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Hermes E. Escalona
Researcher at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Publications - 40
Citations - 836
Hermes E. Escalona is an academic researcher from Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Monophyly & Genus. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 38 publications receiving 500 citations. Previous affiliations of Hermes E. Escalona include University of Freiburg & Central University of Venezuela.
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The evolution and genomic basis of beetle diversity.
Duane D. McKenna,Seunggwan Shin,Dirk Ahrens,Michael Balke,Cristian F. Beza-Beza,Dave J. Clarke,Alexander Donath,Hermes E. Escalona,Hermes E. Escalona,Frank Friedrich,Harald Letsch,Shanlin Liu,David R. Maddison,Christoph Mayer,Bernhard Misof,Peyton J. Murin,Oliver Niehuis,Ralph S. Peters,Lars Podsiadlowski,Hans Pohl,Erin D. Scully,Evgeny V. Yan,Evgeny V. Yan,Xin Zhou,Adam Ślipiński,Rolf G. Beutel +25 more
TL;DR: Beetles diversity appears to have resulted from multiple factors, including low extinction rates over a long evolutionary history, codiversification with angiosperms, and adaptive radiations of specialized herbivorous beetles following convergent horizontal transfers of microbial genes encoding PCWDEs.
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Beetle Pollination of Cycads in the Mesozoic
Chenyang Cai,Chenyang Cai,Hermes E. Escalona,Liqin Li,Zi-Wei Yin,Diying Huang,Michael S. Engel,Michael S. Engel +7 more
TL;DR: A specialized beetle-mediated pollination mode from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar is reported, wherein a new boganiid beetle, Cretoparacucujus cycadophilus, with specialized pollen-feeding adaptations in its mouthparts and legs, was associated with many pollen grains of Cycadopites.
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Molecular phylogeny reveals food plasticity in the evolution of true ladybird beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Coccinellini).
Hermes E. Escalona,Andreas Zwick,Hao-Sen Li,Jiahui Li,Xingmin Wang,Hong Pang,Diana M. Hartley,Lars S. Jermiin,Oldřich Nedvěd,Bernhard Misof,Oliver Niehuis,Adam Ślipiński,Wioletta Tomaszewska +12 more
TL;DR: Ancestral state reconstructions of food preferences and morphological characters support the idea of aphidophagy being the ancestral state in Coccinellini, and suggest a transition from putative obligate scale feeders, as seen in the closely related Chilocorini, to more agile general predators.
Book
Australian Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Vol. 1 : Introduction and Subfamily Lamiinae
TL;DR: This volume provides a general introduction to the Australian Cerambycidae with sections on biology, phylogeny and morphology of adult and larvae, followed by the keys to the subfamilies and an overview of the 74 genera of the subfamily Lamiinae occurring in Australia.
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Generic revision and phylogeny of Microweiseinae (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae).
TL;DR: The genera Microweisea, Coccidophilus, Serangium and Delphastus are well‐known predators of sternorrynchous Hemiptera, such as scale insects and whiteflies, and play a significant role in agricultural ecosystems as biocontrol agents.