Tarone, Aaron
individual record
Associate Professor
Positions:
- Associate Professor, Entomology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
overview
The Tarone laboratory is interested in factors that lead to local adaptations of fly development times and body sizes. These traits are influenced by numerous genetic and environmental factors. They are also ecologically important life history traits for any organism and are frequently found to be under differential selection across populations of numerous fly species. Accordingly, there are many applied and theoretical reasons for dissecting the causes of variation in these phenotypes in flies that influence human activities.
education and training
- University of Southern California - (Los Angeles, California, United States), Postdoctoral Training 2009
- Ph.D. in Zoology, Michigan State University - (East Lansing, Michigan, United States) 2007
selected publications
Academic Articles58
- Lesne, P., Srivastav, S. P., El-Hefnawy, A., Parrott, J. J., Sanford, M. R., & Tarone, A. M. (2020). Facultative Viviparity in a Flesh Fly (Diptera: Sarcophagidae): Forensic Implications of High Variability in Rates of Oviparity in Blaesoxipha plinthopyga (Diptera: Sarcophagidae).. J Med Entomol.
- Pimsler, M. L., Sze, S., Saenz, S., Fu, S., Tomberlin, J. K., & Tarone, A. M. (2019). Gene expression correlates of facultative predation in the blow fly Chrysomya rufifacies (Diptera: Calliphoridae). ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 9(15), 8690-8701.
- Zhang, Y. u., Pechal, J. L., Schmidt, C. J., Jordan, H. R., Wang, W. W., Benbow, M. E., Sze, S., & Tarone, A. M. (2019). Machine learning performance in a microbial molecular autopsy context: A cross-sectional postmortem human population study. PLoS ONE. 14(4), e0213829-e0213829.
- Matuszewski, S., Hall, M., Moreau, G., Schoenly, K. G., Tarone, A. M., & Villet, M. H. (2019). Pigs vs people: the use of pigs as analogues for humans in forensic entomology and taphonomy research.. Int J Legal Med.
- Eubanks, M. D., Lin, C., & Tarone, A. M. (2019). The role of ants in vertebrate carrion decomposition. Food Webs. 18, e00109-e00109.
Chapters2
- Tomberlin, J. K., & Eric Benbow, M. (2015). Current global trends and frontiers. Forensic Entomology: International Dimensions and Frontiers. (pp. 417-422).
- Jordan, H. R., Tomberlin, J. K., Wood, T. K., & Benbow, M. E. (2015). Interkingdom ecological interactions of carrion decomposition. Carrion Ecology, Evolution, and Their Applications. (pp. 433-459).
Conference Papers3
- Sze, S., Parrott, J. J., & Tarone, A. M. (2017). A divide-and-conquer algorithm for large-scale de novo transcriptome assembly through combining small assemblies from existing algorithms. BMC GENOMICS. 18(Suppl 10), 895.
- Fu, S., Chang, P. L., Friesen, M. L., Teakle, N. L., Tarone, A. M., Sze, S., & IEEE, .. (2017). Identifying Similar Transcripts in a Related Organism from De Bruijn Graphs of RNA-Seq Data, with Applications to the Study of Salt and Waterlogging Tolerance in Melilotus. 2016 IEEE 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL ADVANCES IN BIO AND MEDICAL SCIENCES (ICCABS). 1-1.
- Sze, S. H., & Tarone, A. M. (2013). A memory-efficient algorithm to obtain splicing graphs and de novo expression estimates from de Bruijn graphs of RNA-seq data.
teaching activities
- ENTO431 Sci Forensic Entomology Instructor
- ENTO432 Appl Forensic Entomology Instructor
- ENTO485 Directed Studies Instructor
- ENTO491 Research Instructor
- ENTO685 Directed Studies Instructor
chaired theses and dissertations
- Ramos III, Ernesto (2015-08). A Genetic Study of the Development of Cochliomyia macellaria (Fabricius) (Diptera: Calliphoridae): Ecological, Evolutionary, and Forensic Importance of the Secondary Screwworm. (Master's Thesis)
- Pimsler, Meaghan Leigh (2015-08). A Functional Genetic Study of Sexual Dimorphism and Behavioral Ecology in Chrysomya rufifacies (Diptera: Calliphoridae). (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Fu, Shuhua (2015-05). Genomic and Transcriptomic Studies on Non-Model Organisms. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Liu, Wenqi (2014-08). Chemical and Nutritional Ecology of Lucilia sericata (Meigen) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) as Related to Volatile Organic Compounds and Associated Essential Amino Acids. (Doctoral Dissertation)
Email
tamlucilia@tamu.edu
First Name
Aaron
Last Name
Tarone
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Entomology; 2475 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-2475
USA