I am a seasoned scientist and author, with 25+ years of experience in research, technical writing, and communication in the life sciences. I have published a large number of peer-reviewed research articles, as well as book chapters aimed at both academic audiences and the general public. You can check out my publication information on ResearchGate and Google Scholar. Below is a list of my publications.
My most recent book!
Two years in the making, Dragonflies & Damselflies: Model Organisms for Ecological and Evolutionary Research includes 29 chapters on a range of applied and theoretical research topics. This second edition expands on the original (2008), including an update on previously covered research areas and new topics, such as the use of genomics in population research. While focusing on dragonflies, this accessible text is an essential source of knowledge that describes how different sets of evolutionary and ecological principles and ideas have been tested on a particular taxon. I was a contributing author for two of the chapter herein (on Biogeographical Ecology and Phylogeography), and was lead editor on 11 chapters.
Peer reviewed articles:
I. Finkelstein, C.D. Beatty, K. Loeffler-Henry and T.N. Sherratt 2025. The Causes and Consequences of the Evolution of Territoriality in Odonates: A Phylogenetic Analysis. Evolution, Submitted.
E.R. Tolman, C.D. Beatty, A. Goodman, P. Ramchand*, T. McAllister, K. Reyes*, A. Zahara*, K. Taveras*, V. Wade*, J. Abbott, S. Bybee, P.B. Frandsen, R. Guralnick, M.K. Kohli, J.L. Ware, A. Suvorov 2024. Elevational and Oceanic Barriers Shape the Distribution, Dispersal and Diversity of Aotearoa’s Kapokapowai (Uropetala) Dragonflies. Evolution, In Revision. bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.25.625207v1.
R. Uche-Dike, E. Tolman, C. Benischek*, M. Schneider*, M.K. Kohli, J. Bush, P. B. Frandsen, I.M. Errigo, W. Frankel*, K. Gnojewski, K. Chmura, D. Jordan, H. Kittler*, M. Liao*, T. Tobin*, C. Su*, G. Castillo*, E. Derderian*, M. Wei*, S. Fernandez-Jaurez*, T. Tamano*, B. Gallafent*, J. Jenson*, C.A. Walser*, J.L. Ware, C.D. Beatty 2024. Environmental DNA vs. Community Science: Strengths and Limitations for Urban Odonata Surveys. Insect Conservation & Diversity, In Revision bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.26.625270v2.
E.R. Tolman, N. Gamett, A. Goodman, C.D. Beatty, B. Hahn, C. Benischek*, G. Castillo*, E. Derderian*, S. Fernandez-Juarez*, B. Gallafent*, J. Jenson*, D. Jordan, M. Schneider*, T. Tamano*, M. Wei*, J.L. Ware, A. Suvorov, M.K. Kohli 2024. The Blueprint of Survival: Pachydiplax longipennis (Insecta: Odonata) as a Model for Urban Adaptation. BMC Evolutionary Biology, Revision submitted. bioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.12.628234.
E. R. Tolman, C. D. Beatty, J. Bush, O. R. Bruchim, E. S. Driever, P.B. Frandsen, K.M. Harding, D. Jordan, M. K. Kohli, J. Park*, S. Park*, K. Reyes*, M. Rosari*, J. L. Ryu*, V. Wade & J. L. Ware 2025. Newly Sequenced Genomes Reveal Patterns of Gene Family Expansion in select Dragonflies (Odonata: Anisoptera). Insect Systematics and Diversity Revision submitted. bioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.11.569651.
N.A. Saxton, G.S. Powell, B. Rashni, C.R. Jensen, C.D. Beatty, M. Marinov, S.M. Bybee 2025. Rediscovery of Melanesobasis Donnelly, 1984 (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) in Vanuatu reveals a pattern of vicariance in insular damselflies. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society Revision Submitted.
J.L. Ware, J. Abbott, K. Abbott, C.D. Beatty, C.A. Bota-Sierra, S. Büsse, Y. Cano-Cobos, R. Combey, J. Fomekong-Lontchi, P.B. Frandsen, A. Goodman, R. Guralnick, L. Juen, V.J. Kalkman, K. Kemabonta, M.K. Kohli, L.G. Newton, V. Onsongo, P. Lupiyaningdyah, P. Pessacq, R. Guillermo Ferreira, R. Salas, M. Sanchez Herrera, L. Sutherland, K. Tennessen, E.R. Tolman, R. Uche Dike, M. Wellenreuther S.M. Bybee 2025. Odonata systematics: Past, present, and future: a review of the phylogenetic works in Anisoptera (dragonflies). Insect Systematics and Diversity, Revision submitted.
L. Sutherland, P. Carter, J. Abbott, C.D. Beatty, C.A. Bota-Sierra, S. Büsse, Y. Cano-Cobos, R. Combey, A. Cordero-Rivera, R. Uche-Dike, P.B. Frandsen, A. Goodman, R. Guillermo-Ferreira, R. Guralnick, R. Hadfield, G. Jijon, L. Juen, V.J. Kalkman, M.K. Kohli, Y. Fei Lin, J. Fomekong-Lontchi, P. Lupiyaningdyah, L. Newton, V. Onsongo, P. Pessacq, M. Sanchez-Herrera, R.A. Sanchez Guillen, K. Tennessen, E.R. Tolman, J.L. Ware, M. Wellenreuther. and S. Bybee 2025. Zygoptera Systematics: Past, present, and future. Insect Diversity and Systematics Accepted March 18, 2025.
M. Marinov, T.W. Donnelley & C.D. Beatty 2025. Nikoulabasis dalingarum sp. nov. from Fiji (Odonata: Coenagrionidae). Zootaxa 5601 (2): 395–400 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5601.2.13.
J.L. Ware, C.P. Hulick, L. Newton, M.K. Kohli, E.R. Tolman, A. Goodman, C.D. Beatty, R. Guralnick, J.C. Abbott, P.B. Frandsen, S.M. Bybee and J.A. Soto-Centeno 2025. Bringing Shadowdragons to Light: Neurocordulia (Anisoptera: Corduliidae) systematics. International Journal of Odonatology 28: 1–15 https://doi.org/10.48156/1388.2025.1917307.
T.N. Sherratt, C.D. Beatty, I. Dewan, K. Di Iorio, I. Finkelstein, K. Loeffler-Henry, M. Miller, F. Para, M. Raposo & F. Sherratt 2025. Territorial-sneaker games with non-uniform interactions and female mate choice. Behavioural Ecology 36(2): 1-15 https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araf002.
E.R. Tolman, C.D. Beatty, M.K. Kohli, J. Abbott, S.M. Bybee, P.B. Frandsen, J.S. Gosnell, R. Guralnick, V.J. Kalkman, L.G. Newton, A. Suvorov and J.L. Ware 2024. A molecular phylogeny of the Petaluridae (Odonata: Anisoptera): A 160-Million-Year-Old story of drift and extinction. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, p.108185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108185.
A. M. Goodman, C. D. Beatty, S. Büsse, H. Ubukata, T. Miyazaki, J. L. Ware 2024. Paleoecological niche modeling of Epiophlebia (Epiophlebioptera: Epiophlebiidae) reveals continuous distribution during the Last Glacial Maximum. International Journal of Odonatology 27: 60-76 doi:10.48156/1388.2024.1917262.
C. D. Beatty, B. Rashni, A. Cordero-Rivera, M. Marninov. 2023. Nikoulabasis roseosticta, sp. nov. from Fiji (Odonata: Coenagrionidae). Zootaxa 5383 (2): 135-152 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5383.2.2.
E.R. Tolman, C.D. Beatty, J. Bush, M. Kohli, P.B. Frandsen, J.S. Gosnell & J.L. Ware 2023. Exploring chromosome evolution in 250 million year old groups of dragonflies and damselflies (Insecta: Odonata). Molecular Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17147.
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 and M. Kohli '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.