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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Anna J. Phillips

Research Zoologist and Curator of Clitellata and parasitic worms
Department / Division
Invertebrate Zoology
Education
  • B.S., Appalachian State University
  • B.Sc., Appalachian State University
  • Ph.D., City University of New York
Collections Areas
  • Acanthocephala
  • Annelida
    • Clitellata
      • Hirudinea
      • "Oligochaeta"
  • Chaetognatha
  • Gastrotricha
  • Gnathostomulida
  • Kinorhyncha
  • Loricifera
  • Meiofauna
  • Nematoda
  • Nematomorpha
  • Nemertea
  • Platyhelminthes
  • Priapulida
  • Rotifera
  • Tardigrada
Research Interests

Biodiversity, phylogenetic relationships, and evolutionary history of parasitic worms, with emphasis on leeches and tapeworms

Publications
  • Bell, Kayce C., Carlson, Colin J., and Phillips, Anna J. 2018. "Parasite Collections: Overlooked Resources for Integrative Research and Conservation." Trends in parasitology, 637–639. 34, (8), Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2018.04.004.
  • Phillips, Anna J. 2018. "Introduction of Asp President 2017-2018, Dr. Susan Perkins." Journal of Parasitology, 577–578. 104, (6), Lawrence, Kansas: Allen Press, Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1645/18-145.
  • Phillips, Anna J., Williams, Bronwyn W., and Braswell, Alvin L. 2018. "Observations of Cocoon Deposition, Emergence, and Feeding in Philobdella floridana (Verrill)." Southeastern Naturalist, N90–N94. 17, (4), Steuben, Maine: Humboldt Field Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.1656/058.017.0418.
  • Carlson, Colin J., Burgio, Kevin R., Dougherty, Eric R., Phillips, Anna J., Bueno, Veronica M., Clements, Christopher F., Castaldo, Giovanni, Dallas, Tad A., Cizauskas, Carrie A., Cumming, Graeme S., Doña, Jorge, Harris, Nyeema C., Jovani, Roger, Mironov, Sergey, Muellerklein, Oliver C., Proctor, Heather C., and Getz, Wayne M. 2017. "Parasite biodiversity faces extinction and redistribution in a changing climate." Science Advances, 3, (9), https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1602422.
  • Cizauskas, Carrie A., Carlson, Colin J., Burgio, Kevin R., Clements, Chris F., Dougherty, Eric R., Harris, Nyeema C., and Phillips, Anna J. 2017. "Parasite vulnerability to climate change: an evidence-based functional trait approach." Royal Society Open Science, 160535. 4, (1), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160535.
  • Dheilly, Nolwenn M., Bolnick, Daniel, Bordenstein, Seth, Brindley, Paul J., Figuères, Cédric, Holmes, Edward C., Martínez Martínez, Joaquín, Phillips, Anna J., Poulin, Robert, and Rosario, Karyna. 2017. "Parasite Microbiome Project: Systematic Investigation of Microbiome Dynamics within and across Parasite-Host Interactions." mSystems, 2, (4), https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00050-17.
  • Mariaux, J., Tkach, V. V., Vasileva, G. P., Waeschenbach, A., Beveridge, I., Dimitrova, Y., Haukisalmi, V., Greiman, S. E., Littlewood, D. T., Makarikov, A. A., Phillips, A. J., and R. 2017. "Cyclophyllidea." In Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (PBI): Tapeworms from vertebrate bowels of the earth (2008 – 2017). Caira, J. N. and Jensen, K., editors. 77–148. University of Kansas Natural History Museum Special Publication No. 25.
  • Moser, William E., Richardson, Dennis J., Hammond, Charlotte I., Lazo-Wasem, Eric A., and Phillips, Anna J. 2017. "Redescription and Molecular Characterization of Placobdella nuchalis Sawyer and Shelley, 1976 (Hirudinida: Glossiphoniidae)." Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 311–316. 58, (2), New Haven, Connecticut: Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University. https://doi.org/10.3374/014.058.0204.
  • Salas-Montiel, Ricardo, Phillips, Anna J., Contreras-Mirón, Samantha, and Oceguera-Figueroa, Alejandro. 2017. "Prevalence, Abundance, and Intensity of Implanted Spermatophores in the Leech Haementeria officinalis (Glossiphoniidae: Hirudinida) from Guanajuato, Mexico." The Journal of Parasitology, 47–51. 103, (1), Lawrence, Kansas: American Society of Parasitologists. https://doi.org/10.1645/16-56.
  • Cook, Joseph A., Greiman, Stephen E., Agosta, Salvatore J., Anderson, Robert P., Arbogast, Brian S., Baker, Robert J., Boeger, Walter, Bradley, Robert D., Brooks, Daniel R., Cole, Rebecca, Demboski, John R., Dobson, Andrew P., Dunnum, Jonathan L., Eckerlin, Ralph P., Esselstyn, Jacob, Galbreath, Kurt E., Hawdon, John, Hoekstra, Hopi E., Kutz, Susan J., Light, Jessica E., Olson, Link E., Patterson, Bruce D., Patton, James L., Phillips, Anna J., Rickart, Eric et al. 2016. "Transformational Principles for NEON Sampling of Mammalian Parasites and Pathogens: A Response to Springer and Colleagues." Bioscience, 917–919. 66, (11), Washington, DC: American Institute of Biological Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biw123.
  • Curran, Stephen S., Phillips, Anna J., Overstreet, Robin M., Benz, George W., and Henningsen, Alan D. 2016. "Austrobdella cairae n. sp., an Oioxenous Marine Leech (Clitellata: Piscicolidae) from the Banded Guitarfish, Zapteryx exasperata, in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean." The Journal of Parasitology, 179–186. 102, (2), Lawrence, Kansas: American Society of Parasitologists. https://doi.org/10.1645/15-829.
  • Moser, William E., Govedich, F. R., Oceguera-Figueroa, A., Richardson, D. J., and Phillips, A. J. 2016. "Annelida, Subclass Hirudinida." In Keys to Nearctic Fauna: Volume II, Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates. Thorp, James H. and Rogers, D. Christopher, editors. 244–259. Amsterdam: Academic Press.
  • Phillips, Anna J., Salas-Montiel, Ricardo, and Oceguera-Figueroa, Alejandro. 2016. "Distribution of the New England Medicinal Leech, Macrobdella sestertia Whitman, 1886 and redeterminations of specimens of Macrobdella (Annelida: Clitellata: Macrobdellidae) at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 103–113. https://doi.org/10.2988/0006-324X-129.Q2.103.
  • Hoberg, Eric P. and Phillips, Anna J. 2014. "Transfer of the US-National Parasite Collection." Folia Parasitologica, 370–370. 61, (4), CESKE BUDEJOVICE; BRANISOVSKA 31,, CESKE BUDEJOVICE 370 05, CZECH REPUBLIC: FOLIA PARASITOLOGICA.
  • Phillips, Anna J., Georgiev, Boyko B., Waesehenbach, Andrea, and Mariaux, Jean. 2014. "Two new and two redescribed species of Anonchotaenia (Cestoda: Paruterinidae) from South American birds." Folia Parasitologica, 441–461. 61, (5), Ceske Budejovis; Branisovska 31, Ceske Budejovis 370 05, Czech Republic: Folia Parasitologica. https://doi.org/10.14411/fp.2014.058.
  • Phillips, Anna J., Oceguera Figueroa, Alejandro, Flores, Gisela M., Armenta, Jossué J., and Montiel, Ricardo S. 2014. "Entonces tú eres acaso el conocedor de la sanguijuela? [Then you are perhaps a leech expert?]." Revista Digital Universitaria, 1607–6079. 15, (4), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Departamento de Acervos Digitales.
  • Salas-Montiel, Ricardo, Phillips, Anna J., De Leon, Gerardo Perez-Ponce, and Oceguera-Figueroa, Alejandro. 2014. "Description of a new leech species of Helobdella (Clitellata: Glossiphoniidae) from Mexico with a review of Mexican congeners and a taxonomic key." Zootaxa, 77. 3900, (1), https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3900.1.4.
  • Phillips, A. J. 2012. "A new species of Asian buffalo leech (Hirudinidae) with analyses of its phylogenetic relationships and evidence of human-mediated dispersal of acongener to the Caribbean." Invertebrate Systematics, 293–302. 26, https://doi.org/10.1071/IS12004.
  • Phillips, A. J., Mariaux, J., and Georgiev, B. B. 2012. "Cucolepis cincta gen. n., sp. n. (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidea) from the Squirrel Cuckoo Piaya cayana Lesson (Aves: Cuculiformes) from Paraguay." Folia Parasitologica, 287–294. 59, (4),
  • Siddall, M. E., Kvist, S., Phillips, A. J., and Oceguera-Figueroa, A. F. 2012. "DNA Barcoding of parasitic nematodes: Is it kosher?" The Journal of Parasitology, 692–694. 98, (3), Lawrence, Kansas: American Society of Parasitologists. https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-2994.1.
  • Moser, William E., Klemm, Donald, Phillips, Anna, Trauth, Stanley, Neal, Robert, Stanley, Jonathan, Connior, Matthew, and Flotemersch, Joseph. 2011. "Distribution of the Genus Philobdella (Macrobdellidae: Hirudinida), Including New Locality Records from Arkansas and Oklahoma." Comparative Parasitology, 387–391. 78, (2), https://doi.org/10.1654/4507.1.
  • Oceguera-Figueroa, A., Phillips, A. J., Pacheco-Chaves, B., and Siddall, M. E. 2011. "Phylogeny of macrophagous leeches (Hirudinea, Clitellata) based on molecular data and evaluation of the barcoding locus." Zoologica Scripta, 194–203. 40, (2), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00465.x.
  • Phillips, A. J., Oosthuizen, J. H., and Siddall, M. E. 2011. "Re-description, phylogenetic placement, and taxonomic reassignment of Mesobdella lineata (Sciacchitano, 1959) (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida)." American Museum Novitates, 1–11. (3711), https://doi.org/10.1206/3711.2.
  • Siddall, M. E., Min, G. S., Fontanella, F. M., Phillips, A. J., and Watson, S. C. 2011. "Bacterial symbiont and salivary peptide evolution in the context of leech phylogeny." Parasitology, 1815–1827. 138, (13), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182011000539.
  • Phillips, A. J., Arauco-Brown, R., Oceguera-Figueroa, A., Gomez, G. P., Beltrán, M., and Siddall, M. E. 2010. "Tyrannobdella rex n. gen. n. sp. and the evolutionary origins of mucosal leech infestations." PLoS One, e10057. 5, (4), San Francisco: Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010057.
  • Phillips, A. J. and Siddall, M. E. 2009. "Poly-paraphyly of Hirudinidae: many lineages of medicinal leeches." BMC Evolutionary Biology, 246. 9, https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-246.
  • Phillips, A. J. and Siddall, M. E. 2005. "Phylogenetic placement of the genus Philobdella in the leech family Macrobdellidae (Oligochaeta: Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida)." Zoologica Scripta, 559–564. 34, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00210.x.

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