A bit about me...
Christopher D. Beatty Ph.D.
On the trail of Amazonian damselflies; Pacaya-Samiria National Park, Peru, 2008
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
current:
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, California
VISITING SCHOLAR, PROGRAM FOR CONSERVATION GENOMICS
past:
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, New York
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW, CENTER FOR COMPARATIVE & POPULATION GENOMICS 2015
CHRISTIAN ALBRECHTS UNIVERSITY OF KIEL, Kiel, Germany
RESEARCH FELLOW, GERMAN ACADEMIC EXCHANGE SERVICE (DAAD) 2015
Zoological Institute: Functional Morphology and Biomechanics
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY, Santa Clara, California
LECTURER IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, DEPT. OF BIOLOGY 2009-2014
UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO, Pontevedra, Spain
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW , SPANISH MINISTRY OF EDUCATION & SCIENCE, 2007-2009
EDUCATION
CARLETON UNIVERSITY, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Ph.D. BIOLOGY 2006
Supervisor: Tom Sherratt
Thesis: Warning Signal Evolution in Natural and Virtual Populations.
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
M.S. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE-ECOLOGY 2002
Supervisors: Paul Jepson & Judy Li
Thesis: Habitat Associations and Life Histories of Odonata in Riverine Wetlands of the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Coursework emphasis in community ecology, insect ecology and systematics.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana, Illinois, USA
B.S. ECOLOGY, ETHOLOGY & EVOLUTION 1996
Specialized curriculum including graduate-level courses in freshwater ecology and evolutionary ecology
A. M. Goodman, C. D. Beatty, S. Büsse, H. Ubukata, T. Miyazaki, J. L. Ware 2023. Paleoecological niche modeling of Epiophlebia (Epiophlebioptera: Epiophlebiidae) reveals continuous distribution during the Last Glacial Maximum. International Journal of Odonatology In Review.
M. Sanchez-Herrera, J. P. Mongui, R. Nunes, W. R. Kuhn, C. D. Beatty, J. L. Ware & C. Salazar 2023. Exploring the genetic and morphological diversity through Neotropical mountains and rivers: the history of the highly polymorphic Polythore damselflies (Odonata:Polythoridae). Insect Diversity and Systematics In Revision.
E.R. Tolman, C.D. Beatty, J. Bush, M. Kohli, P.B. Frandsen, J.S. Gosnell & J.L. Ware 2023. High levels of chromosomal synteny in 250 million year old groups of dragonflies and damselflies (Insecta:Odonata). Molecular Ecology Accepted September 18, 2023.
E.R. Tolman, C.D. Beatty, J. Bush, M. Kohli, C.M. Moreno, J.L. Ware, K.S. Weber, R. Khan, C. Maheshwari, D. Weisz & O. Dudchenko 2023. A Chromosome-length Assembly of the Black Petaltail (Tanypteryx hageni) Dragonfly. Genome Biology and Evolution, DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evad024.
C.D. Beatty, F. Alves-Martins, B.D. Smith, and J. Verheyen, 'Biogeographical ecology in Odonata', in Alex Cordoba-Aguilar, Christopher Beatty, and Jason Bried (eds), Dragonflies and Damselflies: Model Organisms for Ecological and Evolutionary Research, 2nd edn Oxford, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898623.003.0013.
M. Sanchez-Herrera, Y.M. Vega-Sánchez, C.D. Beatty, 'Phylogeography: A spatiotemporal perspective on Odonata distributions', in Alex Cordoba-Aguilar, Christopher Beatty, and Jason Bried (eds), Dragonflies and Damselflies: Model Organisms for Ecological and Evolutionary Research, 2nd edn Oxford, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898623.003.0022.
A. Rivas-Torres, B. Rashni, H. Waqa-Sakiti, M. Tuiwawa, M. O. Lorenzo-Carballa, C. D. Beatty & A. Cordero-Rivera 2021. Nesobasis rito sp. nov. (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae), a new species of forest damselfly from Vanua Levu, Fiji. Zootaxa DOI:https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.2.1
M. O. Lorenzo-Carballa, Y. Torres-Cambas, K. Heaton, G.D.D. Hurst, S. Charlat, T. N. Sherratt, H. Van Gossum, A. Cordero-Rivera and C. D. Beatty 2019. Widespread Wolbachia infection in an insular radiation of damselflies (Odonata, Coenagrionidae). Scientific Reports DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-47954-3
M. Sánchez Herrera, C. D. Beatty, R. Nunes, E. Reaple, C. Salazar & J.L. Ware 2018. A molecular systematic analysis of the Neotropical banner winged damselflies (Polythoridae: Odonata). Systematic Entomology 43: 56-67 DOI: 10.1111/syen.12249.
C. D. Beatty, M. Sánchez Herrera, J. H. Skevington, A. Rashed, H. Van Gossum, S. Kelso, & T. N. Sherratt. 2017. Biogeography and systematics of endemic island damselflies: the Nesobasis and Melanesobasis (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) of Fiji. Ecology & Evolution 7(17): 7117-7129. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3175.
R.A. Sánchez-Guillén, M. Wellenreuther, J.R. Chávez-Ríos, C.D. Beatty, A. Rivas-Torres, M.I. Velasquez-Velez & A. Cordero-Rivera 2017. Alternative reproductive strategies and the maintenance of female color polymorphism in damselflies. Ecology & Evolution 7(17): 5592-5602. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3083.
C. D. Beatty, J. A. Andrés & T. N. Sherratt 2015. Conspicuous coloration in males of the damselfly Nehalennia irene (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae): do males signal their unprofitability to other males? PLOS ONE DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142684.
M. Sanchez Herrera, W.R. Kuhn, M.O. Lorenzo Carballa, K. M. Harding, N. Ankrom*, T. N. Sherratt, J. Hoffmann, H. Van Gossum, J.L. Ware, A. Cordero Rivera & C. D. Beatty 2015. Mixed Signals? Morphological and Molecular Evidence Suggest a Color Polymorphism in some Neotropical Polythore damselflies. PLOS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.012507.
J.L. Ware, C.D. Beatty, M. Sánchez Herrera, G. Theischinger, S. Valley, J. Johnson, C. Kerst and M.L. May 2014. The petaltail dragonflies (Odonata: Petaluridae): Mesozoic habitat specialists that survive to the modern day. Journal of Biogeography 41(7): 1291-1300.
J.S. Farnsworth & C.D. Beatty. 2012. The Journal’s the Thing: Teaching Natural History and Nature Writing in Baja California Sur. The Journal of Natural History Education and Experience 6: 16-24.
C.D. Beatty & D.W. Franks. 2012. Discriminative Predation: Simultaneous and Sequential Encounter Experiments. Current Zoology 58(4): 649-657.
M.O. Lorenzo Carballa, C.D. Beatty, R. Haitlinger, A.G. Valdecasas, C. Utzeri, V. Vieira & A. Cordero Rivera. 2011. Larval aquatic and terrestrial mites infesting parthenogenetic Ischnura hastata (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) from the Azores islands. Experimental and Applied Acarology 54(3): 225-241.
M.O. Lorenzo Carballa, C. D. Beatty & A. Cordero Rivera 2011. Parthenogenesis in island insects - the case study of Ischnura hastata. In: M. Boieiro & A. Serrano (eds.) Terrestrial Arthropods of Macaronesia – biodiversity, ecology and evolution. Sociedade Portuguesa de Entomologia.
C.D. Beatty 2011. Tracking the River Cruiser. In: J.L. Li & M. Barbour (eds.) Wading for Bugs: Exploring Streams with the Experts. Oregon State University Press.
C. D. Beatty, S. Fraser*, F. Pérez-Jvostov & T. N. Sherratt 2010. Dragonfly and Damselfly (Insecta: Odonata) Distributions in Ontario, Canada: Investigating the Influence of Climate Change. BioRisk 5: 225-241.
M.O. Lorenzo Carballa, C.D. Beatty, C. Utzeri, V. Vieira & A. Cordero Rivera. 2009. Parthenogenetic Ischnura hastata populations in the Azores revisited: present status and notes on biology, behaviour and population ecology. International Journal of Odonatology 12(2): 395-412.
H. Van Gossum, C. D. Beatty, M. Tokota´a & T. N. Sherratt 2008. The Fijian Nesobasis: A further examination of species diversity and abundance (Odonata: Zygoptera). Odonatologica 37(3): 235-245.
H. Van Gossum, C. D. Beatty, S. Charlat, H. Waqa, T. Markwell, J. H. Skevington, M. Tuiwawa & T. N. Sherratt 2007. Male rarity and putative sex-role reversal in Fijian damselflies (Odonata). Journal of Tropical Ecology 23(5): 591-598.
C. D. Beatty, H. Van Gossum & T. N. Sherratt 2007. Nesobasis species diversity and abundance: notes on an endemic damselfly genus of the Island group of Fiji (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae). Odonatologica 36(1): 13-26.
H. Van Gossum, C. D. Beatty & T. N. Sherratt. 2006. The Zygoptera of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, the two larger islands in the Fiji archipelago. IDF-Report 9: 1-14.
A. Rashed, C. D. Beatty, M. R. Forbes & T. N. Sherratt 2005. Prey selection by dragonflies in relation to prey size and wasp-like colours and patterns. Animal Behaviour 70: 1195–1202.
T. N. Sherratt, A. Rashed & C. D. Beatty 2005. Hiding in Plain Sight. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20(8): 414-416.
T. N. Sherratt & C. D. Beatty 2005. Island of the Clones. Nature 435(7045): 1039-1040.
C. D. Beatty, R. S. Bain & T. N. Sherratt 2005. The evolution of aggregation in profitable and unprofitable prey. Animal Behaviour 70: 199-208.
C. D. Beatty, K. Beirinckx & T. N. Sherratt 2004. The evolution of müllerian mimicry in multispecies communities. Nature 431(7004): 63-66.
T. N. Sherratt, A. Rashed & C. D. Beatty 2004. The evolution of locomotory behaviour in profitable and unprofitable simulated prey. Oecologia 138: 143-150.
T. N. Sherratt & C. D. Beatty 2003. The evolution of warning signals as reliable indicators of prey defense. The American Naturalist 162(4): 377-389. (featured in a News & Views article in Nature and an editor’s review in American Entomologist).
C. D. Beatty & K. L. Streeter 1999. Assessment of Habitat Conditions and Invertebrate Assemblages in the Streams of the Lower Tualatin River Basin. Final Report, Water Environment Services of Clackamas County, Oregon, USA.