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Monthly Archives: November 2012
Phylogeny of the Tachinidae World Tour, Part 1: South Africa
One of the major pursuits in the Stireman lab right now is to assemble and analyze a phylogeny of Tachinidae of the world. If you know what tachinid flies are (i.e., awesomely diverse parasitoid flies, again I refer you to … Continue reading
Carnivores and carotenoids…a new paper by Jeremy Heath
PhD student Jeremy Heath had something additional to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. His manuscript entitled “Carnivores and carotenoids are associated with adaptive behavioural divergence in a radiation of gall midges” was just officially published (online) in the journal Ecological … Continue reading
Posted in Scientific publications
Tagged Adaptive radiation, Asteromyia, Cecidomyiidae, Jeremy Heath
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Enemy mine
Bob Kula and colleagues (Oscar Dix-Luna and Scott Shaw) recently published a revision of the braconid genus Ilatha. These are relatively large, often brightly colored braconid wasps found exclusively in the New World tropics. They are certainly attractive wasps, but … Continue reading
Beth Stayrook receives award
Beth Stayrook, undergraduate research assistant extraordinare in the Stireman lab, was recently awarded a $1500 scholarship award from the Women in Science Giving Circle at Wright State University. Beth is a seriously smart, dual major in Biology and Chemistry. Way … Continue reading
Tachinid flies and the final frontier…
Forest canopies are often referred to as one of the “final frontiers” of biodiversity exploration. We know astonishingly little about what organisms and ecological interactions occur in forest canopies, primarily due to the difficulty in sampling and studying them. In … Continue reading
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