Catherine Sole
{{Short description|South African entomologist and molecular ecologist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Catherine Lynne Sole
| birth_date = January 1978
| workplaces = University of Pretoria
| alma_mater = BSc (University of Pretoria)
BSc (honours) Entomology (University of Pretoria)
PhD Entomology (University of Pretoria)
}}
Catherine Lynne Sole is a South African entomologist. She leads the Invertebrate Biosystematics and Conservation Group (IBCG) in the department of zoology and entomology at the University of Pretoria.{{Cite web |title=UP {{!}} University of Pretoria |url=https://www.up.ac.za/ |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=www.up.ac.za}}{{Cite web |title=Prof Catherine Sole - Staff Profile {{!}} University of Pretoria |url=https://www.up.ac.za/zoology-entomology/view/staffprofile/5591 |access-date=2023-08-12 |website=www.up.ac.za}}
Sole completed her PhD in entomology in 2005, followed by post docs in Prof Scholtz’s group and she was appointed in 2013 as a senior lecturer in the department, promoted to associate professor in 2016 and to full professor in 2023. Sole has contributed significantly to the understanding of scarabaeoid (dung beetle) and nemopterid (lacewing) systematics at both a local and international level.{{Cite web |title=ORCID |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1578-0973 |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=orcid.org}} Sole is one of the African coordinators of the CGSG – Conservation Genetics specialist group,{{Cite web |title=Who We Are - |url=https://www.cgsg.uni-freiburg.de/who-we-are/ |access-date=2023-11-20 |language=en-US}} which provides advice on genetic policy and management for the IUCN. Sole is as well associated with the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI). In recognnition of her contributions to science and society Sole was inaugurated into the Academy of Science of South Africa{{Cite web |title=Members – ASSAf |url=https://www.assaf.org.za/members-directory/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |language=en-US}} in 2024.
Research interests
Her general research interest and approach is driven by the power of molecular techniques in testing evolutionary processes at various levels: population, species, and higher taxa; finding common evolutionary patterns in different taxa that reflect landscape and phylogenetic changes; and linking them to climatic, biogeographic and geological changes. Sole has presented at national and international conferences, one of which was an invited presentation for International Congress of Entomology, ICE2012 in South Korea.{{Cite web |title=Program of ICE 2012 |url=//edunabi.com/~ice2012/download/Scientific_Program_for_ICE_2012_2012-1-10ver.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230826154540///http://edunabi.com/~ice2012/download/Scientific_Program_for_ICE_2012_2012-1-10ver.pdf |archive-date=26 August 2023}} Sole is also the Chair of ICE 2008, a spin-off of the ICE 2008 in South Africa,{{Cite journal |title=Rostrum ESSA |url=https://doi.org/10.10520/EJC91610 |journal=Rostrum: Newsletter of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa |volume=2004 |issue=64}} promoting entomology in Africa.
Sole serves on the editorial board for Scientific Reports{{Cite web |title=Editors {{!}} Scientific Reports |url=https://www.nature.com/srep/about/editors |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=www.nature.com |language=en}} and Frontiers in Insect Science.{{Cite web |title=Loop {{!}} Catherine Sole |url=https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/1160569/overview |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=loop.frontiersin.org}}
Sole has over 80 publications,{{Cite web |title=Research Gate Catherine L. Sole |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catherine-Sole |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610092642/https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catherine-Sole |archive-date=10 June 2023 |website=Research Gate}} received a rating form the NRF{{Cite web |title=Current rated researchers |url=https://www.nrf.ac.za/information-portal/nrf-rated-researchers/ |website=National Research Foundation of South Africa}} and has contributed two book chapters in ‘Honeybees of Asia’{{Citation |last1=Sole |first1=Catherine L. |title=Genetic Considerations |date=2011 |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-642-16422-4_5 |work=Honeybees of Asia |pages=95–108 |editor-last=Hepburn |editor-first=H. Randall |access-date=2023-08-11 |place=Berlin, Heidelberg |publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-16422-4_5 |isbn=978-3-642-16421-7 |last2=Pirk |first2=Christian W. W. |editor2-last=Radloff |editor2-first=Sarah E.|url-access=subscription }}{{Citation |last1=Pirk |first1=Christian W. W. |title=Pheromones |date=2011 |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-642-16422-4_9 |work=Honeybees of Asia |pages=207–214 |editor-last=Hepburn |editor-first=H. Randall |access-date=2023-08-11 |place=Berlin, Heidelberg |publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-16422-4_9 |isbn=978-3-642-16421-7 |last2=Sole |first2=Catherine L. |last3=Crewe |first3=R. M. |editor2-last=Radloff |editor2-first=Sarah E.|url-access=subscription }} and a single chapter in the book, “Bat evolution, ecology and conservation”; published by Springer.{{Citation |last1=Boyles |first1=Justin G. |title=On Estimating the Economic Value of Insectivorous Bats: Prospects and Priorities for Biologists |date=2013 |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-4614-7397-8_24 |work=Bat Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation |pages=501–515 |editor-last=Adams |editor-first=Rick A. |access-date=2023-08-11 |place=New York, NY |publisher=Springer New York |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-4614-7397-8_24 |isbn=978-1-4614-7396-1 |last2=Sole |first2=Catherine L. |last3=Cryan |first3=Paul M. |last4=McCracken |first4=Gary F. |editor2-last=Pedersen |editor2-first=Scott C.|url-access=subscription }}
The beetle Macroderes soleiana (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) is named after Sole “in recognition of her leadership and her molecular work on the African dung beetles, lacewings and Baboon spiders”.{{Cite journal |last1=Abdalla |first1=Ishtiag H. |last2=Deschodt |first2=Christian M. |last3=Scholtz |first3=Clarke H. |last4=Sole |first4=Catherine L. |date=2018-10-23 |title=An update to the taxonomy of the genus Macroderes Westwood 1842 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) with descriptions of new species from South Africa |url=https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4504.1.3 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4504 |issue=1 |pages=41–75 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4504.1.3 |pmid=30486035 |s2cid=54121694 |issn=1175-5334|url-access=subscription }}
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