Nico Franz

Professor

Associate Professor, CLAS-NS: Biology and Society, Center for
Professor, CLAS-NS: Life Sciences, School of (SOLS)
Director & Professor, CLAS-NS: BioKIC
Director & Professor, EVPP: Biomimicry Center, The

767 Citations
15 h-Index

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Curculionidae Agriculture & Biology

Coleoptera Agriculture & Biology

Cyclanthaceae Agriculture & Biology

phylogeny Agriculture & Biology

Weevils Medicine & Life Sciences

Beetles Medicine & Life Sciences

phylogenetics Earth & Environmental Sciences

Carludovica Agriculture & Biology

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Research Output 2001 2019

767 Citations
15 h-Index
53 Article
4 Conference contribution
1 Chapter
1 Letter

Avoidance of Catastrophic Structural Failure as an Evolutionary Constraint: Biomechanics of the Acorn Weevil Rostrum

Jansen, M. A., Williams, J., Chawla, N. & Franz, N., Jan 1 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Advanced Materials. 1903526.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Biomechanics

Toughness

Crack initiation

Laminates

Tensile strength

Verbalizing phylogenomic conflict: Representation of node congruence across competing reconstructions of the neoavian explosion

Franz, N., Musher, L. J., Brown, J. W., Yu, S. & Ludäscher, B., Feb 1 2019, In : PLoS computational biology. 15, 2, e1006493.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

Explosions

explosions

Explosion

Congruence

Labels

An updated checklist of the Tenebrionidae sec. Bousquet et al. 2018 of the Algodones Dunes of California, with comments on checklist data practices

Johnston, M. A., Aalbu, R. L. & Franz, N., Jan 1 2018, In : Biodiversity Data Journal. 6, e24927.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Tenebrionidae

dunes

dune

Colorado River

valleys

1 Citation (Scopus)

Descriptions of four new species of Minyomerus Horn, 1876 sec. Jansen & Franz, 2018 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), with notes on their distribution and phylogeny

Jansen, M. A. & Franz, N., Jan 1 2018, In : PeerJ. 2018, 10, e5633.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Weevils

Beetles

Phylogeny

Curculionidae

Labels

5 Citations (Scopus)

Molecular and morphological phylogenetic analyses of new world cycad beetles: What they reveal about cycad evolution in the new world

Tang, W., Xu, G., O'Brien, C. W., Calonje, M., Franz, N., Johnston, M. A., Taylor, A., Vovides, A. P., Pérez-Farrera, M. A., Salas-Morales, S. H., Lazcano-Lara, J. C., Skelley, P., Lopez-Gallego, C., Lindström, A. & Rich, S., Jun 1 2018, In : Diversity. 10, 2, 38.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

Zamiaceae

Cycadopsida

Beetles

beetle

Ceratozamia