Publications
James A. Danoff-Burg


Papers

Danoff-Burg, J.A. and R.R. Dunn.  2000. Why did the beetle not cross the road?: Proximate cues to road avoidance in carrion beetles.  Submitted

Danoff-Burg, J.A.  2000.  Evolutionary Lability and Phylogenetic Utility of Behavior in a Group of Ant-Guest Staphylinidae Beetles.  Submitted.


Bird, S. and J.A. Danoff-Burg. 2000. Deer herbivory reduces forest litter arthropod diversity.  Submitted.

Manguin, S., R.C. Wilkerson, J.E. Conn, Y.R. Palis, J.A. Danoff-Burg, D.R. Roberts.  1999.  Population structure of the primary malaria vector in South America, Anopheles darlingi, using isozyme, ITS2, RAPD, and morphological markers.  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 60:364-376. Abstract available here

Lounibos, L.P., L.R. Hribar, R. Wilkerson, J.E. Conn, G.A. Fritz, and J.A. Danoff-Burg.  1998.  Morphological, molecular, and chromosomal discrimination of cryptic Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) from South America.  Journal of Medical Entomology.  35: 830-838.

Danoff-Burg, J.A.  1996.  An ethogram of the ant-guest beetle tribe Sceptobiini.  Sociobiology. 27:287-328.

Danoff-Burg, J.A.  1996.  Phylogenies derived from nuclear and mitochondrial genes: Coping with problems of incongruence, alignment, and intraspecific variation in Anopheles mosquitoes.  Proc. Int. Cong. Ent. 20:263.

DuBois, M.B. & J.A. Danoff-Burg.  1994.  Distribution of ants in Kansas: Subfamilies  Dolichoderinae and Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).  Sociobiology.  24:147- 178.

Danoff-Burg, J.A.  1994.  Evolving under myrmecophily: A cladistic revision of the symphilic beetle tribe Sceptobiini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae).  Systematic Entomology. 19:25-45.

Busby, W.H. & J.A. Danoff-Burg.  1992.  Status report on Stygobromus clantoni (Creaser), Clanton's cave amphipod, in Kansas.  Reports of the State Biological Survey of Kansas.  Report No. 52.  24 pp. Available for purchase here
 
 

Works in Preparation

Danoff-Burg, J.A. and M.M. McDonald. Habitat fragmentation by low-impact dirt roads negatively affects carrion beetle abundance.
 

Nicrophorus beetle imageDanoff-Burg, J.A. and R.R. Dunn.  Carrion beetles avoid crossing low-impact dirt roads.

Danoff-Burg, J.A. and K. Pease.  Road intensity depresses necrophage beetle community diversity.

Danoff-Burg, J.A. and L. Bahn.  Biomass movement into Biosphere 2 by the exotic crazy ants (Paratrechina longicornis).

Danoff-Burg, J.A.  The introduced Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Adelges pseudotsuga) negatively affects necrophage beetles that are three trophic levels removed.

Danoff-Burg, J.A. & J.E. Conn.  Characters, congruence, and Anopheles mosquito phylogenetics.

Vogler, A., M. Caterino, Danoff-Burg, J.A., and P. Hammond. Molecular systematics of basal Coleoptera, with an emphasis on the Series Staphyliniformia.

Danoff-Burg, J.A.  Integration methods within a tribe of myrmecophilic beetles: Interactions with host do not provide integration chemicals.

Danoff-Burg, J.A.  Ant-guest beetles and their hosts: Friends or foes?



Special thanks to J. S. Ashe and the Tree of Life for images.