George Poinar

Best Publications

• Amplification and sequencing of DNA from a 120–135-million-year-old weevil

  Raúl J. Cano;Heridrik N. Poinar;Norman J. Pieniazek;Aftim Acra

  480
  Citations

• The oldest fossil evidence of animal parasitism by fungi supports a Cretaceous diversification of fungal-arthropod symbioses.

  Gi-Ho Sung;George O. Poinar;Joseph W. Spatafora

  208
  Citations

• Chapter 14

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  189
  Citations

• AMBER FROM THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: ANALYSIS BY NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY

  J. B. Lambert;J. S. Frye;G. O. Poinar

  187
  Citations

• A Fossil Bee from Early Cretaceous Burmese Amber

  G. O. Poinar;B. N. Danforth

  158
  Citations

• Parasite-induced fruit mimicry in a tropical canopy ant.

  Stephen P. Yanoviak;Michael E. Kaspari;Robert K. Dudley;G. Poinar

  143
  Citations

• Tapeworm Eggs in a 270 Million-Year-Old Shark Coprolite

  Paula C. Dentzien-Dias;George Poinar;Ana Emilia Q. de Figueiredo;Ana Carolina L. Pacheco

  120
  Citations

• Evidence of intestinal parasites of dinosaurs.

  G. Poinar;A. J. Boucot

  115
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• Location of Insect Hosts By the Nematode, Neoaplectana Carpocapsae, in Response To Temperature

  J.A. Byers;G.O. Poinar

  111
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• Parasites and pathogens of mites.

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  105
  Citations

• Arthropod Phoresy Involving Pseudoscorpions in the Past and Present

  George O. Poinar;Bozidar P. M. Curcic;James C. Cokendolpher

  99
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• Paleoleishmania proterus n. gen., n. sp., (Trypanosomatidae: Kinetoplastida) from Cretaceous Burmese amber.

  George Poinar;Roberta Poinar

  97
  Citations

• Plasmodium dominicana n. sp. (Plasmodiidae: Haemospororida) from Tertiary Dominican amber

  George Poinar

  97
  Citations

• Amber: the organic gemstone.

  Joseph B. Lambert;George O. Poinar

  96
  Citations

• Palaeonema phyticum gen. n., sp. n. (Nematoda: Palaeonematidae fam. n.), a Devonian nematode associated with early land plants

  Hagen Hass;Hans Kerp;George Poinar

  96
  Citations

• Characteristics of the Specific Bacterium Associated With Heterorhabditis Bacteriophora (Heterorhabditidae: Rhabditida)

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  96
  Citations

• Amino acid racemization in amber-entombed insects: Implications for DNA preservation

  Jeffrey L. Bada;Xueyun S. Wang;Hendrik N. Poinar;Svante Pääbo

  96
  Citations

• A 100 million year old gecko with sophisticated adhesive toe pads, preserved in amber from Myanmar

  E. Nicholas Arnold;George O. Poinar

  87
  Citations

• Nematoda and Nematomorpha

  George O. Poinar

  83
  Citations

• Evidence of mycoparasitism and hypermycoparasitism in Early Cretaceous amber.

  George O. Poinar;Ron Buckley

  69
  Citations

• Strelkovimermis spiculatus n. sp. (Mermithidae: Nematoda) Parasitizing Aedes albifasciatus Mac. (Culicidae: Diptera) in Argentina.

  George O. Poinar;Nora B. Camino

  67
  Citations

• Description of an Early Cretaceous Termite (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) and Its Associated Intestinal Protozoa, With Comments on Their Co-Evolution

  George O Poinar

  61
  Citations

• New amber deposit provides evidence of early Paleogene extinctions, paleoclimates, and past distributions

  George Poinar;Bruce Archibald;Alex Brown

  60
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• Paleoculicis minututs (Diptera: Culicidae) n. Gen., n. Sp., from Cretaceous Canadian amber, with a summary of described fossil mosquitoes

  George O. Poinar;T. J. Zavortinik;T. Pike;P. A. Johnston

  59
  Citations

• Fossilised Anzia (Lecanorales, lichen-forming Ascomycota) from European Tertiary amber

  Jouko Rikkinen;George O. Poinar

  58
  Citations

• History of entomopathogenic nematology.

  George O. Poinar;P. S. Grewal

  58
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• Nematode (Nematoda: Mermithidae) and hairworm (Nematomorpha: Chordodidae) parasites in Early Cretaceous amber.

  George Poinar;Ron Buckley

  37
  Citations

• Post-larval mortality of the endoparasitic isopod castrator Portunion conformis (Epicaridea: Entoniscidae) in the shore crab, Hemigrapsus oregonensis , with a description of the host response

  Armand M. Kuris;George O. Poinar;Roberta T. Hess

  35
  Citations

• Can parasites halt the invader? Mermithid nematodes parasitizing the yellow-legged Asian hornet in France

  Claire Villemant;Dario Zuccon;Quentin Rome;Franck Muller

  34
  Citations

• Early Cretaceous trypanosomatids associated with fossil sand fly larvae in Burmese amber

  George Poinar Jr

  34
  Citations

• How long can insect species exist? Evidence from extant and fossil Micromalthus beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera)

  Thomas Hörnschemeyer;Sonja Wedmann;George Poinar

  32
  Citations

• Global diversity of hairworms (Nematomorpha: Gordiaceae) in freshwater

  George Poinar

  31
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• Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) dominicanus sp. n. (Diptera: Culicidae) from Dominican Amber

  Thomas J. Zavortink;George O. Poinar;George O. Poinar

  28
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