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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
104
Citations
42817
World Ranking
221
National Ranking
92

Jonathan B. Losos publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jonathan B. Losos sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 533+

This scientist: 337 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 533 publications or more.

Jonathan B. Losos D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jonathan B. Losos sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 122+

This scientist: 104 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 122 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2005 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jonathan B. Losos is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, their work focuses notably on the subfields of Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics covered in their research include Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Jonathan B. Losos include:

  • The Evolution of 'Ecological Release' into the 21st Century, 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Hurricane Effects on Neotropical Lizards Span Geographic and Phylogenetic Scales, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Genome-wide Parallelism Underlies Contemporary Adaptation in Urban Lizards, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Chromosome-scale Genome Assembly of the Brown Anole (Anolis sagrei), an Emerging Model Species, 2022, Communications Biology
  • Fluctuating Selection Maintains Distinct Species Phenotypes in an Ecological Community in the Wild, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The American Naturalist
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Breviora
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Jonathan B. Losos has collaborated often with several coauthors, including Jason J. Kolbe, Anthony J. Geneva, James T. Stroud, Colin M. Donihue, and Dan G. Bock.

Throughout their career, they have been recognized with several awards, including becoming a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, and Fellowships from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Phylogenetic niche conservatism, phylogenetic signal and the relationship between phylogenetic relatedness and ecological similarity among species

    Jonathan B. Losos

  • Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree

    Jonathan Losos

  • Genetic variation increases during biological invasion by a Cuban lizard

    Jason J. Kolbe;Richard E. Glor;Lourdes Rodríguez Schettino;Ada Chamizo Lara

  • Contingency and Determinism in Replicated Adaptive Radiations of Island Lizards

    Jonathan B. Losos;Todd R. Jackman;Todd R. Jackman;Allan Larson;Allan Larson;Kevin de Queiroz;Kevin de Queiroz

  • Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles

    Jonathan B. Losos

  • CONVERGENCE, ADAPTATION, AND CONSTRAINT

    Jonathan B. Losos

  • Adaptation and diversification on islands

    Jonathan B. Losos;Robert E. Ricklefs

  • Early bursts of body size and shape evolution are rare in comparative data.

    Luke J Harmon;Luke J Harmon;Jonathan B Losos;T Jonathan Davies;Rosemary G Gillespie

  • Adaptive Radiation, Ecological Opportunity, and Evolutionary Determinism

    Jonathan B. Losos

  • Tempo and Mode of Evolutionary Radiation in Iguanian Lizards

    Luke J. Harmon;James A. Schulte;Allan Larson;Jonathan B. Losos

  • Adaptive radiation: contrasting theory with data.

    Sergey Gavrilets;Jonathan B. Losos

  • Ecomorphology, Performance Capability, and Scaling of West Indian Anolis Lizards: An Evolutionary Analysis

    Jonathan B. Losos

  • The genome of the green anole lizard and a comparative analysis with birds and mammals

    Jessica Alföldi;Federica Di Palma;Manfred Grabherr;Christina Williams

  • Analysis of an evolutionary species–area relationship

    Jonathan B. Losos;Dolph Schluter

  • Adaptive differentiation following experimental island colonization in Anolis lizards

    Jonathan B. Losos;Kenneth I. Warheitt;Thomas W. Schoener

  • Contingency and determinism in evolution: Replaying life's tape.

    Zachary D. Blount;Zachary D. Blount;Richard E. Lenski;Jonathan B. Losos

  • THE EVOLUTION OF FORM AND FUNCTION: MORPHOLOGY AND LOCOMOTOR PERFORMANCE IN WEST INDIAN ANOLIS LIZARDS.

    Jonathan B. Losos

  • Phylogenetic comparative methods and the geography of speciation

    Jonathan B. Losos;Richard E. Glor

  • Ecological Opportunity and Adaptive Radiation

    James T. Stroud;Jonathan B. Losos

  • Ecological opportunity and the rate of morphological evolution in the diversification of Greater Antillean anoles.

    D. Luke Mahler;Liam J. Revell;Richard E. Glor;Jonathan B. Losos

  • A comparative analysis of clinging ability among pad‐bearing lizards

    Duncan J. Irschick;Christopher C. Austin;Ken Petren;Robert N. Fisher;Robert N. Fisher

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason J. Kolbe
Jason J. Kolbe University of Rhode Island
Richard E. Lenski
Richard E. Lenski Michigan State University
Anthony Herrel
Anthony Herrel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Thomas W. Schoener
Thomas W. Schoener University of California, Davis
Richard E. Glor
Richard E. Glor University of Kansas
Kevin de Queiroz
Kevin de Queiroz National Museum of Natural History
Allan Larson
Allan Larson Washington University in St. Louis
David A. Spiller
David A. Spiller University of California, Davis
Duncan J. Irschick
Duncan J. Irschick University of Massachusetts Amherst
Luke J. Harmon
Luke J. Harmon University of Idaho

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