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Johannes Bergsten is affiliated with the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Sweden and has contributed significantly to several areas in biological sciences. Their research spans across Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science, with a marked emphasis on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and Molecular Biology as subfields.

Key topics covered by Bergsten include:

  • Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution
  • Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Fossil Insects in Amber
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

The scientist has published multiple papers in notable journals. Some recent publications include:

  • Completing Linnaeus's inventory of the Swedish insect fauna: Only 5,000 species left? (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • DNA Barcoding and geographical scale effect: The problems of undersampling genetic diversity hotspots (2020, Ecology and Evolution)
  • The European Reference Genome Atlas: piloting a decentralised approach to equitable biodiversity genomics (2024, npj Biodiversity)
  • The European Reference Genome Atlas: piloting a decentralised approach to equitable biodiversity genomics (2023, bioRxiv - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Species delimitation in the cyanolichen genus Rostania (2020, BMC Evolutionary Biology)

Publication venues frequently featuring Bergsten's work include:

  • Zootaxa
  • npj Biodiversity
  • PLoS ONE
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Systematic Entomology

Bergsten's collaborations extend to several frequent coauthors, indicating active research partnerships. These coauthors are:

  • Tolotra Ranarilalatiana
  • Johan A. A. Nylander
  • Yves Alarie
  • Mariano C. Michat
  • Ann M. Mc Cartney

Best Publications

  • A review of long-branch attraction

    Johannes Bergsten

  • A Comprehensive Phylogeny of Beetles Reveals the Evolutionary Origins of a Superradiation

    Toby Hunt;Johannes Bergsten;Zuzana Levkanicova;Anna Papadopoulou

  • The Effect of Geographical Scale of Sampling on DNA Barcoding

    Johannes Bergsten;David T. Bilton;Tomochika Fujisawa;Miranda Elliott

  • An open source software package for automated extraction of ITS1 and ITS2 from fungal ITS sequences for use in high-throughput community assays and molecular ecology

    R. Henrik Nilsson;R. Henrik Nilsson;Vilmar Veldre;Martin Hartmann;Martin Unterseher

  • Five simple guidelines for establishing basic authenticity and reliability of newly generated fungal ITS sequences.

    R. Henrik Nilsson;Leho Tedersoo;Kessy Abarenkov;Martin Ryberg

  • Intraspecific variation and intersexual correlation in secondary sexual characters of three diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

    Johannes Bergsten;Anne Töyrä;Anders N. Nilsson

  • Bayesian Tests of Topology Hypotheses with an Example from Diving Beetles

    Johannes Bergsten;Anders N. Nilsson;Fredrik Ronquist

  • Diving Beetles of the World: Systematics and Biology of the Dytiscidae

    Kelly B. Miller;Johannes Bergsten

  • Speciation and DNA barcodes: testing the effects of dispersal on the formation of discrete sequence clusters

    Anna Papadopoulou;Johannes Bergsten;Tomochika Fujisawa;Michael T Monaghan

  • Phylogeny of diving beetles reveals a coevolutionary arms race between the sexes.

    Johannes Bergsten;Johannes Bergsten;Kelly B. Miller

  • Whole-community DNA barcoding reveals a spatio-temporal continuum of biodiversity at species and genetic levels

    Andrés Baselga;Tomochika Fujisawa;Tomochika Fujisawa;Tomochika Fujisawa;Alexandra Crampton-Platt;Alexandra Crampton-Platt;Johannes Bergsten;Johannes Bergsten;Johannes Bergsten

  • Unravelling the correlates of species richness and ecological uniqueness in a metacommunity of urban pond insects

    Jani Heino;Luis Mauricio Bini;Johan Andersson;Johannes Bergsten

  • Phylogenetic niche conservatism explains an inverse latitudinal diversity gradient in freshwater arthropods

    Jérôme Morinière;Matthew H. Van Dam;Oliver Hawlitschek;Johannes Bergsten

  • Phylogeny and classification of whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae): relaxed‐clock model outperforms parsimony and time‐free Bayesian analyses

    Kelly B. Miller;Johannes Bergsten

  • Predator related oviposition site selection of aquatic beetles (Hydroporus spp.) and effects on offspring life-history

    Tomas Brodin;Frank Johansson;Johannes Bergsten

  • Phylogeny and classification of the tribe Hydaticini (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae): partition choice for Bayesian analysis with multiple nuclear and mitochondrial protein-coding genes

    Kelly B. Miller;Johannes Bergsten;Michael F. Whiting

  • The Phylogeny and Classification of Predaceous Diving Beetles

    Kelly B. Miller;Johannes Bergsten

  • Bayesian species delimitation reveals generalist and specialist parasitic wasps on Galerucella beetles (Chrysomelidae) : sorting by herbivore or plant host

    Peter A Hambäck;Elisabet Weingartner;Lars Ericson;Lisa Fors

  • Completing Linnaeus’s inventory of the Swedish insect fauna: Only 5,000 species left?

    Fredrik Ronquist;Mattias Forshage;Sibylle Häggqvist;Dave Karlsson

  • Checklist of terrestrial Parasitengona mites in Fennoscandia with new species- and distribution records (Acariformes: Prostigmata)

    Jeanette Stålstedt;Jeanette Stålstedt;Joanna Łaydanowicz;Pekka T Lehtinen;Johannes Bergsten

  • Nonrandom Mating Preserves Intrasexual Polymorphism and Stops Population Differentiation in Sexual Conflict

    Roger Hardling;Johannes Bergsten

  • Biodiversity into your hands - A call for a virtual global natural history ‘metacollection’

    Michael Balke;Stefan Schmidt;Axel Hausmann;Emmanuel F.A. Toussaint

  • “Forms” of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia): intraspecific variation or valid species?

    Jeanette Stålstedt;Johannes Bergsten;Fredrik Ronquist

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfried P. Vogler
Alfried P. Vogler Imperial College London
Michael Balke
Michael Balke Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Michael T. Monaghan
Michael T. Monaghan Freie Universität Berlin
Fredrik Ronquist
Fredrik Ronquist Swedish Museum of Natural History
Frank Johansson
Frank Johansson Uppsala University
Lars Hendrich
Lars Hendrich Freie Universität Berlin
Ignacio Ribera
Ignacio Ribera Spanish National Research Council
Raúl Bonal
Raúl Bonal University of Extremadura
Timothy G. Barraclough
Timothy G. Barraclough University of Oxford
R. Henrik Nilsson
R. Henrik Nilsson University of Gothenburg

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