
J. Andrés López
Associate Professor
Fish and Fisheries Genetics
Fish Systematics
College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
University of Alaska Museum
Room 44
Fairbanks, AK 99775-6960
907-474-7828
907-474-7204
jalopez2@alaska.edu
Office Hours
W and Th
8:00 – 9:30 a.m.
alaska.zoom.us/my/j.andres.
University of Washington - Seattle (Fisheries) M.S.
Iowa State University - Ames (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Ph.D.
Field Museum of Natural History - Chicago (Fish Molecular Systematics) Postdoctor
- Habiba Moshfeka
- Anna Rix (Biology)
- Maggie Harings
ER Schoen, KW Sellmer, MS Wipfli, JA López, R Ivanoff, BE Meyer. 2021. Piscine predation
on juvenile salmon in sub‐arctic Alaskan rivers: Associations with season, habitat,
predator size and streamflow. Ecology of Freshwater Fish. https://doi.org/10.1111/eff.12626
CS Jalbert, JA Falke, JA López, KJ Dunker, AJ Sepulveda, PH Westley. 2021. Vulnerability
of Pacific salmon to invasion of northern pike (Esox lucius) in Southcentral Alaska. PloS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254097
Q Pan, R Feron, E Jouanno, H Darras, A Herpin, B Koop, E Rondeau, F W Goetz, W A Larson,
L Bernatchez, M Tringali, SS Curran, E Saillant, GPJ Denys, FA von Hippel, S Chen,
JA López, H Verreycken, K Ocalewicz, R Guyomard, C Eche, J Lluch, C Roques, H Hu,
R Tabor, P DeHaan, KM Nichols, L Journot, H Parrinello, C Klopp, EA Interesova, V
Trifonov, M Schartl, J Postlethwait, Y Guiguen. 2021. The rise and fall of the ancient
northern pike master sex-determining gene. eLife. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.62858
E Zhang, JL Cheng, WH Shaow, JA López. 2021. Tachysurus lani, a new catfish species (Teleostei: Bagridae) from the Pearl River basin, South China.
Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 1156: 1-17. doi: 10.23788/IEF-1156
MA Campbell, TJ Buser, ME Alfaro, and JA López. 2020. Addressing incomplete lineage
sorting and paralogy in the inference of uncertain salmonid phylogenetic relationships.
PeerJ 8:e9389 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9389
NS Khalsa, J Smith, KA Jochum, G Savory, and JA López. 2020. Identifying under‐ice
overwintering locations of juvenile Chinook Salmon by using environmental DNA. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. https://doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10444
A Cyr, JA López, MJ Wooller, A Whiting, R Gerlach, and T O'Hara. 2019. Ecological
drivers of mercury concentrations in fish species in subsistence harvests from Kotzebue
Sound, Alaska. Environmental Research 177:108622. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.108622
- Fish and Fisheries Genetics
- Fish systematics
The focus of my research is on fish diversity and evolution. I study the systematics (taxonomy and classification) of fishes using a combination of morphology- and gene-based lines of evidence. The goal of this work is to produce accurate and precise information on the nature and geographic distribution of fish biological diversity. In turn, this knowledge provides the foundation for examining other characteristics of evolution (e.g., molecular evolution, timing of diversification and colonization, etc).
- Phylogeography of Lake trout in interior Alaska
- Population genetics of Arctic lamprey
- Taxonomic boundaries and population genetics of Alaskan whitefishes
- Phylogeography of Bering Land Bridge fishes
- Estimating fish abundance using environmental DNA assays
- Curator of Fishes, Museum of the North