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Imperial College London , Ph.D. (2004)
Specialty: Entomology, Lepidopterology, Systematic biology, mimicry biology, phylogeography, plant and insect relationships, biodiversity database, aquatic botany
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Yen, Shen-Horn |
TEL: |
886-7-5252000 Ext:3612 |
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886-7-5253609 |
Research Interests
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Systematics, phylogenetics and evolutionary ecology of the Lepidoptera
and some smaller insect orders |
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Evolutionary dynamics and behavioural ecology relevant to mimicry,
camouflage and aposematism |
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Colonization and diversification of phytophagous insects on plants |
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Technology and applications of biodiversity and natural history
collection databases |
Selected
publication
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1 |
Als T,
Vila
R, Kandul N, Nash D,
Yen, SH, Hsu YF, Mignault A,
Boomsma K, Pierce. 2004. The evolution of
alternative parasitic life histories
in Large Blue butterflies. Nature 432:
286-290.
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2 |
Yen, SH,
Robinson GS, Quicke DLJ. 2005. The
Phylogenetic relationships of Chalcosiinae
(Lepidoptera, Zygaenoidea, Zygaenidae).
Zoological
Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 161-341. |
3 |
Yen SH, Robinson
GS, Quicke DLJ. 2005. Phylogeny, systematics
and evolution of mimetic wing patterns of Eterusia
moths (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae:
Chalcosiinae).
Systematic
Entomology
30: 358-397. |
4 |
Niehuis O, Yen
SH, Naumann(†) CM, Misof B. 2006. Higher phylogeny of zygaenid moths (Insecta:
Lepidoptera) inferred from nuclear and
mitochondrial sequence data and the evolution
of larval cuticular cavities for chemical
defence. Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution 39: 812-829. |
5 |
Yen SH, Minet J. 2007. Cimelioidea: a new superfamily name
for the gold moths (Lepidoptera: Glossata). Zoological Studies 46 (3): 262-271. |
6 |
Vila
M, Marı´-Mena N, Yen
SH, Lopez-Vaamonde C. 2009.
Characterization of ten polymorphic
microsatellite markers for the protected
Spanish moon moth Graellsia isabelae (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). Conservation Genetics doi:
10.1007/s10592-009-9905-1 |
7 |
Regier JC, Zwick A,
Cummings MP, Kawahara AK, Cho S, Weller S, Roe
A, Baixeras J, Brown JW, Parr C, Davis DR,
Epstein M, Hallwachs W, Hausmann A, Janzen DH,
Kitching IJ, Solis A, Yen
SH, Bazinet AL, Mitter C. 2009. Toward
reconstructing the evolution of advanced moths
and butterflies (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia): an
initial molecular study. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 (9):280doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-280 |
8 |
Scott JL, Kawahara AY,
Skevington JH, Yen
SH, Sami A, Smith ML, Yack JE. 2010.
Talking evolves from walking in terrestrial
caterpillars. Nature Communications (in press) |
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Wu LW, Yen
SH, Lees DC, Hsu YF. 2010. Elucidating
genetic signatures of native and introduced
populations of the Cycad Blue, Chilades
pandava to
Taiwan
: a threat both to Sago Palm and to native
Cycas populations worldwide. Biological
Invasions (in press) |
Links
to some research projects I am involved in
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of my lab
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of selected courses
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