Mckenna DD, Farrell BD, Caterino MS, Farnum CW, Hawks DC, Maddison DR, Seago AE, Short AEZ, Newton AF, Thayer MK. Phylogeny and evolution of Staphyliniformia and Scarabaeiformia: forest litter as a stepping stone for diversification of nonphytophagous beetles. Systematic Entomology [Internet]. 2015;40 (1) :35-60.
Evans AM, Mckenna DD, Bellamy CL, Farrell BD. Large-scale molecular phylogeny of metallic wood-boring beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea) provides new insights into relationships and reveals multiple evolutionary origins of the larval leaf-mining habit. Systematic Entomology [Internet]. 2015;40 (2) :385-400.
McKenna DD, Wild AL, Kanda K, Bellamy CL, Beutel RG, Caterino MS, Farnum CW, Hawks DC, Ivie MA, Jameson ML, et al. The beetle tree of life reveals that Coleoptera survived end-Permian mass extinction to diversify during the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution. Systematic Entomology [Internet]. 2015;40 (4) :835-880.
Rykken JJ, Farrell BD. Developing a pollinator monitoring program for Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area: A pilot study. Natural Resource Report NPS/BOHA/NRR—2015/950 [Internet]. 2015.
Rykken JJ, Farrell BD. Boston Harbor Islands all taxa biodiversity inventory: Discovering the “microwilderness” of an urban island park. Natural Resources Technical Report NPS/BOHA/NRTR—2013/746 [Internet]. 2013;(Published Report-2195282).
Rykken, J. J., and Farrell, B. D. 2012. Discovering the wilderness in parks and protected areas Pp. 306-322. In The Management of Insects in Recreation and Tourism, Raynald Harvey Lemelin (ed.). Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge, UK.
Clark, A. T., Rykken, J. J., and Farrell, B.D. 2011. The effects of biogeography on ant diversity and activity on the Boston Harbor Islands, Massachusetts, U.S.A. PLoS ONE 6(11): e28045. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028045.
McKenna, D.D., and Farrell, B.D. 2010. 9-Genes Reinforce the Phylogeny of Holometabola and Yield Alternate Views on the Phylogenetic Placement of Strepsiptera. PLoS ONE5(7): e11887. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011887.
Archibald, S. B., Bossert, W.H., Greenwood, D.R., and Farrell, B.D. 2010. Seasonaility, the latitudinal gradient of diversity, and Eocene insects. Paleobiology 36(3), 374–398.
Catherine Linnen and Brian D. Farrell. 2010. A test of the sympatric host race formation hypothesis in Neodiprion (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae). Proc Roy Soc B. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.0577.
Duane D. McKenna, Andrea S. Sequeira, Adriana E. Marvaldi, and Brian D. Farrell. 2009. Temporal lags and overlap in the diversification of weevils and flowering plant. PNAS106:7083-7088. doi:10.1073/pnas.0810618106
Duane McKenna and Brian Farrell. 2009. Beetles (Coleoptera). Pp. 278–289 in The Timetree of Life, (S. B. Hedges and S. Kumar, Eds.). Oxford University Press.
Frank Friedrich, Brian D. Farrell, and Rolf G. Beutel. 2009. The thoracic morphology of Archostemata and the relationships of the extant suborders of Coleoptera (Hexapoda). Cladistics 25: 1–37. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00233.x
Beetles (Coleoptera). Pp. 278–289 (in The Timetree of Life, Oxford University Press, 2009)
Catherine R. Linnen and Brian D. Farrell. 2008. Comparison of methods for species-tree inference in the sawfly genus Neodiprion (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae). Systematic Biology 57(6): 876-890. doi: 10.1080/10635150802580949
Catherine R. Linnen and Brian D. Farrell. 2008. Phylogenetic analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial genes reveals evolutionary relationships and mitochondrial introgression in the sertifer species group of the genus Neodiprion (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48: 240-257. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.03.021
Insects and Internet: Saving a national treasure in Hispaniola. (2007)
Tropical forests are both evolutionary cradles and museums of leaf beetle diversity. (2006)
Evolutionary consequences of dispersal ability in cactus-feeding insects. (2006)
From agronomics to international relations: Building an online encyclopedia of life in the Dominican Republic. (2005)
Historical biogeography of longhorn cactus beetles: The influence of Pleistocene climate changes on American desert communities. (2005)