PUBLICATIONS (if you would like access to any of these papers, please reach out to me)
Knutie, Sarah A., Webster, Cynthia N., Vaziri, Grace J., Albert, Lauren, Harvey, Johanna A., LaRue, Michelle, Verrett, Taylor B., Soldo, Alexandria, Koop, Jennifer A.H., Chaves, Jaime A., and Jill L. Wegrzyn. (2024) Urban living can rescue Darwin’s finches from the lethal effects of invasive vampire flies. Global Change Biology doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17145
Grindle, Emma, Bergan-Roller, Heather E., Johnson, Ashton, Lunaburg, Grace, and Jennifer A.H. Koop. (2023) Snail Races: An inquiry-based approach to learn invasive species ecology. CourseSource 10. doi.org/10.24918/cs.2023.47
Beausoleil, Marc-Olivier, Carrión, Paola L., Podos, Jeffrey, Camacho, Carlos, Rabadán-González, Julio, Richard, Roxanne, Lalla, Kristen, Raeymaekers, Joost A.M., Knutie, Sarah A., De León, Luis F., Chaves, Jaime A., Clayton, Dale H., Koop, Jennifer A.H., Sharpe, Diana M.T., Gotanda, Kiyoko M., Huber ,Sarah K., Barrett, Rowan D.H., Andrew P. Hendry (2023) The fitness landscape of a community of Darwin’s finches. Evolution 77:2533-2546. doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpad160
Koop, Jennifer A.H. (2022) Parasite conservation: why saving the “bad guys” is a good thing. Invited article for Pathways to Research in Sustainability, a new journal being published by EBSCO targeting undergraduate classroom audiences
Carrión, Paola L., Raeymaekers, Joost A. M., De León, Luis Fernando, Chaves, Jaime A., Sharpe, Diana M. T., Huber, Sarah K., Herrel, A., Vanhooydonck, Bieke, Gotanda, Kiyoko M., Koop, Jennifer A. H., Knutie, Sarah A., Clayton, Dale H., Podos, Jeffrey, and Andrew P. Hendry. (2022) The terrior of the finch: how spatial and temporal variation shapes phenotypic traits in Darwin’s finches. Ecology and Evolution https://doi:10.1002/ece3.9399
Melia G Romine, Sarah A Knutie, Carly M Crow, Grace J Vaziri, Jaime A Chaves, Jennifer AH Koop* and Sangeet Lamichhaney* (2021) The genome sequence of the avian vampire fly (Philornis downsi), an invasive nest parasite of Darwin's finches in Galapagos. G3 Genes,Genomes,Genetics https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkab414
Jennifer AH Koop, Charlotte E Causton, Mariana Bulgarella, Elizabeth Cooper, George E Heimpel. (2020) Population structure of a nest parasite of Darwin's finches within its native and invasive ranges. Conservation Genetics https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-020-01315-0
Robin M Tinghitella, Alycia CR Lackey, Catherine Durso, Jennifer AH Koop, Janette W Boughman. (2020) The ecological stage changes benefits of mate choice and drives preference divergence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375: 20190546. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0546
Marc-Olivier Beausoleil, Luke O Frishkoff, Leithen K M'Gonigle, Joost AM Raeymaekers, Sarah A Knutie, Luis F De León, Sarah K Huber, Jaime A Chaves, Dale H Clayton, Jennifer AH Koop, Jeffrey Podos, Diana MT Sharpe, Andrew P Hendry, Rowan DH Barrett. (2019) Temporally varying disruptive selection in the medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286:20192290. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2290
Bachtel, Rebecca Z., Rittenhouse, M., Sandland, Gregory J., and Jennifer A.H. Koop. (2019) Infection patterns of trematodes across size classes of an invasive snail species using field and laboratory studies. Parasitology https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182018001646
Villa, Scott M., Koop, Jennifer A.H., LeBohec, Celine, DiBlasi, Emily, and Dale H. Clayton. (2018) Beak of the pinch: anti-parasite traits are similar among Darwin’s finch species. Evolutionary Ecology 32:443-452.
McNew, Sabrina M., Beck, Daniel, Sadler-Riggleman, Ingrid, Knutie, Sarah A., Koop, Jennifer A.H., Clayton, Dale H., and Michael K. Skinner. (2017) Epigenetic variation between urban and rural populations of Darwin’s finches. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17:183.
Yule, Kelsey, Koop, Jennifer A.H., Alexandre, Nicolas, Johnston, Lauren, Whiteman, Noah K. (2016) Population structure of a vector-borne plant parasite. Molecular Ecology 25(14):3332-3343.
Knutie, Sarah A., Owen, Jeb P., McNew, Sabrina M., Barlow, Andrew W., Arriero, Elena, Herman, Jordan M., DiBlasi, Emily, Thompson, M., Koop, Jennifer A.H., Clayton, Dale H. (2016) Galapagos mockingbirds tolerate introduced parasties that affect Darwin’s finches. Ecology. 97(4): 940-950.
Koop, Jennifer A.H., Kim, Peter A., Knutie, Sarah A., Adler, Fred, Clayton, Dale H. (2015) Introduced parasitic fly may lead to local extinction of Darwin’s finch populations. Journal of Applied Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12575
Koop, Jennifer A.H., DeMatteo, Karen E., Parker, Patricia G., Whiteman, Noah K. (2014) Birds are islands for parasites. Biology Letters 10(8) doi:10.1098/rsbl.2014.0255
Skinner, Michael K., Guerrero-Bosagna, Carlos, Haque, Md. M., Koop, Jennifer A.H., Knutie, Sarah A., Clayton, Dale H. (2014) Epigenetics and the evolution of Darwin's finches. Genome Biology and Evolution 6(8):1972-1989. (with cover)
Koop, Jennifer A.H., Le Bohec, Celine, and Dale H. Clayton. (2013) Dry year does not reduce prevalence or abundance of Philornis downsi (Diptera: Muscidae) in Darwin’s finch nests. Reports in Parasitology 3:11-17.
Villa, Scott M., Le Bohec, Celine, Koop, Jennifer A.H., Proctor, Heather C., and Dale H. Clayton. (2013) Diversity of feather mites (Acari: Astigmata) on Darwin’s finches. Journal of Parasitology 99(5):756-762.
Knutie, Sarah A.* & Koop, Jennifer A. H.*, French, Susannah S., and Dale H. Clayton. (2013) Experimental test of the effect of introduced hematophagous flies on the corticosterone levels of breeding female Darwin’s finches. General and Comparative Endocrinology 193: 68-71. *Authors contributed equally to this work.
Koop, Jennifer A.H., Owen, Jeb P., Knutie, Sarah A., Aguilar, M. Alejandra, and Dale H. Clayton. (2013) Experimental demonstration of a parasite-induced immune response in wild birds: Darwin’s finches and introduced nest flies. Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1002/ece3.651.
Koop, Jennifer A.H. and Dale H. Clayton. (2013) Evaluation of two methods for quantifying passeriform lice. Journal of Field Ornithology 84(2): 210-215.
Koop, Jennifer A.H., Huber, Sarah K., and Dale H. Clayton. (2012) Does sunlight enhance the effectiveness of avian preening for ectoparasite control? Journal of Parasitology, 98:46-48.
Koop, Jennifer A.H., Huber, Sarah K., Laverty, Sean M., and Dale H. Clayton (2011) Experimental demonstration of the fitness consequences of an introduced parasite of Darwin’s finches. PLoS ONE, 6(5):e19706, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019706.
Shawkey, Matthew D., D’Alba, Liliana, Wozny, Joel, Eliason, Chad, Koop, Jennifer A.H., and Li Jia. (2011) Structural color change following hydration and dehydration of iridescent mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) feathers. Zoology, 114: 59-68. (with cover)
Huber, Sarah K., Owen, Jeb P., Koop, Jennifer A.H., King, Marisa O., Grant, Peter R., Grant, B. Rosemary, and Dale H. Clayton. (2010) Ecoimmunity in Darwin's Finches: invasive parasites trigger acquired immunity in the Medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis). PLoS ONE, 5:e8605, doi: 10.1381/journal.pone.0008605.
Clayton, Dale H., Koop, Jennifer A.H., Harbison, Christopher W., Moyer, Brett R., and Sarah E. Bush. (2010) How birds combat ectoparasites. Open Ornithology Journal, 3: 41-71, doi: 10.2174/1874453201003020041 clayton_et_al._2010.pdf
Knutie, Sarah A., Webster, Cynthia N., Vaziri, Grace J., Albert, Lauren, Harvey, Johanna A., LaRue, Michelle, Verrett, Taylor B., Soldo, Alexandria, Koop, Jennifer A.H., Chaves, Jaime A., and Jill L. Wegrzyn. (2024) Urban living can rescue Darwin’s finches from the lethal effects of invasive vampire flies. Global Change Biology doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17145
Grindle, Emma, Bergan-Roller, Heather E., Johnson, Ashton, Lunaburg, Grace, and Jennifer A.H. Koop. (2023) Snail Races: An inquiry-based approach to learn invasive species ecology. CourseSource 10. doi.org/10.24918/cs.2023.47
Beausoleil, Marc-Olivier, Carrión, Paola L., Podos, Jeffrey, Camacho, Carlos, Rabadán-González, Julio, Richard, Roxanne, Lalla, Kristen, Raeymaekers, Joost A.M., Knutie, Sarah A., De León, Luis F., Chaves, Jaime A., Clayton, Dale H., Koop, Jennifer A.H., Sharpe, Diana M.T., Gotanda, Kiyoko M., Huber ,Sarah K., Barrett, Rowan D.H., Andrew P. Hendry (2023) The fitness landscape of a community of Darwin’s finches. Evolution 77:2533-2546. doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpad160
Koop, Jennifer A.H. (2022) Parasite conservation: why saving the “bad guys” is a good thing. Invited article for Pathways to Research in Sustainability, a new journal being published by EBSCO targeting undergraduate classroom audiences
Carrión, Paola L., Raeymaekers, Joost A. M., De León, Luis Fernando, Chaves, Jaime A., Sharpe, Diana M. T., Huber, Sarah K., Herrel, A., Vanhooydonck, Bieke, Gotanda, Kiyoko M., Koop, Jennifer A. H., Knutie, Sarah A., Clayton, Dale H., Podos, Jeffrey, and Andrew P. Hendry. (2022) The terrior of the finch: how spatial and temporal variation shapes phenotypic traits in Darwin’s finches. Ecology and Evolution https://doi:10.1002/ece3.9399
Melia G Romine, Sarah A Knutie, Carly M Crow, Grace J Vaziri, Jaime A Chaves, Jennifer AH Koop* and Sangeet Lamichhaney* (2021) The genome sequence of the avian vampire fly (Philornis downsi), an invasive nest parasite of Darwin's finches in Galapagos. G3 Genes,Genomes,Genetics https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkab414
Jennifer AH Koop, Charlotte E Causton, Mariana Bulgarella, Elizabeth Cooper, George E Heimpel. (2020) Population structure of a nest parasite of Darwin's finches within its native and invasive ranges. Conservation Genetics https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-020-01315-0
Robin M Tinghitella, Alycia CR Lackey, Catherine Durso, Jennifer AH Koop, Janette W Boughman. (2020) The ecological stage changes benefits of mate choice and drives preference divergence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375: 20190546. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0546
Marc-Olivier Beausoleil, Luke O Frishkoff, Leithen K M'Gonigle, Joost AM Raeymaekers, Sarah A Knutie, Luis F De León, Sarah K Huber, Jaime A Chaves, Dale H Clayton, Jennifer AH Koop, Jeffrey Podos, Diana MT Sharpe, Andrew P Hendry, Rowan DH Barrett. (2019) Temporally varying disruptive selection in the medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286:20192290. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2290
Bachtel, Rebecca Z., Rittenhouse, M., Sandland, Gregory J., and Jennifer A.H. Koop. (2019) Infection patterns of trematodes across size classes of an invasive snail species using field and laboratory studies. Parasitology https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182018001646
Villa, Scott M., Koop, Jennifer A.H., LeBohec, Celine, DiBlasi, Emily, and Dale H. Clayton. (2018) Beak of the pinch: anti-parasite traits are similar among Darwin’s finch species. Evolutionary Ecology 32:443-452.
McNew, Sabrina M., Beck, Daniel, Sadler-Riggleman, Ingrid, Knutie, Sarah A., Koop, Jennifer A.H., Clayton, Dale H., and Michael K. Skinner. (2017) Epigenetic variation between urban and rural populations of Darwin’s finches. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17:183.
Yule, Kelsey, Koop, Jennifer A.H., Alexandre, Nicolas, Johnston, Lauren, Whiteman, Noah K. (2016) Population structure of a vector-borne plant parasite. Molecular Ecology 25(14):3332-3343.
Knutie, Sarah A., Owen, Jeb P., McNew, Sabrina M., Barlow, Andrew W., Arriero, Elena, Herman, Jordan M., DiBlasi, Emily, Thompson, M., Koop, Jennifer A.H., Clayton, Dale H. (2016) Galapagos mockingbirds tolerate introduced parasties that affect Darwin’s finches. Ecology. 97(4): 940-950.
Koop, Jennifer A.H., Kim, Peter A., Knutie, Sarah A., Adler, Fred, Clayton, Dale H. (2015) Introduced parasitic fly may lead to local extinction of Darwin’s finch populations. Journal of Applied Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12575
Koop, Jennifer A.H., DeMatteo, Karen E., Parker, Patricia G., Whiteman, Noah K. (2014) Birds are islands for parasites. Biology Letters 10(8) doi:10.1098/rsbl.2014.0255
Skinner, Michael K., Guerrero-Bosagna, Carlos, Haque, Md. M., Koop, Jennifer A.H., Knutie, Sarah A., Clayton, Dale H. (2014) Epigenetics and the evolution of Darwin's finches. Genome Biology and Evolution 6(8):1972-1989. (with cover)
Koop, Jennifer A.H., Le Bohec, Celine, and Dale H. Clayton. (2013) Dry year does not reduce prevalence or abundance of Philornis downsi (Diptera: Muscidae) in Darwin’s finch nests. Reports in Parasitology 3:11-17.
Villa, Scott M., Le Bohec, Celine, Koop, Jennifer A.H., Proctor, Heather C., and Dale H. Clayton. (2013) Diversity of feather mites (Acari: Astigmata) on Darwin’s finches. Journal of Parasitology 99(5):756-762.
Knutie, Sarah A.* & Koop, Jennifer A. H.*, French, Susannah S., and Dale H. Clayton. (2013) Experimental test of the effect of introduced hematophagous flies on the corticosterone levels of breeding female Darwin’s finches. General and Comparative Endocrinology 193: 68-71. *Authors contributed equally to this work.
Koop, Jennifer A.H., Owen, Jeb P., Knutie, Sarah A., Aguilar, M. Alejandra, and Dale H. Clayton. (2013) Experimental demonstration of a parasite-induced immune response in wild birds: Darwin’s finches and introduced nest flies. Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1002/ece3.651.
Koop, Jennifer A.H. and Dale H. Clayton. (2013) Evaluation of two methods for quantifying passeriform lice. Journal of Field Ornithology 84(2): 210-215.
Koop, Jennifer A.H., Huber, Sarah K., and Dale H. Clayton. (2012) Does sunlight enhance the effectiveness of avian preening for ectoparasite control? Journal of Parasitology, 98:46-48.
Koop, Jennifer A.H., Huber, Sarah K., Laverty, Sean M., and Dale H. Clayton (2011) Experimental demonstration of the fitness consequences of an introduced parasite of Darwin’s finches. PLoS ONE, 6(5):e19706, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019706.
Shawkey, Matthew D., D’Alba, Liliana, Wozny, Joel, Eliason, Chad, Koop, Jennifer A.H., and Li Jia. (2011) Structural color change following hydration and dehydration of iridescent mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) feathers. Zoology, 114: 59-68. (with cover)
Huber, Sarah K., Owen, Jeb P., Koop, Jennifer A.H., King, Marisa O., Grant, Peter R., Grant, B. Rosemary, and Dale H. Clayton. (2010) Ecoimmunity in Darwin's Finches: invasive parasites trigger acquired immunity in the Medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis). PLoS ONE, 5:e8605, doi: 10.1381/journal.pone.0008605.
Clayton, Dale H., Koop, Jennifer A.H., Harbison, Christopher W., Moyer, Brett R., and Sarah E. Bush. (2010) How birds combat ectoparasites. Open Ornithology Journal, 3: 41-71, doi: 10.2174/1874453201003020041 clayton_et_al._2010.pdf
