# Elizabeth Jockusch
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{{short description|American biologist}}
{{use mdy dates|date=November 2021}}
{{Infobox scientist
| fields = [Evolutionary biology](/source/Evolutionary_biology)
| workplaces = [University of Connecticut](/source/University_of_Connecticut)
| alma_mater = {{Plainlist|
* [Oberlin College](/source/Oberlin_College)
* [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley) {{Small|([PhD](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy))}}
}}
| academic_advisors = [David Wake](/source/David_Wake)
}}
'''Elizabeth L. Jockusch''' is an American [evolutionary biologist](/source/Evolutionary_biology) who studies [plethodontidae salamanders](/source/Plethodontidae) and other organisms. While working with [David Wake](/source/David_B._Wake) and others, she has identified multiple new species of [''Batrachoseps'' salamanders](/source/Slender_salamander).[{{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}}] She is the head of the [Ecology and Evolutionary Biology](/source/Ecology_and_evolutionary_biology) department at the [University of Connecticut](/source/University_of_Connecticut), which she joined in 1999.[{{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}}] 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.[{{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 }}][{{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](/source/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 }}]
In 2014, she was elected to the council of the [Society of Systematic Biologists](/source/Society_of_Systematic_Biologists) for a three-year term.[{{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}}]
== Selected publications ==
* Elizabeth L. Jockusch. (1997). An Evolutionary Correlate of Genome Size Change in Plethodontid Salamanders. ''Proceedings: Biological Sciences'', ''264''(1381), 597–604.[{{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 }}]
*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[{{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}}]
* 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}} [{{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}}]
*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[{{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}}]
* 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[{{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 }}]
* 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[{{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}}]
*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)