Publications

For a full CV send me an e-mail juliema@illinois.edu

* denote publications with undergraduates

PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS

2012

*Allen, J.M, M.M. Miyamoto, W. Chieh-Hesih, T. Carter, J. Ungvari-Martin, K. Magrini, and C.A. Chapman. 2012. Microsatellite DNA evidence of an endangered primate elucidates the history of an African rainforest. Ecology and Evolution doi: 10.1002/ece3.395

*Scholl, K., J.M. Allen, F.H. Leendertz, C.A. Chapman and Reed, D.L. 2012. Variable microsatellite loci for population genetic analysis of old world monkey lice (Pedicinus sp.). Journal of Parasitology http://dx.doi.org/10.1645/GE-3060.1

2011

Rivadeneira C., Allen, J.M. and Reed, D.L. Microsatellite loci for testing temporal change in the population genetics of the Florida mouse (Podomys floridanus).  Conservation Genetic Resources 3(1):135-139.

2010

Light, J.E., Smith, V.S., Allen J.M., Durden L.A., and Reed, D.L. Evolutionary history of mammalian sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura). BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010,10:292

2009

Allen, J.M., Light, J.E, Perroti, M.A., Braig, H.E., Reed, D.L. Mutational Meltdown in Primary Endosymbionts Selection Limits Muller’s Ratchet. PLoS ONE: 4(3):e4969doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004969: 

2008

*Light J.E., J.M. Allen, L.M. Long, T. Carter, L. Barrow, G. Suren, D. Raoult, and D.L. Reed.  Geographic distribution of human head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis) mitochondrial lineages.  Journal of Parasitology 94(6): 1275-1281.

2007

*Allen J.M., Coltrain J., Wilkins L., Flanagin S., and Reed D.L. Methods of assessing health and diet of Florida panthers (Puma concolor) using museum specimens Part II. Stable isotope geochemistry: a method to evaluate the diet of Florida panthers (Puma concolor). Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 47(3):Pt II: 98-108.

*Wilkins L., Allen J.M., Coltrain J., Flanagin S., Allen T.D., and Reed D.L. Methods of assessing health and diet of Florida panthers (Puma concolor) using museum specimens. Part I. Osteolology as a method of assessing Florida panther health.  Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 47(3): Pt I: 73-97.

Allen J.M., Reed D.L., Perotti M.A., and Braig H.R. Evolutionary Relationships of “Candidatus Riesia spp..,” Endosymbiotic Enterobacteriaceae Living within Haematophagous Primate Lice. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. AEM 73(5):1659-1664.

Perotti M.A., Allen J.M., Reed D.L. and Braig, H.R. 2007. Host – Symbiont interactions of the primary endosymbiont of human head and body lice. FASEB 21(4):1058-1066.

Reed D.L., Light J.E., Allen J.M., and Kirchman J.J. Pair of Lice Lost:  the evolutionary history of Anthropoid Primate Lice. BMC Biology  5(7):1-11. See write ups in Science Now, The Loom, NY Times, Colbert Report.

2004

Coltrain J.B., Harris J.M., Cerling T.E., Ehleringer J.R., Dearing M.D., Ward J., Allen J. Rancho La Brea stable isotope biogeochemistry and its implications for the palaeoecology of late Pleistocene, coastal southern California. Palaeogeography,Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 205(3-4):199-219.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

Allen, J.M., C.O. Worman, J.E. Light, and D.L. Reed. Parasitic lice help to fill in the gaps of early hominid history. In: Primates, Pathogens and Evolution. Binkworth, J. and Pechenkia, E. (eds.). In Press.

2009* Reed D.L., Toups M.A., Light J.E., Allen J.M., and Flanagin S. 2008. Lice and other  parasites as markers of primate evolutionary history. The Dynamics and Study of Host-Parasite Relationships. C. Chapman and M. Huffman (eds).  Cambridge University Press. pp. 231-250.