Recent Publications

Lauron, E. J., Loiseau, C., Bowie, R. Spicer, G. S., Smith, T. B., Melo, M. and Sehgal, R. N.  Co-evolutionary
patterns and diversification of avian malaria parasites in African sunbirds (Family Nectariniidae) Parasitology, revised and resubmitted.

Walden, G. K., Garrison, L. M., Spicer, G. S., Cipriano F. W., and Patterson, R.  2014.  Phylogenies and
chromosome evolution of Phacelia (Boraginaceae: Hydrophylloideae) inferred from nuclear ribosomal and chloroplast sequence data.  Madroño 61: 16-47.

Skoracki, M., Spicer, G. S., OConnor, B. M.  2014.  A review of the mites of the subfamily Picobiinae Johnston &
Kethley, 1973 (Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) from North American birds.  Systematic Parasitology 87: 99-110.

Hendricks, S. A., Flannery, M. E., and Spicer, G. S.  2013.  Cophylogeny of quill mites from the genus
Syringophilopsis (Acari: Syringophilidae) and their North American passerine hosts.  Journal of Parasitology 99: 827-834.

Dimov, I. D. and Spicer, G. S.  2013.  A new species of nasal mite of the genus Rhinonyssus
(Mesostigmata: Rhinonyssidae) from Leningrad Province, Russia.  Systematic & Applied Acarology 18: 291-296.

Bochkov, A. V, Skoracki, M., Hendricks, S. A. and Spicer, G. S.  2011.  Further investigations of the
mite genus Syringophiloidus (Acariformes: Syringophilidae) from North American Passerines.  Systematic Parasitology 79: 201-211.

Skoracki, M., Hendricks, S. A., and Spicer, G. S.  2010.  New species of the parasitic quill mites of
the genus Picobia Haller (Acari: Syringophilidae: Picobiinae) from North American birds.  Journal of Medical Entomology 47: 727-742.

van der Linde, K., Houle, D., Spicer, G. S. and Steppan, S. J.  2010.  A supermatrix-based molecular
phylogeny of the family Drosophilidae.  Genetical Research 92: 25-38.

Skoracki, M., Hendricks, S. A., and Spicer, G. S.  2010.  Four new species of Aulonastus Kethley, 1970
(Acari: Syringophilidae) from North American passerines.  Systematic Parasitology 76: 131-144.

Skoracki, M., Hendricks, S. A., and Spicer, G. S.  2010.  On systematics of the ectoparasitic quill mites of
the genus Aulobia Kethley, 1970 (Acari: Syringophilidae) with the description of a new species.  Zootaxa 2399: 31-41.

Hansen, D. R., Spicer, G. S., and Patterson, R.  2009.  Phylogenetic Relationships between and within
Phacelia Sections Whitlavia and Gymnobythus (Boraginaceae). Systematic Botany 34: 737-746.

Bochkov, A. V., Flannery, M. E. and Spicer, G. S.  2009.  Mites of the Genus Torotrogla (Prostigmata:
Syringophilidae) from North American passerines.  Journal of Medical Entomology 46: 183-197.

Skoracki, M., Flannery, M. E. and Spicer, G. S.  2009.  New data on systematics of the quill mites of the
genus Syringophiloidus Kethley, 1970 (Acari: Syringophilidae) from North American birds. Acta Parasitologica 54: 64-72.

Skoracki, M., Flannery, M. E. and Spicer, G. S.  2008.  Quill mites of the genus Syringophilopsis
Kethley, 1970 (Acari: Syringophilidae) from North American birds.  Folia Parasitologica 55: 291-300.

Whalen, M., Richter, T., Zakhareyvich, K., Yoshikawa, M., Al-Azzeh, D., Adefioye, A., Spicer, G. S., Mendoza, L. L,
Morales C. Q., Klassen, V., Young, B., Perez-Baron, G., Toebe, C. S, Tzovolous, A., Gerstman, E., Evans, E.,
Thompson, C., Lopez, M., Young, G., and Ronald, P. C.  2008.  Identification of a host 14-3-3 Protein that
Interacts with Xanthomonas effector AvrRxv.  Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 72: 46-55.

Morelli, M. and Spicer, G. S.  2007.  Cospeciation between the nasal mite Ptilonyssus sairae
(Acari:  Rhinonyssidae) and its bird hosts.  Systematic & Applied Acarology 12: 179-188.

van der Linde, K., Bächli, G., Toda, M. J., Zhang, W., Katoh, T., Hu Y., and Spicer, G. S.  2007. 
Drosophila Fallén, 1823 (Insecta, Diptera): proposed conservation of usage.  Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 64: 238-242.

Wood, H. M., Griswold, C. E., and Spicer, G. S.  2007.  Phylogenetic relationships within an endemic group
of Malagasy 'Assassin Spiders' (Araneae, Archaeidae): ancestral character reconstruction, convergent evolution and biogeography.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45: 612-619.

Hartsough, C. D. B., Connor, E. F., Smith, D. R., and Spicer, G. S.  2007.  Systematics of the two feeding
morphs of Schizocerella pilicornis (Holmgren) (Hymernoptera: Argidae) and the recognition of two species.  Annals of the Entomological Society of America 100:  375-380.

Banbury, J. L. and Spicer, G. S.  2007.  Molecular systematics of Chipmunks (Neotamias) inferred by
mitochondrial control region sequences.  Journal of Mammalian Evolution 14: 149-162.