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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1999 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

James B. Whitfield is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions in insect science, ecology, evolution, behavior, systematics, and genetics.

Their work spans several interconnected subfields, including:

  • Insect Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Genetics
  • Plant Science
  • Ecology

The main research topics covered in their publications include:

  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Insect behavior and control techniques

James B. Whitfield has authored papers published in a variety of venues, frequently contributing to the following journals:

  • ZooKeys
  • Journal of Hymenoptera Research
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  • Communications Biology
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Chromosomal scale assembly of parasitic wasp genome reveals symbiotic virus colonization" (2021), Communications Biology
  • "Phylogenomics of Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera) and implications for evolution of mode of parasitism and viral endogenization" (2020), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • "Importance of interaction rewiring in determining spatial and temporal turnover of tritrophic (Piper-caterpillar-parasitoid) metanetworks in the Yucatán Península, México" (2021), Biotropica
  • "Many evolutionary roads led to virus domestication in ichneumonoid parasitoid wasps" (2021), Current Opinion in Insect Science
  • "First record of miracine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Australia: molecular phylogenetics and morphology reveal multiple new species" (2022), Austral Entomology

Frequent collaborators in their research projects include:

  • Lee A. Dyer
  • Daniel H. Janzen
  • José Fernández-Triana
  • Scott Richard Shaw
  • Carmen Pozo

James B. Whitfield has been recognized by professional scientific communities with honors such as:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1999 (Academy of Science)

Best Publications

  • Functional and evolutionary insights from the genomes of three parasitoid Nasonia species.

    John H. Werren;Stephen Richards;Christopher A. Desjardins;Oliver Niehuis

  • A minimalist barcode can identify a specimen whose DNA is degraded

    Mehrdad Hajibabaei;M. Alex Smith;Daniel H. Janzen;Josephine J. Rodriguez

  • Extreme diversity of tropical parasitoid wasps exposed by iterative integration of natural history, DNA barcoding, morphology, and collections

    M. Alex Smith;Josephine J. Rodriguez;James B. Whitfield;Andrew R. Deans

  • Deciphering ancient rapid radiations

    James B. Whitfield;Peter J. Lockhart

  • Integration of DNA Barcoding Into An Ongoing Inventory of Complex Tropical Biodiversity

    Daniel H. Janzen;Winnie Hallwachs;Patrick Blandin;John M. Burns

  • Wolbachia and DNA Barcoding Insects: Patterns, Potential, and Problems

    M. Alex Smith;Claudia Bertrand;Kate Crosby;Eldon S. Eveleigh

  • Ancient rapid radiations of insects: challenges for phylogenetic analysis.

    James Bryan Whitfield;Karl M. Kjer

  • Phylogeny and evolution of host-parasitoid interactions in hymenoptera.

    James Bryan Whitfield

  • Networks: expanding evolutionary thinking

    Eric Bapteste;Leo van Iersel;Axel Janke;Scot Kelchner

  • 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

    Patrick Mardulyn;James B. Whitfield

  • Estimating the age of the polydnavirus/braconid wasp symbiosis.

    James B. Whitfield

  • Phylogeny of the parasitic microgastroid subfamilies (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) based on sequence data from seven genes, with an improved time estimate of the origin of the lineage.

    Nicholas Murphy;Jonathan C. Banks;James B. Whitfield;Andrew D. Austin

  • Virus or not? Phylogenetics of polydnaviruses and their wasp carriers

    James B. Whitfield;Sassan Asgari

  • Review of Apanteles sensu stricto (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, with keys to all described species from Mesoamerica.

    Jose L. Fernandez-Triana;James B. Whitfield;Josephine J. Rodriguez;M. Alex Smith

  • Extrapolations from field studies and known faunas converge on dramatically increased estimates of global microgastrine parasitoid wasp species richness (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

    Josephine J. Rodriguez;Jose L. Fernández-Triana;M. Alex Smith;Daniel H. Janzen

  • DNA barcoding and the taxonomy of Microgastrinae wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae): impacts after 8 years and nearly 20 000 sequences.

    M. Alex Smith;J. L. Fernández-Triana;J. L. Fernández-Triana;E. Eveleigh;J. Gómez

  • Viruses and virus-like entities in the parasitic Hymenoptera

    D B Stoltz;J B Whitfield

  • Molecular and Morphological Data Suggest a Single Origin of the Polydnaviruses among Braconid Wasps

    James Bryan Whitfield

  • DiscoVista: Interpretable visualizations of gene tree discordance.

    Erfan Sayyari;James B. Whitfield;Siavash Mirarab

  • Hierarchical analysis of variation in the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene among Hymenoptera.

    James B. Whitfield;Sydney A. Cameron

  • PHYLOGENY OF THE SUBFAMILIES OF THE FAMILY BRACONIDAE (HYMENOPTERA: ICHNEUMONOIDEA): A REASSESSMENT

    R.A. Wharton;S.R. Shaw;M.J. Sharkey;D.B. Wahl

  • Phylogenetic Networks: Concepts, Algorithms and Applications

    James B. Whitfield

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel H. Janzen
Daniel H. Janzen University of Pennsylvania
Sydney A. Cameron
Sydney A. Cameron University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M. Alex Smith
M. Alex Smith University of Guelph
Winnie Hallwachs
Winnie Hallwachs University of Pennsylvania
Paul D. N. Hebert
Paul D. N. Hebert University of Guelph
Donald L. J. Quicke
Donald L. J. Quicke Chulalongkorn University
Lee A. Dyer
Lee A. Dyer University of Nevada Reno
Louise E. M. Vet
Louise E. M. Vet Wageningen University & Research
Paul J. Ode
Paul J. Ode Colorado State University
George E. Heimpel
George E. Heimpel University of Minnesota

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