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Graduate Student Qualifying Exam Papers

Below are the recommended papers for study for the qualifying exams into the grauate program in Entomology.

  1. Alteri, MA, Lewis, WJ, Martin, PB. 1983 A quest for ecologically based pest management systems (1MB PDF). Environmental Management 7(1): 91-103.
  2. Berenbaum M. 1983 Coumarins and catapillars: a case for coevolution (1.3MB PDF). Evolution 37(1): 163-179.
  3. Bergstrom LGW. 2008 Chemical communication by behaviour-guiding olfactory signals (1.5MB PDF). Chemical Communications 34: 3941-4080.
  4. Brattsten LB, Wilkinson CF, Eisner T. 1975 Herbivore-plant interactions: mixed-function oxidases and secondary plant substances (557k PDF). Science 196 (4296), 1349-1352.
  5. Bronstein JL, Wilson WG, Morris WE. 2003 Ecological dynamics of mutualist/antagonist communities. (495k PDF) American Naturalist 162, supplement. S24-S39.
  6. Dusfour et al 2019 Management of insecticide resistance in the major Aedes vectors of arboviruses: Advances and challenges PLoS NTD: https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0007615
  7. Eisen RJ, Kugeler KJ, Eisen L, Beard CB, Paddock CD 2017 Tick-Borne Zoonoses in the United States: Persistent and Emerging Threats to Human Health ILAR Journal 58(3): 319–335, https://doi.org/10.1093/ilar/ilx005
  8. Estay SA, Lima M, Bozinovic F. 2014 The role of termperature variability on insect performance and population dynamics in a warming world (1.3MB PDF). Oikos 123: 131-140.
  9. Kaya HK, Vega FE. 2012 Scope and basic principles of insect pathology (498k PDF). Insect Pathology Chapter 1.
  10. Liebhold AM, Tobin PC. 2008 Population ecology of insect invasions and their management (267k PDF). Annual Review of Entomology 53: 387-408.
  11. Lounibos LP. 2002 Invasions by insect vectors of human disease (8.7MB PDF). Annual Review of Entomology 47:233-266.
  12. Maddison DR. 2016 The rapidly changing landscape of insect phylogenetics (210k PDF). Current Opinion in Insect Science 18:77-82.
  13. Parmesan C. et al. 1999 Poleward shifts in geographical ranges of butterfly species associated with regional warming. Nature 399: 579-583.
  14. Peterson, RKD, Higley, LG, and Pedigo, LP 2018 Whatever happened to IPM? American Entomologist Fall 146-150.
  15. Pfaffle M, Littwin N, Muders SV, Petney TN. 2013 The ecology of tick-borne diseases (356k PDF). International Journal of Parasitology. 42:1059-1077.
  16. Raguso RA, Agrawal AA, Douglas AE, Jander G, Kessler A, Poveda K, Thaler JS. 2015 The raison d'être of chemical ecology (251k PDF). Ecology 96(3):617-630.
  17. Tomberlin J. Benbow ME. 2011 A roadmap for bridging basic and applied research in forensic entomology (988k PDF). Annual Review of Entomology DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-051710-103143.
  18. Von Frisch K. 1967 Honeybees: do they use direction and distance information provided by their dancers? (790k PDF) Science 158: 1072-1076.
  19. Wagner DL. 2020 Insect declines in the Anthropocene. Annual Review of Entomology, 65:457-480. (download pdf)