Naomi E. Pierce

Naomi E. Pierce

Naomi E. Pierce, U.S. entomologist

• Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Taxon names authored

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• 1 taxon names authored by Naomi E. Pierce

Publications

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2004

• Kandul, N.P., Lukhtanov, V.A., Dantchenko, A.V., Coleman, J.W.S., Sekercioglu, C.H., Haig, D. & Pierce, N.E. 2004. Phylogeny of Agrodiaetus Hübner 1822 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Inferred from mtDNA Sequences of COI and COII and Nuclear Sequences of Ef1-α: Karyotype Diversification and Species Radiation. Systematic Biology 53(2): 278–298. DOI: 10.1080/10635150490423692 . Reference page. 
• Megens, H.-J., van Nes, W.J., van Moorsel, C.H.M., Pierce, N.E. & de Jong, R., 2004. Molecular phylogeny of the Oriental butterfly genus Arhopala (Lycaenidae, Theclinae) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Systematic Entomology 29: 115–131. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2004.00228.x . Reference page. 
• Als, T.D., Vila, R., Kandul, N.P., Nash, D.R., Yen, S.-H., Hsu, Y.-F., Mignault, A.A., Boomsma, J.J., & Pierce, N.E. 2004. The evolution of alternative parasitic life histories in large blue butterflies. Nature 432: 386–390. DOI: 10.1038/NATURE03020 Reference page. 

2005

• Lukhtanov, V.A., Kandul, N.P., Plotkin, J.B., Dantchenko, A.V., Haig, D. & Pierce, N.E. 2005. Reinforcement of pre-zygotic isolation and karyotype evolution in Agrodiaetus butterflies. Nature 436: 385–389. DOI: 10.1038/nature03704 . Reference page. 

2006

• Braby, M.F., Vila, R. & Pierce, N.E. 2006. Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea): higher classification and biogeography. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 147(2): 239–275. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00218.x . Reference page. 

2010

• Vila, R., Lukhtanov, V.A., Talavera, G., Gil-T., F. & Pierce, N.E., 2010. How common are dot-like distributions? Taxonomical oversplitting in western European Agrodiaetus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) revealed by chromosomal and molecular markers. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 101(1): 130–154. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01481.x Reference page. 

2011

• Vila, R., Bell, C.D., Macniven, R., Goldman-Huertas, B., Ree, R.H., Marshall, C.R., Bálint, Z., Johnson, K., Benyamini, D. & Pierce, N.E. 2011. Phylogeny and palaeoecology of Polyommatus blue butterflies show Beringia was a climate-regulated gateway to the New World. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278(1719): 2737–2744. PDF. Reference page. 
• Ugelvig, L.V., Vila, R., Pierce, N.E. & Nash, D.R., 2011. A phylogenetic revision of the Glaucopsyche section (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), with special focus on the Phengaris–Maculinea clade. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(1): 237–243.Reference page. 

2013

• Talavera, G., Lukhtanov, V.A., Pierce, N.E. & Vila, R., 2013. Establishing criteria for higher-level classification using molecular data: the systematics of Polyommatus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Cladistics 29(2): 166–192. Reference page. 
• Talavera, G., Lukhtanov, V.A., Rieppel, L., Pierce, N.E. & Vila, R., 2013. In the shadow of phylogenetic uncertainty: The recent diversification of Lysandra butterflies through chromosomal change. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69(3): 469–478. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.08.004 . Reference page. 

2014

• Wahlberg, N., Rota, J., Braby, M.F., Pierce, N.E. & Wheat, C.W. 2014. Revised systematics and higher classification of pierid butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) based on molecular data. Zoologica scripta 43(6): 641–650. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12075 . Reference page. 

2015

• Boyle, J.H., Kaliszewska, Z.A., Espeland, M., Suderman, T.R., Fleming, J., Heath, A. & Pierce, N.E. 2014 (Online) 2015 (Print). Phylogeny of the Aphnaeinae: myrmecophilous African butterflies with carnivorous and herbivorous life histories. Systematic Entomology 40(1): 169–182. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12098 . Reference page. 
• Kaliszewska, Z.A., Lohman, D.J., Sommer, K., Adelson, G., Rand, D.B., Mathew, J., Talavera, G. & Pierce, N.E., 2015. When caterpillars attack: Biogeography and life history evolution of the Miletinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Evolution 69(3): 571–588. DOI: 10.1111/evo.12599 . Reference page. 

2017

• Seltmann, K.C., Cobb, N.S., Gall, L.F., Bartlett, C.R., Basham, M.A., Betancourt, I., Bills, C. Brandt, B., Brown, R.L., Bundy, C., Caterino, M.S., Chapman, C., Cognato, A.I., Colby, J., Cook, S.P., Daly, K.M., Dyer, L.A., Franz, N.M., Gelhaus, J.K., Grinter, C.C., Harp, C.E., Hawkins, R.L., Heydon, S.L., Hill, G.M., Huber, S., Johnson, N.F., Kawahara, A.Y., Kimsey, L.S., Kondratieff, B.C., Krell, F.T., Leblanc, L., Lee, S., Marshall, C.L., Mccabe, L.M., McHugh, J.V., Menard, K.L., Opler, P.A., Palffy-Muhoray, N., Pardikes, N., Peterson, M.A., Pierce, N.E., Poremski, A., Sikes, D.S., Weintraub, J.D., Wikle, D.L., Zaspel, J.M. & Zolnerowich, G. 2017. LepNet: The Lepidoptera of North America Network. Zootaxa 4247(1): 73–77. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4247.1.10 PDF. Reference page. 

2018

• Espeland, M., Breinholt, J.W., Willmott, K.R., Warren, A.D., Vila, R., Toussaint, E.F.A., Maunsell, S.C., Aduse-Poku, K., Talavera, G., Eastwood, R.G., Jarzyna, M.A., Guralnick, R., Lohman, D.J., Pierce, N.E. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. A Comprehensive and Dated Phylogenomic Analysis of Butterflies. Current Biology 28(5): 770–778. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.061 Reference page. 
• Toussaint, E.F.A., Breinholt, J.W., Earl, C., Warren, A.D., Brower, A.V.Z., Yago, M., Dexter, K.M., Espeland, M., Pierce, N.E., Lohman, D.J. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. Anchored phylogenomics illuminates the skipper butterfly tree of life. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18: 101. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-018-1216-z Reference page. 

2019

• Wang, Z-Y., Zhuang, H-L., Wang, M. & Pierce, N.E. 2019. Thitarodes shambalaensis sp. nov. (Lepidoptera, Hepialidae): a new host of the caterpillar fungus Ophiocordyceps sinensis supported by genome-wide SNP data. ZooKeys, 885: 89–113. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.885.34638 Reference page. 

2020

• Liu, C., Fischer, G., Hita Garcia, F., Yamane, S., Liu, Q., Peng, Y.Q., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B. & Pierce, N.E. 2020. Ants of the Hengduan Mountains: a new altitudinal survey and updated checklist for Yunnan Province highlight an understudied insect biodiversity hotspot. ZooKeys 978: 1–171. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.978.55767 Reference page. 
• Talavera, G., Kaliszewska, Z.A., Heath, A. & Pierce, N.E. 2020. Recent diversification of Chrysoritis butterflies in the South African Cape (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 148: 106817. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106817. Reference page. 

2021

• Wang, Z., Li, Y., Jain, A. & Pierce, N.E. 2021 (Online) 2022 (Print). Agent-based models reveal limits of mark-release-recapture estimates for the rare butterfly, Bhutanitis thaidina (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Insect Science 29(2): 550–566. DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.12949 . Reference page.