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Journal Publications

• Harwood, J.D., Ricci, C., Romani, R., Pitz, K.M., Weir, A. and Obrycki, J.J. 2006. Prevalance and association of the laboulbenialean fungus Hesperomyces virescens(Laboulbeniales: Laboulbeniaceae) on coccinellid hosts (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Kentcuky, USA. Eur. J. Entomol., 103: 799-804,2006. ISSN 1220-5759.
• Gibson, G.A.P., Read, J. and Huber,J.H. 2007. Diversity, Classification and Higher Relationships of Mymarommatoidea (Hymenoptera). J. HYM. RES., Vol. 16(1), 2007, pp. 51-146.
• Sharanowski, B.J. and Sharkey, M.J. 2007. Description of three new species of Helconichia Sharkey & Wharton (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Ichneutinae) with a revised key to all species. Zootaxa 1502: 45-53.
• Quicke, Donald L.J., Sharkey, M.J., Laurenne, Nina M. and Dowling, Ashley. 2008. A preliminary molecular phylogeny of the Sigalphinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), including Pselaphanus Szépligeti, based on 28S rDNA, with descriptions of new Afrotropical and Madagascan Minanga and Malasigalphus species. Journal of Natural History 42(43-44): 2703-2719.
• Vilhelmsen Lars , Turrisi Giuseppe Fabriozio and Beutel Rolf Georg . 2008. Distal leg morphology, subgenual organs and host detection in Stephanidae (Insecta,Hymenoptera). Journal of Natural History.42: 1649-1663
• Figueroa José Isaac, M. J. Sharkey, Nápoles Jesús Romero, Victor López-Martínez, José Antonio Sánchez García, Martínez Ana Mabel and Pineda Samuel .2008. Redescription of Crassomicrodus fulvescens (Cresson) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Agathidinae), with new distributional data and revised taxonomic status. Zootaxa 1934: 63–68
• Wei Shu-jun, Min Shi, Jun-hua He, M. Sharkey and Xue-xin Chen. 2009. The complete mitochondrial genome of Diadegma semiclausum (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) indicates extensive independent evolutionary events. Genome. 52:308-319.
• Triapitsyn, Serguei V.; Huber, John T.; Logarzo, Guillermo A.; Berezovskiy, Vladimir V. and Aquino, Daniel A. 2010. Review of Gonatocerus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in the Neotropical region, with description of eleven new species. Zootaxa 2456:1-243
• Sharanowski, Barbara J.; Robbertse, Barbara; Walker, John; Voss, S. Randal; Yoder, Ryan; Spatafora, Joseph; Sharkey, Michael J. 2010. Expressed sequence tags reveal Proctotrupomorpha (minus Chalcidoidea) as sister to Aculeata (Hymenoptera: Insecta). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57:101–112.
• Vilhelmsen, Lars; Perrichot, Vincent and Shaw, Scott R. 2010. Past and present diversity and distribution in the parasitic wasp family Megalyridae (Hymenoptera). Systematic Entomology. 35:658-677.
• Wei, Shu-jun; Shi, Min; Sharkey, Michael J.; van Achterberg, Cornelis and Chen, Xue-xin. 2010. Comparative mitogenomics of Braconidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) and the phylogenetic utility of mitochondrial genomes with special reference to Holometabolous insects. BMC Genomics. 11:371.
• Wei, Shu-Jun; Shi, Min; Chen, Xue-xin; Sharkey, Michael J.; van Achterberg, Cornelis; Ye, Gong-yin and He, Jun-hua. 2010. New views on strand asymmetry in insect mitochondrial genomes. PLoS ONE. 5(9):e12708.
• Pitz, Kevin M. 2010. New taxonomic status of Foenomorpha Szepligeti as a subgenus of Capitonius Brulle (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cenocoeliinae) including a revision of species. Zootaxa. 2607:1-54.
• Lohse, K., Sharanowski, B.J., Stone, G.N. 2010. Quantifying the Pleistocene history of the oak gall parasitoid Cecidostiba fungosa using twenty nuclear intron loci. Evolution 64: 2664-2681.
• Lohse, K., Sharanowski, B. J. Blaxter, M., Nicholls, J. and Stone, G. N. 2010. Developing EPIC markers for chalcidoid Hymenoptera from EST and genomic data. Molecular Ecology Resources in press.

Hymenoptera Course

• Organised and supported the Hymenoptera identification course in Dominican Republic, in September 2008, and provided lectures for the superfamilies of the Hymenoptera, and the Symphyta and Braconidae. Financially supported a student from Colombia to participate in the course.