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Karl Kjer

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#8156

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Entomology

#137

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#333

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PhD Entomology Cornell University
Masters Entomology Cornell University
Bachelors Biology Cornell University

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According to Wikipedia, Karl M. Kjer is an American entomologist, taxonomist, and molecular biologist. Background In 1992, Kjer received his Ph.D. in entomology at the University of Minnesota. During his post-doctorate at BYU, he studied homology on ribosomal RNA. He started teaching at Rutgers University in 1996. In 2015, he accepted an endowed Chair in Insect Systematics at University of California, Davis, but resigned in 2016 citing "health and family reasons." In 2017, Kjer was convicted of one count of invasion of privacy after secretly recording a 19-year-old woman while she showered in his home. He retired from academia in 2017, and now pursues a career in freelance writing and consulting.

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Karl Kjer's Published Works

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Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution (2014) (1889)
Evolutionary History of the Hymenoptera (2017) (510)
Use of rRNA secondary structure in phylogenetic studies to identify homologous positions: an example of alignment and data presentation from the frogs. (1995) (484)
Aligned 18S and insect phylogeny. (2004) (320)
Order Trichoptera Kirby, 1813 (Insecta), Caddisflies* (2007) (239)
Advances in insect phylogeny at the dawn of the postgenomic era. (2012) (231)
Ancient rapid radiations of insects: challenges for phylogenetic analysis. (2008) (213)
Phylogeny of Trichoptera (caddisflies): characterization of signal and noise within multiple datasets. (2001) (154)
A molecular phylogeny of Hexapoda (2006) (152)
The evolutionary history of holometabolous insects inferred from transcriptome-based phylogeny and comprehensive morphological data (2014) (148)
Site specific rates of mitochondrial genomes and the phylogeny of eutheria (2007) (133)
Associating larvae and adults of Chinese Hydropsychidae caddisflies (Insecta:Trichoptera) using DNA sequences (2007) (118)
Opinions on multiple sequence alignment, and an empirical comparison of repeatability and accuracy between POY and structural alignment. (2007) (114)
18S ribosomal RNA and tetrapod phylogeny. (2003) (104)
Phylogeny of caddisflies (Insecta, Trichoptera) (2002) (94)
Phylogenetic relationship among termite families based on DNA sequence of mitochondrial 16S ribosomal RNA gene (1996) (93)
Structural alignment of 18S and 28S rDNA sequences provides insights into phylogeny of Phytophaga (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea and Chrysomeloidea) (2009) (92)
Mitochondrial capture enriches mito‐DNA 100 fold, enabling PCR‐free mitogenomics biodiversity analysis (2015) (87)
Phylogeny of the higher Libelluloidea (Anisoptera: Odonata): an exploration of the most speciose superfamily of dragonflies. (2007) (84)
Mosquito large subunit ribosomal RNA: simultaneous alignment of primary and secondary structure. (1994) (82)
The Trichoptera barcode initiative: a strategy for generating a species-level Tree of Life (2016) (69)
MITOCHONDRIAL DNA SEQUENCE‐BASED PHYLOGENY AND THE EVOLUTION OF VIVIPARITY IN THE SCELOPORUS SCALARIS GROUP (REPTILIA, SQUAMATA) (1997) (67)
Multiple data sets, congruence, and hypothesis testing for the phylogeny of basal groups of the lizard genus Sceloporus (Squamata, Phrynosomatidae). (2000) (64)
Relationships among the subfamilies of Chrysomelidae inferred from small subunit ribosomal DNA and morphology, with special emphasis on the relationship among the flea beetles and the Galerucinae (2004) (52)
Molecular dating and biogeography of fig-pollinating wasps. (2009) (52)
Progress, pitfalls and parallel universes: a history of insect phylogenetics (2016) (51)
Phylogeny of the photosynthetic euglenophytes inferred from the nuclear SSU and partial LSU rDNA. (2003) (49)
Potential pitfalls of modelling ribosomal RNA data in phylogenetic tree reconstruction: Evidence from case studies in the Metazoa (2011) (41)
A molecular phylogeny and classification of Anisoptera (Odonata) (2015) (41)
ON THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG RANOID FROGS: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE (2000) (40)
Comparison between molecular and morphological-based phylogenies of galerucine/alticine leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) (2003) (39)
Order Trichoptera Kirby, 1813. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. (2011) (35)
Conserved Primary and Secondary Structural Motifs of Amphibian 12S rRNA, Domain III (1997) (35)
Structural and Evolutionary Considerations for Multiple Sequence Alignment of RNA , and the Challenges for Algorithms That Ignore Them (2007) (33)
Phylogenetic placement of the anamorphic tribe Ustilaginoideae (Hypocreales, Ascomycota) (2004) (32)
Convergent evolution of cucurbitacin feeding in spatially isolated rootworm taxa (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae; Galerucinae, Luperini). (2003) (32)
Defining the genus Hydropsyche (Trichoptera:Hydropsychidae) based on DNA and morphological evidence (2010) (29)
Phylogeny and host-plant association in the leaf beetle genus Trirhabda LeConte (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). (2004) (23)
Moving toward species-level phylogeny using ribosomal DNA and COI barcodes : an example from the diverse caddisfly genus Chimarra ( Trichoptera : Philopotamidae ) (2014) (22)
Response to Comment on “Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution” (2015) (22)
The evolution of cucurbitacin pharmacophagy in rootworms: insight from Luperini paraphyly (2004) (20)
Divergence dates of libelluloid dragonflies (Odonata: Anisoptera) estimated from rRNA using paired-site substitution models. (2008) (19)
Progress on the phylogeny of caddisflies (Trichoptera) (2016) (19)
Efficient transfection of mosquito cells is influenced by the temperature at which DNA-calcium phosphate coprecipitates are prepared. (1991) (17)
Testing the monophyly of the New Zealand and Australian endemic family Conoesucidae Ross based on combined molecular and morphological data (Insecta: Trichoptera: Sericostomatoidea) (2009) (16)
Phylogenetic Relationships of the Sceloporus scalaris Species Group (Squamata) (1997) (15)
Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and taxonomic richness (2011) (14)
Advances using molecular data in insect systematics. (2016) (12)
Structural Homology in Ribosomal RNA , and a Deliberation on POY (2006) (11)
Phylogenetic position of the ant genus Acropyga Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and the evolution of trophophoresy. (2006) (11)
Diversity of mitochondrial and larval morphology characters in the genus Diplectrona (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae) in the eastern United States (2012) (5)
A New Species of Neophylax from Northern Virginia, USA (Trichoptera: Uenoidae) (2011) (4)
Using DNA barcode data to add leaves to the Trichoptera tree of life (2016) (4)
A phylogeny of Celithemis inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data and morphology (Anisoptera: Libellulidae) (2008) (4)
7. Structural and Evolutionary Considerations for Multiple Sequence Alignment of RNA, and the Challenges for Algorithms That Ignore Them (2019) (2)
Why weight? (2007) (2)
Norfolk Island's caddisfly is a New Zealander (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae) (2016) (1)
Ribosomal RNA and Tetrapod Phylogeny (2003) (1)
Trichoptera Kirby , 1813 ( Insecta ) , Caddisflies * (2007) (1)
Evolutionary history of the Hymenoptera - Supplementary Figures (2017) (1)
Munro surface of native virions Conformational dynamics of single HIV-1 envelope trimers (2014) (0)
The evolutionary history of holometabolous insects inferred from transcriptome-based phylogeny and comprehensive morphological data (2014) (0)
First data on Trichoptera fauna (Insecta) of streams and ponds of Vostok Bay Basin (Peter the Great Bay, Primorye Territory). (2013) (0)
The phylogeny of Trichoptera: Coordinating big datasets (2016) (0)

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