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Christiane Weirauch is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions across subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Insect Science; Paleontology; Plant Science; and Molecular Biology.

The major topics of work explored by Christiane Weirauch encompass:

  • Hemiptera Insect Studies
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
  • Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Fossil Insects in Amber
  • Insect Resistance and Genetics

The scientist has authored multiple papers, among which recent notable publications include:

  • "Ultraconserved elements reconstruct the evolution of Chagas disease-vectoring kissing bugs (Reduviidae: Triatominae)" (2021), published in Systematic Entomology
  • "New alignment-based sequence extraction software (ALiBaSeq) and its utility for deep level phylogenetics" (2021), published in PeerJ
  • "Pretrained Convolutional Neural Networks Perform Well in a Challenging Test Case: Identification of Plant Bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae) Using a Small Number of Training Images" (2021), published in Insect Systematics and Diversity
  • "Untangling the assassin's web: Phylogeny and classification of the spider-associated Emesine complex (Hemiptera: Reduviidae)" (2023), published in Systematic Entomology
  • "A revised classification of the assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) based on combined analysis of phylogenomic and morphological data" (2024), published in Systematic Entomology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Christiane Weirauch include Alexander Knyshov, Rochelle Hoey-Chamberlain, Eric R. L. Gordon, Dimitri Forero, and Samantha Standring.

The scientist has published consistently in a set of core journals, with a majority of their work appearing in Systematic Entomology. Other regular venues for their publications include Zootaxa, Insect Systematics and Diversity, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and MorphoBank datasets.

Best Publications

  • Phylogenomics and the evolution of hemipteroid insects.

    Kevin P. Johnson;Christopher H. Dietrich;Frank Friedrich;Rolf G. Beutel

  • Systematics and Evolution of Heteroptera: 25 Years of Progress

    Christiane Weirauch;Randall T Schuh

  • Cladistic analysis of Reduviidae (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha) based on morphological characters

    Christiane Weirauch

  • Phylogenetic relationships within the Cimicomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): a total-evidence analysis

    Randall T. Schuh;Christiane Weirauch;Christiane Weirauch;Ward C. Wheeler

  • Evolutionary History of Assassin Bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Reduviidae): Insights from Divergence Dating and Ancestral State Reconstruction

    Wei Song Hwang;Christiane Weirauch

  • Molecular phylogeny of the assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), based on mitochondrial and nuclear ribosomal genes.

    Christiane Weirauch;James B. Munro

  • Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography of the Triatominae, Vectors of Chagas Disease.

    Fernando Araujo Monteiro;Christiane Weirauch;Márcio Felix;Cristiano Lazoski

  • A taxonomic monograph of the assassin bug genus Zelus Fabricius (Hemiptera: Reduviidae): 71 species based on 10,000 specimens.

    Guanyang Zhang;Elwood R Hart;Christiane Weirauch

  • Revisiting habitat and lifestyle transitions in Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera): insights from a combined morphological and molecular phylogeny.

    Christiane Weirauch;Randall T. Schuh;Gerasimos Cassis;Ward C. Wheeler

  • An Illustrated Identification Key to Assassin Bug Subfamilies and Tribes (Hemiptera: Reduviidae)

    C. Weirauch;J.-M. Bérenger;L. Berniker;D. Forero

  • Feeding behavior of triatomines from the southwestern United States: an update on potential risk for transmission of Chagas disease.

    Stephen A. Klotz;Patricia L. Dorn;John H. Klotz;Jacob L. Pinnas

  • Taxonomic revision of Guapinannus Wygodzinsky, 1951 (Hemiptera: Schizopteridae), with description of 19 new species

    Sarah Frankenberg;Alexander Knyshov;Rochelle Hoey Chamberlain;Christiane Weirauch

  • Synonymy of the reduviid (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) genus Torrealbaia (Triatominae) with Amphibolus (Harpactorinae), with notes on Amphibolus venator (Klug, 1830)

    Dimitri Forero;Christiane Weirauch;Manuel Baena

  • Taxonomic revision of the New World big-eyed minute litter bug genus Ommatides Uhler (Hemiptera: Schizopteridae).

    Rochelle Hoey-Chamberlain;Christiane Weirauch

  • Venoms of Heteropteran Insects: A Treasure Trove of Diverse Pharmacological Toolkits

    Andrew A. Walker;Christiane Weirauch;Bryan G. Fry;Glenn F. King

  • Scratching the surface? Taxonomic revision of the subgenus Schizoptera ( Odontorhagus ) reveals vast undocumented biodiversity in the largest litter bug genus Schizoptera Fieber (Hemiptera: Dipsocoromorpha)

    Stephanie Leon;Christiane Weirauch

  • Evolution of the assassin’s arms: insights from a phylogeny of combined transcriptomic and ribosomal DNA data (Heteroptera: Reduvioidea)

    Junxia Zhang;Eric R. L. Gordon;Michael Forthman;Wei Song Hwang

  • Insight from an ultraconserved element bait set designed for hemipteran phylogenetics integrated with genomic resources.

    Troy J. Kieran;Eric R.L. Gordon;Michael Forthman;Rochelle Hoey-Chamberlain

  • Four new genera of Schizopteridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the Afrotropical and Neotropical regions.

    Christiane Weirauch;Alexander Knyshov;Rochelle Hoey-Chamberlain

  • Uncovering hidden diversity: phylogeny and taxonomy of Physoderinae (Reduviidae, Heteroptera), with emphasis on Physoderes Westwood in the Oriental and Australasian regions

    Wei Song Hwang;Christiane Weirauch

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerasimos Cassis
Gerasimos Cassis University of New South Wales
Quinn S. McFrederick
Quinn S. McFrederick University of California, Riverside
Kevin P. Johnson
Kevin P. Johnson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Karen Meusemann
Karen Meusemann University of Freiburg
Wolfgang Rabitsch
Wolfgang Rabitsch Umweltbundesamt, Austria
Rolf G. Beutel
Rolf G. Beutel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Ward C. Wheeler
Ward C. Wheeler American Museum of Natural History
Travis C. Glenn
Travis C. Glenn University of Georgia
Hugh M. Robertson
Hugh M. Robertson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cleber Galvão
Cleber Galvão Oswaldo Cruz Foundation

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