Amy Driskell

Journal Article

• Madrid Concepcion, Maycol Ezequiel, Collin, Rachel, Macdonald,Kenneth S., III, Driskell, Amy C., Fredericq, Suzanne, Wysor, Brian, and Freshwater, D. W. 2025. "DNA Barcoding of Red Algae from Bocas del Toro, Panamá, with a Description of Gracilaria bocatorensis sp. nov. and G. dreckmannii sp. nov. (Gracilariales, Gracilariaceae)." Diversity, 17, (4). https://doi.org/10.3390/d17040222.
• Madrid C., Maycol E., De León, Alexandra, Vrdoljak, Dubravka, Macdonald,Kenneth S., III, Driskell, Amy C., and Collin, Rachel. 2024. "Shedding light on some dark branches: The under‐appreciated diversity of gymnosome pteropods and their coiled thecosome prey in the Neotropics." Invertebrate Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12442.
• Bemis, Katherine E., Girard, Matthew G., Santos, Mudjekeewis D., Carpenter, Kent E., Deeds, Jonathan R., Pitassy, Diane E., Flores, Nicko Amor L., Hunter, Elizabeth S., Driskell, Amy C., Macdonald, Kenneth S., Weigt, Lee A., and Williams, Jeffrey T. 2023. "Biodiversity of Philippine marine fishes: A DNA barcode reference library based on voucher specimens." Scientific Data, 10, (1) 411. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02306-9.
• Collin, Rachel, Madrid, Maycol, Venera‐Pontón, Dagoberto E., Macdonald, Kenneth S., De León, Alexandra, Vrdoljak, Dubravka, Boyle, Michael J., Bryant, Peter, Arehart, Tim, and Driskell, Amy C. 2023. "Diversity and genetic connectivity of heteropod (Pterotracheoidea) gastropods in the Tropical Eastern Pacific." Invertebrate Biology, 142, (1). https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12395.
• Aguilar, Robert, Prakash, Sanjeevi, Ogburn, Matthew B., Lohan, Katrina M. Pagenkopp, Macdonald, Kenneth S., Driskell, Amy C., Ahyong, Shane T., Leray, Matthieu, McIlroy, Shelby E., Tuckey, Troy D., and Baeza, J. Antonio. 2022. "Unresolved taxonomy confounds invasive species identification: the Lysmata vittata Stimpson, 1860 (Decapoda: Caridea: Lysmatidae) species complex and recent introduction of Lysmata vittata sensu stricto in the western Atlantic." Journal of Crustacean Biology, 42, (1). https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruab079.
• Maslakova, Svetlana, Ellison, Christina I., Hiebert, Terra C., Conable, Frances, Heaphy, Maureen C., Venera-Pontón, Dagoberto E., Norenburg, Jon L., Schwartz, Megan L., Moss, Nicole D., Boyle, Michael J., Driskell, Amy C., MacDonald, Kenneth S., III, Zattara, Eduardo E., and Collin, Rachel. 2022. "Sampling multiple life stages significantly increases estimates of marine biodiversity." Biology Letters, 18, (4). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0596.
• Brix, Saskia, Held, Christoph, Kaiser, Stefanie, Jennings, Robert M., Driskell, Amy C., and Brandt, Angelika. 2021. "Evolution and phylogeny of the deep-sea isopod families Desmosomatidae Sars, 1897 and Nannoniscidae Hansen, 1916 (Isopoda: Asellota)." Organisms Diversity & Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-021-00509-9.
• Collin, Rachel, Venera-Ponton, Dagoberto E., Macdonald, Kenneth, Driskell, Amy C., and Boyle, Michael J. 2021. "Knots, spoons, and cloches: DNA barcoding unusual larval forms helps document the diversity of Neotropical marine annelids." Invertebrate Biology, e12311–e12311. https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12311.
• Jazdzewska, Anna M., Horton, Tammy, Hendrycks, Ed, Mamos, Tomasz, Driskell, Amy C., Brix, Saskia, and Arbizu, Pedro Martinez. 2021. "Pandora's Box in the Deep Sea -Intraspecific Diversity Patterns and Distribution of Two Congeneric Scavenging Amphipods." Frontiers in Marine Science, 08. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.750180.
• Alberto Toledo-Hernandez, Ricardo, Martinez, Fernando, De Lourdes Ramirez-Ahuja, Maria, Sanchez, Arturo, Rodriguez, Douglas, Driskell, Amy, and Buffington, Matthew. 2021. "The Description of an Efficient Trap for Monitoring Drosophila Suzukii Parasitoids in Organic Soft Fruit Crops, and a New Record of Ganaspis Brasiliensis (Ihering) (Hymenoptera: Figitidae) from Michoacan, Mexico." Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 123, (1) 230–243. https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.123.1.230.
• Lue, Chia-Hua, Buffington, Matthew L., Scheffer, Sonja, Lewis, Matthew L., Elliott, Tyler A., Lindsey, Amelia R. I., Driskell, Amy, Jandova, Anna, Kimura, Masahito T., Carton, Yves, Kula, Robert R., Schlenke, Todd A., Mateos, Mariana, Govind, Shubha, Varaldi, Julien, Guerrieri, Emilio, Giorgini, Massimo, Wang, Xingeng, Hoelmer, Kim, Daane, Kent M., Abram, Paul K., Pardikes, Nicholas A., Brown, Joel J., Thierry, Melanie, Poirie, Marylene et al. 2021. "DROP: Molecular voucher database for identification of Drosophila parasitoids." Molecular Ecology Resources, https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13435.
• Buffington, Matthew L., Giorgini, Massimo, Lue, Chia-Hua, Formisano, Giorgio, Cascone, Pasquale, Forshage, Mattias, Driskell, Amy, and Guerrieri, Emilio. 2020. "Description of the aberrant Leptopilina lasallein. sp., with an updated phylogeny of Leptopilina Forster (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Eucoilinae)." Journal of Natural History, 54, (9-12) 565–583. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2020.1754483.
• Collin, Rachel, Venera-Ponton, Dagoberto E., Driskell, Amy C., Macdonald, Kenneth S., and Boyle, Michael J. 2020. "How I wonder what you are: Can DNA barcoding identify the larval asteroids of Panama?" Invertebrate Biology, e12303–e12303. https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12303.
• Collin, Rachel, Venera-Ponton, Dagoberto E., Driskell, Amy C., Macdonald, Kenneth S., Geyer, Laura B., Lessios, Harilaos A., and Boyle, Michael J. 2020. "DNA barcoding of echinopluteus larvae uncovers cryptic diversity in neotropical echinoids." Invertebrate Biology, Article e12292. https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12292.
• Kearns, Anna M., Joseph, Leo, Austin, Jeremy J., Driskell, Amy C., and Omland, Kevin E. 2020. "Complex mosaic of sexual dichromatism and monochromatism in Pacific robins results from both gains and losses of elaborate coloration." Journal of Avian Biology, 51, (4) e02404–e02404. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.02404.
• Rejaud, Alexandre, Rodrigues, Miguel T., Crawford, Andrew J., Castroviejo-Fisher, Santiago, Jaramillo, Andres F., Chaparro, Juan C., Glaw, Frank, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Giussepe, Moravec, Jiri, De la Riva, Ignacio J., Perez, Pedro, Lima, Albertina P., Werneck, Fernanda P., Hrbek, Tomas, Ron, Santiago R., Ernst, Raffael, Kok, Philippe J. R., Driskell, Amy, Chave, Jerome, and Fouquet, Antoine. 2020. "Historical biogeography identifies a possible role of Miocene wetlands in the diversification of the Amazonian rocket frogs (Aromobatidae:Allobates)." Journal of Biogeography, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13937.
• Robertson, D. Ross, Angulo, Arturo, Baldwin, Carole C., Pitassy, Diane, Driskell, Amy, Weigt, Lee, and Navarro, Ignacio J. F. 2020. "Misidentification of Bellator gymnostethus (Gilbert, 1892) as Prionotus ruscarius Gilbert & Starks, 1904 (Scorpaeniformes: Triglidae)." Zootaxa, 4852, (1) 142. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4852.1.8.
• Venera-Pontón, Dagoberto E., Driskell, Amy C., De Grave, Sammy, Felder, Darryl L., Scioli, Justin A., and Collin, Rachel. 2020. "Documenting decapod biodiversity in the Caribbean from DNA barcodes generated during field training in taxonomy
  Venera-Pontó-n, DE." Biodiversity Data Journal, 8 Article e47333. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e47333.
• Collin, Rachel, Venera-Pontón, Dagoberto E., Driskell, Amy C., Macdonald, Kenneth S., and Boyle, Michael J. 2019. "Planktotrophic Brachiopod Larvae from the Pacific and Caribbean of Panama." Diversity, 11, (1). https://doi.org/10.3390/d11010002.
• Collin, Rachel, Venera‐Pontón, Dagoberto E., Driskell, Amy C., Macdonald, Kenneth S., and Boyle, Michael J. 2019. "Unexpected molecular and morphological diversity of hemichordate larvae from the Neotropics." Invertebrate Biology, 138, (4) Article e12273. https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12273.
• Collin, Rachel, Venera‐Pontón, Dagoberto E., Driskell, Amy C., Macdonald, Kenneth S., Chan, Kit‐Yu Karen, and Boyle, Michael J. 2019. "Documenting neotropical diversity of phoronids with DNA barcoding of planktonic larvae." Invertebrate Biology, 138, (2). https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12242.
• Delrieu-Trottin, Erwan, Williams, Jeffrey T., Pitassy, Diane, Driskell, Amy, Hubert, Nicolas, Viviani, Jérémie, Cribb, Thomas H., Espiau, Benoit, Galzin, René, Kulbicki, Michel, Lison, de Loma, Meyer, Christopher, Mourier, Johann, Mou-Tham, Gérard, Parravicini, Valeriano, Plantard, Patrick, Sasal, Pierre, Siu, Gilles, Tolou, Nathalie, Veuille, Michel, Weigt, Lee, and Planes, Serge. 2019. "A DNA barcode reference library of French Polynesian shore fishes." Scientific Data, 6, (1) 114. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0123-5.
• Kearns, Anna M., Malloy, John F., Gobbert, Matthias K., Thierry, Aude, Joseph, Leo, Driskell, Amy C., and Omland, Kevin E. 2019. "Nuclear introns help unravel the diversification history of the Australo-Pacific Petroica robins." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 131 48–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.024.
• Morin, Jaime G., Venera-Ponton, Dagoberto E., Driskell, Amy C., Sanchez, Juan A., Lasker, Howard R., and Collin, Rachel. 2019. "Reference DNA barcodes and other mitochondrial markers for identifying Caribbean Octocorals." Biodiversity Data Journal, 7, (e30970). https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.7.e30970.
• Brix, Saskia, Bober, Simon, Tschesche, Claudia, Kihara, Terue-Cristina, Driskell, Amy, and Jennings, Robert M. 2018. "Molecular species delimitation and its implications for species descriptions using desmosomatid and nannoniscid isopods from the VEMA fracture zone as example taxa." Deep-Sea Research Part II:Topical Studies in Oceanography, 148 180–207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2018.02.004.
• Jazdzewska, Anna M., Corbari, Laure, Driskell, Amy, Frutos, Inmaculada, Havermans, Charlotte, Hendrycks, Ed, Hughes, Lauren, Loerz, Anne-Nina, Stransky, Bente, Tandberg, Anne Helene S., Vader, Wim, and Brix, Saskia. 2018. "A genetic fingerprint of Amphipoda from Icelandic waters - the baseline for further biodiversity and biogeography studies." Zookeys, (731) 55–73. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.731.19931.
• Jennings, Robert M., Brix, Saskia, Bober, Simon, Svavarsson, Jorundur, and Driskell, Amy. 2018. "More diverse than expected: distributional patterns of Oecidiobranchus Hessler, 1970 (Isopoda, Asellota) on the Greenland-Iceland-Faeroe Ridge based on molecular markers." Marine Biodiversity, 48, (2) 845–857. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-018-0857-x.
• Loerz, Anne-Nina, Tandberg, Anne Helene S., Willassen, Endre, and Driskell, Amy. 2018. "Rhachotropis (Eusiroidea, Amphipoda) from the North East Atlantic." Zookeys, (731) 75–101. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.731.19814.
• Schnurr, Sarah, Osborn, Karen J., Malyutina, Marina, Jennings, Robert, Brix, Saskia, Driskell, Amy, Svavarsson, Jö, and Martinez Arbizu, Pedro. 2018. "Hidden diversity in two species complexes of munnopsid isopods (Crustacea) at the transition between the northernmost North Atlantic and the Nordic Seas." Marine Biodiversity, 48, (2) 813–843. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-018-0877-6.
• Aguilar, Robert, Ogburn, Matthew Bryan, Driskell, Amy C., Weigt, Lee A., Groves, Mary C., and Hines, Anson H. 2017. "Gutsy genetics: identification of digested piscine prey items in the stomach contents of sympatric native and introduced warmwater catfishes via DNA barcoding." Environmental Biology of Fishes, 100, (4) 235–336. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-016-0523-8.
• Robertson, D. Ross, Angulo, Arturo, Baldwin, Carole C., Pitassy, Diane E., Driskell, Amy, Weigt, Lee A., and Navarro, Ignacio J. F. 2017. "Deep-water bony fishes collected by the B/O Miguel Oliver on the shelf edge of Pacific Central America: an annotated, illustrated and DNA-barcoded checklist." Zootaxa, 4348, (1) 1–125. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4348.1.1.
• Coddington, Jonathan A., Agnarsson, Ingi, Cheng, Ren-Chung, Čandek, Klemen, Driskell, Amy, Frick, Holger, Gregorič, Matjaž, Kostanjšek, Rok, Kropf, Christian, Kweskin, Matthew, Lokovšek, Tjaša, Pipan, Miha, Vidergar, Nina, and Kuntner, Matjaž. 2016. "DNA barcode data accurately assign higher spider taxa." PeerJ, 4 e2201. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2201.
• Lue, Chia-Hua, Driskell, Amy C., Leips, Jeff, and Buffington, Matthew L. 2016. "Review of the genus Leptopilina (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Figitidae, Eucoilinae) from the Eastern United States, including three newly described species." Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 53 35–76. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.53.10369.
• Sonsthagen, Sarah A., Wilson, Robert E., Chesser, R. Terry, Pons, Jean-Marc, Crochet, Pierre-Andre, Driskell, Amy C., and Dove, Carla J. 2016. "Recurrent hybridization and recent origin obscure phylogenetic relationships within the 'white-headed' gull (Larus sp.) complex." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 103 41–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.06.008.
• Kearns, Anna M., Joseph, Leo, White, Lauren C., Austin, Jeremy J., Baker, Caitlin, Driskell, Amy C., Malloy, John F., and Omland, Kevin E. 2015. "Norfolk Island Robins are a distinct endangered species: ancient DNA unlocks surprising relationships and phenotypic discordance within the Australo-Pacific Robins." Conservation Genetics, 17, (2) 321–335. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-015-0783-4.
• Jarvis, Erich D., Mirarab, Siavash, Aberer, Andre J., Li, Bo, Houde, Peter, Li, Cai, Ho, Simon Y. W., Faircloth, Brant C., Nabholz, Benoit, Howard, Jason T., Suh, Alexander, Weber, Claudia C., Fonseca, Rute R. da, Li, Jianwen, Zhang, Fang, Li, Hui, Zhou, Long, Narula, Nitish, Liu, Liang, Ganapathy, Ganesh, Boussau, Bastien, Bayzid, Md Shamsuzzoha, Zavidovych, Volodymyr, Subramanian, Sankar, Gabaldón, Toni et al. 2014. "Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds." Science, 346, (6215) 1320–1331. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1253451.
• Riehl, Torben, Brenke, Nils, Brix, Saskia, Driskell, Amy C., Kaiser, Stefanie, and Brandt, Angelika. 2014. "Field and Laboratory Methods for DNA Studies on Deep-sea Isopod Crustaceans." Polish Polar Research, 35, (2) 203–224. https://doi.org/10.2478/popore-2014-0018.
• Crawford, Andrew J., Cruz, Catalina, Griffith, Edgardo, Ross, Heidi, Ibáñez, Roberto D., Lips, Karen R., Driskell, Amy C., Bermingham, Eldredge, and Crump, Paul. 2013. "DNA barcoding applied to ex situ tropical amphibian conservation programme reveals cryptic diversity in captive populations." Molecular Ecology Resources, 13, (6) 1005–1018. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.12054.
• Ödeen, Anders, Pruett-Jones, Stephen, Driskell, Amy C., Armenta, Jessica K., and Håstad, Olle. 2012. "Multiple shifts between violet and ultraviolet vision in a family of passerine birds with associated changes in plumage coloration." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279, (1732) 1269–1276. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1777.
• Reddy, S., Driskell, Amy C., Rabosky, D. L., Hackett, S. J., and Schulenberg, T. S. 2012. "Diversification and the adaptive radiation of the vangas of Madagascar." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279, (1735) 2062–2071. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.2380.
• Weigt, Lee A., Baldwin, Carole C., Driskell, Amy C., Smith, David G., Ormos, Andrea, and Reyier, Eric A. 2012. "Using DNA Barcoding to Assess Caribbean Reef Fish Biodiversity: Expanding Taxonomic and Geographic Coverage." PLoS ONE, 7, (7) 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041059.
• Driskell, Amy C., Norman, Janette A., Pruett-Jones, Stephen, Mangall, Elizabeth, Sonsthagen, Sarah, and Christidis, Les. 2011. "A multigene phylogeny examining evolutionary and ecological relationships in the Australo-Papuan wrens of the subfamily Malurinae (Aves)." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 60, (3) 480–485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2011.03.030.
• Driskell, Amy C., Prum, Richard O., and Pruett-Jones, Stephen. 2010. "The evolution of black plumage from blue in Australian fairy-wrens (Maluridae): genetic and structural evidence." Journal of Avian Biology, 41, (5) 505–514. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-048X.2009.04823.x.
• Yancy, Haile F., Fry, S. F., Randolph, S. C., Deeds, J., Ivanova, Natalia V., Grainger, C. M., Hanner, R., Weigt, Lee A., Driskell, Amy, Hunt, Jeffrey, Ormos, Andrea, and Hebert, P. D. N. 2008. "A protocol for validation of DNA-barcoding for the species identification of fish for FDA regulatory compliance." FDA Laboratory Information Bulletin, (4420).
• Krajewski, C., Driskell, Amy C., Baverstock, P. R., and Braun, Michael J. 1992. "Phylogenetic relationships of the thylacine (Mammalia: Thylacinidae) among dasyuroid marsupials: evidence from cytochrome b DNA sequences." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 250 19–27.

Dataset

• Bemis, Katherine E., Girard, Matthew G., Santos, Mudjekeewis D., Carpenter, Kent E., Deeds, Jonathan R., Pitassy, Diane E., Flores, Nicko Amor L., Hunter, Elizabeth Sage, Driskell, Amy C., Macdonald,Kenneth S., III, Weigt, Lee A., and Williams, Jeffrey T. 2023. [Dataset] Color field photographs of voucher specimens. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.23185373.V1.
• Bemis, Katherine E., Girard, Matthew G., Santos, Mudjekeewis D., Carpenter, Kent E., Deeds, Jonathan R., Pitassy, Diane E., Flores, Nicko Amor L., Hunter, Elizabeth Sage, Driskell, Amy C., Macdonald,Kenneth S., III, Weigt, Lee A., and Williams, Jeffrey T. 2023. [Dataset] DNA sequences. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.23284901.V1.

Book Chapter

• Erickson, David L. and Driskell, Amy C. 2012. "Construction and analysis of phylogenetic trees using DNA barcode data." In DNA Barcodes: Methods and Protocols. 395–408. In Methods in molecular biology, 858. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-591-6_19.
• Weigt, Lee A., Driskell, Amy C., Baldwin, Carole C., and Ormos, Andrea. 2012. "DNA barcoding fishes." In DNA Barcodes: Methods and Protocols. 109–126. Humana Press. 858 in Methods in molecular biology. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-591-6_6.
• Weigt, Lee A., Driskell, Amy C., Ormos, Andrea, Meyer, Christopher P., and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2012. "Introduction to animal DNA barcoding protocols." In DNA Barcodes: Methods and Protocols. 11–16. In Methods in molecular biology, 858. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-591-6_2.