Morse, G. E., and B. D. Farrell. 2005. InterspeciWc phylogeography of the Stator limbatus species complex: The geographic context of speciation and specialization. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 36 (2005) 201–213. abstract | pdf

Morse, G. E., and B. D. Farrell. 2005. Ecological and evolutionary diversification of the seed beetle genus Stator. Evolution 59: 1315-1333. abstract | pdf

Lefevre, C., H. Charles, A. Vallier, B. Delobel, B. Farrell, and A. Heddi. 2004. Endosymbiont phlyogenesis in the Dryophthoridae weevils: Evidence for bacterial replacement. Molecular Biology and Evolution 21: 965-973. abstract | pdf

Guerrero, K. A., D. Veloz, S. L. Boyce, and B. D. Farrell. 2004. First New World documentation of an Old World citrus pest, the Lime Swallowtail Papilio demoleus (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), in the Dominican Republic (Hispaniola). American Entomologist 50:224-226. abstract | pdf

Farrell, B. D., and A. S. Sequeira. 2004. Evolutionary rates in the adaptive radiation of beetles on plants. Evolution 58:1984-2001. abstract | pdf

Archibald, S. B., and B. D. Farrell. 2003. Wheeler's Dilemma: Proceedings of the Second Paleoentomological Congress. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 46 (Supplement-Fossil Insects):17-23. abstract | pdf

Pereira, G., H. De Stefano, J. Staton, and B. D. Farrell. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships among species of Macrobrachium based on sequences of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome oxidase subunit 1. Pages 319-322 in Modern Approaches to the Study of Crustacea (E. Escobar-Briones, and F. Alvarez, eds.). Kluwer Academic Press/Plenum Publishers, New York. abstract | pdf

Marvaldi, A. E., A. S. Sequeira, C. W. O'Brien, and B. D. Farrell. 2002. Molecular and morphological phylogenetics of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea): Do niche shifts accompany diversification? Systematic Biology 51:761-785. abstract | pdf

Jordal, B. H., R. A. Beaver, B. B. Normark, and B. Farrell. 2002. Extraordinary sex ratios and the evolution of male neoteny in sib-mating Ozopemon beetles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 75:353-360. abstract | pdf

Jordal, B. H., B. B. Normark, B. D. Farrell, and L.R. Kirkendall. 2002. Extraordinary haplotype diversity in haplodiploid inbreeders: phylogenetics and evolution of the bark beetle genus Coccotrypres. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 23:171-188. abstract | pdf

Sequeira, A. S., and B. D. Farrell. 2001. Evolutionary origins of Gondwanan interactions: How old are Araucaria beetle herbivores? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 74:459-474. abstract | pdf

Farrell, B. D. 2001. Evolutionary assembly of milkweed fauna: Cytochrome oxidae I and the age of Tetraopes beetles. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 18:467-478. abstract | pdf

Farrell, B. D., A. S. Sequeira, B. O'Meara, B. B. Normark, J. H. Chung, and B. H. Jordal. 2001. The evolution of agriculture in beetles (Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae). Evolution 55:2011-2027. abstract | pdf

Sequeira, A. S., A. A. Lanteri, M. A. Scataglini, V. A. Congalonieri, and B. D. Farrell. 2000. Are flightless Galapaganus weevils older than the Galapagos Islands they inhabit? Heredity 85:20-29. abstract | pdf

Sequeira, A. S., B. B. Normark, and B. D. Farrell. 2000. Evolutionary assembly of the conifer fauna: Distinguishing ancient from recent associations in bark beetles. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Series B 267:2359-2366. abstract | pdf

Kelley, S. T., B. D. Farrell, and J. B. Mitton. 2000. Effects of specialization of genetic differentiation is sister species of bark beetles. Heredity 84:218-227. abstract | pdf

Jordal, B. H., B. B. Normark, and B. D. Farrell. 2000. Evolutionary radiation of an inbreeding haplodiploid beetle lineage (Curculionidae, Scolytinae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 71:483-499. abstract | pdf

Normark, B. B., B. H. Jordal, and B. D. Farrell. 1999. Origin of a haplodiploid beetle lineage. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Series B 266:2253-2259. abstract | pdf

Farrell, B. D. 1999. Diversification at the insect-plant interface. American Zoologist 39:92A.

Farrell, B. D. 1999. Flowers and insect evolution. Science 283:143. pdf

Dobler, S., and B. D. Farrell. 1999. Host use evolution in Chrysochus milkweed beetles: Evidence from behaviour, population genetics and phylogeny. Molecular Ecology 8:1297-1307. abstract | pdf

Powell, J., C. Mitter, and B. D. Farrell. 1998. Evolution of larval food preference in Lepidoptera. Pages 403-422 in Moths and Butterflies. Volume 1. Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbook of Zoology. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta (N. P. Kristensen, ed.) Walter deGruyter, Berlin. pdf

Kelley, S. T., and B. D. Farrell. 1998. Is specialization a dead end? The phylogeny of host use in Dendroctonus bark beetles (Scolytidae). Evolution 52:1731-1743. abstract | pdf

Farrell, B. D., and C. Mitter. 1998. The timing of insect/plant diversification: Might Tetraopes (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) and Asclepias (Asclepiadaceae) have co-evolved? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 64:553-577. abstract | pdf

Farrell, B. D. 1998. "Inordinate fondness" explained: Why are there so many beetles? Science 281:553-557. abstract | pdf

Farrell, B. D., and C. Mitter. 1994. Adaptive radiations in insects and plants: Time and opportunity. American Zoologist 34:57-69. abstract |pdf

Farrell, B.D., and C. Mitter. 1993. Phylogenetic determinants of insect/plant community diversity. Pages 253-266 In Species Diversity in Ecological Communities. Historical and Geographical Perspectives. (Ricklefs, R.E. and D. Schluter, eds.) University of Chicago Press, Chicago. pdf

Wiegmann, B. M., C. Mitter, and B. D. Farrell. 1993. Diversification of carnivorous parasitic insects: Extraordinary radiation or specialized dead end? American Naturalist 142:737-754. abstract | pdf

Farrell, B. D., C. Mitter, and D. J. Futuyma. 1992. Diversification at the insect-plant interface. BioScience 42:34-42. pdf

Mitter, C., and B. D. Farrell. 1991. Macroevolutionary aspects of insect-plant relationships. Pages 35-78 in Insect-Plant Interactions.  Volume 3. (E. A. Bernays, ed.) CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. pdf

Mitter, C., B. D. Farrell, and D. J. Futuyma. 1991. Phylogenetic studies of insect-plant interactions: Insights into the genesis of diversity. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 6:290-293. abstract |pdf

Farrell, B. D., D. E. Dussourd, and C. Mitter. 1991. Escalation of plant defenses: Do latex and resin canals spur plant diversification? American Naturalist 138:881-900. abstract | pdf

Farrell, B., and C. Mitter. 1990. Macroevolution of insect-plant antagonisms. American Journal of Botany 77:S174. abstract

Farrell, B. D., and C. Mitter. 1990. Phylogenesis of insect-plant interactions: Have Phyllobrotica leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae) and the Lamiales diversified in parallel? Evolution 44:1389-1403. abstract | pdf

Mitter, C., B. D. Farrell, and B. M. Wiegmann. 1988. The phylogenetic study of adaptive zones: Has phytophagy promoted insect diversification? American Naturalist 132:107-128. abstract | pdf

Farrell, B. D., and T. L. Erwin. 1988. Leaf-beetle community structure in an Amazonian rainforest canopy. Pages 73-90 in Biology of the Chrysomelidae (P. Jolivet, E. Petitpierre, and T. H. Hsiao, eds.). Kluwer Academic Publisher, Dordrecht. pdf