Contact Information
Champaign, IL 61820
Research Interests
Host parasite systems provide an opportunity to study the interface between microevolutionary processes and macroevolutionary patterns. The goals of my current research center around recovering the coevolutionary history of birds and their ectoparasitic lice. The degree of cospeciation varies across different groups of lice.
Education
PhD, Ecology, University of Minnesota, 1997
BS, Biology, Bethel College, St Paul MN, 1991
Additional Campus Affiliations
Principal Ornithologist, Illinois Natural History Survey
Affiliate, Entomology
Recent Publications
Cai, C., Johnson, K. P., Fu, Y., Gustafsson, D. R., Azar, D., Su, Y., Xuan, Q., Engel, M. S., & Huang, D. (2025). Cretaceous chewing-louse eggs on enantiornithine birds. National Science Review, 12(2), Article nwae479. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwae479
Johnson, K. P., & Doña, J. (2025). Phylogenomics and biogeography of the feather lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera) of parrots. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 144(2), Article blae034. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blae034
Najer, T., Doña, J., Buček, A., Sweet, A. D., Sychra, O., & Johnson, K. P. (2025). Phylogenomics reveals the timescale of diversification in Amblycera. Systematic Entomology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12668
Oswald, J. A., Boyd, B. M., Szewczak, A. R., Lefebvre, M. J., Stucky, B. J., Guralnick, R. P., Johnson, K. P., Allen, J. M., & Steadman, D. W. (2025). Genomic data reveal that the Cuban blue-headed quail-dove (Starnoenas cyanocephala) is a biogeographic relict. Biology Letters, 21(1), Article 20240464. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0464
Sweet, A. D., Doña, J., & Johnson, K. P. (2025). Biogeographic History of Pigeons and Doves Drives the Origin and Diversification of Their Parasitic Body Lice. Systematic biology, 74(2), 198-214. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syae038