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Michael Balke is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research spans a range of topics primarily within the agricultural and biological sciences, as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The main fields of study addressed in their publications include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these broad fields, they focus on several subfields:

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

The research topics frequently covered by Michael Balke's work include:

  • Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution
  • Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
  • Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
  • Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Insect Utilization and Effects

Michael Balke has published extensively in several scholarly venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • ZooKeys
  • Zootaxa
  • Check List
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  • Alpine Entomology

Coauthorship is a notable aspect of their scientific work, frequently collaborating with:

  • Lars Hendrich
  • Suriani Surbakti
  • Adrián Villastrigo
  • Helena Shaverdo
  • Jiřı́ Hájek

Among their recent publications are:

  • "DiversityScanner: Robotic handling of small invertebrates with machine learning methods", 2021, Molecular Ecology Resources
  • "Phylogenomic analyses clarify the pattern of evolution of Adephaga (Coleoptera) and highlight phylogenetic artefacts due to model misspecification and excessive data trimming", 2021, Systematic Entomology
  • "Three dispersal routes out of Africa: A puzzling biogeographical history in freshwater planarians", 2022, Journal of Biogeography
  • "New Guinean orogenic dynamics and biota evolution revealed using a custom geospatial analysis pipeline", 2021, BMC Ecology and Evolution
  • "Transgressing Wallace's Line brings hyperdiverse weevils down to earth", 2020, Ecography

Best Publications

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

    Toby Hunt;Johannes Bergsten;Zuzana Levkanicova;Anna Papadopoulou

  • Accelerated species inventory on Madagascar using coalescent-based models of species delineation.

    Michael T. Monaghan;Ruth Wild;Ruth Wild;Miranda Elliot;Miranda Elliot;Tomochika Fujisawa

  • The evolution and genomic basis of beetle diversity.

    Duane D. McKenna;Seunggwan Shin;Dirk Ahrens;Michael Balke

  • The Effect of Geographical Scale of Sampling on DNA Barcoding

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

  • DNA-based species delineation in tropical beetles using mitochondrial and nuclear markers

    Michael T Monaghan;Michael Balke;T. Ryan Gregory;Alfried P Vogler

  • Global diversity of water beetles (Coleoptera) in freshwater

    M. A. Jäch;M. Balke

  • Determining Species Boundaries in a World Full of Rarity: Singletons, Species Delimitation Methods

    Gwynne S. Lim;Michael Balke;Rudolf Meier

  • Molecular phylogeny of symbiotic dinoflagellates inferred from partial chloroplast large subunit (23S)-rDNA sequences.

    Scott R Santos;Derek J Taylor;Robert A Kinzie;Michio Hidaka

  • A comprehensive DNA barcode database for Central European beetles with a focus on Germany: adding more than 3500 identified species to BOLD.

    Lars Hendrich;Jérôme Morinière;Gerhard Haszprunar;Paul D. N. Hebert

  • Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation

    Scott A. Thomson;Richard L. Pyle;Shane T Ahyong;Shane T Ahyong;Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga

  • Integrative taxonomy on the fast track - towards more sustainability in biodiversity research.

    Alexander Riedel;Katayo Sagata;Yayuk R Suhardjono;Rene Tänzler

  • The towering orogeny of New Guinea as a trigger for arthropod megadiversity.

    Emmanuel F. A. Toussaint;Robert Hall;Michael T. Monaghan;Katayo Sagata

  • Evolution of life history traits in Asian freshwater prawns of the genus Macrobrachium (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) based on multilocus molecular phylogenetic analysis

    Daisy Wowor;Victor Muthu;Rudolf Meier;Michael Balke

  • Nucleotide substitution rates for the full set of mitochondrial protein-coding genes in Coleoptera

    Joan Pons;Ignacio Ribera;Jaume Bertranpetit;Jaume Bertranpetit;Michael Balke

  • Species Identification in Malaise Trap Samples by DNA Barcoding Based on NGS Technologies and a Scoring Matrix

    Jérôme Morinière;Bruno Cancian de Araujo;Athena Wai Lam;Axel Hausmann

  • Mitochondrial Cox1 Sequence Data Reliably Uncover Patterns of Insect Diversity But Suffer from High Lineage-Idiosyncratic Error Rates

    Lars Hendrich;Joan Pons;Ignacio Ribera;Michael Balke

  • Discovery of Aspidytidae, a new family of aquatic Coleoptera

    I. Ribera;R. G. Beutel;M. Balke;A. P. Vogler;A. P. Vogler

  • Beyond barcodes: complex DNA taxonomy of a South Pacific Island radiation.

    Michael T Monaghan;Michael Balke;Joan Pons;Alfried P Vogler

  • Phylogeny and diversification of diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

    Ignacio Ribera;Alfried P. Vogler;Alfried P. Vogler;Michael Balke

  • A DNA barcode library for 5,200 German flies and midges (Insecta: Diptera) and its implications for metabarcoding-based biomonitoring.

    Jérôme Morinière;Michael Balke;Dieter Doczkal;Matthias F Geiger

  • Molecular systematics of armadillos (Xenarthra, Dasypodidae): contribution of maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear genes.

    Frédéric Delsuc;Michael J Stanhope;Emmanuel J.P Douzery

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Hendrich
Lars Hendrich Freie Universität Berlin
Alfried P. Vogler
Alfried P. Vogler Imperial College London
Ignacio Ribera
Ignacio Ribera Spanish National Research Council
Rolf G. Beutel
Rolf G. Beutel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Michael T. Monaghan
Michael T. Monaghan Freie Universität Berlin
Thomas von Rintelen
Thomas von Rintelen Museum für Naturkunde
Johannes Bergsten
Johannes Bergsten Swedish Museum of Natural History
David T. Bilton
David T. Bilton Plymouth University
Paul D. N. Hebert
Paul D. N. Hebert University of Guelph
Nadir Alvarez
Nadir Alvarez University of Geneva

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