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Associate Professor of Entomology
Department of Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences
Fernald Hall 204B
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
Tel. (413) 577-3780
bnormark@ent.umass.edu
1994, Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
1985, B.A., Linguistics, Yale University. Magna cum laude
- Systematics and evolution of armored scale insects (Hemptera: Diaspididae)
- Phylogeny and evolution of maternally transmitted endosymbiotic bacteria in insects
- Evolution of haplodiploidy
- Evolution of sex
- Genetic conflict
Gruwell, M. E., G. E. Morse, and B. B. Normark. 2007. Phylogenetic congruence of armored scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) and their primary endosymbionts from the phylum Bacteroidetes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44: 267-280.
Úbeda, F., and B. B. Normark. 2006. Sibling competition, male killers and the origins of paternal genome elimination. Theoretical Population Biology 70: 511-526.
Gwiazdowski, R. A., R. G. Van Driesche, A. Desnoyers, S. Lyon, S. Wu, N. Kamata, and B. B. Normark. 2006. Possible geographic origin of beech scale, Cryptococcus fagisuga (Hemiptera: Eriococcidae), an invasive pest in North America. Biological Control 39: 9-18.
Normark, B. B. 2006. Perspective: maternal kin groups and the evolution of asymmetric genetic systems -- genomic imprinting, haplodiploidy, and parthenogenesis. Evolution 60: 631-642.
Morse, G. E., and B. B. Normark. 2006. A molecular phylogenetic study of armoured scale insects (Diaspididae). Systematic Entomology 31: 338-349.
Provencher. L. M., G. E. Morse, A. R. Weeks, and B. B. Normark. 2005. Parthenogenesis in the Aspidiotus nerii complex (Hemiptera: Diaspididae): a single origin of a worldwide, polyphagous lineage associated with Cardinium bacteria. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 98: 629-635.
Normark, B. B. 2004. Haplodiploidy as an outcome of coevolution between male-killing cytoplasmic elements and their hosts. Evolution 58: 790-798.
Normark, B. B. 2003. Evolution of alternative genetic systems in insects. Annual Review of Entomology 48: 397-423.
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