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List of works by James A. Nicholls

A New Cycloneuroterus Melika & Tang Oak Gallwasp Species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) Associated with Lithocarpus (Fagaceae) from Taiwan

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

A New Genus of Oak Gallwasp, Heocynips Fang, Nieves-Aldrey, and Melika (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), from China

scientific article

A new Plagiotrochus Mayr oak gall wasp species from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini)

scientific article published in June 2016

A new genus of Nearctic oak gall wasp, Grahamstoneia Melika & Nicholls, gen. nov. (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

A new genus of Neotropical oak gall wasp, Prokius Nieves-Aldrey, Medianero & Nicholls, gen. nov. (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), with description of two new species from Panama

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A new genus of oak gallwasp, Cyclocynips Melika, Tang & Sinclair (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), with descriptions of two new species from Taiwan

scientific article (publication date: 21 March 2013)

A new genus of oak gallwasp, Protobalandricus Melika, Nicholls Stone (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) from California

scientific article published in 2018

A new genus of oak gallwasps, Cycloneuroterus Melika & Tang, with the description of five new species from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 August 2011

A new species of Andricus Hartig gallwasps from California (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) galling Notholithocarpus (Fagaceae)

Andricus forni Pujade-Villar Nicholls n. sp., a new species of oak gallwasp from China (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)

scientific article published on 04 December 2020

Andricus pseudocecconii sp. nova (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) from Iran ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 May 2022

Chemocoding as an identification tool where morphological- and DNA-based methods fall short: Inga as a case study.

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Coevolutionary arms race versus host defense chase in a tropical herbivore-plant system

scientific article published on 21 August 2017

Community impacts of anthropogenic disturbance: natural enemies exploit multiple routes in pursuit of invading herbivore hosts ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 23 October 2010)

Concordant phylogeography and cryptic speciation in two Western Palaearctic oak gall parasitoid species complexes.

scientific article published on 8 January 2010

Corrigendum: Patterns of diversification amongst tropical regions compared: a case study in Sapotaceae

scientific article published on 5 March 2015

Current status of the oak gallwasp (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) fauna of the Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental Regions

scientific article

Description and Biology of the Sexual Generation of Disholcaspis quercusmamma (Walsh and Riley) (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), with Notes on Associated Parasitoids

scientific article published in 2014

Description of Dryocosmus destefanii new species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) from Quercus suber L. in Italy

scientific article

Description of the sexual generation of Dryocosmus destefanii (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) and disclosure of its life cycle

scientific article published on 20 February 2020

Developing EPIC markers for chalcidoid Hymenoptera from EST and genomic data

scientific article published on 20 December 2010

Eight new species of Cycloneuroterus Melika & Tang gallwasps from Taiwan and mainland China (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini)

scientific article

Extreme host plant conservatism during at least 20 million years of host plant pursuit by oak gallwasps

scientific article published on 6 January 2009

First record of an Andricus oak gallwasp from the Oriental Region: a new species from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) ⬇️

scientific article published on 4 August 2009

Four New Species of Dryocosmus gallwasps from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini)

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Gradients in richness and turnover of a forest passerine's diet prior to breeding: A mixed model approach applied to faecal metabarcoding data

scientific article published on 27 March 2020

Holocynips illinoiensis, sp. nov., a new species of oak gall wasp (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) from the USA

scientific article published in 2023

Hybrid capture of 964 nuclear genes resolves evolutionary relationships in the mimosoid legumes and reveals the polytomous origins of a large pantropical radiation

scientific article published on 30 November 2020

Impacts of local adaptation of forest trees on associations with herbivorous insects: implications for adaptive forest management

scientific article

Inferring the colonization of a mountain range--refugia vs. nunatak survival in high alpine ground beetles

scientific article published on 12 November 2010

Life cycle of Disholcaspis quercusvirens (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) with a description of the sexual generation

scientific article published in September 2013

Life history, natural enemies, and management of Disholcaspis quercusvirens (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) on live oak trees

scientific article published in August 2013

Likelihood-based inference of population history from low-coverage de novo genome assemblies

scientific article published in January 2014

Mitochondrial barcodes are diagnostic of shared refugia but not species in hybridizing oak gallwasps

scientific article published on 25 June 2012

Molecular taxonomic analysis of the plant associations of adult pollen beetles (Nitidulidae: Meligethinae), and the population structure of Brassicogethes aeneus ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

Network structure and taxonomic composition of tritrophic communities of Fagaceae, cynipid gallwasps and parasitoids in Sichuan, China

scientific article published in 2024

New Dryocosmus Giraud species associated with Cyclobalanopsis and non-Quercus host plants from the Eastern Palaearctic (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae, Cynipini)

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New species of Dryocosmus Giraud gallwasps from California (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) galling Chrysolepis Hjelmq. (Fagaceae)

scientific article published on 19 December 2018

New species of Nearctic oak gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini)

scientific article

New species of cynipid inquiline, Saphonecrus kuriphilusi (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini), from Dryocosmus kuriphilus galls in Greece

scientific article

New species of cynipid inquilines of the genus Saphonecrus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) from the Eastern Palaearctic, with a re-appraisal of known species world-wide

scientific article (publication date: 8 December 2015)

New species of cynipid inquilines of the genus Synergus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) from the Eastern Palaearctic

scientific article (publication date: 12 August 2015)

New species of oak gallwaps from Iran (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) ⬇️

scientific article published on 7 February 2008

New species of oak gallwasps from Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

Pairing of sexual and asexual generations of Nearctic oak gallwasps, with new synonyms and new species names (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini)

scientific article published in 2022

Palaearctic oak gallwasps galling oaks (Quercus) in the section Cerris: re-appraisal of generic limits, with descriptions of new genera and species (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) ⬇️

scientific article published on 14 May 2010

Partitioning of herbivore hosts across time and food plants promotes diversification in the Megastigmus dorsalis oak gall parasitoid complex.

scientific article published on 25 December 2017

Patterns of diversification amongst tropical regions compared: a case study in Sapotaceae

scientific article published in 2014

Perched at the mito-nuclear crossroads: divergent mitochondrial lineages correlate with environment in the face of ongoing nuclear gene flow in an Australian bird

scientific article published on 9 April 2013

Phylogenomic analysis of protein-coding genes resolves complex gall wasp relationships

scholarly article

Re-description and systematic re-appraisal of the genus Kokkocynips Pujade-Villar & Melika, (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), including new combinations of Nearctic species and the description of a new species from Panama

scientific article

Re-establishment of the Nearctic oak cynipid gall wasp genus Druon Kinsey, 1937 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), with description of five new species

scientific article published in 2022

Re-establishment of the Nearctic oak cynipid gall wasp genus Feron Kinsey, 1937 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), including the description of six new species

scientific article published in 2023

Reconstructing community assembly in time and space reveals enemy escape in a Western Palearctic insect community

scientific article published on 8 March 2012

Retrieval of hundreds of nuclear loci from herbarium specimens

scientific article (publication date: 26 October 2016)

Revision of the Amphibolips ‘niger’ group with the description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Cynipini)

scientific article published on 30 October 2023

Sweet Tetra-Trophic Interactions: Multiple Evolution of Nectar Secretion, a Defensive Extended Phenotype in Cynipid Gall Wasps

scientific article published on 2 November 2016

The role of plant secondary metabolites in shaping regional and local plant community assembly

scientific article published on 20 March 2021

Three new Nearctic genera of oak cynipid gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini): Burnettweldia Pujade-Villar, Melika & Nicholls, Nichollsiella Melika, Pujade-Villar & Stone, Disholandricus Melika, Pujade-Villar & Nicholls; and… ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

Tournament ABC analysis of the western Palaearctic population history of an oak gall wasp, Synergus umbraculus

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Tracking of Host Defenses and Phylogeny During the Radiation of Neotropical -Feeding Sawflies (Hymenoptera; Argidae)

scientific article published on 23 August 2018

Using targeted enrichment of nuclear genes to increase phylogenetic resolution in the neotropical rain forest genus Inga (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae).

scientific article published on 17 September 2015

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