Manpreet Kaur Kohli

Education

Ph.D., Biology, Rutgers University Newark United States

M.Sc., Biology, New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark United States

Journal Articles

Tolman, E. R., Gamett, E., Beatty, C. D., Goodman, A., Hahn, B., Benischek, C., Castillo, G., Derderian, E., Fernandez-Juarez, S., Gallafent, B., Jenson, J., Jordan, D., Schneider, M., Salazar, R., Tamano, T., Wei, M., Idec, J., Guralnick, R., Ware, J., & Kohli, M. K. (2025). The Blueprint for Survival: The Blue Dasher Dragonfly as a Model for Urban Adaptation. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2024--12.

(2025). Newly sequenced genomes reveal patterns of gene family expansion in select Dragonflies (Odonata: Anisoptera). Insect Systematics and Diversity, 9(4). 8.

(2025). First Genomic Insights into an Aeshnidae Dragonfly: Unveiling the Genome of a Holarctic Species, Aeshna juncea. International Journal of Odonatology, 2025--07.

(2025). Systematics and biogeography of the Holarctic dragonfly genus Somatochlora (Anisoptera: Corduliidae). Systematic Entomology,

(2025). Elevational and Oceanic Barriers Shape the Distribution, Dispersal and Diversity of Aotearoa's Kapokapowai (Uropetala) Dragonflies. Evolution, qpaf150.

(2025). Effect of local calibrations overwhelm estimated divergence times. Insect Systematics and Diversity,

(2025). Environmental DNA vs. Community Science: Strengths and Limitations for Urban Odonata Surveys. Insect Conservation and Diversity,

(2025). Bringing Shadowdragons to light: Neurocordulia (Anisoptera: Corduliidae) systematics. International Journal of Odonatology, 28. 1--15.

(2025). Zygoptera systematics: past, present, and future. Insect Systematics and Diversity, 9(4). 5.

(2025). Odonata systematics: past, present, and future: a review of the phylogenetic works in Anisoptera (dragonflies). Insect Systematics and Diversity, 9(4). 9.

Evangelista, D., Sanchez- Herrera, M., Schwartz, J., Ware, J., Hughes, B., Espositio, L., Banda, R., Montana, K., Bondoc Mafla, S., Goodman, A., & Kohli, M. (2025). Evaluating perceptions of STEM majors to explain diversity gaps in Entomology and other sciences. Annals of the Entomological Society of America,

(2024). A molecular phylogeny of the Petaluridae (Odonata: Anisoptera): A 160-Million-Year-Old story of drift and extinction. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 108185.

(2024). Interactions between sexual signaling and wing size drive ecology and evolution of wing colors in Odonata. Scientific Reports, 14(1). 25034.

Tolman, E., Beatty, C., Bush, J., Kohli, M., Moreno, C., Ware, J., Webber, K., Khan, R., Maheshwari, C., Weisz, D., Dudchenko, O., Aiden, E., & Frandsen, P. (2023). A Chromosome-length Assembly of the Black Petaltail (Tanypteryx hageni) Dragonfly. Genome Biology and Evolution,

(2023). Exploring chromosome evolution in 250 million year old groups of dragonflies and damselflies (Insecta: Odonata). Molecular Ecology,

(2023). Assessment of targeted enrichment locus capture across time and museums using odonate specimens. Insect Systematics and Diversity, 7(3). 5.

(2023). Evolution of Odonata: Genomic insights. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 101073.

(2022). Evidence for widespread gene flow and migration in the Globe Skimmer dragonfly Pantala flavescens. International Journal of Odonatology, 25. 43--55.

(2021). Evolutionary history and divergence times of Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) revealed through transcriptomics. ISCIENCE, 24(11).

(2021). Assessing support forBlaberoideaphylogeny suggests optimal locus quality. SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY, 46(1). 157-171.

(2021). Comparative phylogeography uncovers evolutionary past of Holarctic dragonflies. PEERJ, 9.

(2020). Why diversity matters among those who study diversity. American Entomologist, 66(3). 42--49.

(2019). An integrative phylogenomic approach illuminates the evolutionary history of cockroaches and termites (Blattodea). PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 286(1895).

(2018). Extremely low genetic diversity in a circumpolar dragonfly species, Somatochlora sahlbergi (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera). SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 8.

(2018). Topological support and data quality can only be assessed through multiple tests in reviewing Blattodea phylogeny. MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION, 128. 112-122.

(2017). Fossil calibrations for the cockroach phylogeny (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Blattodea), comments on the use of wings for their identification, and a redescription of the oldest Blaberidae. PALAEONTOLOGIA ELECTRONICA, 20(3).

(2016). How to date a dragonfly: Fossil calibrations for odonates. PALAEONTOLOGIA ELECTRONICA, 19(1).

(2015). The Fossil Calibration Database-A New Resource for Divergence Dating. SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 64(5). 853-859.

(2014). Counting the spots: a molecular and morphological phylogeny of the spotted darner Boyeria (Odonata: Anisoptera: Aeshnidae) with an emphasis on European taxa. SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY, 39(1). 190-195.

Book Chapters

Kohli, M., & Ware, J. (2022). Odonata Systematics. Dragonflies and Damselflies: A model organism for Ecological and Evolutionary reserach

Sanchez Herrera, M., Vega-Sanchez, Y., Beatty, C., & Kohli, M. (2022). Phylogeography: A spatiotermporal perspective on Odonata distribution. Dragonflies and Damselflies: A model organism for Ecological and Evolutionary reserach Oxford.

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