Jessica E. Light

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2025
D. R. Gustafsson, Allen, J. M., Bell, K. C., Bush, S. E., Durden, L. A., Johnson, K. P., Light, J. E., and Weckstein, J. D., “Phthiraptera systematics: past, present, and future”, Insect Systematics and Diversity, vol. 9 , no. 5 (ixaf034), p. 19 pp, 2025.PDF icon 96918.pdf (7.86 MB)
2023
K. A. Sullivan, Tucker, E. M., Dowdy, N. J., Allen, J. M., Barve, V., Boone, J. H., Bush, S. E., Evenhuis, N. L., Hastriter, M., Light, J. E., Mayfield-Meyer, T., O'Connor, B. M., Poelen, J. H., Racz, G. R., Seltmann, K. C., and Zaspel, J. M., “Building a community-based taxonomic resource for digitization of parasites and their hosts”, Insect Systematics and Diversity, vol. 7, no. 6, p. 9 pp, 2023.PDF icon 96433.pdf (817.31 KB)
2022
W. C. Preisser, Castellanos, A. A., Kinsella, J. M., Vargas, R., Gonzalez, E., Fernández, J. A., Dronen, N. O., A. Lawing, M., and Light, J. E., “Taxonomic scale and community organization impact observed latitudinal gradients of parasite diversity”, Journal of Biogeography, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 617-629, 2022.PDF icon 95809.pdf (3.25 MB)
R. R. Dunn, Burger, J. Robert, Carlen, E. J., Koltz, A. M., Light, J. E., Martin, R. A., Munshi-South, J., Nichols, L. M., Vargo, E. L., Yitbarek, S., Zhao, Y., and Cibrián-Jaramillo, A., “A Theory of City Biogeography and the Origin of Urban Species”, Frontiers in Conservation Science, vol. 3, no. 761449, p. 18 pp, 2022.PDF icon 96317.pdf (1.79 MB)
2021
J. P. Pistone, Light, J. E., Campbell, T. A., Catanach, T. A., and Voelker, G., “Restricted Geographic Sampling Yields Low Parasitism Rates but Surprisingly Diverse Host Associations in Avian Lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from South Texas”, Diversity, vol. 13, no. 9, p. 20 pp, 2021.PDF icon 95428.pdf (1.76 MB)
2020
J. E. Light, Durden, L. A., O'Connor, B. M., Preisser, W. C., Acosta, R., and Eckerlin, R. P., “Checklist of ectoparasites of cricetid and heteromyid rodents in México”, 2020.PDF icon 94867.pdf (895.44 KB)
2019
J. E. Light, Eckerlin, R. P., and Durden, L. A., “Checklist of ectoparasites of Canidae and Felidae in México”, Therya, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 109 - 119, 2019.PDF icon 94868.pdf (203.4 KB)
J. W. Demastes, Hafner, D. J., Hafner, M. S., Light, J. E., and Spradling, T. A., “Loss of genetic diversity, recovery and allele surfing in a colonizing parasite, Geomydoecus aurei”, Molecular Ecology, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 703 - 720, 2019.PDF icon 94572.pdf (1.8 MB)
O. M. Takano, Voelker, G., Gustafsson, D. R., and Light, J. E., “Molecular phylogeny and novel host associations of avian chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from South Africa”, Systematic Entomology, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 289 - 304, 2019.PDF icon 94436_1.pdf (1.01 MB)
D. J. Hafner, Hafner, M. S., Spradling, T. A., Light, J. E., and Demastes, J. W., “Temporal and spatial dynamics of competitive parapatry in chewing lice”, Ecology and Evolution, vol. 9, no. 13, pp. 7410 - 7424, 2019.PDF icon 94866.pdf (4.56 MB)
2018
J. E. Light, Harper, S. E., Johnson, K. P., Demastes, J. W., and Spradling, T. A., “Development and Characterization of 12 Novel Polymorphic Microsatellite Loci for the Mammal Chewing Louse Geomydoecus aurei (Insecta: Phthiraptera) and a Comparison of Next-Generation Sequencing Approaches for Use in Parasitology”, Journal of Parasitology, vol. 104, no. 1, pp. 89 - 95, 2018.PDF icon 94578.pdf (126.22 KB)
2017
O. M. Takano, Mitchell, P. S., Gustafsson, D. R., Adite, A., Voelker, G., and Light, J. E., “An Assessment of Host Associations, Geographic Distributions, and Genetic Diversity of Avian Chewing Lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from Benin”, Journal of Parasitology, vol. 103, no. 2, pp. 152 - 160, 2017.PDF icon 94296.pdf (459.13 KB)
2016
J. M. Allen, J. Burleigh, G., Light, J. E., and Reed, D. L., “Effects of 16S rDNA sampling on estimates of the number of endosymbiont lineages in sucking lice”, PeerJ , vol. 4, no. 17 pp, 2016.PDF icon 95698.pdf (909.31 KB)
J. E. Light, Nessner, C. E., Gustafsson, D. R., Wise, S. R., and Voelker, G., “Remarkable levels of avian louse (Insecta: Phthiraptera) diversity in the Congo Basin”, Zoologica Scripta, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 538 - 551, 2016.PDF icon 94251.pdf (527.89 KB)
2014
C. E. Nessner, Andersen, J. J., Renshaw, M. A., Giresi, M. M., and Light, J. E., “Characterization of 17 Novel Polymorphic Microsatellite Loci in the Mammal Chewing Louse Geomydoecus ewingi (Insecta: Phthiraptera) for Population Genetic Analyses”, Journal of Parasitology, vol. 100, no. 6, pp. 873 - 877, 2014.PDF icon 68859.pdf (98.8 KB)
2013
G. Voelker, Marks, B. D., Kahindo, C., A'genonga, U., Bapeamoni, F., Duffie, L. E., Huntley, J. W., Mulotwa, E., Rosenbaum, S. A., and Light, J. E., “River barriers and cryptic biodiversity in an evolutionary museum”, Ecology and Evolution, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 536 - 545, 2013.PDF icon 95105.pdf (881.45 KB)
2012
J. W. Demastes, Spradling, T. A., Hafner, M. S., Spies, G. R., Hafner, D. J., and Light, J. E., “Cophylogeny on a Fine Scale: Geomydoecus Chewing Lice and Their Pocket Gopher Hosts, Pappogeomys bulleri”, Journal of Parasitology, vol. 98, no. 2, pp. 262 - 270, 2012.PDF icon 94263.pdf (477.63 KB)
2011
M. A. Toups, Kitchen, A., Light, J. E., and Reed, D. L., “Origin of Clothing Lice Indicates Early Clothing Use by Anatomically Modern Humans in Africa”, Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 29 - 32, 2011.PDF icon 94608.pdf (266.68 KB)
2010
J. E. Light, Smith, V. Stuart, Allen, J. M., Durden, L. A., and Reed, D. L., “Evolutionary history of mammalian sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura)”, BMC Ecology and Evolution, vol. 10, no. 292, p. 15 pp, 2010.PDF icon 95643.pdf (1.55 MB)PDF icon 95643 supp file 1.pdf (96.62 KB)PDF icon 95643 supp file 2.PDF (287 KB)PDF icon 95643 supp file 3.PDF (287.43 KB)PDF icon 95643 supp file 4.PDF (308.75 KB)PDF icon 95643 supp file 5.PDF (319.21 KB)PDF icon 95643 fig 1 orginal.pdf (280.68 KB)PDF icon 95643 fig 2 original.pdf (169.63 KB)PDF icon 95643 fig 3 original.pdf (301.07 KB)PDF icon 95643 fig 4 original.pdf (296.26 KB)
G. G. Musser, Durden, L. A., Holden-Musser, M. Ellen, and Light, J. E., “Systematic review of endemic Sulawesi squirrels (Rodentia, Sciuridae), with descriptions of new species of associated sucking lice (Insecta, Anoplura), and phylogenetic and zoogeographic assessments of sciurid lice”, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 339, pp. 1-260, 2010.PDF icon 61685.pdf (41.77 MB)
2009
J. E. Light and Reed, D. L., “Multigene analysis of phylogenetic relationships and divergence times of primate sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura)”, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 376 - 390, 2009.PDF icon 48442.pdf (312.28 KB)
2008
J. E. Light and Hafner, M. S., “Codivergence in Heteromyid Rodents (Rodentia: Heteromyidae) and Their Sucking Lice of the Genus Fahrenholzia (Phthiraptera: Anoplura)”, Systematic Biology, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 449 - 465, 2008.PDF icon 94511.pdf (5 MB)
J. E. Light, Allen, J. M., Long, L. M., Carter, T. E., Barrow, L., Suren, G., Raoult, D., and Reed, D. L., “Geographic Distributions and Origins of Human Head Lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) Based on Mitochondrial Data”, Journal of Parasitology, vol. 94, no. 6, pp. 1275 - 1281, 2008.PDF icon 94784.pdf (386.69 KB)
D. Raoult, Reed, D. L., Dittmar de la Cruz, K., Kirchman, J. J., Rolain, J. - M., Guillen, S., and Light, J. E., “Molecular Identification of Lice from Pre-Columbian Mummies”, Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 197, pp. 535 - 543, 2008.PDF icon 47390.pdf (484.34 KB)
V. Stuart Smith, Light, J. E., and Durden, L. A., “Rodent louse diversity, phylogeny, and cospeciation in the Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru”, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 95, pp. 598–610, 2008.PDF icon 68899.pdf (200.71 KB)

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Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith