Elizabeth Jockusch

{{Infobox scientist | fields = Evolutionary biology | workplaces = University of Connecticut | alma_mater = {{Plainlist| * Oberlin College * University of California, Berkeley {{Small|(PhD)}} }} | 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.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last1=Sweet|first1=Samuel S.|last2=Jockusch|first2=Elizabeth L.|date=September 2021|title=A New Relict Species of Slender Salamander (Plethodontidae: Batrachoseps) with a Tiny Range from Point Arguello, California|journal=Ichthyology & Herpetology|volume=109|issue=3|pages=836–850|doi=10.1643/h2020027|s2cid=238638252 |issn=2766-1512|doi-access=free}}</ref> She is the head of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department at the University of Connecticut, which she joined in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Buckley |first=Christine |date=2024-09-25 |title=Meet New Head of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Elizabeth Jockusch |url=https://today.uconn.edu/2024/09/meet-new-head-of-ecology-and-evolutionary-biology-elizabeth-jockusch/# |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=UConn Today |language=en-US}}</ref> She is also the director of the Jockusch Lab and is currently the department head of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of Connecticut.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Severance|first=Jaclyn|date=December 9, 2019|title=UConn Study: Wing Genes Responsible for Tiny Treehopper's Extraordinary Helmet|url=https://today.uconn.edu/2019/12/uconn-study-wing-genes-responsible-tiny-treehoppers-extraordinary-helmet/#|url-status=live|access-date=November 27, 2021|website=University of Connecticut|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209185918/https://today.uconn.edu/2019/12/uconn-study-wing-genes-responsible-tiny-treehoppers-extraordinary-helmet/ |archive-date=December 9, 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Wu.|first=Katherine J.|date=December 9, 2019|title=Treehoppers' Bizarre, Wondrous Helmets Use Wing Genes to Grow|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/treehoppers-bizarre-wondrous-helmets-use-wing-genes-grow-180973713/|url-status=live|access-date=November 27, 2021|website=Smithsonian Magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209195735/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/treehoppers-bizarre-wondrous-helmets-use-wing-genes-grow-180973713/ |archive-date=December 9, 2019 }}</ref>

In 2014, she was elected to the council of the Society of Systematic Biologists for a three-year term.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=July 2014|title=Society of Systematic Biologists Announcements|journal=Systematic Biology|volume=63|issue=4|pages=A4|doi=10.1093/sysbio/syu037 |via=Academic Search Complete|doi-access=free}}</ref>

== Selected publications ==

* Elizabeth L. Jockusch. (1997). An Evolutionary Correlate of Genome Size Change in Plethodontid Salamanders. ''Proceedings: Biological Sciences'', ''264''(1381), 597–604.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Elizabeth L. Jockusch|date=1997-04-22|title=An Evolutionary Correlate of Genome Size Change in Plethodontid Salamanders|url=|journal=Proceedings: Biological Sciences|volume=264|issue=1381|pages=597–604|doi=10.1098/rspb.1997.0085 |pmc=1688400 }}</ref> *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. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1095-8312.2002.00071.x</nowiki><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Jockusch|first1=Elizabeth L.|last2=Wake|first2=David B.|date=2002|title=Falling apart and merging: diversification of slender salamanders (Plethodontidae: Batrachoseps) in the American West|journal=Biological Journal of the Linnean Society|language=en|volume=76|issue=3|pages=361–391|doi=10.1046/j.1095-8312.2002.00071.x|issn=1095-8312|doi-access=free}}</ref> * 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}} <ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Galis|first1=Frietson|last2=Wagner|first2=Günter P.|last3=Jockusch|first3=Elizabeth L.|date=2003|title=Why is limb regeneration possible in amphibians but not in reptiles, birds, and mammals?|url=|journal=Evolution & Development|volume=5|issue=2|pages=208–220|doi=10.1046/j.1525-142X.2003.03028.x|pmid=12622738 |s2cid=18565964 |doi-access=free}}</ref> *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. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04630-y</nowiki><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Evans|first1=Annette E.|last2=Urban|first2=Mark C.|last3=Jockusch|first3=Elizabeth L.|date=2020-04-01|title=Developmental temperature influences color polymorphism but not hatchling size in a woodland salamander|url=|journal=Oecologia|volume=192|issue=4|pages=909–918|doi=10.1007/s00442-020-04630-y|pmid=32162072 |bibcode=2020Oecol.192..909E |s2cid=253974806 |issn=0029-8549}}</ref> * 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 <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9599</nowiki><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Jockusch|first1=Elizabeth L.|last2=Hansen|first2=Robert W.|last3=Fisher|first3=Robert N.|last4=Wake|first4=David B.|date=2020-08-14|title=Slender salamanders (genus Batrachoseps) reveal Southern California to be a center for the diversification, persistence, and introduction of salamander lineages|journal=PeerJ|language=en|volume=8|article-number=e9599|pmid=32864205 |doi=10.7717/peerj.9599|pmc=7430267 |issn=2167-8359 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2020PeerJ...8.9599J }}</ref> * 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. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gde.2021.04.003</nowiki><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Jockusch|first1=Elizabeth L|last2=Fisher|first2=Cera R|date=2021-08-01|title=Something old, something new, something borrowed, something red: the origin of ecologically relevant novelties in Hemiptera|journal=Current Opinion in Genetics & Development|series=Developmental Mechanisms, patterning and evolution|language=en|volume=69|pages=154–162|doi=10.1016/j.gde.2021.04.003|pmid=34058515 |s2cid=235268984 |issn=0959-437X|doi-access=free}}</ref> *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)<ref name=":1" />

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== External links ==

* [https://jockusch.eeb.uconn.edu/ Jockusch Lab website] {{Authority control}}

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