Naomi Pierce

Naomi E. Pierce (born 1954 in Colorado) is Professor of Biology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, one once held by Vladimir Nabokov position. Pierce examines the relationship between butterfly larvae and ants, as well as the genetic trends within the species in order to understand the development process.

  • 2.1 Research in the Pierce Lab
  • 2.2 Investigation of the kind Jalmenus Evagoras
  • 2.3 Research of ants history
  • 2.4 The Book of Biology: How Life Works

Life

Naomi Pierce was born in 1954 as the daughter of a geophysicist in Colorado.

Education

1972 Naomi Pierce started her Bachelor's degree in Humanities and later switched to biology. The course was taught by ecologists and evolutionary biologists Charles Remington. 1976 Pierce has completed her bachelor's degree in biology from Yale University. After graduation, she has studied with Charles Remington butterflies in Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Java, Bali and Australia.

In 1977, Naomi Pierce the Museum of Comparative Zoology, which was then headed by Edward O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler to doctorates. During her dissertation Naomi E. Pierce made ​​pioneering contributions in the field of insect behavioral ecology by examining the symbiosis between species and the impact that this has had on interactions between species and diversification. Since then, she has focused on the field of entomology and evolutionary biology, and always drew this insect in the center of their research.

In 1983 she received her Ph.D. at Harvard.

Career

Between 1984 and 1986 she worked as a research lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford, and has participated in a research with NATO in the Department of Zoology at Oxford.

In 1986, she moved to Princeton to work between 1986 and 1989 as an assistant and then from 1989 to 1990 as a cooperating professor of biology at Princeton University.

In 1991 she was appointed Hessel professor and curator of Lepidoptera.

Family

Her grandfather Ishizaka Yojiro (1900-1986) was a famous Japanese writer.

Her sister Tomi Pierce (1953-2010) was a writer and later producer of video games like Prince of Persia and The Last Express.

Naomi Pierce is married to the British biologist Andrew Berry; they have two twin daughters.

Services

Naomi E. Pierce studied one of the greatest of all butterfly families: the Lycaenidae. Approximately half of the species in this family is associated with ants. The compounds are mutualistic: The caterpillars are protected by the ants from predators and parasites; in return, but the caterpillars eat from special glands for the ants. Since Naomi E. Pierce had first learned of such interactions, she was fascinated by them and they decided the evolutionary costs and benefits of such compounds to study.

Research in the Pierce Lab

Naomi E. Pierce, together with a group of biologists from Harvard University, the Pierce Lab, where the research focuses on the ecology and evolution of interactions between species. The researchers examine the interactions between insects and plants, symbioses between ants and other organisms and endosymbiosis between ants and their bacterial co-workers. They also study the history of insects and use the experience gained in the research of life history, evolution and biogeography.

Investigation into the nature Jalmenus Evagoras

In Australia, Naomi E. Pierce investigated the type Jalmenus Evagoras, whose relationship with ants has served as a model system for the study of interactions between specific chemical communication, mutualism and the evolution of complex life history traits. In experiments, Naomi E. Pierce raised some caterpillars under field conditions with their attendant ants and other ants without. The results were spectacular for Pierce. About one hundred caterpillars that were brought up with ants, has survived to maturity, while those who were brought up without ants, has only one survived of 10,000.

Research of ants history

Together with a group of researchers from Harvard University Naomi E. Pierce has reconstructed the pedigree of the animals. For this purpose, the DNA was compared to that of six genes from 139 representative ant species. The aim of this research was to date on the basis of 43 fossils from different stages of ants history key events in the evolution of animal group. Pierce and her staff Corrie Moreau and Charles D. Bell were the first who could trace the origin of ants on 140000000-168000000 years, with the help of molecular sequence data. That is 40 million years older than previous estimates.

The book Biology: How Life Works

The book Biology: How Life Works was by Naomi Pierce along with James R. Morris, Daniel L. Hartl, Andrew H. Knoll, Robert A. Lue, Andrew Berry, Andrew Biewener, Brian Farrell, N. Michele Holbrook and Alain frequent in year 2012 written as a modern resource about biology for students. Biology: How Life Works has not been provided as a reference for all of biology, but rather as a source of basic concepts, terms, and experiments. This allows students to easily identify critical concepts to understand and apply.

Awards

Naomie E. Pierce received awards such as the Fulbright Fellowship and the MacArthur Award. She is also a community member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an important member of the Harvard Society of Fellows.

Publications (selection )

  • Let the Right One In: A Microeconomic Approach to Partner Choice in mutualisms. Authors: Marco Archetti, Francisco Úbeda de Torres, Drew Fudenberg, Jerry Green, Naomi E. Pierce, Douglas W. Yu. Published in The American Naturalist 177.1, 2011.
  • Asynchronous Diversification in a Specialized Plant- Pollinator Mutualism. Authors: Santiago R. Ramírez, Thomas Eltz, Mikiko K. Fujiwara, Günter Gerlach, Benjamin Goldman - Huertas, Neil D. Tsutsui, Naomi E. Pierce. Published in Science, vol. 333, 2011.
  • Reply to Kiers et al.: Economic and biological clarity in the theory of mutualism. Authors: EG Weyl, ME Frederickson, DW Yu, NE Pierce. Published in Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, vol. 108, pp. 8 -E8, 2011.
  • Nine novel microsatellite markers for the army ant Simopelta pergandei ( subfamily Ponerinae ). Authors: Daniel JC KronauerJacobus, Jacobus J. Boomsma, Naomi E. Pierce. Published in Conservation Genetics Resources, vol. 3, no 1, pp. 61-63, 2011.
  • A phylogenetic revision of the Glaucopsyche section (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae ), with special focus on the Phengaris - Maculinea clade. Authors: LV Ugelvig, R. Vila, NE Pierce, DR Nash. Published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - MOL PHYLOGENET EVOL, vol. 61, no 1, pp. 237-243, 2011.
  • Myrmecophiles. Authors: Daniel J. C. Kronauer, Naomi E. Pierce. Published in Current Biology - CURR BIOL, vol. 21, no 6, pp. R208 - R209, 2011.
  • Economic contract theory tests models of mutualism. Authors: EG Weyl, ME Frederickson, DW Yu, NE Pierce. Published in Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, vol. 107, no 35, 2010.
  • Phylogeny, diversification patterns and historical biogeography of euglossine orchid bees ( Hymenoptera: Apidae ): PHYLOGENY OF ORCHID BEES. Authors: Santiago R. Ramirez, David W. Roubik, Charlotte Skov, Naomi E. Pierce. Published in Biological Journal of The Linnean Society - BIOL J LINN SOC, vol. 100, no 3, pp. 552-572, 2010.
  • A molecular phylogeny of the stingless bee genus Melipona ( Hymenoptera: Apidae ). Authors: Santiago R. Ramírez, James C. Nieh, Tiago B. Quental, David W. Roubik, Vera L. Imperatriz Fonseca, Naomi E. Pierce. Published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - MOL PHYLOGENET EVOL, vol. 56, no 2, pp. 519-525, 2010.
  • From the Cover: Economic contract theory tests models of mutualism. Authors: EG Weyl, ME Frederickson, DW Yu, NE Pierce. Published in Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, vol. 107 pp. 15712-15716, 2010.
  • Are mutualisms Maintained by Host Sanctions or Partner Fidelity Feedback? Authors: Naomi Ellen Pierce, Megan E. Frederickson, Douglas W. Yu, Eric Glen Weyl, 2010.
  • Specialization AND GEOGRAPHIC ISOLATION AMONG Wolbachia symbionts FROM ANTS AND Lycaenid BUTTERFLIES. Authors: Jacob A. Russell, Benjamin Goldman - Huertas, Corrie S. Moreau, Laura Baldo, Julie K. Stahlhut, John H. Werren, Naomi E. Pierce. Posted in Evolution, vol. 63, no 3, pp. 624-640, 2009.
  • Bacterial symbionts are tightly linked with well the evolution of herbivory in ants. Authors: Jacob A. Russell, Corrie S. Moreau, Benjamin Goldman - Huertas, Mikiko Fujiwara, David J. Lohman, Naomi E. Pierce. Published in Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, vol. 106, no 50, pp. 21236-21241, 2009.
  • The double cloak of invisibility: phenotypic plasticity and larval decoration in a geometrid moth, Synchlora frondaria, across three diet treatments. Authors: Michael R. Canfield, Susan M. Chang, Naomi E. Pierce. Published in Ecological Entomology - ECOL Entomol, vol. 34, no 3, pp. 412-414, 2009.
  • Bacterial symbionts are tightly linked with well the evolution of herbivory in ants. Authors: JA Russell, CS Moreau, B. Goldman - Huertas, M. Fujiwara, DJ Lohman, NE Pierce. Published in Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, vol. 106, pp. 21236-21241, 2009.
  • Exploring phenotypic plasticity and biogeography in emerald moths: A phylogeny of the genus Nemoria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae ). Authors: Michael R. Canfield, Erick Greene, Corrie S. Moreau, Nancy Chen, Naomi E. Pierce. Published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - MOL PHYLOGENET EVOL, vol. 49, no 2, pp. 477-487, 2008.
  • Delicious poison: genetics of Drosophila host plant preference. Authors: Noah K. Whiteman, Naomi E. Pierce. Published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 23, no 9, pp. 473-478, 2008
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