Jessica Ware
American entomologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jessica Lee Ware is a Canadian-American evolutionary biologist and entomologist.[1][2] She is the associate curator of invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.[3][4] In addition, she is a principal investigator at the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics and an associate professor for the Richard Gilder Graduate School.[5]
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Ware has served as president of the Entomological Society of America,[6] and as President of the Worldwide Dragonfly Association.[7] She studies the evolution of insect physiology and behavior, particularly dragonflies and dictyoptera, as well as their biogeography (geographic distribution).[5] Ware was a contributor to a major study of the phylogenomics of insect evolution,[8] and developed molecular phylogeny of hexapoda.[9] Ware warns of the dangerous losses occurring in insect taxonomies, which are being reported as high as 80%.[3]