Chris Simon

University of Connecticut — United States

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

51h-index14.3kcitations176works1.92yr avg
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Research Topics

Plant and animal studies(75), Genetic diversity and population structure(40), Species Distribution and Climate Change(35), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies(18), Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens(16)

Publications176 total

<i>Systematic Biology</i> ’s Seventy-Five Years
Systematic Biology·2025
Phylogenomics and Fossilized Birth-Death Dating Reveals Gondawanan Origin and Extensive Post-Cretaceous Diversification of Worldwide Cicadidae.
2025Open Access
When and how do 17-year periodical cicada nymphs decide to emerge? A field test of the 4-year-gate hypothesis
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025· 2 cited
Population genomics of a sailing siphonophore reveals genetic structure in the open ocean
Current Biology·2025· 8 citedOpen Access
Untangling a History of Hybridization: A Comparison of Phylogenetic Network Methods in Reconstructing Reticulate Evolution in New Zealand Cicadas
2025Open Access
Global Genomics of Man-O'-War (Physalia) Reveals Ocean Surface Biodiversity
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Global genomics of the man-o’-war ( <i>Physalia</i> ) reveals biodiversity at the ocean surface
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Billions of cicadas are about to emerge from underground in a rare double-brood convergence
2024
Using New Zealand examples to teach Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’: Lessons from molecular phylogenetic studies of cicadas
New Zealand Science Review·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly and Annotation of a Periodical Cicada Species: <i>Magicicada septendecula</i>
Genome Biology and Evolution·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Phylogenomics improves the phylogenetic resolution and provides strong evidence of mito‐nuclear discordance in two genera of a <scp>New Zealand</scp> cicada ( <scp>Hemiptera: Cicadidae</scp> ) species radiation
Systematic Entomology·2023· 5 cited
Lack of host phylogenetic structure in the gut bacterial communities of New Zealand cicadas and their interspecific hybrids
Scientific Reports·2022· 6 citedOpen Access
Gut microbiome insights from 16S rRNA analysis of 17-year periodical cicadas (Hemiptera: Magicicada spp.) Broods II, VI, and X
Scientific Reports·2022· 22 citedOpen Access
Correlates of host-associated bacterial diversity in New Zealand cicadas and hybrids
Research Square (Research Square)·2022Open Access
Detecting and Removing Sample Contamination in Phylogenomic Data: An Example and its Implications for Cicadidae Phylogeny (Insecta: Hemiptera)
Systematic Biology·2022· 10 citedOpen Access
Implementation, Evaluation and Control Strategies for Performance of Nzoia Sugar Company in Kenya
European Journal of Business and Management·2022Open Access
Insights into Aotearoa New Zealand's biogeographic history provided by the study of natural hybrid zones
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand·2022· 11 citedOpen Access
Thirteen new species of Chilecicada Sanborn, 2014 (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadidae: Tibicininae) expand the highly endemic cicada fauna of Chile
Zootaxa·2021· 3 citedOpen Access
Advances in the Evolution and Ecology of 13- and 17-Year Periodical Cicadas
Annual Review of Entomology·2021· 47 cited
Host-associated microbial diversity in New Zealand cicadas uncovers elevational structure and replacement of obligate bacterial endosymbionts by <i>Ophiocordyceps</i> fungal pathogens
2021· 1 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Thomas R. Buckley(12), John R. Cooley(9), David C. Marshall(8), Kathy B. R. Hill(6), Geoffrey K. Chambers(5), Jack Sullivan(4), Kent E. Holsinger(4), John P. McCutcheon(4), Francesco Frati(3), Peter Arensburger(3), James T. Van Leuven(3), Matthew A. Campbell(3), M. S. Moulds(3), Andrew Martin(3), Andrew T. Beckenbach(2), P.K. Flook(2), Robert E. Hickson(2), Russell C. Meister(2), Jin Yoshimura(2), Teiji Sota(2)