The College of Life Sciences

Johnson, Jerald

Biology

Email: jerry.johnson@byu.edu

153  WIDB
Provo, UT 84602
(801) 422-4502

Associate Professor
 Education
  • Postdoctoral Associate, , U.S. National Academies of Science and Engineering, National Research Council, 2004
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, , University of Nebraska, 2001
  • PhD, Evolution & Ecology, University of Vermont, 2000
  • BA, Biology (Minor: Chemistry), University of Utah, 1995
 Experience

Professional
  • Associate Editor, Animal Conservation, 2007-Present
  • Auxiliary Professor, University of Washington, Tacoma, 2003-2004
 Honors and Awards
  • College of Life Sciences, Brigham Young University : Outstanding Research Award - 2011
  • Utah Science Teachers Association : Recognition for Outstanding Contribution in Science Education - 2009
  • Brigham Young University : Karl and Mollie Butler Young Scholar Award - 2007
  • U. S. National Research Council : U.S. National Academy of Sciences Postdoctoral Research Award
  • U.S. National Science Foundation : National Science Foundation Graduate Training Fellow
 Courses Taught

Fall 2011
  • BIO 799R: Dissertation Section 004
Summer 2011
  • BIO 799R: Dissertation Section 007
Spring 2011
  • BIO 699R: Master's Thesis Section 006
  • BIO 799R: Dissertation Section 008
Winter 2011
  • BIO 420: Evolutionary Biology Section 001
  • BIO 494R: Mentored Research Section 013
  • BIO 559R: Adv Topics Ecology & Evolution Section 005
  • BIO 799R: Dissertation Section 005
  • IAS 380R: Cultural Proofs Section 004

Selected Publications
Journal Article

Unmack, P., Barriga, J. P., Battini, M. A., Habit, E., Johnson, J.  "Phylogeography of the catfish Hatcheria macraei reveals a negligible role of contemporary drainage divides in structuring populations."  Molecular Ecology.  4th ed.  Vol. 21.4 (2012): 942-959. 

Zúñiga-Vega, J. J., Suarez-Rodriguez, M., Espinosa-Perez, H., Johnson, J.  "Morphological and reproductive variation among populations of the fish Poecilia butleri."  Journal of Fish Biology.  Vol. 79 (2011): 1029-1046.. 

Barber, B., Unmack, P., Perez Losada, M., Johnson, J., Crandall, K.  "Different processes lead to similar patterns: a test of codivergence and the role of sea level and climate changes in shaping a southern temperate freshwater assemblage."  BMC Evolutionary Biology .  Vol. 11 (2011): 343.  <website>

Belk, M., Nance, E. E., Johnson, J.  "Life history of Brachyrhaphis parismina: variation among and within populations."  Copeia.  Vol. 2011 (2011): 372-378.  <website>

Adams, M., Wedderburn, S. D., Unmack, P., Hammer, M. P., Johnson, J.  "Use of congeneric assessment to reveal the linked genetic histories of two threatened fishes in the Murray Darline Basin, Australia."  Conservation Biology.  Vol. 25 (2011): 767-776. 

Scott, L. E., Johnson, J.  "Does sympatry predict life history and morphological diversification in the Mexican livebearing fish Poeciliopsis baenschi? ."  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.  3rd ed.  Vol. 100.3 (2010): 608-616. 

Hickerson, M. J., Carstens, B. C., Cavender-Bares, J., Crandall, K., Graham, C. H., Johnson, J., Rissler, L., Victoriano, P. F., Yoder, A. D.  "Phylogeography's past, present, and future: 10 years after Avise 2000."  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.  Vol. 54 (2010): 291-301. 

Book Chapter

Johnson, J., Bagley, J. C.  "Ecological drivers of life history divergence in Poeciliid fishes."  Ecology and evolution of livebearing fishes. (Eds. J. Evans, A. Pilastro, and I. Schlupp).  Ed. J. Evan, I. Schlupp, and A. Pilastro.  Oxford University Press, Apr. 2011.