JANECKA LAB
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2025
Kramp RD, Janecka MJ, Tardent N, Jokela J, Kohl K, Stephenson JF (2025) Host genetics and the skin microbiome independently predict parasite resistance. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72923
Janecka MJ, Clark DR, Duthoy O*, Criscione CD (2025) Host dietary niche and site location on the river continuum shape trematode (Renifer aniarum) infection patterns in sympatric watersnakes (Nerodia spp.). International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2025.101144
2022
Rudzki EN, Kuebbing S, Clark DR*, Gharaibeh B, Janecka MJ, Kramp R*, Ohmer M, Turcotte MM, Richards-Zawacki C (2022) A guide for developing a field research safety manual that explicitly considers risk for marginalized identities in the sciences. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13970
Walsman J, Janecka MJ, Clark DR, Kramp R*, Rovenolt F, Mohammed RS, Patrick R, Cressler C, Stephenson JF. (2022) Shoaling guppies evade predation but have deadlier parasites. Nature Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01772-5
Marsh C, Sica Y … Janecka MJ, .… Jetz W. (2022) Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities. Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14330
2021
Janecka MJ, Rovenolt F*, Stephenson JF (2021) How does host social behavior drive parasite non-selective evolution from the within-host to the landscape-scale? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 75:150. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-021-03089-y
Janecka MJ, Janecka JE, Haines AM, Michaels A*, Criscione CD (2021) Post-delisting genetic monitoring reveals population subdivision along river and reservoir localities of the endemic Concho water snake (Nerodia harteri paucimaculata). Conservation Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-021-01391-w
2018
Janecka JE, Janecka MJ, Helgen KM, Murphy WJ (2018) The validity of three snow leopard subspecies: response to Senn et al. Heredity 120:586–590. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-018-0052-7
pre-2018
Janecka JE, Zhang Y, Li D, Munkhtsog B, Bayaraa M, Galsandorj N, Wangchuk TR, Karmacharya D, Li J, Lu Z, Uulu KZ, Gaur A, Kumar S, Kumar K, Hussain S, Muhammad G, Jevit M, Hacker C, Burger P, Wultsch C, Janecka MJ, Helgen, K, Murphy WJ, Jackson R (2017) Range-wide snow leopard phylogeography supports three subspecies. Journal of Heredity 108:597–607. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esx044
Janecka MJ, Brush T (2014) Differential response by bronzed cowbirds to songs of potential hosts in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The Southwestern Naturalist 59:556–561.https://doi.org/10.1894/EKL-03.1
Janecka (nee Gorton) MJ, Kasl EL, Detwiler JT, Criscione CD (2012) Testing local-scale panmixia provides insights into the cryptic ecology, evolution, and epidemiology of metazoan animal parasites. Parasitology 139:981–997. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182012000455
In Review
Burda K., Janecka MJ., Mohammed RS., Clark DR., Kramp R D, Radwan J, Konczal M. Interplay between purging and admixture shapes genetic load in an invasive guppy population. BioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.12.675788
Preprints
Janecka MJ, Janecka JE and Criscione CD. (2022). Parasite gene flow in riverine habitats: ascertaining the roles of stream drift, river bifurcations and host dispersal. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.21.508869
Book Chapters, Reports and Manuals
Kuebbing S, Clark DR, Gharaibeh B, Janecka MJ, Kohl K, Kramp R, Ohmer M, Olmstead C, Peralta Martinez K, Rudzki E, Turcotte MM, and Richards-Zawacki C. Field Safety Manual. University of Pittsburgh. https://www.ple.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/Documents/pitt_biological_sciences_field_safety_manual.pdf
Janecka JE and Janecka MJ. 2018. Order Dermoptera. Family Cynocephalidae (Colugos). Pp 272-287. In: the Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Insectivores, Sloths and Colugos, Volume 8 (D. Wilson editor). Lynx Edicon, Barcelona, Spain. Book Chapter.
Janecka MJ and Criscione CD. 2016. Post-delisting demographic and genetic monitoring of the Concho watersnake (Nerodia paucimaculata): Final Report. Section Six Grant E-145: Endangered Species Monitoring. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Janecka MJ and CD Criscione. 2015. Post-delisting demographic and genetic monitoring of the Concho watersnake (Nerodia paucimaculata): Interim Report. Section Six Grant E-145: Endangered Species Monitoring. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Janecka MJ and Criscione CD. 2014. Post-delisting demographic and genetic monitoring of the Concho watersnake (Nerodia paucimaculata): Interim Report. Section Six Grant E-145: Endangered Species Monitoring. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.