Publications of Michael Balke (selection)

Cover Proc. R. Soc. London Ribera, I., Beutel, R.G., Balke, M. & Vogler, A.P. 2002. Discovery of Aspidytidae, a new family of aquatic Coleoptera. - Proceedings of the Royal Society, London (B) 269: 2351-2356.

Cover Systematic Entomology Ribera, I., Bilton, D.T., Balke, M. Hendrich, L. 2003. Evolution, mitochondrial DNA phylogeny and systematic position of the Macaronesian endemic Hydrotarsus Falkenström (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). - Systematic Entomology 28, 493-508.

Cover Systematic Entomology Balke, M., Watts, C.H.S., Cooper, S.J.B., Humphreys, W.F., Vogler, A.P. 2004. A highly modified stygobiont diving beetle of the genus Copelatus (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae): Taxonomy and cladistic analysis based on mitochondrial DNA sequences. - Systematic Entomology 29, 59-67.

Cover Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution Balke, M., Ribera, I., Vogler, A.P. 2004. MtDNA phylogeny and biogeography of Copelatinae, a highly diverse group of tropical diving beetles (Dytiscidae). - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32, 866-880.

Cover Journal for zoological systematics and evolutionary research Balke, M., Ribera, I. & Beutel. R.G. 2005. The systematic position of Aspidytidae, the diversification of Dytiscoidea (Coleoptera, Adephaga) and the phylogenetic signal of third codon positions. - Journal for zoological systematics and evolutionary research 43, 223-242.

Cover Cladistics Beutel. R.G., Balke, M. & Steiner Jr., W.J. 2006. The systematic position of Meruidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga) based on a cladistic analysis of morphological characters. Cladistics 22, 102-131.

Cover Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution Kotrba, M. & Balke, M. 2006. The systematic position of sexually dimorphic stalk-eyed flies of the genus Cladodiopsis Séguy, 1949 (Diptera: Diopsidae) inferred from DNA sequence data. - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 38, 843-847.

over Proceedings of the Royal Society Monaghan, M.T., Balke, M., Pons, J. & Vogler, A.P. 2006. Beyond Barcodes. Complex DNA taxonomy of a South Pacific Island radiation. - Proceedings of the Royal Society, London (B) 273, 887-893.

over Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Monaghan, M.T., Balke, M., Gregory, R.T. & Vogler, A.P. 2005. DNA-based species delineation in tropical beetles using mitochondrial and nuclear markers. - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B) 360 (1462), 1925-1933.

Cover Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution Balke, M., Pons, J., Ribera, I., Sagata, K. & Vogler, A.P. 2007. Infrequent and unidirectional colonization of megadiverse Papuadytes diving beetles in New Caledonia and New Guinea. - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42, 505-516.

Cover Zoologica Scripa Balke, M., Alarie, Y., Ribera, I. & Wewalka, G. 2007. Molecular Phylogeny of Pacific Island Colymbetini: radiation of New Caledonian and Fijian species. - Zoologica Scripta 36, 173-200.

Cover Journal of Biogeography Ribera, I. & Balke, M. 2007. Recognition of a species-poor, geographically restricted but morphologically diverse Cape lineage of beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). - Journal of Biogeography 34: 1220-1232.

Cover of Cladistics Ribera, I., Vogler, A.P. & Balke, M. 2008. Molecular phylogeny and diversification of diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). – Cladistics 24, 563-590.

Cover Systemtics and Biodiversity Shaverdo, H., Monaghan, M.T., Lees, D., Ranaivosolo, R. & Balke, M. 2008. A new genus of Malagasy endemic diving beetles and description of a highly unusual species based on morphology and DNA sequence data (Dytiscidae: Copelatinae). – Systematics and Biodiversity 6, 43–51.

Science cover Hunt, T., Bergsten, J., Levkanicova, Z., Papadopoulou, A., St John, O., Wild, R., Hammond, P.M., Ahrens, D., Balke, M., Caterino, M.S., Gómez-Zurita, J., Ribera, I., Barraclough, T.G., Bocakova, M., Bocak, L. & Vogler, A.P. 2007. A comprehensive phylogeny of beetles reveals the evolutionary origins of a super-radiation. - Science 318, 1913-1916.

Cover PNAS Balke, M., Gómez-Zurita, J., Ribera, I., Viloria, A., Zillikens, A., Steiner, J., García, M. & Vogler, A.P. 2008. Ancient associations of aquatic beetles and tank bromeliads in the Neotropical forest canopy. – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS) 105, 6356-6361.

Cover Zoologica Scripa Balke, M., Ribera, I., Beutel, R., Viloria, A., Garcia, M. & Vogler, A.P. 2008. Systematic placement of the recently discovered beetle family Meruidae (Coleoptera: Dytiscoidea) based on molecular data. – Zoologica Scripta 37, 647–650.

Cover Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution Wowor, D., Muthu, V. , Meier, R., Balke, M., Cai , Y. & Ng, P.K.L. 2009. Evolution of life history traits in Asian freshwater prawns of the genus Macrobrachium (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) based on multilocus molecular phylogenetic analysis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 52 (2): 340-350. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.01.002.

over Proceedings of the Royal Society Balke, M., Ribera, I., Miller, M., Hendrich, L., Sagata, K., Posman, A., Vogler, A.P. & Meier, R. 2009. New Guinea highland origin of a widespread arthropod supertramp. Proceedings of the Royal Society London Ser. B, 276: 2359-2367. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0015.

Riedel, A., Daawia, D. & Balke, M. 2009. Deep cox1 divergence and hyperdiversity of Trigonopterus weevils in a New Guinea mountain range (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). –Zoologica Scripta 39: 63–74. Doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00404.x

Cover Systematic Biology Monaghan, M..T., R. Wild, M. Elliot, T. Fujisawa, M. Balke, D.J.G. Inward, D.C. Lees, R Ranaivosolo, P. Eggleton, T.G. Barraclough & A.P. Vogler, 2009. Accelerated species inventory on Madagascar using coalescent-based models of species delineation. – Systematic Biology 58 (3) :298–311. Doi:10.1093/sysbio/syp027

WBNC Jäch, M.A. & Balke, M. (eds.): Water beetles of New Caledonia (part 1). - Monographs on Coleoptera 3: IV+449 pp.

Hendrich, L., Pons, J., Ribera, I. & Balke, M. (2010): Mitochondrial cox1 sequence data reliably uncover patterns of insect diversity but suffer from high lineage-idiosyncratic error rates. Plos ONE 5(12): e14448. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014448 Link...

Hawlitschek O, Porch N, Hendrich L, Balke M (2011) Ecological Niche Modelling and nDNA Sequencing Support a New, Morphologically Cryptic Beetle Species Unveiled by DNA Barcoding. PLoS ONE 6(2): e16662. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016662. Link...

Cover Hendrich, L.; Balke, M. 2011: A simultaneous journal / wiki publication and dissemination of a new species description: Neobidessodes darwiniensis sp. n. from northern Australia (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini). ZooKeys, 79: 11-20. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.79.803 Link...

Gómez-Zurita, J., Sassi, D., Cardoso, A., Balke, M. (2011): Evolution of Central European and Mediterranean Cryptocephalus jewel leaf beetles and sources of widespread incongruence between DNA and morphology. - ZoologicaScripta (in press).

Hawlitschek, O., Hendrich, L. & M. Balke (2011): Molecular phylogeny of the squeak beetles, a family with disjunct Palaearctic-Australian range.- Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (in press).

Bergsten, J., Bilton, D.T., Fujisawa, T., Elliott, M., Monaghan, M., Balke, M., Hendrich, L., Geijer, J., Herrmann, J., Foster, G., Ribera, I., Nilsson, A.N., Barraclough, T.G. & A.P. Vogler (2011): The Effect of Geographical Scale of Sampling on DNA Barcoding.-Systematic Biology (submitted).