Summary

Jeanne Zeh carried out research at the interface of behavior, genetics and evolution, and utilized a variety of methods, ranging from field studies of sexual selection to next generation DNA sequencing. She retired in 2022 after 23 years of service in research, teaching and undergraduate/graduate mentorship in the w88 online game of Biology and the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology. The undergraduate/graduate course she developed on epigenetics and human disease (BIOL 454/654) was among the highest enrollment upper division electives taught in the w88 online game of Biology and was the first epigenetics course established in the Nevada System of Higher Education.

w88 online game interests

• Investigation of genomic conflict-based genetic incompatibility in the processes of sexual selection and speciation, particularly in live-bearing organisms.
• Ecological and evolutionary epigenetics, an emerging field that can address long-standing issues involving the origin and maintenance of biological diversity.
• The epi-transposon hypothesis, in which environmental stressors trigger disruption in epigenetic regulation, leading to increased transposable element activity that can generate the phenotypic changes required for punctuated equilibria and adaptive radiation.
• The role of epigenetics in speciation, particularly in flowering plants and mammals, with disruption of parent-of-origin gene expression contributing disproportionately to post-zygotic reproductive isolation.
• Whether intergenerational/transgenerational inheritance of environmentally-induced epigenetic changes can ameliorate or exacerbate the impacts of global warming, particularly in tropical ectotherms.
• The harlequin beetle riding pseudoscorpion, Cordylochernes scorpioides, as a model tropical arthropod species for simulated climate warming studies w88 online game role of epigenetic and transposable element dysregulation in temperature-induced reproductive dysfunction.

Courses taught

• BIOL 191 - Introduction to Organismal w88 online game
• BIOL 454/654 - Genomic Conflict, Epigenetics and Human Disease
• EECB 752 - Divided Selves: Genomic Conflicts and Behavioral Ecology
• EECB 752 - Ecological and Evolutionary Epigenetics
  

Education

• Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary w88 online game, Rice University, 1996
• B.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary w88 online game, University of Arizona, 1986
  

Selected publications

• Zeh J.A., M.A. Zawlodzki, M.M. Bonilla, E.J. Su-Keene, M.V. Padua & D.W. Zeh. 2019. Sperm competitive advantage of a rare mitochondrial haplogroup linked to differential expression of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation genes. Journal of Evolutionary w88 online game 32, 1320-1330.
• Bonilla M.M., J.A. w88 online game & D.W. w88 online game. 2016. An epigenetic resolution of the lek paradox. BioEssays 38, 355-366.
• Padua M.V., D.W. w88 online game, M.M. Bonilla & J.A. w88 online game. 2014. Sisters' curse: sexually antagonistic effects constrain the spread of a mitochondrial haplogroup superior in sperm competition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281, 9.
• Zeh J.A., M.M. Bonilla, E.J. Su, M.V. Padua, R.V. Anderson, D. Kaur, D.-S. Yang & D.W. Zeh. 2012. Degrees of disruption: projected temperature increase has catastrophic consequences for reproduction in a tropical ectotherm. Global Change w88 online game 18, 1833-1842.
• w88 online game, D.W. & J.A. w88 online game. 2009. Transposable elements and an epigenetic basis for punctuated equilibria. BioEssays, 31, 715-726
• w88 online game, J.A. & D.W. w88 online game. 2008. Viviparity-driven conflict: more to speciation than meets the fly. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1133, 126-148.
• w88 online game, J.A. & D.W. w88 online game. 2006. Outbred embryos rescue inbred half siblings in mixed paternity broods of live-bearing females. Nature 439, 201-203.
• w88 online game, J.A. & D.W. w88 online game. 2005. Maternal inheritance, sexual conflict and the maladapted male. Trends in Genetics 21, 281-286.
• w88 online game, J.A. & D.W. w88 online game. 2003. Toward a new sexual selection paradigm: polyandry, conflict and incompatibility. Ethology 109, 929-950.
• Newcomer, S.D., J.A. w88 online game & D.W. w88 online game. 1999. Genetic benefits enhance the reproductive success of polyandrous females. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 96, 10236-10241.
• w88 online game, J.A., S.D. Newcomer & D.W. w88 online game. 1998. Polyandrous females discriminate against previous mates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 95, 13732-13736.
• w88 online game, J.A. & D.W. w88 online game. 1997. The evolution of polyandry II: post-copulatory defenses against genetic incompatibility. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 264, 69-75.
• w88 online game, J.A. & D.W. w88 online game. 1996. The evolution of polyandry I: intragenomic conflict and genetic incompatibility. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 263, 1711-1717.