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Stephen L. Cameron is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences with an emphasis on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their scientific work spans multiple subfields, including insect science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, molecular biology, genetics, and plant science. Cameron's investigations cover topics such as genomics and phylogenetic studies, insect-plant interactions and control, plant and animal studies, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, Lepidoptera biology and taxonomy, fossil insects in amber, and vector-borne infectious diseases.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Cameron include Andrew D. Sweet, Kevin P. Johnson, Jorrit H. Poelen, Katja C. Seltmann, and Mariel Campbell.

The scientist has published repeatedly in several venues, particularly Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Gene, Insect Science, arXiv (Cornell University), and Scientific Reports.

Selected recent papers by Stephen L. Cameron include:

  • Rearrangement and evolution of mitochondrial genomes in Thysanoptera (Insecta), 2020, Scientific Reports
  • How well do multispecies coalescent methods perform with mitochondrial genomic data? A case study of butterflies and moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera), 2020, Systematic Entomology
  • How are the mitochondrial genomes reorganized in Hexapoda? Differential evolution and the first report of convergences within Hexapoda, 2021, Gene
  • Mitochondrial genomes of Columbicola feather lice are highly fragmented, indicating repeated evolution of minicircle-type genomes in parasitic lice, 2020, PeerJ
  • A comprehensive phylogeny helps clarify the evolutionary history of host breadth and lure response in the Australian Dacini fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae), 2022, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Best Publications

  • Insect Mitochondrial Genomics: Implications for Evolution and Phylogeny

    Stephen L Cameron

  • A Genomic Perspective on the Shortcomings of Mitochondrial DNA for “Barcoding” Identification

    Daniel Rubinoff;Stephen Cameron;Kipling Will

  • Genome sequences of the human body louse and its primary endosymbiont provide insights into the permanent parasitic lifestyle

    Ewen F. Kirkness;Brian J. Haas;Brian J. Haas;Weilin Sun;Henk R. Braig

  • The complete mitochondrial genome of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Sphingidae), and an examination of mitochondrial gene variability within butterflies and moths.

    Stephen L. Cameron;Stephen L. Cameron;Michael F. Whiting

  • Integrative taxonomy, or iterative taxonomy?

    David K. Yeates;Ainsley Seago;Leigh Nelson;Stephen L. Cameron

  • Phylogenomics and the evolution of hemipteroid insects.

    Kevin P. Johnson;Christopher H. Dietrich;Frank Friedrich;Rolf G. Beutel

  • The Evolutionary History of Termites as Inferred from 66 Mitochondrial Genomes

    Thomas Bourguignon;Nathan Lo;Stephen L. Cameron;Jan Šobotník

  • A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of Diptera: whole genome sequence data accurately resolve relationships over broad timescales with high precision

    Stephen L. Cameron;Christine L. Lambkin;Stephen C. Barker;Michael F. Whiting

  • Synonymization of key pest species within the Bactrocera dorsalis species complex (Diptera: Tephritidae): taxonomic changes based on a review of 20 years of integrative morphological, molecular, cytogenetic, behavioural and chemoecological data

    Mark K. Schutze;Mark K. Schutze;Nidchaya Aketarawong;Weerawan Amornsak;Karen F. Armstrong

  • A Comparative Analysis of Mitochondrial Genomes in Coleoptera (Arthropoda: Insecta) and Genome Descriptions of Six New Beetles

    Nathan Sheffield;Hojun Song;Stephen Cameron;Michael Whiting

  • How to sequence and annotate insect mitochondrial genomes for systematic and comparative genomics research

    Stephen L. Cameron

  • A preliminary mitochondrial genome phylogeny of Orthoptera (Insecta) and approaches to maximizing phylogenetic signal found within mitochondrial genome data.

    J. Daniel Fenn;Hojun Song;Stephen L. Cameron;Michael F. Whiting

  • Characterization of 67 Mitochondrial tRNA Gene Rearrangements in the Hymenoptera Suggests That Mitochondrial tRNA Gene Position Is Selectively Neutral

    Mark Dowton;Stephen L. Cameron;Stephen L. Cameron;Jessica I. Dowavic;Andy D. Austin

  • Beyond barcoding: A mitochondrial genomics approach to molecular phylogenetics and diagnostics of blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

    Leigh A. Nelson;Christine L. Lambkin;Philip Batterham;James F. Wallman

  • Nonstationary Evolution and Compositional Heterogeneity in Beetle Mitochondrial Phylogenomics

    Nathan C. Sheffield;Hojun Song;Stephen L. Cameron;Michael F. Whiting

  • Mitochondrial genome data alone are not enough to unambiguously resolve the relationships of Entognatha, Insecta and Crustacea sensu lato (Arthropoda)

    Stephen L. Cameron;Kelly B. Miller;Cyrille A. D'Haese;Michael F. Whiting

  • Are plant DNA barcodes a search for the Holy Grail

    Daniel Rubinoff;Stephen Cameron;Kipling Will

  • The mitochondrial genome of the screamer louse Bothriometopus (phthiraptera: ischnocera): effects of extensive gene rearrangements on the evolution of the genome.

    Stephen L. Cameron;Stephen L. Cameron;Kevin P. Johnson;Michael F. Whiting

  • Mitochondrial genomics and the new insect order Mantophasmatodea.

    Stephen L. Cameron;Stephen C. Barker;Michael F. Whiting

  • Synonymization of key pest species within the Bactrocera dorsalis species complex (Diptera: Tephritidae): Taxonomic changes based on a review of 20 years of integrative morphological, molecular, cytogenetic, behavioural and chemoecological data

    Mark K. Schutze;Nidchaya Aketarawon;Weerawan Amornsak;Karen F. Armstrong

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. O'Donoghue
Peter J. O'Donoghue University of Queensland
Michael F. Whiting
Michael F. Whiting Brigham Young University
Theodore A. Evans
Theodore A. Evans University of Western Australia
Nathan Lo
Nathan Lo University of Sydney
David K. Yeates
David K. Yeates Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Robert D. Adlard
Robert D. Adlard Queensland Museum
Simon Y. W. Ho
Simon Y. W. Ho University of Sydney
Mark Dowton
Mark Dowton University of Wollongong
Kevin P. Johnson
Kevin P. Johnson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chao-Dong Zhu
Chao-Dong Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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