Recent and Representative Papers

(Co-authors are students, both undergraduate and graduate)
My policy is to make students full partners in the research efforts. As a result, virtually all of the people who work seriously in the lab end up presenting at regional and national meetings. Often this work results in publications. The papers below are typical ones from our lab and illustrate the general kinds of work that my students and I do.

Detwiler, J., and J. Janovy, Jr. 2008. The role of phylogeny and ecology in experimental host specificity: insights from a eugregarine-host system. Journal of Parasitology. 94:7-12.

Jirku, M., M. G. Bolek , C. M. Whipps, J. Janovy Jr., M. Kent, and D. Modrý . 2006. A new species of Myxidium (Myxosporea) in western chorus frogs, Pseudacris triseriata triseriata , and Blanchard's cricket frogs, Acris crepitans blanchardi , from eastern Nebraska: morphology, phylogeny, and critical comments on amphibian Myxidium taxonomy. Journal of Parasitology 92(3): 611-619.

Janovy, J. Jr., M. G. Bolek, J. Detwiler, S. Schwank, A. Knipes, and G. J. Langford. 2007. Gregarina niphandrodes (Eugregarinorida: Septatorina): Oocyst Surface Architecture. Journal of Parasitology. 93:714-716

Janovy, J. Jr., J. Detwiler, S. Schwank, M. G. Bolek, A. K. Knipes, and G. J. Langford. 2007. New and emended descriptions of gregarines from flour beetles ( Tribolium spp. and Palorus subdepressus: Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) – Journal of Parasitology. 93:1155-1170.

Bolek, M. G., and J. Janovy Jr. 2007. Evolutionary avenues for and constraints on the transmission of frog lung flukes ( Haematoloechus spp.) in dragonfly second intermediate hosts. Journal of Parasitology. 93:593-607.

Bolek, M. G. and J. Janovy Jr. 2007. Small frogs get their worms first: The role of non-odonate arthropods in the recruitment of Haematoloechus coloradensis and Haematoloechus complexus in newly metamorphosed northern leopard frogs, Rana pipiens , and Woodhouse's toads, Bufo woodhousii . Journal of Parasitology. 93:300-312.

Bolek, M. G., and J. Janovy Jr. Rana catesbeiana (Bullfrog). Diet. Herpetological Review, accepted .

Bolek, M. G., K. K. Brotan, R. E. Rudolph, and J. Janovy Jr. 2007. Bufo woodhousii (Woodhouse's Toad). Cannibalism. Herpetological Review, accepted

Hanelt, B., and J. Janovy, Jr. 2004. Untying a Gordian knot: the domestication and laboratory maintenance of a Gordian worm, Paragordius varius. Journal of Natural History, 38:939-950.

Hanelt, B., and J. Janovy, Jr. 2004. Life cycles and paratenesis of American gordiids (Nematomorpha: Gordiida). Journal of Parasitology, 90:240-244.

Bolek, M. G., and J. Janovy, Jr. 2004. Observations on myiasis by the calliphorids, Bufolucilia silvarum and Bufolucilia elongata, in wood frogs, Rana sylvatica, from southeastern Wisconsin. Journal of Parasitology, 90:1169-1171.

Bolek, M. G., J. Janovy, Jr., and A. R. Irizarry-Rovira. 2003. Observations on the life history and descriptions of coccidia (Apicomplexa) from the western chorus frog, Pseudacris triseriata triseriata, from western Nebraska. Journal of Parasitology, 89:522-528.

Helt, J., J. Janovy, Jr., and J. Ubelaker. 2003. Phyllodistomum funduli n. sp. (Trematoda: Gorgoderidae) from Fundulus sciadicus Cope from Cedar Creek in western Nebraska. Journal of Parasitology, 89:346-350.

Collins, M. R., and J. Janovy, Jr. 2003. Host specificity among Ancyrocephalinae (Monogenoidea) of Nebraska sunfish. Journal of Parasitology, 89:80-83.

Hanelt, B., and J. Janovy, Jr. 2002. Spanning the gap: experimental determination of paratenic host specificity of horsehair worms (Nematomorpha: Gordioidea). Invertebrate Biology, 122:12-18.

Hanelt, B., and J. Janovy, Jr. 2002. Morphometric analysis of nonadult characters of common species of American gordiids (Nematomorpha: Gordioidea). Journal of Parasitology, 88:557-562.

Janovy, J. Jr. 2002. Concurrent infections and the community ecology of helminth parasites. Journal of Parasitology, 88:440-445.

Hoshide, K., and J. Janovy, Jr. 2002. The structure of the nucleus of Odonaticola polyhamatus (Gregarinea: Actinocephalidae), a parasite of Mnias strigata (Hagen) (Odonata: Calopterygidae). Acta Protozoologica, 41:17-22.

Cook, T. J. P., J. Janovy, Jr., and R. E. Clopton. 2001. Epimerite-host epithelium relationships among eugregarines parasitizing the damselflies Enallagma civile and Ischnura verticalis. Journal of Parasitology, 87:988-996.

Hanelt, B., L. E. Grother, and J. Janovy, Jr. 2001. Physid snails as sentinels of freshwater nematomorphs. Journal of Parasitology, 87:1049-1053.

Schawang, J. E., and J. Janovy, Jr. 2001. The response of Gregarina niphandrodes (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinida: Septatina) to host starvation in Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) adults. Journal of Parasitology, 87:600-605.

Wise, M. R., J. Janovy, Jr., and J. C. Wise. 2000. Host specificity in Metamera sillsenorum, n. sp., a gregarine parasite of the leech Helobdella triserialis with notes on transmission dynamics. Journal of Parasitology, 86:602-606.

Weichman, M. A., and J. Janovy, Jr. 2000. Parasite community structure in Pimephales promelas (Pisces: Cyprinidae) from two converging streams. Journal of Parasitology, 86:654-656.

Hanelt, B. and J. Janovy, Jr. 2000. New host and distribution records of Gordius difficilis (Nematomorpha: Gordioidea) from a vivid metallic ground beetle, Chlaenius prasinus (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from western Nebraska, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology, 67:107-108.

Hanelt, B., and J. Janovy, Jr. 1999. The life cycle of a horsehair worm, Gordius robustus (Gordioidea: Nematomorpha). Journal of Parasitology, 85:139-141.

Janovy, J. Jr., S. D. Snyder, and R. E. Clopton. 1997. Evolutionary constraints on population structure: the parasites of Fundulus zebrinus (Pisces: Cyprinodontidae) in the South Platte River of Nebraska. Journal of Parasitology, 83:584-592.

Watwood, S., J. Janovy, Jr., E. Peterson, and M. A. Addison. 1997. Gregarina triboliorum (Eugregarinida: Gregarinidae) n. sp. from Tribolium confusum, and resolution of the confused taxonomic history of Gregarina minuta Ishii, 1914. Journal of Parasitology, 83:502-507.

Janovy, J. Jr., R. E. Clopton, D. A. Clopton, S. D. Snyder, A. Efting, and L. Krebs. 1995. Species density distributions as null models for ecologically significant interactions of parasite species in an assemblage. Ecological Modelling, 77:189-196.

Percival, T. J., R. E. Clopton, and J. Janovy, Jr. 1995. Two new menosporine gregarines, Hoplorhynchus acanthatholius n. sp. and Steganorhynchus dunwoodyi n. g., n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinorida: Actinocephalidae) from coenagrionid damselflies (Odonata: Zygoptera). Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 42:406-410.

Clopton, R. E., J. Janovy, Jr., and T. J. Percival. 1992. Host stadium specificity in the gregarine assemblage parasitizing Tenebrio molitor. Journal of Parasitology, 78:334-337.

(Photo by Megan Wise.

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