BIRTHDATE: December 7, 1961 St. Louis, Missouri
EDUCATION:
8/84 - 12/89 University of California,
Berkeley (Ph.D., Ecomorphological Adaptation in the
Genus Anolis, Zoology)
9/80 - 6/84 Harvard University (A.B.,
Biology)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
1987-1989 Teaching Assistant,
University of California, Berkeley
1990-1992 Post-Doctoral
Fellow, Center for Population Biology, University of California,
Davis
1992-1997 Assistant Professor,
Washington University
1997-
Associate Professor, Washington University
HONORS and AWARDS:
1981, 1982 Harvard College Scholarship
1983, 1984 John Harvard Scholarship
1984-1987 Berkeley Fellowship
1989 Outstanding Graduate Student
Instructor Award, Dept. Zoology, University of
California, Berkeley
1991 Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize,
Society for the Study of Evolution
1994-1999 Fellowship in Science and Engineering,
David
and Lucile Packard Foundation,
$500,000
1998 David
Starr Jordan Prize
1999 Forty Under Forty Award, St.
Louis Business Journal
GRANTS:
1985 Ecology of Arboreal Malagasy
Lizards. World Wildlife Fund-U.S.
1987 Adaptation of Jamaican Anolis
Lizards. Sigma Xi (National).
1987 Adaptation of Florida Anolis
Lizards. American Museum of Natural History (Theodore
Roosevelt Memorial Fund).
1987 Adaptation of Jamaican Anolis
Lizards. Explorer's Club.
1987 Adaptation of Jamaican Anolis
Lizards. Center for Latin American Studies
1987 Ecomorphology of Puerto Rican
Anolis
Lizards. University of California, Berkeley
(Patent Fund).
1988 Immunological Study of Phylogeny
of Anolis Lizards. Sigma Xi (National).
1988 Relationships Within the Lizard
Genus Anolis: an Immunological Approach. Sigma Xi
(Berkeley Chapter).
1988 Anolis Phylogeny: an
Immunological Study. American Society of Ichthyologists and
Herpetologists (Gaige Fund).
1989 Evolutionary Ecomorphology
of West Indian Anolis Lizards. National Science
Foundation (Dissertation Improvement Grant). $9000.
1989 Ecology and Behavior of Anolis
lizards in the Dominican Republic. Center for Latin
American Studies. $2500.
1991-1993 Intraspecific Adaptation in
Anolis
Lizards. National Geographic Society. $12,889.
1994-1999 An integrative study
of adaptive radiation in West Indian Anolis lizards. National
Science Foundation, $300,000 (co-P.I.s: K. de Queiroz and A. Larson) plus
$27,000
in REU supplements, a $14,750 supplement to initiate a collaborative research
program in South Africa, and a $32,600 supplement to initiate collaborative
research
in Australia).
1994-1999 Ecological and evolutionary
consequences of interspecific competition: an
experimental analysis with Anolis lizards. National Science Foundation,
$203,193
(co-P.I.: D.A. Spiller), plus $25,000 in supplemental funding to examine
the effects of
Hurricane Lili and $20,000 in REU supplements.
1995-1997 The relative roles of intersexual
and interspecific differentiation in the adaptive
radiation of Greater Antillean Anolis lizards. National Science
Foundation, $8,000
(dissertation improvement grant for Marguerite Butler).
1995 Symposium: Phylogenies and comparative
biology stage II: Testing hypotheses derived
from phylogenies with data from extant taxa. National Science Foundation,
$9,000.
1996-1997 Adaptive radiation of Cuban Anolis
lizards. National Geographic Society, $19,085
(co-P.I.s: Kevin de Queiroz and Lourdes Rodríguez Schettino).
1997-1999 Phylogeny, morphology and life
history: Effects of dramatic size variation in monitor
lizards. National Science Foundation, $10,000 (dissertation improvement
grant for
David Pepin).
1999-2001 Phylogenetic relationships, ontogenetic
color change, and antipredator adaptation in the
Colubrinae (Serpentes). National Science Foundation, $10,485 (dissertation
improvement
grant for Doug Creer).
1999-2001 Survival of the gutsiest: a study
on function and quality of signals given to an incoming predator by Anolis
lizards. National Science Foundation, $9,693 (dissertation improvement
grant for Manuel Leal).
1999-2004 Redevelopment of insular
communities following a catasrophic hurricane. National Science Foundation,
$350,000 (jointly funded collaborative research grants with D.A. Spiller).
PUBLICATIONS (Peer-Reviewed):
Losos, J.B. 1985. Male aggressive
behavior in a pair of sympatric sibling species. Breviora
484: 1-30.
Losos, J.B. 1985. An experimental
demonstration of the species-recognition role of Anolis dewlap color.
Copeia
1985:
905-910.
Losos, J.B. 1986. Island biogeography
of day geckos (Phelsuma) in the Indian Ocean. Oecologia
68: 338-343.
Losos, J.B. 1987. Postures
of the Military Dragon (Ctenophorus isolepis) in relation to substrate
temperature.
Amphibia-Reptilia
8:
419-423.
Greene, H.W., and J.B. Losos. 1988.
Systematics, natural history, and conservation. Bioscience
38: 458-462.
Losos, J.B. 1988. Thermoregulatory
correlates of escape behavior by a desert lizard, Ctenophorus isolepis.
Journal
of
Herpetology 22: 353-356.
Losos, J.B., and H.W. Greene. 1988.
Ecological and evolutionary implications of diet in monitor lizards. Biological
Journal of the Linnean Society 35: 379-407.
Losos, J.B., T. Papenfuss, and J.R. Macey.
1989. Correlates of running, jumping, and parachuting performance
in the
butterfly
lizard, Leiolepis belliani. Journal of Zoology 217:
559-568.
Losos, J.B., and B. Sinervo. 1989.
The effects of morphology and perch diameter on sprint performance in Anolis
lizards.
Journal
of Experimental Biology 145: 23-30.
Losos, J.B., S. Naeem, and R.K. Colwell.
1989. Hutchinsonian ratios and statistical power. Evolution
43: 1820-1826.
Losos, J.B. 1990. Thermal
sensitivity of sprinting and clinging performance in the Tokay gecko (Gekko
gecko). Asiatic
Herpetological Research 3: 54-59.
Losos, J.B. 1990. Concordant
evolution of locomotor behavior, display rate, and morphology in West Indian
Anolis
lizards.
Animal
Behaviour 39: 879-890.
Losos, J.B. 1990. A phylogenetic
analysis of character displacement in Caribbean Anolis lizards.
Evolution
44: 558-569.
Losos, J.B. 1990. Ecomorphology,
performance capability, and scaling of West Indian Anolis lizards:
an evolutionary
analysis.
Ecological
Monographs 60: 369-388.
Losos, J.B. 1990. The evolution
of form and function: morphology and locomotor performance ability in West
Indian Anolis
lizards.
Evolution
44: 1189-1203.
Losos, J.B., M.R. Gannon, W.J. Pfeiffer,
and R.B. Waide. 1990. Notes on the ecology and behavior of the lagarto
verde,
Anolis
cuvieri, in Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science
26: 65-66.
Dryden, G., B. Green, D. King, and J.
Losos. 1990. Water and energy turnover in a small monitor lizard,
Varanus
acanthurus. Australian Wildlife Research 17: 641-646.
Hess, N.E., and J.B. Losos. 1991.
Interspecific aggression between Anolis cristatellus and A. gundlachi:
comparisons of
sympatric
and allopatric populations. Journal of Herpetology 25: 256-259.
Sinervo, B., and J.B. Losos. 1991.
Walking the tight rope: arboreal sprint performance among Sceloporus
occidentalis
lizard
populations. Ecology 72: 1225-1233.
Losos, J.B., R.M. Andrews, O.J. Sexton,
and A. Schuler. 1991. Behavior, ecology, and locomotor performance
of the
giant
anole, Anolis frenatus. Caribbean Journal of Science
27: 173-179.
James, C.D., and J.B. Losos. 1991.
Diet and reproductive biology of the Australian sand-swimming lizards,
Eremiascincus
(Scincidae).
Australian
Wildlife Research 18: 641-654.
Losos, J.B. 1992. A critical
comparison of the taxon cycle and character displacement models for size
evolution of Anolis
lizards
in the Lesser Antilles. Copeia 1992: 279-288.
James, C.D., J.B. Losos, and D.R. King.
1992. Reproductive biology and diets of goannas (Reptilia: Varanidae)
from
Australia.
Journal
of Herpetology 26: 128-136.
Losos, J.B. 1992. The evolution
of convergent community structure in Caribbean Anolis communities.
Systematic
Biology
41:
403-420.
Losos, J.B., B.M. Walton, and A.F. Bennett.
1993. Trade-offs between sprinting and clinging ability in Kenyan
chameleons.
Functional
Ecology 7:281-286.
Losos, J.B., J.C. Marks, and T.W. Schoener.
1993. Habitat use and ecological interactions of an introduced and
a native
species
of Anolis lizard on Grand Cayman. Oecologia 95: 525-532.
Losos, J.B. 1994. An approach
to the analysis of comparative data when a phylogeny is unavailable or
incomplete.
Systematic
Biology 43:117-123.
Losos, J.B., and D.B. Miles. 1994.
Adaptation, constraint, and the comparative method: phylogenetic issues
and methods.
Pp.
60-98 in P.C. Wainwright and S. Reilly, Eds., Ecological Morphology:
Integrative Organismal Biology.
University
of Chicago Press: Chicago.
Garland, T., Jr., and J.B. Losos.
1994. Ecological morphology of locomotor performance in squamate
reptiles. Pp. 240-302
in
P.C. Wainwright and S. Reilly, Eds., Ecological Morphology: Integrative
Organismal Biology. University of
Chicago
Press: Chicago.
Losos, J.B. 1994. Historical
contingency and lizard community ecology. Pp. 319-333 in L.J. Vitt and
E.R. Pianka, Eds.,
Lizard Ecology: Historical and Experimental Perspectives. Princeton
Univ. Press: Princeton.
Macedonia, J.M., C.S. Evans, and J.B. Losos.
1994. Male Anolis lizards discriminate video-recorded conspecific
and
heterospecific
displays. Animal Behaviour 47:1220-1223.
Losos, J.B. 1994. Integrative
approaches to evolutionary ecology: Anolis lizards as model systems.
Annual
Review of
Ecology and Systematics 25:467-493.
Losos, J.B., D.J. Irschick, and T.W. Schoener.
1994. Adaptation and constraint in the evolution of specialization of
Bahamian
Anolis
lizards. Evolution 48:1786-1798.
Losos, J.B., and F.R. Adler. 1995.
Stumped by trees? A generalized null model for patterns of organismal
diversity.
American
Naturalist 145:329-342.
Losos, J.B. 1995. Community evolution
in Greater Antillean Anolis lizards: Phylogenetic patterns and experimental
tests.
Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 349:69-75. Reprinted
in P.H. Harvey, A.J.L. Brown,
J.M.
Smith, and S. Nee, Eds. 1996. New Uses for New Phylogenies,
pp. 308-321, Oxford Univ. Press: Oxford.
Losos, J.B.,
and D.J. Irschick. 1996. The effect of perch diameter on escape behaviour
of Anolis lizards: Laboratory-based
predictions
and field tests. Animal Behaviour 51:593-602.
Irschick, D.J., and J.B. Losos. 1996.
Morphology, ecology, and behavior of the twig anole, Anolis angusticeps.
Pp.
291-301
in R. Powell and R.W. Henderson, Eds., Contributions to West Indian
Herpetology: A Tribute to Albert
Schwartz. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Ithaca,
NY.
Losos, J.B. 1996. Dynamics of range
expansion by three introduced species of Anolis lizards on Bermuda.
Journal
of
Herpetology 30:204-210.
Losos, J.B. 1996. Phylogenetic perspectives
on community ecology. Ecology 77:1344-1354.
Losos, J.B.
1996 . Ecological and evolutionary determinants of the species-area
relation in Caribbean anoline lizards.
Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 351:847-854. Reprinted
in P.R. Grant. 1998.
Evolution on Islands, pp. 210-224, Oxford University Press: Oxford.
Losos, J.B. 1996. Phylogenies
and comparative biology, Stage II: Testing causal hypotheses derived from
phylogenies with
data
from extant taxa. Systematic Biology 45:259-260.
Larson, A., and J.B. Losos. 1996. Phylogenetic
systematics of adaptation. In M.R. Rose G.V. Lauder, Eds., Adaptation.
Pp.
187-220. Academic Press: San Diego.
Irschick, D.J., C.C. Austin, K. Petren,
R.N. Fisher, J.B. Losos, and O. Ellers. 1996. A comparative analysis of
clinging
ability
among pad-bearing lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
59:21-35.
Stamps, J.A.,
J.B. Losos, and R.M. Andrews. 1997. A comparative study of population
density and sexual size dimorphism
in
lizards. American Naturalist 149:64-90.
Losos,
J.B., K.I. Warheit, and T.W. Schoener. 1997. Adaptive differentiation
following experimental island colonization in
Anolis
lizards. Nature 387:70-73.
Glossip, D.,
and J.B. Losos. 1997. Ecological correlates of number of subdigital
lamellae in anoles. Herpetologica
53:192-199.
Jackman, T., J.B. Losos, A. Larson and
K. de Queiroz. 1997. Phylogenetic studies of convergent adaptive radiations
in
Caribbean
Anolis
lizards. Pp. 535-557 in T. Givnish and K. Systma, Eds., Molecular
Evolution and Adaptive
Radiation. Cambridge Univ. Press.
Autumn, K., and J.B. Losos. 1997. Notes
on jumping ability and thermal biology of the enigmatic anole Chamaelinorops
barbouri. Journal of Herpetology. 31:442-444.
Losos, J.B.,
and K. de Queiroz. 1997. Evolutionary consequences of ecological release
in Caribbean Anolis lizards.
Biological
Journal of the Linnean Society 61:459-483.
Irschick, D.J.,
L.J. Vitt, P.A. Zani, and J.B. Losos. 1997. A comparison of evolutionary
radiations in mainland and West
Indian
Anolis
lizards. Ecology 78:2191-2203.
Butler, M.A.,
and J.B. Losos. 1997. Testing for unequal amounts of evolution
in a continuous character on different
branches
of a phylogenetic tree using linear and squared-change parsimony: an example
using Lesser Antillean Anolis
lizards.
Evolution
51:1623-1635.
Irschick, D.J.,
and J.B. Losos. 1998. A comparative analysis of the ecological significance
of maximal locomotor performance
in
Caribbean Anolis lizards. Evolution 52:219-226.
Losos,
J.B., T.R. Jackman, A. Larson, K. de Queiroz, and L. Rodríguez-Schettino.
1998. Historical Contingency and
determinism
in replicated adaptive radiations of island lizards. Science
279:2115-2118.
Losos, J.B., and
L.-R. Chu. 1998. Examination of factors affecting dewlap size in Caribbean
anoles. Copeia 1998:430-438.
Spiller, D.A.,
J.B. Losos, and T.W. Schoener. 1998. Impact of a catastrophic hurricane
on island populations. Science 281:
695-697.
Leal, M., J.A. Rodríguez-Robles,
and J.B. Losos. 1998. An experimental study of interspecific
interactions between two
Puerto
Rican Anolis lizards. Oecologia 117: 273-278.
de
Queiroz, K., L.-R. Chu, and J.B. Losos. 1998. A second Anolis
lizard in Dominican amber and the systematics and
ecological
morphology of Dominican amber anoles. American Museum of Natural History
Novitates 3249:1-23.
Losos, J.B., and D. Spiller. 1999. Differential colonization
success and asymmetrical interactions between two lizard species.
Ecology
80: 252-258.
Jackman, T.R., A. Larson, K. de Queiroz,
and J.B. Losos. in press. Phylogenetic relationships and the tempo
of early
diversification
in Anolis lizards. Systematic Biology.
Beuttell, K., and J.B. Losos. In press.
Ecological morphology of Caribbean anoles. Herpetological Monographs.
Warheit, K.I., J.D. Forman, J.B. Losos,
and D.B. Miles. In press. Morphological diversification and adaptive radiation:
a
comparison
of two diverse lizard clades. Evolution.
Irschick, D.J., and J.B. Losos. In press.
Do lizards avoid habitats in which performance is submaximal?: The relationship
between
sprinting capabilities and structural habitat use in Caribbean anoles.
American
Naturalist.
Losos, J.B. In Press. Uncertainty in the reconstruction of ancestral
character states and limitations on the use of phylogenetic
comparative methods. Anim.
Behav.
NEWSLETTERS:
Losos, J.B., and G.C. Mayer, Editors.
1991. Anolis Newsletter IV. Div. Amphibians and Reptiles,
National Museum of
Natural
History, Smithsonian Institution: Washington, D.C. 144 pp.
REVIEWS:
Losos, J.B. 1991. The
phylogenetic perspective (review of D.R. Brooks and D.A. McLennan. 1991.
Phylogeny,
Ecology,
and Behavior). Science 252: 1002-1003.
POPULAR ARTICLES
Losos, J.B., and K. de Queiroz.
1997. Darwin's lizards. Natural History 106(11):34-39.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Co-organizer, Symposium on Anolis
Biology, 1989 meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
Member, Committee on the Integrative
Role of Systematics in Ecology, Systematics Agenda 2000: Integrating Biological
Diversity
and Societal Needs, jointly sponsored by the American Society of Plant
Taxonomists, the Society of Systematic
Biologists,
and the Willi Hennig Society, 1991-1993
Member, Board of Governors, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 1992-1995
Organizer, Symposium on phylogeny and comparative biology, meeting of the American Society of Zoologists, 1994.
Co-chair, American Society of Zoologists annual meeting, 1994.
Research Associate, Department
of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Institution,
1995-
Associate Editor, Systematic Biology, 1995
Associate Editor, Evolution, 1998-
Associate Editor, American Naturalist, 1998-
Director (Washington University), Organization for Tropical Studies, 1999-
Board of Science Advisors, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 1999-
Edward
Osborne Wilson Naturalist Award Committee, American Society of Naturalists,
1999
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