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Michael F. Whiting
Researcher at Brigham Young University
Publications - 143
Citations - 12587
Michael F. Whiting is an academic researcher from Brigham Young University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Monophyly & Phylogenetic tree. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 143 publications receiving 11330 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael F. Whiting include American Museum of Natural History & Cornell University.
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When phylogenetic assumptions are violated: base compositional heterogeneity and among-site rate variation in beetle mitochondrial phylogenomics
Hojun Song,Nathan C. Sheffield,Nathan C. Sheffield,Stephen L. Cameron,Stephen L. Cameron,Kelly B. Miller,Kelly B. Miller,Michael F. Whiting +7 more
TL;DR: This work investigated how base compositional heterogeneity and among‐site rate variation affect phylogenetic inference in the context of a mitochondrial genome phylogeny of the insect order Coleoptera and shows statistically that the dataset is affected by base compositions regardless of how the data are partitioned or recoded.
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A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of the Neuropterida (lace‐wings, alderflies and snakeflies) and their relationship to the other holometabolous insect orders
TL;DR: Properly analysed, the mt genomic data set presented here is among the first molecular data to support traditional, morphology‐based interpretations of relationships between the three neuropterid orders and their grouping with Coleoptera.
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Assessing the effects of primer specificity on eliminating numt coamplification in DNA barcoding: a case study from Orthoptera (Arthropoda: Insecta).
TL;DR: The taxonomic distribution of numts is investigated by analysing cloned COI sequences and the effects of primer specificity on eliminating numt coamplification in four lineages are tested, which suggests that numts may be widespread in other taxonomic groups as well.
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Molecular phylogenetic analysis of nycteribiid and streblid bat flies (Diptera: Brachycera, Calyptratae): implications for host associations and phylogeographic origins.
TL;DR: Major findings include the non-monophyly of the Streblidae and the recovery of an Old World- and a New World-Clade of bat flies, which supports the idea of a rapid radiation among the four major groups of Hippoboscoidea.
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The mitochondrial genome of the screamer louse Bothriometopus (phthiraptera: ischnocera): effects of extensive gene rearrangements on the evolution of the genome.
TL;DR: Analyses of Bothriometopus demonstrate that louse mt genomes, in addition to being extensively rearranged, differ significantly from most insect species in nucleotide composition biases, tRNA evolution, protein-coding gene structures and putative signaling sites such as the control region.