Elizabeth Jockusch

Elizabeth Jockusch
Alma mater	Oberlin College University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Evolutionary biology
Institutions	University of Connecticut
Academic advisors	David Wake

Elizabeth L. Jockusch is an American evolutionary biologist who studies plethodontidae salamanders and other organisms. While working with David Wake and others, she has identified multiple new species of Batrachoseps salamanders. ^{[1] [2]} She is the head of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department at the University of Connecticut, which she joined in 1999. ^[3] She is also the director of the Jockusch Lab. ^{[4] [5]}

In 2014, she was elected to the council of the Society of Systematic Biologists for a three-year term. ^[6]

Selected publications

• Elizabeth L. Jockusch. (1997). An Evolutionary Correlate of Genome Size Change in Plethodontid Salamanders. Proceedings: Biological Sciences, 264(1381), 597–604. ^[7]
• Jockusch, E.L. and Wake, D.B. 2002. Falling apart and merging: diversification of slender salamanders (Plethodontidae: Batrachoseps) in the American West. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 76: 361–391. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1095-8312.2002.00071.x ^[1]
• Galis F, Wagner GP, Jockusch EL. Why is limb regeneration possible in amphibians but not in reptiles, birds, and mammals? Evolution & Development. 2003;5(2):208-220. doi : 10.1046/j.1525-142X.2003.03028.x ^[8]
• Evans, A. E., Urban, M. C., & Jockusch, E. L. (2020). Developmental temperature influences color polymorphism but not hatchling size in a woodland salamander. Oecologia, 192(4), 909. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04630-y ^[9]
• Jockusch EL, Hansen RW, Fisher RN, Wake DB. 2020. Slender salamanders (genus Batrachoseps) reveal Southern California to be a center for the diversification, persistence, and introduction of salamander lineages. PeerJ 8:e9599 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9599 ^[10]
• Jockusch, Elizabeth L, Fisher, Cera R. August 2021. Something old, something new, something borrowed, something red: the origin of ecologically relevant novelties in Hemiptera. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gde.2021.04.003 ^[11]
• Samuel S. Sweet, Elizabeth L. Jockusch "A New Relict Species of Slender Salamander (Plethodontidae: Batrachoseps) with a Tiny Range from Point Arguello, California," Ichthyology & Herpetology, 109(3), 836–850, (23 September 2021) ^[2]

References

1. Jockusch, Elizabeth L.; Wake, David B. (2002). "Falling apart and merging: diversification of slender salamanders (Plethodontidae: Batrachoseps) in the American West". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 76 (3): 361–391. doi: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2002.00071.x . ISSN   1095-8312.
2. Sweet, Samuel S.; Jockusch, Elizabeth L. (September 2021). "A New Relict Species of Slender Salamander (Plethodontidae: Batrachoseps) with a Tiny Range from Point Arguello, California". Ichthyology & Herpetology. 109 (3): 836–850. doi: 10.1643/h2020027 . ISSN   2766-1512. S2CID   238638252.
3. Buckley, Christine (September 25, 2024). "Meet New Head of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Elizabeth Jockusch". UConn Today. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
4. Severance, Jaclyn (December 9, 2019). "UConn Study: Wing Genes Responsible for Tiny Treehopper's Extraordinary Helmet". University of Connecticut. Archived from the original on December 9, 2019. Retrieved November 27, 2021.
5. Wu., Katherine J. (December 9, 2019). "Treehoppers' Bizarre, Wondrous Helmets Use Wing Genes to Grow". Smithsonian Magazine . Archived from the original on December 9, 2019. Retrieved November 27, 2021.
6. "Society of Systematic Biologists Announcements". Systematic Biology. 63 (4): A4. July 2014. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syu037 – via Academic Search Complete.
7. Elizabeth L. Jockusch (April 22, 1997). "An Evolutionary Correlate of Genome Size Change in Plethodontid Salamanders". Proceedings: Biological Sciences. 264 (1381): 597–604. doi:10.1098/rspb.1997.0085. PMC   1688400 .
8. Galis, Frietson; Wagner, Günter P.; Jockusch, Elizabeth L. (2003). "Why is limb regeneration possible in amphibians but not in reptiles, birds, and mammals?". Evolution & Development. 5 (2): 208–220. doi: 10.1046/j.1525-142X.2003.03028.x . PMID   12622738. S2CID   18565964.
9. Evans, Annette E.; Urban, Mark C.; Jockusch, Elizabeth L. (April 1, 2020). "Developmental temperature influences color polymorphism but not hatchling size in a woodland salamander". Oecologia. 192 (4): 909–918. Bibcode:2020Oecol.192..909E. doi:10.1007/s00442-020-04630-y. ISSN   0029-8549. PMID   32162072. S2CID   253974806.
10. Jockusch, Elizabeth L.; Hansen, Robert W.; Fisher, Robert N.; Wake, David B. (August 14, 2020). "Slender salamanders (genus Batrachoseps) reveal Southern California to be a center for the diversification, persistence, and introduction of salamander lineages". PeerJ. 8: e9599. Bibcode:2020PeerJ...8.9599J. doi: 10.7717/peerj.9599 . ISSN   2167-8359. PMC   7430267 . PMID   32864205.
11. Jockusch, Elizabeth L; Fisher, Cera R (August 1, 2021). "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something red: the origin of ecologically relevant novelties in Hemiptera". Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. Developmental Mechanisms, patterning and evolution. 69: 154–162. doi: 10.1016/j.gde.2021.04.003 . ISSN   0959-437X. PMID   34058515. S2CID   235268984.

External links

• Jockusch Lab website