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Peer-reviewed Publications: 

  1. Goodman, Aaron, Jamie Kass, Jessica Ware. (2022). Dynamic distribution modeling of the Swamp Tigertail dragonfly Synthemis eustalacta (Odonata: Anisoptera: Synthemistidae) over a 20-year bushfire regime. Ecological Entomology.  https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13216

  2. Vincent J. Kalkman*, Jean-Pierre Boudot, Ryo Futahashi, John C. Abbott, Cornelio A. Bota-Sierra, Robert Guralnick, Seth Bybee, Jessica Ware, Michael W. Belitz. (2022). Diversity of Palaearctic Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata). Diversity, 14(11), 966.

  3. Oviedo, Mayra & Kuhn, Will & Sepulveda, Martin & Abbott, John & Ware, Jessica & Herrera, Melissa. (2022). Are wing contours good classifiers for automatic identification in Odonata? A view from the Targeted Odonata Wing Digitization (TOWD) project. International Journal of Odonatology. 25. 96-106. 10.48156/1388.2022.1917184. 

  4. Abbott, J. C., Bota-Sierra, C. A., Guralnick, R., Kalkman, V., González-Soriano, E., Novelo-Gutiérrez, R., Seth Bybee, Jessica Ware & Belitz, M. W. (2022). Diversity of Nearctic Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata). Diversity, 14(7), 575.

  5. Ranjith, M., Rocha, M. M., Kalleshwaraswamy, C. M., Ware, J. L., & Salas, R. (2022). A Redescription of Pericapritermes ceylonicus (Holmgren, 1911)(Blattodea, Isoptera, Termitidae) and First Record from India. Sociobiology, 69(4), e7238-e7238.

  6. Samantha Standring *, Melissa Sánchez-Herrera, Rhainer Guillermo-Ferreira, Jessica L. Ware, Yesenia M. Vega-Sánchez, Rebecca Clement, Jonathan P. Drury, Gregory F. Grether, Antonio González-Rodríguez, Luis Mendoza-Cuenca, Cornelio A. Bota-Sierra, Seth Bybee (2022). Evolution and biogeographic history of rubyspot damselflies (Hetaerininae: Calopterygidae: Odonata). Diversity 14(9), 757 

  7. Busse, S. and Jessica L. Ware (2022). Taxonomic note on the species status of Epiophlebia diana (Insecta, Odonata, Epiophlebiidae), including remarks on biogeography and possible species distribution., ZooKeys 1127, 79-90

  8. Goodman, Aaron; Allen, Jonah; Brim, Jinna; Codella , Alessa; Hahn, Brittney ; Jojo, Hassan; BondocGawa Mafla-Mills, Zoila ; BondocGawa Mafla-Mills, Sallqa-Tuwa; Oduro , Agnes; Wilson, Megan; Ware, Jessica. (2022). Utilization of citizen science data to explore habitat suitability of basal termite genera. Insect Systematics and Diversity, 6(4), 5. ★

  9. Jessica Ware, Manpreet Kaur Kohli, Ciara Mae Mendoza, Daniel Troast, Hiroshi Jinguji, Keith Hobson, Göran Sahlén, Frank Suhling. (2022). Evidence for widespread gene flow and migration in the Globe Skimmer dragonfly Pantala flavescens. International Journal of Odonatology, 25: 43-55. ★

  10. Thomas J. Simonsen, S. Bruce Archibald, Jan A. Rasmussen, René L. Sylvestersen, Kent Olsen, Jessica L. Ware (2022). The first Palearctic Whetwhetaksidae (Odonata: Cephalozygoptera?): a new genus with two new species from the early Eocene Ølst Formation of Denmark. Zootaxa 5099(5), 586-592.

  11. Esposito, Lauren A., Marymegan Daly, Matthew K. Fujita, Jacob A. Gorneau, Giovanni Rapacciuolo, Luiz Rocha, Lauren Scheinberg, Jessica Ware, Corey K. Welch, Alison N. Young, Rayna C. Bell. (2022). A new framework for assessing the contributions of professionals in the natural sciences. Bulletin of the SSB, (1)1: http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/bssb.v1i1.8332

  12. Moreau, Corrie & Jessica L. Ware (2021). Fund natural-history museums, not de-extinction. Nature 598: 32.

  13. Michael S Engel, Luis MP Ceríaco, Gimo M Daniel, Pablo M Dellapé, Ivan Löbl, Milen Marinov, Roberto E Reis, Mark T Young, Alain Dubois, Ishan Agarwal, Pablo Lehmann A, Mabel Alvarado, Nadir Alvarez, Franco Andreone, Katyuscia Araujo-Vieira, John S Ascher, Délio Baêta, Diego Baldo, Suzana A Bandeira, Phillip Barden, Diego A Barrasso, Leila Bendifallah, Flávio A Bockmann, Wolfgang Böhme, Art Borkent, Carlos RF Brandão, Stephen D Busack, Seth M Bybee, Alan Channing, Stylianos Chatzimanolis, Maarten JM Christenhusz, Jorge V Crisci, Guillermo D’elía, Luis M Da Costa, Steven R Davis, Carlos Alberto S De Lucena, Thierry Deuve, Sara Fernandes Elizalde, Julián Faivovich, Harith Farooq, Adam W Ferguson, Spartaco Gippoliti, Francisco MP Gonçalves, Victor H Gonzalez, Eli Greenbaum, Ismael A Hinojosa-Díaz, Ivan Ineich, Jianping Jiang, Sih Kahono, Adriano B Kury, Paulo HF Lucinda, John D Lynch, Valéry Malécot, Mariana P Marques, John WM Marris, Ryan C Mckellar, Luis F Mendes, Silvio S Nihei, Kanto Nishikawa, Annemarie Ohler, Victor GD Orrico, Hidetoshi Ota, Jorge Paiva, Diogo Parrinha, Olivier SG Pauwels, Martín O Pereyra, Lueji B Pestana, Paulo DP Pinheiro, Lorenzo Prendini, Jakub Prokop, Claus Rasmussen, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues, Sara M Rodríguez, Hearty Salatnaya, Íris Sampaio, Alba Sánchez-García, Mohamed A Shebl, Bruna S Santos, Mónica M Solórzano-Kraemer, Ana CA Sousa, Pavel Stoev, Pablo Teta, Jean-François Trape, Carmen Van-Dúnem Dos Santos, Karthikeyan Vasudevan, Cor J Vink, Gernot Vogel, Philipp Wagner, Torsten Wappler, Jessica L Ware, Sonja Wedmann, Chifundera Kusamba Zacharie (2021).The taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2021, XX, 1–7.

  14. Manpreet Kohli, Harald Letsch, Carola Greve, Olivier Béthoux, Isabelle Deregnaucourt, Shanlin Liu, Xin Zhou, Alexander Donath, Christophe Mayer, Lars Podsiadlowski, Ryuichiro Machida, Oliver Niehuis, Jes Rust, Torsten Wappler, Bernhard Misof, Jessica Ware. Evolutionary history and divergence times of Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) revealed through transcriptomics. Iscience, 24(11), 103324.

  15. Mitchell, A,  Jessica L. Ware & Günther Theischinger (2021). Molecular phylogenetics of Petalura Leach, 1815 (Odonata: Petaluridae). Odonatologica  50(1/2): 143-154

  16. Wilson, M., Barden, P., & Ware, J. (2021). A Review of Ectoparasitic Fungi Associated With Termites. Annals of the Entomological Society of America.

  17. Manpreet K. Kohli , Marie Djernæs, Melissa Sanchez-Herrera, Göran Sahlén , Erik Pilgrim, Thomas Simonsen, Kent Olsen, Jessica L. Ware. Comparative phylogeography uncovers the evolutionary past of circumboreal dragonflies. Peer J:https://peerj.com/articles/11338/.  

  18. Rushworth, Catherine A., Regina S. Baucom, Benjamin K. Blackman, Maurine Neiman, Maria E. Orive, Arun Sethuraman, Jessica Ware, and Daniel R. Matute. (2021). Who are we now? A demographic assessment of three evolution societies. Evolution 75 (2): 208-218.

  19. Ware, J. L. (2021). Odonata. Current Biology, 31(2), R58-R59

  20. Bybee, S.M., Kalkman, V.J., Erickson, R.J., Frandsen, P.B., Breinholt, J.W., Suvorov, A., Dijkstra, K.D.B., Cordero-Rivera, A., Skevington, J.H., Abbott, J.C. ,Herrera, M.S., and Jessica L. Ware (2021). Phylogeny and classification of Odonata using targeted genomics. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 160, p.107115.

  21. Chris A. Hamilton, Jennifer M. Zaspel, Rebecca Simmons, Floyd Shockley, Jessica Ware, Aaron Smith. (2021). The future of a fair and equitable taxonomy. Insects, Systematics and Diversity.

  22. John P. Simaika, Jessica L. Ware, Rosser Garrison, and Michael J. Samways. (2020). Phylogeny of the Synlestidae (Odonata: Zygoptera), with an emphasis on Chlorolestes Selys and Ecchlorolestes Barnard. Nature Scientific Reports. 

  23. Dominic A. Evangelista, Sabrina Simon, Megan M. Wilson, Akito Y. Kawahara, Manpreet K. Kohli, Jessica L. Ware, Benjamin Wipfler, Olivier Béthoux, Philippe Grandcolas, Frédéric Legendre. (2020). Assessing support for Blaberoidea phylogeny suggests optimal locus quality. Systematic Entomology. 

  24. Rana El‐Sabaawi,  Michael B. Kantar,  Tiara Moore,  Jelena H. Pantel,  Michelle Tseng,  Jessica L. Ware (2020). The EEB POC Project. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin. 29(3):97-99.  https://doi.org/10.1002/lob.10390

  25. Tseng, M., El-Sabaawi, R. W., Kantar, M. B., Pantel, J. H., Srivastava, D. S., & Ware, Jessica L. (2020). Strategies and support for Black, Indigenous, and people of colour in ecology and evolutionary biology. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-3.

  26. Melissa Sanchez Herrera, Christopher Beatty, Renato Nunes, Camilo Salazar, Jessica L Ware. (2020). An exploration of the complex biogeographical history of the Neotropical banner-wing damselflies (Odonata: Polythoridae). BMC Evolutionary Biology. 20 (74). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-020-01638-z.

  27. Diane S. Srivastava, Jessica L. Ware, Jacqueline T. Ngai, Brian M. Starzomski, Sarah L. Amundrud (2020). Habitat size thresholds for predators: why damselflies only occur in large bromeliads. Biotropica DOI: 10.1111/btp.12734

  28. Taerum, S. J., Jasso‐Selles, D. E., Wilson, M., Ware, Jessica L., Sillam‐Dussès, D., Šobotník, J., & Gile, G. H. (2019). Molecular Identity of Holomastigotes (Spirotrichonymphea, Parabasalia) with Descriptions of Holomastigotes flavipes n. sp. and Holomastigotes tibialis n. sp. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology.

  29. Gemmellaro, M. D., Hamilton, G. C., & Ware, Jessica L. (2019). Review of Molecular Identification Techniques for Forensically Important Diptera. Journal of medical entomology, 56(4), 887-902.

  30. Dominic A. Evangelista, Benjamin Wipfler, Olivier Béthoux, Alexander Donath, Mari Fujita, Manpreet K. Kohli, Frédéric Legendre, Shanlin Liu, Ryuichiro Machida, Bernhard Misof, Ralph S. Peters, Lars Podsiadlowski, Jes Rust, Kai Schuette, Ward Tollenaar, Jessica L. Ware, Torsten Wappler, Xin Zhou, Karen Meusemann and Sabrina Simon. (2019). An integrative phylogenomic approach illuminates the evolutionary history of cockroaches and termites (Blattodea). 286 Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2076

  31. Ola M Fincke, Mingzi Xu, Emily S Khazan, Megan Wilson, Jessica L. Ware. (2018). Tests of hypotheses for morphological and genetic divergence in Megaloprepus damselflies across Neotropical forests. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125(4), 844-861.

  32. Manpreet K Kohli, Goran Sahlén, William R Kuhn, Jessica L. Ware. (2018). Extremely low genetic diversity in a circumpolar dragonfly species, Somatochlora sahlbergi (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera). Nature Scientific reports 8 (1): 15114

  33. Melissa Sánchez Herrera, Christopher Beatty, Renato Nunes, Emilio Realpe, Camilo Salazar and Jessica L. Ware. (2018). A molecular systematic analysis of the Neotropical banner winged damselflies (Polythoridae: Odonata. Systematic Entomology. 43(1): 56-67 DOI: 10.1111/syen.12249★

  34. Li, Yu, Zhang, R., Liu, S., Donath, A., Peters, R.S., Ware, Jessica, Misof, B., Niehuis, O., Pfrender, M.E. and Zhou, X., (2017). The molecular evolutionary dynamics of oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) genes in Hymenoptera. BMC evolutionary biology, 17(1):269

  35. Barden, P. & Ware, J.L. (2017). Relevant Relicts: the impact of fossil distributions on biogeographic reconstruction in ants and dragonflies. Insect Systematics and Diversity 1(1): 73-80

  36. Evangelista,Dominic, Gareth Russell, Godfrey Bourne, Kimberley Russell, & Jessica L. Ware. (2017). Evidence that dispersal barriers influence blaberoid cockroach assemblages in a neotropical savanna-forest matrix. Insect Biodiversity and Conservation.  10. 425–438. 10.1111/icad.12246

  37. Gonzalez-Mozo, Laura, Stuart McKamey, Jessica L. Ware, George Hamilton. (2017).Two new species of Darnini (Hemiptera: Membracidae) from Colombia and Peru - Zootaxa

  38. Kjer, K., Borowiec, M. L., Frandsen, P. B., Ware, Jessica L., & Wiegmann, B. M. (2016). Advances using molecular data in insect systematics. Current opinion in insect science, 18, 40-47.

  39. Ware, Jessica L., & Barden, P. (2016). Incorporating fossils into hypotheses of insect phylogeny. Current opinion in insect science, 18, 69-76.

  40. Ware, Jessica L., Pilgrim, E., May, M. L., Donnelly, T. W., & Tennessen, K. (2017). Phylogenetic relationships of North American Gomphidae and their close relatives. Systematic entomology, 42(2), 347-358. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12218

  41. Troast, Daniel, Sahlen, Goran, Suhling, Frank, Jinguji, M, Ware, Jessica L. (2016). A Global Population Genetic Study of Pantala flavescens. PLoS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148949

  42. Letsch, Harald, Gottsberger, Brigitte, Ware, Jessica L. (2016) Not going with the flow: a comprehensive time-calibrated phylogeny of dragonflies (Anisoptera: Odonata: Insecta) provides evidence for the role of lentic habitats on diversification. Molecular Ecology. doi: 10.1111/mec.13562★

  43. Jason T. Bried, Christopher Hassall, John P. Simaika, Jeffrey D. Corser, and Jessica L. Ware.  (2015). Directions in dragonfly applied ecology and conservation science. Freshwater Science Vol. 34, No. 3: 1020-1022.

  44. Ksepka, Dan, James Parham, Allman, Michael Benton, Carrano, Peter Cranston, Philip Donoghue, Jason Head, Emily Hermsen, Irmis, Joyce, Manpreet Kohli, Kristen Lamm, Leehr, Patane, David Polly, Phillips, Matt Smith, Nate Smith, Van Tuinen, Jessica L. Ware, Rachel Warnock. (2015). The Fossil Calibration Database: a new resource for divergence dating. Systematic Biology, syv025. 

  45. Kjer, Karl M., Ware, Jessica L., Rust, J., Wappler. T., Zhou, X., Misof, B. and the 1KITE consortium*. (2015). Response to comment on "Phylogenomics resolved the timing and pattern of insect evolution". Science. 487.

  46. Dominic A. Evangelista, Kimberly Chan, Kayla L. Kaplan, Megan M. Wilson, Jessica L. Ware (2015). The Blattodea s.s. (Insecta, Dictyoptera) of the Guiana Shield. Zookeys. (475): 37–87.★

  47. Sanchez-Herrera, M, WR Kuhn, MO Lorenzo-Carballa, KM Harding, N Ankrom, TN Sherratt, J Hoffman, H Van Gossum, Jessica L. Ware, A Cordero-Rivera, CD Beatty. (2015) Mixed signals? Morphological and molecular evidence suggest a color polymorphism in the Neotropical Polythore damselflies. PLOS One. ★

  48. Winterton, Shaun, Ware, Jessica L., Temporal and spatial evolution of therevoid clade flies with fossils included as terminal taxa (Diptera: Asiloidea). (2015) Systematic Entomology.

  49. Bernhard Misof, Shanlin Liu, Karen Meusemann, Ralph S. Peters, Alexander Donath, Christoph Mayer, Paul B. Frandsen, Jessica L. Ware, Tomáš Flouri, Rolf G. Beutel, Oliver Niehuis, Malte Petersen, Fernando Izquierdo- Carrasco, Torsten Wappler, Jes Rust, Andre J. Aberer, Ulrike Aspöck, Horst Aspöck, Daniela Bartel, Alexander Blanke,, Simon Berger, Alexander Böhm, Thomas Buckley, Brett Calcott, Junqing Chen, Frank Friedrich, Makiko Fukui, Mari Fujita, Carola Greve, Peter Grobe, Shengchang Gu, Ying Huang, Lars S. Jermiin, Akito Y. Kawahara, Lars Krogmann, Martin Kubiak, Robert Lanfear, Harald Letsch, Yiyuan Li, Zhenyu Li, Jiguang Li, Haorong Lu, Ryuichiro Machida, Yuta Mashimo, Pashalia Kapli, Duane D. McKenna, Guanliang Meng, Yasutaka Nakagaki, José Luis Navarrete-Heredia, Michael Ott, Yanxiang Ou, Günther Pass, Lars Podsiadlowski, Hans Pohl, Björn M. v. Reumont, Kai Schütte, Kaoru Sekiya, Shota Shimizu, Adam Slipinski, Alexandros Stamatakis, Wenhui Song, Xu Su, Nikolaus U. Szucsich, Meihua Tan, Xuemei Tan, Min Tang, Jingbo Tang, Gerald Timelthaler, Shigekazu Tomizuka, Michelle Trautwein, Xiaoli Tong, Toshiki Uchifune,, Manfred G. Walzl, Brian Wiegmann, Jeanne Wilbrandt, Benjamin Wipfler, Thomas K. F. Wong, Qiong Wu,, Gengxiong Wu, Yinlong Xie, Shenzhou Yang, Qing Yang, David K. Yeates, Kazunori Yoshizawa, Qing Zhang, Rui Zhang, Wenwei Zhang, Yunhui Zhang, Jing Zhao, Chengran Zhou, Lili Zhou, Tanja Ziesmann, Shijie Zou, Yingrui Li, Xun Xu, Yong Zhang, Huanming Yang, Jian Wang, Jun Wang, Karl M. Kjer, Xin Zhou. Phylogenomics Resolves the Timing and Pattern of Insect Evolution. November 7, 2014. Science. (Cover image).

  50. Ware, Jessica L., Beatty, C, Sanchez Herrera, M, Valley, S, Johnson, J, Kerst, C, May, M, & Theischinger, G. (2014) The petaltail dragonflies (Odonata: Petaluridae): Mesozoic habitat specialists that survive to the modern day. Journal of Biogeography.  (NGS funded project: 8709-09)

  51. Ksepka, Dan T, Ware, Jessica L., & Lamm, KS. (2014) Flying rocks and flying clocks: Discrepancies in fossil and molecular dates for birds. Ecology Letters.

  52. Kohli, Manpreet K, Schneider, T, Muller, O, & Ware, Jessica L.  (2014) Counting the spots: A molecular and morphological phylogeny of the spotted darner Boyeria (Odonata: Anisoptera: Aeshnidae) with an emphasis on European taxa. Systematic Entomology.

  53. Evangelista, Dominic, Bourne, Godfrey & Ware, Jessica L. . (2014) Species richness estimates of Blattodea s.s. from northern Guyana vary depending upon method of species delimitation. Systematic Entomology.

  54. Evangelista, Dominic, Buss, Leon, & Ware, Jessica L. (2013) Using DNA Barcodes to confirm the presence of a new invasive cockroach pest in New York City. Journal of Economic Entomology.

  55. Dijkstra, K.-D.B., G. Bechly, S.M. Bybee, R.A. Dow, H.J. Dumont, G. Fleck, R.W. Garrison, M. Hämäläinen, V.J. Kalkman, H. Karube, M.L. May, A.G. Orr, D. Paulson, A.C. Rehn, G. Theischinger, J.W.H. Trueman, J. van Tol, N. von Ellenrieder & Jessica L. Ware. The classification and diversity of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Editor). Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3703: 36-45.

  56. Rosario K, Dayaram A, Marinov Milen, Ware Jessica L., Kraberger S, Stainton D, Breitbart Mary, Varsani Arvind. 2012. Journal of General Virology paper VIR/2012/045948: Diverse circular single-stranded DNA viruses discovered in dragonflies (Odonata: Epiprocta). Journal of General Virology. 0.045948-0

  57. Ware, Jessica L., Karlsson, M., Sahlén, G., Koch, K. 2012. The evolution of odonate ovariole conditions in Libellulidae. Organisms Diversity and Evolution. 12(3): 313-323. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-012-0096-0

  58. Daniel T. Ksepka, Michael J. Benton, Matthew T. Carrano, Maria A. Gandolfo, Jason J. Head, Elizabeth J. Hermsen, Walter G. Joyce, Kristin S. Lamm, José S.L. Patané, Matthew J. Phillips, P. David Polly, Jessica L. Ware, Rachel C.M. Warnock, Marcel van Tuinen, James F. Parham. 2011. Synthesizing and databasing fossil calibrations: divergence dating and beyond. Biology Letters doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0356

  59. Ware, Jessica L. and Thomas, J. 2011. Molecular and Fossil Dating: A compatible match? Entomologica Americana. Entomologica Americana, 117(1&2):1-8. 

  60. Ballare, E. and Jessica L. Ware. 2011. Dragons Fly, Biologists Classify: an overview of molecular odonate studies, and our evolutionary understanding of dragonfly and damselfly (Insecta: Odonata) behavior. International Journal of Odonatology. 14(2): 137-147.

  61. Ware, Jessica L. and Grimaldi, D. 2011. Insect rocks and insect clocks. American Entomologist. 57(1)

  62. Ware, Jessica L., Lal, S., Grimaldi, D. 2010. Mahogany-dwelling termites: a new species of Neotermes (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) from Fiji. Entomologica Americana 116(1 & 2): 64-72.

  63. Ware, Jessica L., Grimaldi, D., Engel M. 2010. The Effects of Fossil Placement and Calibration on Divergence Times and Rates: An example from the Termites (Insecta: Isoptera). Arthropod Structure and Development. 38(2-3): 204-219. 

  64. Nielsen, A., Ware, Jessica L., Mahar, J., Hamilton, G. 2009. Entomological Society of America Student Biosecurity Debate, PRO Position. American Entomologist. September issue. 

  65. Ware, Jessica L., Simaika, J. P., Samways, M. 2009. Biogeography and divergence estimation of the relic Cape dragonfly genus Syncordulia: global significance and implications for conservation. Zootaxa. 2216: 22-36.

  66. Baskinger, G., Jessica Ware, Cornell, D., M. May, K. Kjer. 2008. A phylogenetic exploration of Celithemis (Odonata: Libellulidae): the pennants of North America. Odonatologica 37(2): 101-109.★

  67. Ware, Jessica L., Litman, J., Klass, K-D, Spearman, L. 2008. Relationships among the major lineages of Dictyoptera: the effect of outgroup selection on dictyopteran tree topology Systematic Entomology, 33:429-450; *top four most downloaded paper in Sys. Ent. for 2008 

  68. Ware, Jessica L., Ho, S., Kjer, K. 2008. Divergence dates of libelluloid dragonflies (Odonata: Anisoptera) estimated from rRNA using paired-site substitution models. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 47(1):426-32.

  69. Ware, Jessica L., M. L. May, K.M. Kjer. 2007. Phylogeny of the higher Libelluloidea (Anisoptera: Odonata): an exploration of the most speciose superfamily of dragonflies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45(1): 289-310.

  70. Janmaat, Alida F., Ware, Jessica L., Myers, Judy. 2007. Effects of crop type on Bacillus thuringiensis toxicity and residual activity against Trichoplusia ni in greenhouses. Journal of Applied Entomology 131(5): 333-337.

  71. Karl M. Kjer, Frank L. Carle, Jesse Litman and Jessica L. Ware. 2006. A molecular phylogeny of Insecta. Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 64(1):35-44 

  72. Myers, J. H. and Ware, Jessica L. 2002. Setting priorities for the biological control of weeds: What to do and how to do it. In: Proceedings, Hawaii Biological Control Workshop. Technical Report # 129. Denslow, J. E., Hight, S.D. and Smith, C. W. (eds.) Honolulu: Pacific cooperative Studies Unit, University of Hawaii. Pp. 62-74 

 

Peer reviewed Magazine articles:

  1. Alix Whitener, Alvaro Romero, Rebecca Simmons, and Jessica Ware (2021.  Profiles of ESA Member Diversity:Navneet Kaur (PIE and PBT Sections) and Tanja McKay (MUVE Section). American Entomologist, Volume 67, Fall 2021

  2. Alvaro Romero, Rebecca Simmons, Jessica Ware, Alix Whitener, Profiles of ESA Member Diversity: Adrian Fisher (PBT Section) and Adalberto (Beto) Angel Pérez de León (MUVE and P-IE Sections), (2021). American Entomologist, Volume 67, Issue 2, Summer, Pages 34–39, https://doi.org/10.1093/ae/tmab032

  3. Jessica Ware, Alix Whitener, Rebecca Simmons, Profiles of ESA Member Diversity: Melanie Kirby (P-IE Section) and Chris Hamilton (SysEB Section), American Entomologist, Volume 67, Issue 1, Spring 2021, Pages 54–59, https://doi.org/10.1093/ae/tmab005

 

Book Reviews:  

  1. Ware, Jessica L. (2009). Review of “Dragonflies and Damselflies of South Africa” by Michael Samways, The Quarterly Review of Biology, 84(2): 209.

  2. Ware, Jessica L. A review of Damselfly Genera of the New World: An illustrated and annotated key to the Zygoptera. (2011). American Entomologist. American Entomologist
57 (2). 

  3. Kuhn, WR, & Ware, Jessica L. (2013) A review of “Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East (Princeton Field Guides)” by Dennis Paulson. Entomologica Americana 119(1&2): 46. 

  4. Ware, Jessica, L. (2020). A review of “Chasing dragonflies” by Cindy Crosby. Minding Nature, Fall 2020 issue. 

 

Book Chapters:

  1. Jessica L. Ware, and Manpreet Kohl (2022). Systematics of Odonata, In: Oxford University Press

  2. Jessica L. Ware and Megan Wilson. (2022). Termites, Social Cockroaches, Termite book chapter, Elsevier. Reference module in life sciences. Cham: Elsevier.

  3. da Silveira Queiroga D., Moura R.F., Ware Jessica. (2019) Genetic Connectivity in Conservation of Freshwater Insects. In: Del-Claro K., Guillermo R. (eds) Aquatic Insects. Springer, Cham

  4. Ware, Jessica L. (2015). Evolutionary Entomology. In: Memoirs of Black Entomologists: reflections on childhood, university and career experiences. Ed: Eric W. Riddick, Michelle Samuel-Foo, Willye W. Bryan, and Alvin M. Simmons

  5. Sanchez Herrera, M. and Ware, Jessica L. (2012). Biogeography of Dragonflies and Damselflies: Highly Mobile Predators. In: Biogeography. Ed: Maester, D. 

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Non-peer reviewed publications and Book Reviews: 

  1. 1. Ware, Jessica L., Louton, J. (2009), In the muck: collecting, rearing and imaging dragonfly and damselfly larvae for Encyclopedia of Life Odonata pages. The Bug Dispatch: a newsletter of the NMNH Department of Entomology 1(2): 3-4. 

  2. 2. Ware, Jessica L., Louton, J. (2009). A larva worth a thousand words: imaging preserved dragonfly nymphs using a digital camera. Argia

  3. 3. Ware, Jessica L. Grizmek Animal Life entries: Anax junius and Libellula quadrimaculata 

  4. 4. Ian Biazzo, Godfrey R. Bourne, Dominic Evangelista, Joseph Evangelista, Vicki Funk, Melissa Sanchez-Herrera, Carol Kelloff, Manpreet Kaur Kohli, William Kuhn, Nicole Sroczynski, Jessica L. Ware. (2012). Guyana Days: collecting in the Northern Guyana Shield. Argia. ★

  5. 5. Jessica L. Ware, Patrick Hulick and Syrus Ware. (2020). Collecting dragonflies in Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. Agrion Summer issue. https://worlddragonfly.org/wp-content/uploads/docs/agrion/Agrion_24-SI-COVID-19_May2020_hq_rev.pdf

  6. 6. P Soroye, K Lynch, T Dalu, J Ware, A Troutman, A Matiwane, A Patterson (2021). Black in Nature. Cell 183 (3), 556-558

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