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CLAS : Biological Sciences : Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Faculty

Jensen

Kirsten Jensen- Organismal Biology
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Phone:  (785) 864-5826
Fax:  (785) 864-5860

Area of Interest and Research

Field of Specialization: Parasitology

Research Interests:
Cestode systematics/phylogeny; diversity; morphology; coevolution; biogeography; life cycles

Current Research Projects:

  • A survey of sharks and rays of Borneo and their metazoan parasites
    (see project website).
  • Towards the elucidation of life-cycles of tapeworms of elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) in the Gulf of Mexico (see project website).
  • A survey of the elasmobranchs and their metazoan parasites of Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan).
  • Taxonomy and diversity of lecanicephalidean cestodes from around the world.

For additional information on tapeworms of sharks and rays see www.tapeworms.org

Representative Publications

Jensen, K. and J. N. Caira. The status of Rhoptrobothrium Shipley et Hornell, 1906 (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea), with redescription of the type species R. myliobatidis , and description of three new species from eagle rays in the genus Aetomylaeus from Malaysian Borneo. Folia Parasitologica. (In Press).

Jensen, K. 2006. A new species of Aberrapex Jensen, 2001 (Cestoda: Lecanicephalidea) from Taeniura lymma (Forsskål) (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae), from Sabah, Malaysia. Systematic Parasitology 64: 117-123.

Jensen, K. 2005. A Monograph on the Lecanicephalidea (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda). Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum. Volume 18, 240 pp.

Jensen, K . 2005. Echiura. In: Marine Parasitology. K. Rohde, Ed. CSIRO Publishing, pp. 246-248.

Jensen, K. and P. S. Sadeghian. 2005. Nemertea. In: Marine Parasitology. K. Rohde, Ed. CSIRO Publishing, pp. 205-210.

Jensen, K . and R. L. Palma. 2005. Insecta. In: Marine Parasitology. K. Rohde, Ed. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 226-230.

Caira J. N., K. Jensen and K. E. Holsinger. 2003. On a new index of host specificity. In : Taxonomie, écologie et évolution des métazoaires parasites. (Livre hommage à Louis Euzet), C. Combes and J. Jourdane, Eds. PUP Perpignan, Tome 1, pp. 161-201

Caira, J. N., K. Jensen and C. J. Healy. 2001. Interrelationships among tetraphyllidean and lecanicephalidean cestodes. In : Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes, D. T. J. Littlewood and R. Bray, Eds. Taylor & Francis, London, pp. 135-158.

Siddall, M. E. and K. Jensen. 2003. Incorrect assessment of the information value of multistate characters. Cladistics 19: 269-272.

Jensen, K . 2001. Four new genera and five new species of lecanicephalideans (Cestoda: Lecanicephalidea) from elasmobranchs in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Journal of Parasitology 87: 845-861.

Caira, J. N. and K. Jensen. 2001. An investigation of the coevolutionary relationships between onchobothriid tapeworms and their elasmobranch hosts. International Journal for Parasitology 31: 959-974.

Caira, J. N., K. Jensen and C. J. Healy. 1999. On the phylogenetic relationships among tetraphyllidean, lecanicephalidean and diphyllidean tapeworm genera. Systematic Parasitology 42: 77-151.

Caira, J. N., K. Jensen , Y. Yamane, A. Isobe, and K. Nagasawa. 1997. On the tapeworms of Megachasma pelagios : Description of a new genus and species of lecanicephalidean and additional information on the trypanorhynch Mixodigma leptaleum . In : Biology of the Megamouth shark, K. Yano, J. F. Morrissey, Y. Yabumoto and K. Nakaya, Eds. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 181-191.