John C. Moser, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John C. Moser

U.S. entomologist and acarologist

Date of Birth: 29-Mar-1929

Place of Birth: Columbus, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 26-Aug-2015

Profession: entomologist, ecologist, acarologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About John C. Moser

  • John Conrad Moser (1929 near Columbus, Ohio, United States; – August 26, 2015 in Pineville, Louisiana, United States) was an American zoologist, forestry researcher.
  • entomologist and acarologist.
  • He conducted research on the leafcutter ant Atta texana and the red imported fire ant Solenopsis invicta and focused his studies not only on these ants, but specifically also to the mite fauna, being associated with these insects.
  • Also bark beetles, Scolytinae, and associated mites were a remarkable part of his pioneering research contributions.
  • His extensive mite collection contains countless species of different major mite-taxa from around the world, with most of them representing phoretic species, which use insects to be carried to their new habitats.
  • Moser described numerous new mite species and some species are also named after him. He was an active researcher far beyond his retirement.
  • The internationally well known long-term scientist spent over 50 years of important scientific activity at the Forest Service, U.S.
  • Department of Agriculture, Southern Research Station at the Alexandria Forestry Center in Pineville.
  • Moser's scientific contributions need to be considered as pioneering, because he early recognized the importance of research fields, which were in these times out of the mainstream of forest entomological research.
  • Moser and colleagues for example discovered that several phoretic mite species contribute to the transmission of the Dutch elm disease by carrying fungal spores of the Ascomycete fungus Ophiostoma novo-ulmi.
  • A surprising result of these studies was that the mite Tarsonemus crassus carries the spores in specific structures, the so-called sporothecae. John C.
  • Moser was well known searching for cooperations with scientists from around the world and for supporting specifically younger researchers.
  • Recently his contributions are the basis for the research of insect-mite-interactions worldwide.
  • Moser published in the most prestigious international scientific journals, such as Science in the United States, Nature in the United Kingdom or Naturwissenschaften in Germany.

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