Jessica E. Light, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States 
Area:
Mammal systematics

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2021 Zecca IB, Hodo CL, Swarts HM, DeMaar TW, Snowden KF, Prestridge HL, Light JE, Hamer SA. Trypanosoma cruzi and Incidental Sarcocystis spp. in Endangered Ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) of South Texas, USA. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. PMID 34015810 DOI: 10.7589/JWD-D-20-00169  0.338
2019 Kjeldgaard MK, Takano OM, Bockoven AA, Teel PD, Light JE, Hamer SA, Hamer GL, Eubanks MD. Red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) aggression influences the behavior of three hard tick species. Experimental & Applied Acarology. PMID 31552562 DOI: 10.1007/S10493-019-00419-8  0.405
2019 Hafner DJ, Hafner MS, Spradling TA, Light JE, Demastes JW. Temporal and spatial dynamics of competitive parapatry in chewing lice. Ecology and Evolution. 9: 7410-7424. PMID 31346412 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.5183  0.788
2019 Hancock ZB, Hardin FO, Light JE. Phylogeography of sand‐burrowing amphipods (Haustoriidae) supports an ancient suture zone in the Gulf of Mexico Journal of Biogeography. 46: 2532-2547. DOI: 10.1111/Jbi.13686  0.318
2019 Neiswenter SA, Hafner DJ, Light JE, Cepeda GD, Kinzer KC, Alexander LF, Riddle BR. Phylogeography and taxonomic revision of Nelson’s pocket mouse (Chaetodipus nelsoni) Journal of Mammalogy. 100: 1847-1864. DOI: 10.1093/Jmammal/Gyz130  0.461
2018 Demastes JW, Hafner DJ, Hafner MS, Light JE, Spradling TA. Loss of genetic diversity, recovery, and allele surfing in a colonizing parasite, Geomydoecus aurei. Molecular Ecology. PMID 30589151 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.14997  0.768
2018 Anderson AP, Light JE, Takano OM, Morrison ML. Population structure of the Townsend’s big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii townsendii) in California Journal of Mammalogy. 99: 646-658. DOI: 10.1093/Jmammal/Gyy037  0.492
2018 Arcangeli J, Light JE, Cervantes FA. Molecular and morphological evidence of the diversification in the gray mouse opossum, Tlacuatzin canescens (Didelphimorphia), with description of a new species Journal of Mammalogy. 99: 138-158. DOI: 10.1093/Jmammal/Gyx173  0.509
2017 Light JE, Harper S, Johnson K, Demastes J, Spradling T. 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. The Journal of Parasitology. PMID 28985160 DOI: 10.1645/17-130  0.764
2017 Takano OM, Mitchell PS, Gustafsson DR, Adite A, Voelker G, Light JE. AN ASSESSMENT OF HOST ASSOCIATIONS, GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS, AND GENETIC DIVERSITY OF AVIAN CHEWING LICE (INSECTA: PHTHIRAPTERA) FROM BENIN. The Journal of Parasitology. PMID 28067108 DOI: 10.1645/16-137  0.574
2016 Castellanos AA, Medeiros MC, Hamer GL, Morrow ME, Eubanks MD, Teel PD, Hamer SA, Light JE. Decreased small mammal and on-host tick abundance in association with invasive red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta). Biology Letters. 12. PMID 27651533 DOI: 10.1098/Rsbl.2016.0463  0.453
2016 Allen JM, Burleigh JG, Light JE, Reed DL. Effects of 16S rDNA sampling on estimates of the number of endosymbiont lineages in sucking lice. Peerj. 4: e2187. PMID 27547523 DOI: 10.7717/Peerj.2187  0.582
2016 Light JE, Nessner CE, Gustafsson DR, Wise SR, Voelker G. Remarkable levels of avian louse (Insecta: Phthiraptera) diversity in the Congo Basin Zoologica Scripta. DOI: 10.1111/Zsc.12170  0.596
2016 Light JE, Ostroff MO, Hafner DJ. Phylogeographic assessment of the northern pygmy mouse, Baiomys taylori Journal of Mammalogy. 97: 1081-1094. DOI: 10.1093/Jmammal/Gyw065  0.34
2016 Cook JA, Greiman SE, Agosta SJ, Anderson RP, Arbogast BS, Baker RJ, Boeger W, Bradley RD, Brooks DR, Cole R, Demboski JR, Dobson AP, Dunnum JL, Eckerlin RP, Esselstyn J, ... ... Light JE, et al. Transformational Principles for NEON Sampling of Mammalian Parasites and Pathogens: A Response to Springer and Colleagues Bioscience. 66: 917-919. DOI: 10.1093/Biosci/Biw123  0.736
2015 Allen JM, Burleigh JG, Light JE, Reed DL. Effects of 16S rDNA sampling on estimates of endosymbiont lineages in sucking lice Peerj. DOI: 10.7287/Peerj.Preprints.1457V1  0.582
2015 Rodriguez JE, Hamer SA, Castellanos AA, Light JE. Survey of a Rodent and Tick Community in East-Central Texas Southeastern Naturalist. 14: 415-424. DOI: 10.1656/058.014.0301  0.492
2014 Nessner CE, Andersen JJ, Renshaw MA, Giresi MM, Light JE. Characterization of 17 novel polymorphic microsatellite loci in the mammal chewing louse Geomydoecus ewingi (Insecta: Phthiraptera) for population genetic analyses. The Journal of Parasitology. 100: 873-7. PMID 24992004 DOI: 10.1645/13-415.1  0.411
2014 Welborn SR, Light JE. Population genetic structure of the baird's pocket gopher, geomys breviceps, in Eastern Texas Western North American Naturalist. 74: 325-334. DOI: 10.3398/064.074.0312  0.383
2013 Andersen JJ, Portnoy DS, Hafner JC, Light JE. Populations at risk: conservation genetics of kangaroo mice (Microdipodops) of the Great Basin Desert. Ecology and Evolution. 3: 2497-513. PMID 24567823 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.637  0.406
2013 Voelker G, Marks BD, Kahindo C, A'genonga U, Bapeamoni F, Duffie LE, Huntley JW, Mulotwa E, Rosenbaum SA, Light JE. River barriers and cryptic biodiversity in an evolutionary museum. Ecology and Evolution. 3: 536-45. PMID 23532272 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.482  0.493
2013 Light JE, Hafner JC, Upham NS, Reddington E. Conservation Genetics of Kangaroo Mice, Genus Microdipodops Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 20: 129-146. DOI: 10.1007/S10914-012-9193-2  0.507
2012 Demastes JW, Spradling TA, Hafner MS, Spies GR, Hafner DJ, Light JE. Cophylogeny on a fine scale: Geomydoecus chewing lice and their pocket gopher hosts, Pappogeomys bulleri. The Journal of Parasitology. 98: 262-70. PMID 22010942 DOI: 10.1645/Ge-2904.1  0.812
2012 Andersen JJ, Light JE. Phylogeography and subspecies revision of the hispid pocket mouse, Chaetodipus hispidus (Rodentia: Heteromyidae) Journal of Mammalogy. 93: 1195-1215. DOI: 10.1644/11-Mamm-A-341.3  0.476
2012 Andersen JJ, Renshaw MA, Light JE. Eight novel polymorphic microsatellites in the hispid pocket mouse (Chaetodipus hispidus) and cross-amplification in other Perognathinae species (Rodentia: Heteromyidae) Conservation Genetics Resources. 4: 1019-1021. DOI: 10.1007/S12686-012-9697-3  0.526
2012 Welborn SR, Renshaw MA, Light JE. Characterization of 10 polymorphic loci in the Baird's pocket gopher (Geomys breviceps) and cross-amplification in other gopher species Conservation Genetics Resources. 4: 467-469. DOI: 10.1007/S12686-011-9576-3  0.513
2011 Voelker G, Light JE. Palaeoclimatic events, dispersal and migratory losses along the Afro-European axis as drivers of biogeographic distribution in Sylvia warblers. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 11: 163. PMID 21672229 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-163  0.525
2011 Smith VS, Ford T, Johnson KP, Johnson PC, Yoshizawa K, Light JE. Multiple lineages of lice pass through the K-Pg boundary. Biology Letters. 7: 782-5. PMID 21471047 DOI: 10.1098/Rsbl.2011.0105  0.343
2011 Toups MA, Kitchen A, Light JE, Reed DL. Origin of clothing lice indicates early clothing use by anatomically modern humans in Africa. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 28: 29-32. PMID 20823373 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msq234  0.538
2010 Light JE, Smith VS, Allen JM, Durden LA, Reed DL. Evolutionary history of mammalian sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura). Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 10: 292. PMID 20860811 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-292  0.677
2010 Musser GG, Durden LA, Holden ME, Light JE. 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. 1-260. DOI: 10.1206/695.1  0.461
2010 Lance SL, Light JE, Jones KL, Hagen C, Hafner JC. Isolation and characterization of 17 polymorphic microsatellite loci in the kangaroo mouse, genus Microdipodops (Rodentia: Heteromyidae) Conservation Genetics Resources. 2: 139-141. DOI: 10.1007/S12686-010-9195-4  0.401
2009 Allen JM, Light JE, Perotti MA, Braig HR, Reed DL. Mutational meltdown in primary endosymbionts: selection limits Muller's ratchet. Plos One. 4: e4969. PMID 19305500 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0004969  0.546
2009 Light JE, Reed DL. Multigene analysis of phylogenetic relationships and divergence times of primate sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 50: 376-90. PMID 19027083 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2008.10.023  0.688
2009 Hafner MS, Hafner DJ, Demastes JW, Hasty GL, Light JE, Spradling TA. Evolutionary relationships of pocket gophers of the genus Pappogeomys (Rodentia: Geomyidae) Journal of Mammalogy. 90: 47-56. DOI: 10.1644/08-Mamm-A-168.1  0.737
2008 Light JE, Allen JM, Long LM, Carter TE, Barrow L, Suren G, Raoult D, Reed DL. Geographic distributions and origins of human head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) based on mitochondrial data. The Journal of Parasitology. 94: 1275-81. PMID 18576877 DOI: 10.1645/Ge-1618.1  0.626
2008 Light JE, Hafner MS. Codivergence in heteromyid rodents (Rodentia: heteromyidae) and their sucking lice of the genus Fahrenholzia (Phthiraptera: anoplura). Systematic Biology. 57: 449-65. PMID 18570038 DOI: 10.1080/10635150802169610  0.672
2008 Light JE, Toups MA, Reed DL. What's in a name: the taxonomic status of human head and body lice. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 47: 1203-16. PMID 18434207 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2008.03.014  0.665
2008 Raoult D, Reed DL, Dittmar K, Kirchman JJ, Rolain JM, Guillen S, Light JE. Molecular identification of lice from pre-Columbian mummies. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 197: 535-43. PMID 18254682 DOI: 10.1086/526520  0.554
2008 Smith VS, Light JE, Durden LA. Rodent louse diversity, phylogeny, and cospeciation in the Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 95: 598-610. DOI: 10.1111/J.1095-8312.2008.01069.X  0.586
2007 Light JE, Hafner MS. Cophylogeny and disparate rates of evolution in sympatric lineages of chewing lice on pocket gophers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 45: 997-1013. PMID 17964189 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2007.09.001  0.716
2007 Reed DL, Light JE, Allen JM, Kirchman JJ. Pair of lice lost or parasites regained: the evolutionary history of anthropoid primate lice. Bmc Biology. 5: 7. PMID 17343749 DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-5-7  0.651
2007 Hafner JC, Light JE, Hafner DJ, Hafner MS, Reddington E, Rogers DS, Riddle BR. Basal clades and molecular systematics of heteromyid rodents Journal of Mammalogy. 88: 1129-1145. DOI: 10.1644/06-Mamm-A-413R1.1  0.692
2007 Light JE, Hafner MS. Phylogenetics and host associations of Fahrenholzia sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura) Systematic Entomology. 32: 359-370. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-3113.2006.00367.X  0.754
2005 Burreson EM, Light JE, Williams JI. Redescription of Cystobranchus virginicus Hoffman, 1964, and Cystobranchus salmositicus (Meyer, 1946) (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae) from freshwater fishes in North America Comparative Parasitology. 72: 157-165. DOI: 10.1654/4161  0.328
2005 Hafner MS, Light JE, Hafner DJ, Brant SV, Spradling TA, Demastes JW. Cryptic species in the Mexican pocket gopher Cratogeomys merriami Journal of Mammalogy. 86: 1095-1108. DOI: 10.1644/05-Mamm-A-064R1.1  0.776
2005 Light JE, Fiumera AC, Porter BA. Egg-feeding in the freshwater piscicolid leech Cystobranchus virginicus (Annelida, Hirudinea) Invertebrate Biology. 124: 50-56. DOI: 10.1111/J.1744-7410.2005.1241-06.X  0.478
2004 Hafner MS, Spradling TA, Light JE, Hafner DJ, Demboski JR. Systematic revision of pocket gophers of the Cratogeomys gymnurus species group Journal of Mammalogy. 85: 1170-1183. DOI: 10.1644/Ber-122.1  0.808
2003 Demastes JW, Butt AL, Hafner MS, Light JE. Systematics of a rare species of pocket gopher, Pappogeomys alcorni Journal of Mammalogy. 84: 753-761. DOI: 10.1644/1545-1542(2003)084<0753:Soarso>2.0.Co;2  0.818
1999 Light JE, Siddall ME. Phylogeny of the leech family Glossiphoniidae based on mitochondrial gene sequences and morphological data. The Journal of Parasitology. 85: 815-23. PMID 10577715 DOI: 10.2307/3285816  0.556
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