Daniel Rubinoff

Assistant Professor, Department of Plant and
Environmental Protection Sciences, University of Hawaii
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2001
rubinoff at hawaii dot edu
www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/peps/people/fac/profile_rubinoff.htm

Daniel Rubinoff  

Research Interests

My areas of expertise are insect systematics using morphological and molecular tools with applications to invasive species, conservation biology and the evolution of ecological traits.

 

Selected Publications

Rubinoff, D. In press. Circling the wagons: Agriculturalists and Conservation Biologists must cooperate to protect endemic Hawaiian invertebrate diversity and control invasive species. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society.
Rubinoff, D. 2006. DNA Barcoding evolves into the Familiar. Conservation Biology. 20:1548-1549.
Cameron, S., D. Rubinoff and K. Will. 2006. Who Will Actually Use DNA Barcoding and What Will it Cost? Systematic Biology. 55: 844-847.
Rubinoff, D. 2006. Utility of Mitochondrial DNA Barcodes in species conservation. Conservation Biology 20:1026-1033.
Prado, S. S. D. Rubinoff and R. P.P. Almeida. 2006. Vertical Transmission of a Pentatomid Caeca-associated Symbiont. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 99: 577-585.
Rubinoff, D and W. P. Haines. 2006. Hyposmocoma molluscivora Description. Science 311:1377.
Rubinoff, D., S. Cameron, and K. Will. 2006. Are plant DNA barcodes a search for the Holy Grail? Trends in Ecology and Evolution.21:1-2.
Rubinoff, D. and B. H. Holland. 2005. Between Two Extremes: Mitochondrial DNA is neither the Panacea nor the Nemesis of Phylogenetic and Taxonomic Inference. Systematic Biology 54: 952-961.
Rubinoff, D. and W. P. Haines. 2005. Web-spinning caterpillar stalks snails. Science.309:575.
Rubinoff, D. and J. Powell. 2004. Conservation of fragmented small populations: endemic species persistence on California's smallest channel island. Biodiversity and Conservation 13: 2537-2550
Will, K. and D. Rubinoff. 2004. Myth of the molecule: DNA barcodes for species cannot replace morphology for identification and classification. Cladistics 20, pp.47-55.
Rubinoff, D and F.A. H. Sperling. 2004. Mitochondrial DNA sequence, morphology and ecology yield contrasting conservation implications for two threatened Buckmoths (Hemileuca: Saturniidae). Biological Conservation 118, pp 341-351.
Rubinoff, D. 2002. Endangered plants as guides for saving endemic insects in California. Fremontia, 30. pp. 6266.
Rubinoff, D. and F.A. H. Sperling. 2002. Evolution of ecological traits and wing morphology in Hemileuca (Saturniidae) based on a two gene phylogeny. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 25. pp. 70-86.
Rubinoff, D. 2002. Observations of Adult and Larval Behavior in the Winter Sphingid, Arctonotus lucidus (Sphingidae). The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 55(2), pp.78-79.
Rubinoff, D. 2001. Evaluating the California Gnatcatcher as an Umbrella Species for conservation of Coastal Sage Scrub. Conservation Biology 15 (5),pp.1374-1383.
McElfresh, J.S., J. G. Millar, and D. Rubinoff. 2001. (E4,Z9)-tetradecadienal, a sex pheromone for three north american species in the genus Saturnia. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 27(4), pp.791-806.
Rubinoff, D and J. A. Powell. 1999. Description of Diedra , new genus (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Tortricinae:Archipini), and three new species, based on phylogenetic analysis Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 92(4), pp. 473-487.
Rubinoff, D. 1998. Field observations on mating behavior and predation of Hemileuca electra(Saturniidae) The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society, 52(2), pp. 212-214.
Rubinoff, D. and K.H. Osborne. 1997. Two new species of Asteraceae-feeding Bucculatrix (Bucculatricidae) from California. The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society, 51(3), pp 227-236.
Rubinoff, D. 1996. California scrub jay predation on the arboreal salamander (Aneides lugubris.) Herpetological Review, 27(3), pp. 135.