Scolytid publications
Cognato, A.I., C.E. Bográn, R. Rabaglia 2006. An exotic ambrosia beetle, Xylosandrus mutilatus (Blandford) (Scolytinae: Xyleborina) found in Texas. Coleopterists Bulletin, 60:162-163.
Dole, S.A. and A.I. Cognato. 2007. A New Genus and Species of Bothrosternina (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) from Ecuador. Coleopterists Bulletin, in review.
Hulcr, J., S.A. Dole, R.A. Beaver, and A.I. Cognato. 2007. Cladistic review of xyleborine generic taxonomic characters (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Systematic Entomology, in review.
Rabaglia, R., S.A. Dole, and A.I. Cognato. 2006. A review of the Xyleborina (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in America north of Mexico, with an illustrated key. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, in press.
Rabaglia, R.J. 2005. The validity of Xyleborus impressus Eichhoff (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) as distinct from Xyleborus ferrugineus (Fabricius). Coleopterists Bulletin 59: 261-266.
PEET supported studies of DNA taxonomy:
Cognato, A.I. 2006. Standard percent DNA sequence difference for insects does not predict species boundaries. Journal of Economic Entomology, 99:1037-1045.
Cognato, A.I and R.M. Caesar. 2006. Will DNA barcoding advance efforts to conserve biodiversity more efficiently than traditional taxonomic methods? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5:268-269
PEET supported studies of models of the secondary structure of insect ribosomal genes*
Gillespie, J.J., Yoder, M.J., Wharton, R.A. 2005. Predicted secondary structures for 28S and 18S rRNA from Ichneumonoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apocrita): Impact on sequence alignment and phylogeny estimation. Journal of Molecular Evolution, in press.
Gillespie, J.J., Munro, J.B, Heraty, J.M., Yoder, M.J., Owen, A.K., Carmichael, A.E. A secondary structural model of the 28S rRNA expansion segments D2 and D3 for chalcidoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Molecular Biology and Evolution, in press.
Gillespie, J., C. McKenna, R. Gutell, J. Johnston, J. Kathirithamby, and A. Cognato. 2005. Assessing the odd secondary structural properties of nuclear small subunit ribosomal RNA sequences (18S) of the twisted-wing parasites (Insecta: Strepsiptera) Insect Molecular Biology, in press.
*These models will allow for assessment of positional nucleotide homology and subsequently a more robust assessment of phylogeny. These models are directly applicable to the DNA data that is currently being generated for the xyleborine specimens.