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Jim Whitfield
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Email: jwhitfie@life.illinois.edu Title: Associate Professional Scientist, Entomologist
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| Activities | Associate Editor, Zootaxa |
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| Research |
Systematics of braconid parasitoid wasps, particularly Microgastrinae Phylogeny and evolution of parasitoid Hymenoptera Coevolution between viruses and parasitoid Hymenoptera Molecular systematics of insects Design of interactive identification keys |
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| Professional affiliations |
Entomological Society of America Fellow, Royal Entomological Society of London Society for Invertebrate Pathology Society of Systematic Biologists |
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| Selected publications |
Whitfield, J. B. 1997. Molecular and morphological data suggest a common origin for the polydnaviruses among braconid wasps. Naturwissenschaften 84: 502-507. Whitfield, J. B. 1998. Phylogeny and evolution of the host/parasitoid relationship in the Hymenoptera. Annual Review of Entomology 43: 129-151. Whitfield, J. B. & S. A. Cameron. 1998. Hierarchical analysis of variation in the 16S rRNA gene among Hymenoptera Molecular Biology and Evolution 15: 1728-1743. Mardulyn, P. and J. B. Whitfield. 1999. Phylogenetic signal in the COI, 16S and 28S genes for inferring relationships among genera of Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae); evidence of a high diversification rate in this group of parasitoids. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 12: 282-294. Dangerfield, P. C., A. D. Austin and J. B. Whitfield. 1999. Systematics of the world genera of Cardiochilinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13 : 917-976. Whitfield, J. B. 2002. Estimating the age of the polydnavirus/braconid wasp symbiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 99: 7508-7513. Whitfield, J. B., P. Mardulyn, A. D. Austin and M. Dowton. 2002. Phylogenetic analysis of relationships among microgastrine braconid wasp genera based on data from the 16S, COI and 28S genes and morphology. Systematic Entomology 27: 337-359. Whitfield, J. B. 2003. Phylogenetic insights into the evolution of parasitism in Hymenoptera. In The Evolution of Parasitism - A Phylogenetic Approach, (T. J. Littlewood, ed.) Advances in Parasitology 54: 69-100. Whitfield, J. B. and S. Asgari. 2003. Virus or not? Phylogenetics of polydnaviruses and their wasp carriers. Journal of Insect Physiology 49: 397-405. Michel-Salzat, A. and J. B. Whitfield. 2004. Preliminary evolutionary relationships within the parasitoid wasp genus Cotesia (Hymenoptera: Microgastrinae): combined analysis of four genes. Systematic Entomology 29: 371-382. |
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| Education | PhD, Entomological Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 1985 BS, Entomology, North Carolina State University, 1978 | |||
Illinois Natural History Survey - University of Illinois
INRS State Scientific Surveys
