Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Short Lab
Led by Andrew Short · Entomology and Nematology
What we study
The Short Lab studies aquatic insect biodiversity, using fieldwork, taxonomic revisions, and evolutionary data to explore insect relationships and macroevolutionary patterns.
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Computational
- Other insects
- Coding helps
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- A shallow‐scale phylogenomics approach reveals repeated patterns of diversification among sympatric lineages of cryptic Neotropical aquatic beetles (Coleoptera: Noteridae)
2024 · Systematic Entomology
Uses DNA to study how tiny South American beetles evolve and relate to each other.
- To design, or not to design? Comparison of beetle ultraconserved element probe set utility based on phylogenetic distance, breadth, and method of probe design
2023 · Insect Systematics and Diversity
Tests different DNA tools to see which work best for studying beetle evolution.
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- Revision of the Neotropical water scavenger beetle genus Novochares Girón & Short (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae)
2023 · ZooKeys
- First Record of Spercheidae (Coleoptera) from Peru with a Summary of the Distribution of the Family in South America
2023 · The Coleopterists Bulletin
- A New Species of Notionotus Spangler, 1972 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Enochrinae) from Central America
2023 · The Coleopterists Bulletin
Describes a new beetle species from Costa Rica using DNA and physical traits.
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