Publications
Recent Publications
Ober, K., Niemiller, M., Philips, K. (2022). Cave trechine (Coleoptera: Carabidae) diversity and biogeography in North America. In “Cave Life - Drivers of Diversity and Diversification” ( J. Judson Wynne, Ed.) Johns Hopkins University Publishers.
Niemiller, M., Zigler, K, Ober, K., Carter, E., Engel, A., Moni, G., Philips, T. K., Stephens, C. 2017. Rediscovery and conservation status of six short-range endemic Pseudanophthalmus cave beetles (Carabidae: Trechini). Insect Conservation and Biodiversity.
Hoekman, D., K.E. LeVan, G. Ball, R.A. Browne, Robert Davidson, Terry Erwin, Barry Knisley, James LaBonte, Jonathan Lundgren, David Maddison, Wendy Moore, Jari Niemelä, Karen Ober, David Pearson, John Spence, Kipling Will and Timothy Work. 2017. Science Design for Ground Beetle Abundance and Diversity Sampling within the National Ecological Observatory Network. Ecosphere 8(4): e01744.
Ober, K.A. And Connolly, C.T.* 2015. Geometric Morphometric and phylogenetic analyses of Arizona Sky Island populations of Scaphinotus petersi Roeschke (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175:107-118.
Mitchell, S.G. and Ober K.A. 2013. Evolution of Scaphinotus petersi (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and the role of climate and geography in the Arizona Sky Islands. Quaternary Research 79 (2): 274-283.
Ober, K., Matthews, B. *, Fierrieri, A. *, Kuhn, S. * 2011. The evolution and age of Scaphinotus petersi Roeschke on Arizona Sky Islands. Zookeys 147:183-197.
Maddison, D.R. and Ober, K.A. 2011. Phylogeny of minute carabid beetles and their relativesbased upon DNA sequence data (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechitae). Zookeys 147:229-260.
Ober, K.A. and T.N. Heider*. 2010 Phylogenetic diversification patterns and divergence times in ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalinae) BMC Evolutionary Biology 10:262.
Maddison, D. R., Moore, W., Baker, M. D., Ellis, T.M., Ober, K.A., Cannone, J.J., and Gutell, R.R. 2009. Monophyly of terrestrial adephagan beetles as indicated by three nuclear genes (Coleoptera: Carabidae and Trachypachidae). Zoologica Scripta 38:43-62.
Ober, K.A. and Maddison, D.R. 2008. Phylogenetic relationships of tribes within Harpalinae (Coleoptera: Carabidae) as inferred from 28S ribosomal DNA and the wingless gene. Journal of Insect Science 8(63):1-32.
Kjer, K., Gillespie, J., Ober, K. 2007. Opinions on multiple sequence alignment, and an empirical comparison of repeatability and accuracy between POY and structural alignment. Systematic Biology 56(1):133-146.
Ober, K. and Jockusch, E. 2006. The roles of wingless and decapentaplegic in axis and appendage development in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum. Developmental Biology 294(2): 391-405.
Kjer, K. M., J. J. Gillespie, K. A. Ober. 2006. Structural homology in ribosomal RNA, and a deliberation on POY. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 64(2):71-76.
Jockusch, E. and Ober, K. 2004. Hypothesis Testing in Evolutionary Developmental Biology: A Case Study from Insect Wings. Journal of Heredity 95:382-396.
Ober, K. 2003. Arboreality and morphological evolution in ground beetles (Carabidae: Harpalinae): testing the taxon pulse model. Evolution 57:1343-1358.
Ober, K. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships of the carabid subfamily Harpalinae based on molecular sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 24: 227-247.
Jockusch, E. and Ober, K. 2000. Phylogenetic analysis of the Wnt gene family and discovery of an arthropod Wnt-10 orthologue. Journal of Experimental Zoology Molecular and Developmental Evolution 288:105-119.
Maddison, D., Baker, M., Ober, K. 1999. Phylogeny of Carabid Beetles as Inferred from 18S Ribosomal DNA (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Systematic Entomology 24:1-36.
Maddison, D., Baker, M., Ober, K. 1998. A Preliminary Phylogenetic Analysis of 18s Ribosomal DNA of Carabid Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae). In “Phylogeny and Classification of Caraboidea (Coleoptera: Adephaga). Proceedings of a Symposium (28 August, 1996, Florence Italy) XX International Congress of Entomology” (G.E. Ball, A. Casale and A.V. Taglianti, Eds.), pp.229-250.
*indicates Holy Cross undergraduate co-author