Emily Anne Hartop
Publications
Resolving biology’s dark matter: species richness, spatiotemporal distribution, and community composition of a dark taxon
Opportunity in our Ignorance: Urban Biodiversity Study Reveals 30 New Species and One New Nearctic Record for Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) in Los Angeles (California, USA).
The Swedish Malaise Trap Project: A 15 Year Retrospective on a Countrywide Insect Inventory.
Towards Large-scale Integrative Taxonomy (LIT): resolving the data conundrum for dark taxa.
Meier, R., Hartop, E., Pylatiuk, C., Srivathsan, A. (2024) Towards holistic insect monitoring: species discovery, description, identification, and traits for all insects. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 10.1098/rstb.2023-0120
Lewthwaite, J.M.M., Baiotto, T.M., Brown, B.V., Cheung, Y.Y., Baker, A.J., Lehnen, C., McGlynn, T.P., Shirey, V., Gonzalez, L., Hartop, E., Kerr, P.H., Wood, E., Guzman, L.M. (2024) Drivers of arthropod biodiversity in an urban ecosystem. Sci Rep 14, 390. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50675-3
Wührl, L., Rettenberger, L., Meier, R., Hartop, E., Graf, J., Pylatiuk, C. (2024) Entomoscope: An Open-Source Photomicroscope for Biodiversity Discovery. IEEE Access 12, 11785-11794. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3355272.
Vasilita, C., Feng, V., Hansen, A.K., Hartop, E., Srivathsan, A., Meier, R. (2024) Express barcoding with NextGenPCR and MinION for species-level sorting of ecological samples. Molecular Ecology Resources, 24(3), e13922. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13922
Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht, E., Łukasik, P., Buczek, M., Deng, J., Hartop, E., Havnås, H, Prus-Frankowska, M., Ugarph, C., Viteri, P., Andersson, A., Roslin, T., Tack, A., Ronquist, F., Miraldo, A. (2023) FAVIS: Fast and versatile protocol for non-destructive metabarcoding of bulk insect samples. PloS one, 18(7): e0286272. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286272
Hartop, E., Srivathsan, A., Ronquist, F., Meier, R. (2022) Towards Large-scale Integrative Taxonomy (LIT): resolving the data conundrum for dark taxa. Systematic Biology, syac033. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syac033
Brown, B., Hartop, E., Wong, M. (2022) Sixteen in one: white-belted Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from the New World challenge species concepts. Insect systematics and diversity, 6(3), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixac008
Meier, R., Blaimer, B., Buenaventura, E., Hartop, E., von Rintelen, T., Srivathsan, A., Yeo, D. (2021) A re-analysis of the data in Sharkey et al.’s (2021) minimalist revision reveals that BINs do not deserve names, but BOLD Systems needs a stronger commitment to open science. Cladistics, 38(2), 264-275. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12489
Srivathsan, A., Lee, L., Katoh, K., Hartop, E., Narayanan Kutty, S., Wong, J., Yeo, D., Meier, R. (2021) ONTbarcoder and MinION barcodes aid biodiversity discovery and identification by everyone, for everyone. BMC Biology 19, 217. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01141-x
Hartop, E., Häggqvist, S., Ulefors, S.O, Ronquist, F. (2020) Scuttling Towards Monophyly: Phylogeny of the mega-diverse genus Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae). Systematic Entomology, 46(1), 71-82. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12448
Karlsson, D., Hartop, E., Forshage, M., Jaschhof, M., & Ronquist, F. (2020). The Swedish Malaise Trap Project: A 15 Year Retrospective on a Countrywide Insect Inventory. Biodiversity data journal, 8, e47255. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e47255
Srivathsan, A., Hartop, E., Puniamoorthy, J., Lee, W.T., Narayanan Kutty, S., Kurina, O., Meier, R. (2019) Rapid, large-scale species discovery in hyperdiverse taxa using 1D MinION sequencing. BioMed Central Biology 17, 96. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-019-0706-9
McGlynn T.P, Meineke E.K., Bahlai E.A., Li E., Hartop E.A., Brown B.V. (2019) Temperature accounts for the biodiversity of a hyperdiverse group of insects in urban Los Angeles. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286: 20191818. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019-1818.
Brown B., Wong M., Hartop E. (2019) A new white-spotted Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from Western North America. Biodiversity Data Journal 7: e34310.
Hartop, E.A., Gonzalez, L.A., Brown, B.V. (2018) Backyard Biodiversity: Unravelling life histories of the new fly species discovered by the BioSCAN Project proves harder than first assumed. Journal of Negative Results 12, 1-8.
Hartop, E.A., Long, E., Bornstein, C., Gonzalez, L.A., Brown, B.V. (2018) Urban Nature Gardens at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County attract “wildlife spectacle” of insect pollinators. In: Hartop, E.A. and Brown, B.V. (Eds.), Beyond Pests: Biodiversity in the Urban Environment, International Congress of Entomology, 25-30 September 2016, Orlando, Florida, USA. Zoosymposia 12, 29-50.
Brown, B.V., Hartop, E. A. (2017) Mystery mushroom malingerers: Megaselia marquezi Hartop et al. 2015 (Diptera: Phoridae). Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e15052. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.5.e15052
Brown, B.V., Hash, J., Hartop, E., Porras, W., Amorim, D. (2017) Baby Killers: Documentation and Evolution of Scuttle Fly (Diptera: Phoridae) Parasitism of Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Brood. Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e11277. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.5.e11277
Brown, B.V., Hartop, E.A. (2016) Big data from tiny flies: patterns revealed from over 42,000 phorid flies (Insecta: Diptera: Phoridae) collected over one year in Los Angeles, California, USA. Urban Ecosystems 20(3), 521-534. DOI:10.1007/s11252-016-0612-7
Hartop, E. A., Brown, B. V., Disney, R. H. L. (2016) Flies from L.A., The Sequel: A further twelve new species of Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) from the BioSCAN Project in Los Angeles (California, USA). Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e7756.
Hartop, E. A., Wong, M. A., Eiseman, C. S. (2016) Material from the BioSCAN project in Los Angeles (Calfornia: USA) yields another new species and leads to clarity for two confused type series of Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 118(1): 93-100.
Hartop, E. A., Brown, B. V. (2015) Natural Blondes: New Species of Brilliantly Yellow Colored and Morphologically Distinct Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) from Central America. Studia Dipterologica 21(2): 257–265.
Hartop, E. A., Brown, B. V. (2015) Seeing spots: Another distinct spotted wing species of Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from Costa Rican cloud forests. Studia Dipterologica 21(2): 181–185
Eiseman, C. S., Hartop, E. A. (2015) A New Species of Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) Reared from a Macrodiplosis Kieffer (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) Gall on Black Oak. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 117(4):463-466.
Hartop, E. A., Brown, B. V., Disney, R. H. L. (2015) Opportunity in our Ignorance: Urban Biodiversity Study Reveals 30 New Species and One New Nearctic Record for Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) in Los Angeles (California, USA). Zootaxa 3941(4), 451-484.
Hartop, E. A., Brown, B. V. (2014) The tip of the iceberg: a distinctive new spotted-wing Megaselia species (Diptera: Phoridae) from a tropical cloud forest survey and a new, streamlined method for Megaselia descriptions. Biodiversity Data Journal, 2, e4093.
Brown, B. V., Hartop, E. A. (2014) Recognition of Megaselia arizonensis (Malloch, 1912) (Diptera: Phoridae), a Common North American Fly. Contributions in Science 522, 45-49.
Mottern, J. L., Heraty, J. M., Hartop, E. A. (2011) Cales (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea): morphology of an enigmatic taxon with a review of species. Systematic Entomology 36, 267–284.
Knowledge Transfer
In defense of flies. Yes, really.
L.A.'s Back-yard Entomologists
DNA barcodes jump-start search for new species
Thirty new fly species in Los Angeles
2024
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Popular scientific lecture(2024) Terrors from Land and Sea - A journey into Nature’s Nightmares. NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet Omvisning med foredrag i naturhistoriske samlinger , Trondheim 2024-10-23 - 2024-10-23
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Popular scientific lecture(2024) Grøss og gru fra hav og land - En reise i naturens mareritt. NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet Omvisning med foredrag i naturhistoriske samlinger , Trondheim 2024-10-24 - 2024-10-24
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Popular scientific lecture(2024) Finn arten med DNA-strekkoding. NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet Ungdommens forskernatt ved NTNU , Trondheim 2024-09-27 - 2024-09-27