Benjamin B Normark

Summary

Affiliation: University of Massachusetts
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi The strange case of the armored scale insect and its bacteriome
    Benjamin B Normark
    Department of Entomology and Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
    PLoS Biol 2:E43. 2004
  2. ncbi Male killers and the origins of paternal genome elimination
    Francisco Ubeda
    St John s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Theor Popul Biol 70:511-26. 2006
  3. ncbi The evolution of alternative genetic systems in insects
    Benjamin B Normark
    Department of Entomology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Annu Rev Entomol 48:397-423. 2003
  4. ncbi Haplodiploidy as an outcome of coevolution between male-killing cytoplasmic elements and their hosts
    Benjamin B Normark
    Department of Entomology and Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Evolution 58:790-8. 2004
  5. ncbi Perspective: maternal kin groups and the origins of asymmetric genetic systems-genomic imprinting, haplodiploidy, and parthenogenesis
    Benjamin B Normark
    Department of Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences and Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Evolution 60:631-42. 2006
  6. ncbi Niche explosion
    Benjamin B Normark
    Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Science and Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Genetica 139:551-64. 2011
  7. ncbi Phylogenetic congruence of armored scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) and their primary endosymbionts from the phylum Bacteroidetes
    Matthew E Gruwell
    Department of Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences, Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Fernald Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 44:267-80. 2007
  8. ncbi Extraordinary haplotype diversity in haplodiploid inbreeders: phylogenetics and evolution of the bark beetle genus Coccotrypes
    Bjarte H Jordal
    School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 23:171-88. 2002
  9. ncbi Investigating hybridization in the parthenogenetic New Zealand stick insect Acanthoxyla (Phasmatodea) using single-copy nuclear loci
    Thomas R Buckley
    Landcare Research, Private Bag 92170, Auckland, New Zealand
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 48:335-49. 2008

Detail Information

Publications9

  1. ncbi The strange case of the armored scale insect and its bacteriome
    Benjamin B Normark
    Department of Entomology and Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
    PLoS Biol 2:E43. 2004
  2. ncbi Male killers and the origins of paternal genome elimination
    Francisco Ubeda
    St John s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Theor Popul Biol 70:511-26. 2006
    ..We conclude that PGE shows evolutionary genetic stability and present a comprehensive analysis of the probability that such genetic system evolves due to the action of cytoplasmic genes...
  3. ncbi The evolution of alternative genetic systems in insects
    Benjamin B Normark
    Department of Entomology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Annu Rev Entomol 48:397-423. 2003
    ..Bizarre systems of extrazygotic inheritance in Sternorrhyncha are not easily accommodated into any existing classification of genetic systems...
  4. ncbi Haplodiploidy as an outcome of coevolution between male-killing cytoplasmic elements and their hosts
    Benjamin B Normark
    Department of Entomology and Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Evolution 58:790-8. 2004
    ....
  5. ncbi Perspective: maternal kin groups and the origins of asymmetric genetic systems-genomic imprinting, haplodiploidy, and parthenogenesis
    Benjamin B Normark
    Department of Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences and Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Evolution 60:631-42. 2006
    ..In rare circumstances in which paternal gene products gain access to maternal physiology via a placenta, PSGE with greedy paternal gene expression can persist (e.g., in mammals)...
  6. ncbi Niche explosion
    Benjamin B Normark
    Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Science and Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Genetica 139:551-64. 2011
    ....
  7. ncbi Phylogenetic congruence of armored scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) and their primary endosymbionts from the phylum Bacteroidetes
    Matthew E Gruwell
    Department of Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences, Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Fernald Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 44:267-80. 2007
    ..We propose the name "Candidatus Uzinura diaspidicola" for the primary endosymbionts of armored scale insects...
  8. ncbi Extraordinary haplotype diversity in haplodiploid inbreeders: phylogenetics and evolution of the bark beetle genus Coccotrypes
    Bjarte H Jordal
    School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 23:171-88. 2002
    ..However, all results suggested that species with the broadest diets were clustered in a single derived position-another piece of evidence against specialization as a derived evolutionary feature...
  9. ncbi Investigating hybridization in the parthenogenetic New Zealand stick insect Acanthoxyla (Phasmatodea) using single-copy nuclear loci
    Thomas R Buckley
    Landcare Research, Private Bag 92170, Auckland, New Zealand
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 48:335-49. 2008
    ..Our study demonstrates the utility of cloning alleles from multiple single-copy nuclear genes for resolving the origins of parthenogenetic lineages...