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Andrew Forbes (University of Iowa)
Andrew Forbes (University of Iowa)
Andrew Forbes runs his own lab at the University of Iowa, focusing on the evolution and speciation mechanisms of parasitic insects. His PhD was on Rhagoletis flies, which is the famous group of parasitic fruit flies that show evidence of sympatric speciation through host shifting, and now Forbes has spread this across many different groups to elucidate their natural histories.
Selected Publications:
Hippee AC, Beer MA, Bagley RK, Condon MA, Kitchen A, Lisowski EA, Norrbom AL, Forbes AA (2020). Host shifting and host sharing in a genus of specialist flies diversifying alongside their sunflower hosts. J Evol Biol 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13740
Forbes AA, Kelly PH, Middleton KA, Condon MA (2012). Genetically differentiated races and speciation-with-gene-flow in the sunflower maggot, Strauzia longipennis. Evol Ecol 26(6):1017-1032. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-012-9622-y
Forbes AA, Powell THQ, Stelinski LL, Smith JJ, Feder JL (2009). Sequential Sympatric Speciation Across Trophic Levels. Science 323(5915):776-779. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1166981
Alaine Hippee (University of Iowa)
Alaine Hippee (University of Iowa)
Alaine Hippee has been working with Andrew Forbes for more than half a decade at this point focusing on sympatric speciation within Strauzia. She has expanded upon the initial two studies done in the Forbes lab greatly with her Masters thesis project (2016) and part of her PhD thesis (2020), showing the complexity and scientific value of Strauzia as a study group for sympatric speciation and host shifting.
Selected Publications:
Hippee AC, Beer MA, Bagley RK, Condon MA, Kitchen A, Lisowski EA, Norrbom AL, Forbes AA (2020). Host shifting and host sharing in a genus of specialist flies diversifying alongside their sunflower hosts. J Evol Biol 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13740
Hippee AC, Elnes ME, Armenta JS, Condon MA, Forbes AA (2016). Divergence before the host shift? Prezygotic reproductive isolation among three varieties of a specialist fly on a single host plant. Ecol Entomol 41:389-399. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12309
Forbes AA, Devine SN, Hippee AC, Tvedte ES, Ward AKG, Widmayer HA, Wilson CJ (2016). Revisiting the particular role of host shifts in initiating insect speciation. Evolution 71(5):1126-1137. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13164
Marty Condon (Cornell College)
Marty Condon (Cornell College)
Marty Condon has been a regular collaborator with the Forbes lab, being a co-author on every Strauzia paper published by that group. Her own research also focuses on speciation within Tephritidae and understanding cryptic radiations like Strauzia, specifically with the Neotropical genus Blepharoneura. The same techniques of repeatedly comparing phylogenetic results with field data to understand better the speciation of a given group is clearly mirrored in the research of Strauzia, but viewed at a larger scale.
Selected Publications:
Hippee AC, Beer MA, Bagley RK, Condon MA, Kitchen A, Lisowski EA, Norrbom AL, Forbes AA (2020). Host shifting and host sharing in a genus of specialist flies diversifying alongside their sunflower hosts. J Evol Biol 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13740
Ottens K, Winkler IS, Lewis ML, Scheffer SJ, Gomes-Costa GA, Condon MA, Forbes AA. Genetic differentiation associated with host plants and geography among six widespread species of South American Blepharoneura fruit flies (Tephritidae). J Evol Biol 30(4):696-710. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13043
Condon MA, Scheffer SJ, Lewis ML, Swensen SM (2008). Hidden Neotropical Diversity: Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts. Science 320(5878):928-931. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1155832
https://www.cornellcollege.edu/academics/our-faculty/faculty-profile/index.php/show/mcondon
Han Ho-Yeon (Yonsei University)
Han Ho-Yeon (Yonsei University)
For the past three decades, Han Ho-Yeon (Han family name) has been working widely within Tephritoidea, focusing on Korean fauna but spreading his sights far off too. Nearly all of the large-scale genetics-based phylogenies within this superfamily have been done by Han, and he continues to build off of his past research with increased sampling and more refined DNA extraction and sequencing techniques.
Selected publications:
Ho-Yeon Han & Kyung-Eui Ro (2016). Molecular phylogeny of the superfamily Tephritoidea (Insecta: Diptera) reanalysed based on expanded taxon sampling and sequence data. J Zool Syst Evol Res 54(4): 276-288. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12139
Ho-Yeon Han (2012). Pseudovidalia Han (Diptera: Tephritidae: Trypetini), a new genus from East Asia proposed based on morphological and molecular data. J Asia-Pac Entomol 15:419-425. https://doi.org/10.1016/k.aspen.2012.05.014
Ho-Yeon Han (2000). Molecular phylogenetic study of the tribe Trypetini (Diptera: Tephritidae), using mitochondrial 16S ribosomal DNA sequences. Biochem Syst Ecol. 28: 501-513.
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