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Mark R Shaw is affiliated with the National Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research spans various fields within agricultural and biological sciences, with a notable focus on ecology and environmental science. The scientist's work covers several subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, insect science, genetics, and nature and landscape conservation.

The research topics frequently addressed by Mark R Shaw include hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny, plant and animal studies, forest insect ecology and management, lepidoptera biology and taxonomy, insect-plant interactions and control, insect behavior and control techniques, as well as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Mark R Shaw has contributed to multiple scientific publications and shares collaborative relationships with several frequent co-authors. These collaborators include José Fernández-Triana, Donаld L. J. Quicke, Constantí Stefanescu, Gavin R. Broad, and Hélène Audusseau.

The scientist's recent published papers illustrate a focus on parasitoid wasps and their ecological interactions. Significant recent works include:

  • "Annotated and illustrated world checklist of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)," 2020, ZooKeys
  • "Ecology and Genetic Structure of the Parasitoid Phobocampe confusa (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) in Relation to Its Hosts, Aglais Species (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)," 2020, Insects
  • "Phylogenetic reassignment of basal cyclostome braconid parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera) with description of a new, enigmatic Afrotropical tribe with a highly anomalous 28S D2 secondary structure," 2020, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • "A molecular phylogeny of the parasitoid wasp subfamily Rogadinae (Ichneumonoidea: Braconidae) with descriptions of three new genera," 2021, Systematic Entomology
  • "Rewiring of interactions in a changing environment: nettle-feeding butterflies and their parasitoids," 2021, Oikos

The scientist has published regularly in prominent venues, including Entomologist's Gazette, The Entomologist's monthly magazine, ZooKeys, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Electronic Imaging.

Best Publications

  • Parasitoid communities: their size, structure and development

    R R Askew;Mark R Shaw

  • Classification and biology of Braconid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae).

    Mark R Shaw;T Huddleston

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

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

  • Classification and biology of braconid wasps.

    M. R. Shaw;T. Huddleston

  • Escape from natural enemies during climate-driven range expansion: a case study

    Rosa Menéndez;Adela González-Megías;Owen T. Lewis;Mark R. Shaw

  • Parasitoid host ranges

    Mark R Shaw

  • The neglect of parasitic Hymenoptera in insect conservation strategies: The British fauna as a prime example

    Mark R. Shaw;Michael E. Hochberg

  • 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

  • Ichneumonid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): their classification and biology

    Gavin R Broad;Mark R Shaw;M G Fitton

  • The Hymenoptera associated with spiders in Europe

    M G Fitton;Mark R Shaw;A D Austin

  • One evolution of endoparasitism: the biology of some genera of Rogadinae (Braconidae)

    Mark R Shaw

  • Habitat Considerations for Parasitic Wasps (Hymenoptera)

    Mark R. Shaw

  • Annotated and illustrated world checklist of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae).

    Jose Fernandez-Triana;Mark R. Shaw;Caroline Boudreault;Melanie Beaudin

  • Pimpline Ichneumon-flies : Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae (Pimplinae)

    Michael Geoffrey Fitton;M. R. Shaw;Ian David Gauld

  • Evolution of the parasitic wasp subfamily Rogadinae (Braconidae): phylogeny and evolution of lepidopteran host ranges and mummy characteristics.

    Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón;Mark R Shaw;Alberto G Sáez;Miharu Mori;Miharu Mori

  • Host specialization by Cotesia wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitizing species-rich Melitaeini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) communities in north-eastern Spain

    Maaria Kankare;Constantí Stefanescu;Saskya Van Nouhuys;Saskya Van Nouhuys;Mark R. Shaw

  • Influences of host feeding‐niche and foodplant type on generalist and specialist parasitoids

    Bradford A. Hawkins;R. R. Askew;Mark R. Shaw

  • Relations Among Assemblage Size, Host Specialization, and Climatic Variability in North American Parasitoid Communities

    Bradford A. Hawkins;Mark R. Shaw;R. R. Askew

  • Delayed inhibition of host development by the nonparalyzing venoms of parasitic wasps

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  • Molecular phylogeny of Cotesia Cameron, 1891 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) parasitoids associated with Melitaeini butterflies (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Melitaeini).

    Maaria Kankare;Mark R Shaw

  • Utility of the DNA barcoding gene fragment for parasitic wasp phylogeny (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea): data release and new measure of taxonomic congruence.

    Donald L. J. Quicke;Donald L. J. Quicke;M. Alex Smith;Daniel H. Janzen;Winnie Hallwachs

  • Parasitoids of European butterflies

    Mark R Shaw;Constanti Stefanescu;Saskya Van Nouhuys

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald L. J. Quicke
Donald L. J. Quicke Chulalongkorn University
Constantí Stefanescu
Constantí Stefanescu Autonomous University of Barcelona
Paul D. N. Hebert
Paul D. N. Hebert University of Guelph
Winnie Hallwachs
Winnie Hallwachs University of Pennsylvania
M. Alex Smith
M. Alex Smith University of Guelph
Daniel H. Janzen
Daniel H. Janzen University of Pennsylvania
Scott E. Miller
Scott E. Miller National Museum of Natural History
James B. Whitfield
James B. Whitfield University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Owen T. Lewis
Owen T. Lewis University of Oxford
David Baker
David Baker University of Washington

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