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76
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1004
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1988 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Naomi E. Pierce is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within biological sciences, with a focus on agricultural and biological sciences, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and environmental science.

Their work covers several subfields, including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, genetics, plant science, ecology, and ecological modeling. The main topics in their research include plant and animal studies, Lepidoptera biology and taxonomy, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, species distribution and climate change, plant parasitism and resistance, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, and neurobiology and insect physiology research.

Naomi E. Pierce has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Ecology and Evolution

Some recent papers include:

  • "A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins," 2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "DNA Barcodes Combined with Multilocus Data of Representative Taxa Can Generate Reliable Higher-Level Phylogenies," 2021, Systematic Biology
  • "LepTraits 1.0 A globally comprehensive dataset of butterfly traits," 2022, Scientific Data
  • "The evolution of red color vision is linked to coordinated rhodopsin tuning in lycaenid butterflies," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Migratory behaviour is positively associated with genetic diversity in butterflies," 2022, Molecular Ecology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • David J. Lohman
  • Roger Vila
  • Gerard Talavera
  • Dino J. Martins
  • Akito Y. Kawahara

Naomi E. Pierce has been recognized with several fellowships:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2007
  • Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, 1988

Best Publications

  • Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

    Margaret McFall-Ngai;Michael G. Hadfield;Thomas C. G. Bosch;Hannah V. Carey

  • Phylogeny of the Ants: Diversification in the Age of Angiosperms

    Corrie S. Moreau;Corrie S. Moreau;Charles D. Bell;Charles D. Bell;Roger Vila;Roger Vila;S. Bruce Archibald;S. Bruce Archibald

  • THE ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF ANT ASSOCIATION IN THE LYCAENIDAE (LEPIDOPTERA)

    Naomi E. Pierce;Michael F. Braby;Alan Heath;David J. Lohman

  • Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants

    Jacob A. Russell;Corrie S. Moreau;Benjamin Goldman-Huertas;Mikiko Fujiwara

  • Dating the origin of the Orchidaceae from a fossil orchid with its pollinator

    Santiago R. Ramírez;Barbara Gravendeel;Rodrigo B. Singer;Charles R. Marshall

  • Synergistic effects of combining morphological and molecular data in resolving the phylogeny of butterflies and skippers

    Niklas Wahlberg;Michael F Braby;Andrew V.Z Brower;Rienk de Jong

  • A Comprehensive and Dated Phylogenomic Analysis of Butterflies

    Marianne Espeland;Marianne Espeland;Jesse Breinholt;Keith R. Willmott;Andrew D. Warren

  • Pseudomonas syringae manipulates systemic plant defenses against pathogens and herbivores

    Jianping Cui;Adam K. Bahrami;Elizabeth G. Pringle;Gustavo Hernandez-Guzman

  • Stability and phylogenetic correlation in gut microbiota: lessons from ants and apes

    Jon G. Sanders;Scott Powell;Daniel J. C. Kronauer;Daniel J. C. Kronauer;Heraldo L. Vasconcelos

  • Phylogeny of Bicyclus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) Inferred from COI, COII, and EF-1α Gene Sequences

    Antónia Monteiro;Naomi E Pierce

  • The evolution of alternative parasitic life histories in large blue butterflies

    Thomas D. Als;Thomas D. Als;Roger Vila;Nikolai P. Kandul;David R. Nash

  • Neonicotinoid exposure disrupts bumblebee nest behavior, social networks, and thermoregulation

    James D. Crall;Callin M. Switzer;Robert L. Oppenheimer;Ashlee N. Ford Versypt

  • Codiversification in an ant-plant mutualism: stem texture and the evolution of host use in Crematogaster (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) inhabitants of Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae).

    Swee Peck Quek;Stuart James Davies;Takao Itino;Naomi E. Pierce

  • Reinforcement of pre-zygotic isolation and karyotype evolution in Agrodiaetus butterflies

    Vladimir A. Lukhtanov;Nikolai P. Kandul;Joshua B. Plotkin;Alexander V. Dantchenko

  • Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea): higher classification and biogeography

    Michael F. Braby;Michael F. Braby;Roger Vila;Naomi E. Pierce

  • Local people value environmental services provided by forested parks

    Navjot S. Sodhi;Navjot S. Sodhi;Tien Ming Lee;Tien Ming Lee;Cagan H. Sekercioglu;Edward L. Webb

  • The influence of ants on host plant selection by Jalmenus evagoras , a myrmecophilous lycaenid butterfly

    Naomi E. Pierce;Mark A. Elgar

  • Parasitoids as selective agents in the symbiosis between lycaenid butterfly larvae and ants.

    Naomi E. Pierce;Paul S. Mead

  • Asynchronous Diversification in a Specialized Plant-Pollinator Mutualism

    Santiago R. Ramírez;Santiago R. Ramírez;Thomas Eltz;Mikiko K. Fujiwara;Günter Gerlach

  • The costs and benefits of cooperation between the Australian lycaenid butterfly, Jalmenus evagoras , and its attendant ants

    N. E. Pierce;N. E. Pierce;R. L. Kitching;R. C. Buckley;M. F. J. Taylor

  • A castration parasite of an ant–plant mutualism

    D. W. Yu;N. E. Pierce

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas W. Yu
Douglas W. Yu University of East Anglia
Roger Vila
Roger Vila Spanish National Research Council
Daniel J. C. Kronauer
Daniel J. C. Kronauer Rockefeller University
Corrie S. Moreau
Corrie S. Moreau Cornell University
Frederick M. Ausubel
Frederick M. Ausubel Harvard University
Noah K. Whiteman
Noah K. Whiteman University of California, Berkeley
Akito Y. Kawahara
Akito Y. Kawahara Florida Museum of Natural History
Hopi E. Hoekstra
Hopi E. Hoekstra Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Nanfang Yu
Nanfang Yu Columbia University
Mark A. Elgar
Mark A. Elgar University of Melbourne

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