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DUNG BEETLES - SYSTEMATICS - PHYLOGENETIC METHODS - ONTOLOGIES

Welcome to Tarasov Lab! Our research strives to understand the evolutionary processes that shaped the stunning diversity of organismal forms on Earth. We employ an interdisciplinary approach that involves beetle systematics, statistical modeling, development of new phylogenetic methods and ontology-based tools for descriptive taxonomy. Our focal group of organisms is Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae).

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OUR LOCATION

Finnish Museum of Natural History

P.O. Box 17 (Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 13)

FI-00014 University of Helsinki

FINLAND

LATEST RESEARCH

May 7

NOW HIRING! Three-year PhD position in comparative phylogenetics! Click the link below for details.

Feb 10, 2019

New paper is out!

Feb 10, 2019

The invariant nature of a morphological character and character state: insights from gene regulatory

Oct 18, 2017

ontoFAST

Jun 22, 2017

Cybertaxonomic key to Parachorius

Jun 22, 2017

My cybertaxonomic key to the dung beetle genus Parachorius is now published... Click below to view

May 6, 2017

I am very excited to participate in the BIG4 meeting to give a workshop on using statistical models

Nov 29, 2016

Finally, our paper with Dimitar Dimitrov on the new classification of dung beetles is just published

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