# positions[].organizations[].parent[].label
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# overview
The Song Lab focuses on the study of an insect order Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids) and other insects and aims at understanding behavioral, ecological, physiological, morphological and molecular evolution in a phylogenetic framework.

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Orthoptera, Dichotomous Key, Gaudy Grasshoppers, Taxonomy

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Orthoptera, New Species, Feeding Biology, Central America

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Diptera, Integrative Taxonomy, Neotropics, Pyrgomorphidae, Sphenarium, Male Genitalia Morphology, Molecular Phylogenetics, Species Phylogeny

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The Ohio State University - (Columbus, Ohio, United States)

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Cornell University - (Ithaca, New York, United States)

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The Ohio State University - (Columbus, Ohio, United States)

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Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

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Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

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To jump or not to jump: Comparing effects of phenotypic plasticity on the visual responses and escape behavior of locusts and grasshoppers.

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Investigating a Photolytic Metabolite in the Nocturnal Grasshopper Schistocerca ceratiola (Orthoptera: Acrididae)

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Investigating the functional morphology of genitalia during copulation in the grasshopper Melanoplus rotundipennis (Scudder, 1878) via correlative microscopy.

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Author Correction: Phylogenomic analysis sheds light on the evolutionary pathways towards acoustic communication in Orthoptera.

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An Illustrated Key of Pyrgomorphidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of the Indian Subcontinent Region.

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Description of soybean aphid (Aphis glycines Matsumura) mitochondrial genome and comparative mitogenomics of Aphididae (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha).

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Comparative analysis of phenotypic plasticity sheds light on the evolution and molecular underpinnings of locust phase polyphenism.

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On the origin of the New World Pyrgomorphidae (Insecta: Orthoptera).

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300 million years of diversification: elucidating the patterns of orthopteran evolution based on comprehensive taxon and gene sampling.

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Annotated catalogue of Pakistani Acrididae (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acridoidea).

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Species-specificity of male genitalia is characterized by shape, size, and complexity

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Phylogenomics, male internal genitalia, a new species, and other notes on New World Stenopelmatus Jerusalem crickets (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatoidea: Stenopelmatini).

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When phylogenetic assumptions are violated: base compositional heterogeneity and amongsite rate variation in beetle mitochondrial phylogenomics

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One hundred years of instability in ensiferan relationships

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The time course of behavioural phase change in the Central American locust Schistocerca piceifrons.

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Predictability in the evolution of Orthopteran cardenolide insensitivity.

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Mosaic pattern of genital divergence in three populations of Schistocerca lineata Scudder, 1899 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae)

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A century of paraphyly: a molecular phylogeny of katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) supports multiple origins of leaf-like wings.

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A preliminary mitochondrial genome phylogeny of Orthoptera (Insecta) and approaches to maximizing phylogenetic signal found within mitochondrial genome data.

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Searching for the optimal data partitioning strategy in mitochondrial phylogenomics: a phylogeny of Acridoidea (Insecta: Orthoptera: Caelifera) as a case study.

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Motorized Treadmill and Optical Recording System for Gait Analysis of Grasshoppers.

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Phylogeny of bird-grasshopper subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae) and the evolution of locust phase polyphenism.

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Taxonomic notes on the Australian skyhopper genus Kosciuscola Sjöstedt (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oxyinae)

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Grasshopper country before and after: a resurvey of Ken Key's collecting expeditions in New South Wales, Australia, 70 years on

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Revealing hidden density-dependent phenotypic plasticity in sedentary grasshoppers in the genus Schistocerca Stl (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae).

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Insect Systematics & Evolution: A new vision for the future

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Correction: Exposure to Exogenous Enkephalins Disrupts Reproductive Development in the Eastern Lubber Grasshopper, Romalea microptera (Insecta: Orthoptera)

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Morphology and Phylogenetic Position of Two New Gregarine Species (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinorida) Parasitizing the Lubber Grasshopper Taeniopoda centurio (Drury, 1770) (Insecta: Orthoptera: Romaleidae) in Mexico.

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Nonstationary evolution and compositional heterogeneity in beetle mitochondrial phylogenomics.

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First draft genome assembly of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria.

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Characterization and comparison of microsatellite markers derived from genomic and expressed libraries for the desert locust

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Phylogeny and evolution of male genitalia within the praying mantis genus Tenodera (Mantodea:Mantidae)

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On the origin of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria (Forskl) (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae).

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First draft genome assembly of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria

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A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of the Neuropterida (lacewings, alderflies and snakeflies) and their relationship to the other holometabolous insect orders

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Land management practices interactively affect wetland beetle ecological and phylogenetic community structure.

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Phylogeny of the grasshopper family Pyrgomorphidae (Caelifera, Orthoptera) based on morphology

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Revision of the Alutacea Group of Genus Schistocerca (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae)

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Phylogenomic analysis sheds light on the evolutionary pathways towards acoustic communication in Orthoptera.

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Development of RNAi Methods for the Mormon Cricket, Anabrus simplex (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae).

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Satellite DNAs Unveil Clues about the Ancestry and Composition of B Chromosomes in Three Grasshopper Species.

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The ecotype paradigm: testing the concept in an ecologically divergent grasshopper

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Density-Dependent Phase Polyphenism in Nonmodel Locusts: A Minireview

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Generic relationships of New World Jerusalem crickets (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatoidea:Stenopelmatinae), including all known species of Stenopelmatus.

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Timeless standards for species delimitation.

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Phylogeny of locusts and grasshoppers reveals complex evolution of density-dependent phenotypic plasticity.

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Exposure to exogenous enkephalins disrupts reproductive development in the Eastern lubber grasshopper, Romalea microptera (Insecta: Orthoptera).

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Description of Schistocerca cohni n. sp. and redescription of S. socorro (Dirsh) (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae) from Mexico

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Non-swarming grasshoppers exhibit density-dependent phenotypic plasticity reminiscent of swarming locusts.

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A comparative analysis of mitochondrial genomes in Coleoptera (Arthropoda: Insecta) and genome descriptions of six new beetles.

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Molecular phylogeny of the Kosciuscola grasshoppers endemic to the Australian alpine and montane regions

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State of the Art Management of the Central American Locust Schistocerca piceifrons piceifrons (Walker, 1870)

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Grasshopper Systematics: Past, Present and Future

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Rearing, dissection, and temporal transcriptomic profiling protocols to study density-dependent phenotypic plasticity in Schistocerca (Insecta: Orthoptera)

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Auditory mechanics in the grig (Cyphoderris monstrosa): tympanal travelling waves and frequency discrimination as a precursor to inner ear tonotopy.

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A new species of king cricket Glaphyrosoma Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888 (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae: Glaphyrosomatini) from Costa Rica with behavioral observations.

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Re-evaluation of taxonomic utility of male phallic complex in higher-level classification of Acridomorpha (Orthoptera: Caelifera)

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Comparison of phylogenetic signal between male genitalia and non-genital characters in insect systematics.

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Studies in Mexican Grasshoppers: Four new species of Reyesacris Fontana, Buzzetti & Mariño-Pérez, 2011 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Ommatolampidinae)

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Studies in Mexican Grasshoppers: Liladownsia fraile, a new genus and species of Dactylotini (Acrididae: Melanoplinae) and an updated molecular phylogeny of Melanoplinae.

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Mitochondrial genomics in Orthoptera using MOSAS.

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Many species in one: DNA barcoding overestimates the number of species when nuclear mitochondrial pseudogenes are coamplified.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Uncovering historical signature of mitochondrial DNA hidden in the nuclear genome: the biogeography of Schistocerca revisited.

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Post-adult emergence development of genitalic structures in Schistocerca Stl and Locusta L. (Orthoptera: Acrididae)

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Assessing the effects of primer specificity on eliminating numt coamplification in DNA barcoding: a case study from Orthoptera (Arthropoda: Insecta).

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Integrative taxonomy reveals cryptic diversity in neotropical grasshoppers: taxonomy, phylogenetics, and evolution of the genus Sphenarium Charpentier, 1842 (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae).

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Rampant nuclear insertion of mtDNA across diverse lineages within Orthoptera (Insecta).

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From Molecules to Management: Mechanisms and Consequences of Locust Phase Polyphenism

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Body Size Adaptations to Altitudinal Climatic Variation in Neotropical Grasshoppers of the Genus Sphenarium (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae).

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Transcriptome Sequencing of Mormon Cricket in Preparation for FY19 Farm Bill on Smart Molecular Insecticide (RNAi-Based)

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United States Department of Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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CAREER: Evolution of Locust Swarms and Phenotypic Plasticity in Grasshoppers

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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ADVANCING SYSTEMATIC RESEARCH IN ORTHOPTERA (ARTHROPODA: INSECTA)

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National Institute of Food and Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Developing smart molecular insecticide (RNAi-based) control method targeting Mormon crickets (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae)

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United States Department of Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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SG: Collaborative Research: Evolution and Speciation in Afromontane and Alpine Grasshoppers in Southern Africa

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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NSFDEB-NERC: Integrating phylogenomics, biophysics, and functional genomics to unravel the evolution of hearing and singing in Ensifera (katydids, crickets and relatives)

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# streetAddress
Texas A&M University; Entomology; 2475 TAMU

# organizations[]
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# schools[]
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# inTheNews[].label
New institute to study behavioral plasticity in locusts

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Texas A&M Research Shows Insects Evolved Pathways For Acoustic Communication

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Blue light assists a night hunt for bugs

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Song Lab of Insect Systematics and Evolution