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Publications & Data Sets  
2005

Terry, M. D., and M. F. Whiting. Behavior of POY versus CLUSTALL across a broad parameter landscape. Cladistics (in review).

Terry, M. D., and M. F. Whiting. Phylogeny of polyneopterous insect orders: Is Mantophasmatodea a new order? Cladistics (in review).

Dittmar, K., M. L. Porter, S. Murray, and M. F. Whiting. Phylogenetic relationships among the nycteribiid and streblid batflies (Diptera: Brachycera, Calyptratae). Systematic Entomology (submitted).

Ogden, T. H., J. T. Osborne, L. M. Jacobus, and M. F. Whiting. Combined molecular and morphological phylogeny of Ephemerellidae (Ephemeroptera) and its position within Pannota. Systematic Entomology (submitted)

Dittmar de la Cruz, K., A. M. Jansen, S. Mendonca de Souza, L. F. Fererreira, K. J. Reinhard, M. F. Whiting, and A. Araujo. An interesting case of Chagas’ disease in Central Brazil. Lancet (in review).

Taylor, S. D., K. Dittmar de la Cruz, M. L. Porter, and M. F. Whiting. Characterization of the long-wavelength opsin from Mecoptera and Siphonaptera: Does a flea see? Molecular Biology and Evolution (in press). PDF paper

 

2004

Ogden, T. H. and M. F. Whiting. Phylogeny of Ephemeroptera (mayflies) based on molecular evidence. Molecular Phylogenetic and Evolution (in press).

Ogden, H., M. F. Whiting, and W. Wheeler. Poor Taxon Sampling, Poor Character Sampling, and Non-Repeatable Analyses of a Contrived Dataset do not Provide a More Credible Estimate of Insect Phylogeny: A Reply to Kjer. Systematic Biology (in review).

Cameron, S.L., D’Hearse, C.A., Miller, K.B., Whiting, M. F. & Barker, S.C. Mitochondrial genome data alone is not enough to unambiguously resolve the relationships of Entognatha, Insecta and Crustacea sensu lato (Arthropoda). Cladistics 20:534-537. PDF paper

Hastriter, M.W., K. Frafjord, and M.F. Whiting. 2004. A collection of Norwegian fleas (Siphonaptera) north of the Arctic Circle. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 106: 876-882.

Whiting, M. F. Phylogenetic position of Diptera: A review of the evidence. The Evolutionary Biology of Flies B.M. Wiegmann and D.K. Yeates, eds. Columbia University Press. (in press)

K. Dittmar, M. L. Porter, L. Price, G. Svenson, and M. F. Whiting. Invertebrates of caves of peninsular Malaysia. Malaysian Nature Journal. (submitted) PDF paper

Dittmar K, and M. F. Whiting : The phylogenetic characterization of new Wolbachia sp. from eight Families of Siphonaptera throughout the Nearctic and Neotropical Region. Journal of Parasitology 90: 953-957. PDF paper

Terry, M. D., and M. F. Whiting. Phylogeny of the genus Isogenoides (Plecoptera: Perlodidae) and the evolution of drumming behavior. Evolution (in review).

Terry, M. D., and M. F. Whiting. Phylogenetic Systematics of Plecoptera: Evidence from morphology and six genes. Systematic Entomology (in review)

Terry, M. D., and M. F. Whiting. Behavior of POY versus CLUSTALL across a broad parameter landscape. Cladistics (submitted).

Terry, M. D., and M. F. Whiting. Phylogeny of polyneopterous insect orders: Is Mantophasmatodea a new order? Cladistics (submitted).

Cryan, J. R., B. M. Wiegmann, L. L. Dietz, C. H. Dietrich, and M. F. Whiting. Treehopper trees: Phylogeny of Membracidae (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Membracoidea) based on molecules and morphology. Systematic Entomology 29: 441-454. PDF paper

K. J. Jarvis, F. Haas, and M. F. Whiting. A phylogeny of Dermaptera (Insecta) based on molecular and morphological evidence: reconsidering the classification of earwigs. Systematic Entomology (in press). PDF paper

Hastriter, M.W. and M.F. Whiting. Records of fleas (Siphonaptera) of carnivores from Idaho. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington (in press).

Svenson, G. J. and M. F. Whiting. Phylogeny of Mantodea based on Molecular Data: Evolution of a Charismatic Predator. Systematic Entomology 29:359-370. PDF paper

Robertson, J. A., J. V. McHugh, and M. F. Whiting. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the pleasing fungus beetles (Coleoptera: Erotylidae): evolution of colour patterns, gregariousness, and mycophagy. Systematic Entomology 29:173-187. PDF paper

Bybee, S., S. Taylor, C.R. Nelson, and M.F. Whiting. A Phylogeny of Robberflies (Diptera: Asilidae) at the subfamilial level: Molecular Evidence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30:789-797. PDF paper and Data Set

Whiting, M. F. and A. S. Whiting. Is wing recurrence really impossible: a reply to Trueman et al. Systematic Entomology 29:1-3. PDF paper

 

2003

Barker, S. C., M. F. Whiting, K. P Johnson, and A. Murrell. Phylogeny of the lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) inferred from small subunit rRNA. Zoologica Scripta 32:407-414. PDF paper

Whiting, M. F. Phylogeny of Holometabolous Insects: The most successful group of terrestrial organisms. Pp. 345-364. Assembling the Tree of Life. J. Cracraft and M. Donoghue eds. Oxford University Press. PDF paper

Hastriter, M. W. and M. F. Whiting. Siphonaptera (fleas). Encyclopedia of Insects. V. H. Resh and R. Carde eds. Academic Press 1040-1044. PDF paper

Whiting, M. F. Strepsiptera. Encyclopedia of Insects. V. H. Resh and R. Carde eds. Academic Press (1094-1095). PDF paper

Dittmar de la Cruz, K. and M. F. Whiting. Genetic and phylogeographic structure of populations of Pulex simulans (Siphonaptera) from domesticated guinea pigs (Cavia aperea f. porcellus) in Peru inferred from two genes (Cyt B and Co II). Parasitol. Res 91:55-59. PDF paper

Ogden, T. H. and M. F. Whiting. The problem with the “Paleoptera Problem”: Sense and sensitivity. Cladistics 19:432-442. PDF paper

Whiting, M. F., S. Bradler, and T. Maxwell. Loss and recovery of wings in stick insects. Nature 421:264-267. PDF paper and Data Set

Barker, S. C., M. F. Whiting, K. P. Johnson, and A. Murrell. Phylogeny of the lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) inferred from small subunit rRNA. Zoologica Scripta 32:407-414. PDF paper

Dittmar, K., U. Mamat, M. Whiting, T. Goldmann, K. Reinhard, and S. Guillen. Techniques of DNA-studies on prehispanic ectoparasites (Pulex sp., Pulicidae, Siphonaptera) from animal mummies of the Chiribaya culture, Southern Peru. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio De Janeiro, 98:53-58. PDF paper

 

2002

Whiting, M. F. Phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders based on 18S ribosomal data: when bad things happen to good data. Molecular Systematics and Evolution: Theory and Practice R. DeSalle, G. Giribet and W. Wheeler eds. Birkhauser press. 69-84.

Dittmar de la Cruz, K. and M. F. Whiting. Genetic and phylogeographic structure of populations of Pulex simulans (Siphonaptera) from domesticated guinea pigs (Cavia aperea f. porcellus) in Peru inferred from two genes (Cyt B and Co II). International Journal of Parasitology (in review). PDF paper

Hastriter, M. W. and M. F. Whiting. Siphonaptera (fleas). Encyclopedia of Insects. V. H. Resh and R. Carde eds. Academic Press (in press). PDF paper

Hastriter, M. W., M. D. Zyzak, R. Soto, R. Fernandez, N. Solorzano, M. F. Whiting. Fleas (Siphonaptera) from Ancash Department, Peru, with the description of a new species, Ectinorus alejoi (Rhopalopsyllidae), and the description of the male of Plocopsylla pallas (Rothschild, 1914) (Stephanocircidae). Annals of the Carnegie. 71: 87-106. PDF paper

Hastriter, M. W. and M. F. Whiting. Macropsylla novaehollandiae (Hystrichopsyllidae), a new species of flea from Tasmania. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 104:663-671. PDF paper

Whiting, M. F. Mecoptera is Paraphyletic: multiple genes and phylogeny of Mecoptera and Siphonaptera. Zoologica Scripta 31: 93-105. PDF paper and Data Set

Whiting, M. F. Phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders: Molecular evidence. Zoologica Scripta 31: 3-17. PDF paper and Data set

Whiting, M. F. XXI International Congress of Entomology, Iguassu Falls, Brazil, August, 2000. Phylogeny of the Holometaboa: state of the art. Zoologica Scripta 31: 1-2. PDF paper

Whiting, M. F. High throughput DNA sequencing for Systematic Applications. Techniques in Molecular Systematics and Evolution. R. DeSalle, W. C. Wheeler, and G. Giribet eds. Birkhauser Press 328-350. PDF paper

Whiting, M. F. Phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders based on 18S ribosomal data: when bad things happen to good data. Molecular Systematics and Evolution: Theory and Practice, Edited by R. DeSalle, G. Giribet and W. Wheeler eds. Birkhauser Press (in press). PDF paper and Data Set

 

2001

Johnson, K. P. and M. F. Whiting. Multiple genes and the phylogeny of Ischnocera (Insecta: Phthiraptera). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 22:101-110. PDF paper

Cryan, J.R., J.K. Liebherr, J.W. Fetzner, Jr., and M.F. Whiting. Evaluation of relationships within the endemic Hawaiian Platynini (Coleoptera: Carabidae) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 21:72-85. PDF paper and Data Sets

Hastriter, M. W., M. E. Alarcon, and M. F. Whiting. A collection of fleas from the San Martin reserve, Valdivia Province, Chile. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 103:437-443. PDF paper

Wheeler, W.C., M. F. Whiting, Q. D. Wheeler, and J. Carpenter. Phylogeny of the extant hexapod orders. Cladistics 17: 1-89. PDF paper

 

2000
Snell, Q., M. Whiting, M. Clement, and D. McLaughlin. Parallel Phylogenetic Inference. Proceedings of Supercomputing 2000. Dallas, TX. PDF paper

 

1999
Clement, M., Q. Snell, M. Whiting. and G. Judd. High performance phylogenetic inference. Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-8), Redondo Beach, California, August 3-6 1999, pp. 335-336.

 

1998
Siddall, M. E. and M. F. Whiting. Long branch abstractions. Cladistics 15: 9-24. PDF paper

Whiting, M. F. Long Branch Distraction and the Strepsiptera. Systematic Biology 47:134-138. PDF paper

Whiting, M. F. Phylogenetic position of Strepsiptera: Review of molecular and morphological evidence. Int. J. Insect Morphol. & Embryol. 27:53-60. PDF paper

 

1997
Whiting, M. F., J. M. Carpenter, Q. D. Wheeler, and W. C. Wheeler. The Strepsiptera problem: Phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders inferred from 18S and 28S ribosomal DNA sequences and morphology. Systematic Biology 46:1-68. PDF paper and Data Sets

 

1996
DeSalle, R., B. Perez-Sweeney, M. F. Whiting, D. Agosti, R. Bang, J. Remsen, and J. Bonacum. Crossroads, Milestones and Landmarks in Insect Development and Evolution: Implications for Systematics. Aliso 14:305-321.

 

1995

Whiting, M. F. and J. Kathirithamby. Strepsiptera do not share hind-wing venational synapomorphies with the Coleoptera: a reply to Kukalova-Peck. J. New York Entomol. Soc. 103:1-14. PDF paper

Whiting, M. F. and L. Kelly. Synamorphy, Monophyly, plesiomorphy, and Cladistic Analysis: a reply to Wilkinson. Acta Biotheoretica 43:249-257. PDF paper

 

1994

Whiting, M. F. and W. C. Wheeler. Insect homeotic transformation. Nature, 368, 696. PDF paper

Whiting, M. F. Cladistic analysis of the alderflies North of Mexico (Megaloptera: Sialidae). Systematic Entomology, 19: 77-91. PDF paper

1992
Meier, R. and Whiting, M. F. HENNIG86 and PAUP are reliable a reply to Lorenzen and Sieg. Zool. Syst. Evolut.-forsch 30: 239-243. PDF paper

 

1991

Whiting, M. F. New Species of Sialis from Southern California (Megaloptera: Sialidae). Great Basin Naturalist 51: 411-413. PDF paper

Whiting, M. F. Scanning Electron Microscopic Study of the Male Genitalia of the North American Alderfly Genus Sialis. Great Basin Naturalist. 51: 404-410. PDF paper

Whiting, M. F. A Distributional Study of Sialis in North America. Entomological News 102: 50-56. PDF paper

Whiting Lab, 2005