Driskell, Amy
National Museum of Natural History staff
Has Expertise In Technique
Selected Publications
Article
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 .
2024
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 .
2023
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 .
2023
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 .
2022
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 .
2022
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 .
2021
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 .
2021
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 .
2021
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 .
2021
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 .
2021
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 .
2020
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 .
2020
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 .
2020
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 ." Biodiversity Data Journal , 8 Article e47333. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e47333 .
2020
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 .
2020
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 .
2020
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 .
2020
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 .
2019
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 .
2019
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 .
2019
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 .
2019
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 .
2019
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 .
2019
Loerz, Anne-Nina, Tandberg, Anne Helene S., Willassen, Endre, and Driskell, Amy. 2018. "Rhachotropis (Eusiroidea, Amphipoda) from the North East AtlanticZookeys , (731) 75–101. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.731.19814 .
2018
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 .
2018
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 .
2018
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 .
2018
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 .
2018
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 .
2017
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 .
2017
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 .
2016
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 .
2016
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 .
2016
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 .
2015
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 .
2014
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 .
2014
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 .
2013
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 .
2012
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 .
2012
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 .
2012
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 .
2011
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 .
2010
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).
2008
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 .
2012
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 .
2012
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 .
2012
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 .
2023
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 .
2023
