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My PhD is from Uppsala University in Sweden, where I studied the comparative morphology, phylogeny, and evolution of cynipoid wasps. After defending my thesis in 1994, I spent a few years at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm before returning to Uppsala University, where I became Professor of Systematic Zoology in 1999. I moved to Florida State University in 2003 to join the computational evolutionary biology group at the School of Computational Science. I still maintain an active interest in the systematics, phylogeny and evolution of the Hymenoptera but much of my post-PhD research has focused on computational phylogenetics, particularly the development of parsimony methods for the study of coevolution and biogeography (DIVA and TreeFitter) and more recently Bayesian MCMC methods for phylogenetic inference (MrBayes). I am also an adjunct member of the steering group for the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative, and I am coordinating the large interdisciplinary team at FSU developing MorphBank.

Selected Publications:

in press

Nieves-Aldrey, J. L., Vårdal, H. and F. Ronquist. In press. Comparative morphology and evolution of cynipoid larvae. Zoologica Scripta.

Ronquist, F., Huelsenbeck, J. P. and T. Britton. 2004. Bayesian supertrees. In: Bininda-Emonds, O. R. P. (ed.), Phylogenetic Supertrees: Combining Information to Reveal the Tree of Life. Kluwer, Amsterdam. Proofs pdf

2004

Ronquist, F. Bayesian inference of character evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19: 475-481. pdf

Altekar, G., S. Dwarkadas, J. P. Huelsenbeck and F. Ronquist. 2004. Parallel Metropolis-coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo for Bayesian phylogenetic inference. Bioinformatics 20: 407-415. pdf

Nylander, J., F. Ronquist, J. P. Huelsenbeck and J. L. Nieves-Aldrey. 2004. Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of combined data. Systematic Biology 53: 47-67. pdf

Sanmartín, I. and F. Ronquist. 2004. Southern Hemisphere biogeography analyzed with event-based models: Plant versus animal patterns. Systematic Biology 53: 216-243. pdf

2003

Ronquist, F. and U. Gärdenfors. 2003. Taxonomy and biodiversity inventories: Time to deliver. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18: 269-270. pdf

Ronquist, F. and J. P. Huelsenbeck. 2003. MRBAYES 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models. Bioinformatics 19: 1572-1574. pdf

Vårdal, H., Sahlén, G. and F. Ronquist. 2003. Morphology and evolution of the cynipoid egg (Hymenoptera). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139: 247-260. pdf

2002

Sanmartin, I. and F. Ronquist. 2002. New solutions to old problems: widespread taxa, redundant distributions and missing areas in event-based biogeography. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 25:75-93. pdf

Fontal-Cazalla, F. M., Buffington, M., Nordlander, G., Liljeblad, J., Ros-Farré, P., Nieves-Aldrey, J. L., Pujade-Villar, J. and F. Ronquist. 2002. Phylogeny of the Eucoilinae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae). Cladistics 18:154-199. pdf

Huelsenbeck, J. P. H., Larget, B., Miller, R. E. and F. Ronquist. 2002. Potential applications and pitfalls of Bayesian inference of phylogeny. Systematic Biology 51:673-688. pdf

Rokas, A., J. A. A. Nylander, F. Ronquist and G. N. Stone. 2002. A maximum-likelihood analysis of eight molecular markers in gallwasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae): Implications for insect phylogenetic studies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 22:206-219. pdf

Ronquist, F. 2002. Parsimony analysis of coevolving species associations. Pp. 22-64 in R. D. M. Page, ed. Tangled trees: Phylogeny, cospeciation and coevolution. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ms (pdf)

2001

Huelsenbeck, J. P. & Ronquist, F. 2001. MRBAYES. Bayesian inference of phylogeny. Bioinformatics 17: 754-755. pdf

Huelsenbeck, J. P., F. Ronquist, R. Nielsen and J. P. Bollback. 2001. Bayesian inference of phylogeny and its impact on evolutionary biology. Science 294: 2310-2314. pdf

Nylin, S., K. Nyblom, F. Ronquist, N. Janz, J. Belicek, and M. Källersjö. 2001. Phylogeny of Polygonia, Nymphalis and related butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): a total-evidence analysis. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 132: 441-468. pdf

Ronquist, F., and J. Liljeblad. 2001. Evolution of the gall wasp-host plant association. Evolution 55: 2503-2522. pdf

Ronquist, F., and J. L. Nieves Aldrey. 2001. A new subfamily of Figitidae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 14: 483-494. pdf

Sanmartín, I., Enghoff, H. and F. Ronquist. 2001. Patterns of animal dispersal, vicariance and diversification in the Holarctic. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 73: 345-390. pdf

2000

Zink, R. M., R. C. Blackwell-Rago, and F. Ronquist. 2000. The shifting roles of dispersal and vicariance in biogeography. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 267:497-503. pdf

Ros-Farré, P., F. Ronquist, and J. Pujade-Villar. 2000. Redescription of Acanthaegilips Ashmead, 1897, with characterization of the Anacharitinae and Aspiceratinae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 129: 467-488. pdf

1999

Ronquist, F. 1999. Phylogeny of the Hymenoptera (Insecta): The state of the art. Zoologica Scripta 28:3-11. pdf

Ronquist, F. 1999. Phylogeny, classification and evolution of the Cynipoidea. Zoologica Scripta 28:139-164. pdf

Ronquist, F., A. P. Rasnitsyn, A. Roy, K. Eriksson, and M. Lindgren. 1999. Phylogeny of the Hymenoptera: A cladistic reanalysis of Rasnitsyn's (1988) data. Zoologica Scripta 28:13-50. pdf

1998

Ronquist, F. 1998. Phylogenetic approaches in coevolution and biogeography. Zoologica Scripta 26:313-322.

Ronquist, F. 1998. Three-dimensional cost matrix optimization and maximum cospeciation. Cladistics 14:167-172. pdf

Ronquist, F. 1998. Fast Fitch-parsimony algorithms for large data sets. Cladistics 14:387-400. pdf

Liljeblad, J., and F. Ronquist. 1998. A phylogenetic analysis of higher-level gall wasp relationships (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Systematic Entomology 23:229-252. pdf

1997

Ronquist, F. 1997. Dispersal-vicariance analysis: A new approach to the quantification of historical biogeography. Systematic Biology 46: 193-201.

1996

Ronquist, F. 1996. Matrix representation of trees, redundancy, and weighting. Systematic Biology 45: 247-253.

Ronquist, F. 1996. Reconstructing the history of host-parasite associations using generalised parsimony. Cladistics 11: 73-89.

Nordlander, G., Z. Liu, and F. Ronquist. 1996. Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the cynipoid wasp family Ibaliidae (Hymenoptera). Systematic Entomology 21:151-166.

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