Anna Holmquist
assistant professor
Degrees
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
BS, North Carolina State University
Research Areas
Community ecology, evolutionary biology, biodiversity, conservation, arachnology and entomology, molecular ecology, genomic
Courses Regularly Taught
Ecology, Entomology
Publications
Holmquist, A.J., and Rosemary G. Gillespie. "Reading palms to characterize islands." Science 387.6739 (2025): 1148-1149.
Korneyev, S. V., Hauser, M., Holmquist, A.J, & Smith, J. J. (2025). Rediscovery of Rhagoletis ebbettsi Bush, 1966 (Diptera, Tephritidae) in California, USA. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 101(2), 146-160.
Holmquist, A.J., Tavris, H., Kim, G., Esposito, L., Fisher, B., & Lam, A. (2024). Towards Large‐Scale Museomics Projects: A Cost‐Effective and High‐Throughput Extraction Method for Obtaining Historical DNA From Museum Insect Specimens. Molecular Ecology Resources, e14117.
Holmquist, A. J., Cody Markelz, R. J., Martinez, C. C., & Gillespie, R. G. (2024). The importance of habitat type and historical fire regimes in arthropod community response following large‐scale wildfires. Global Change Biology, 30(1), e17135.
Holmquist, A. J., Adams, S. A., & Gillespie, R. G. (2023). Invasion by an ecosystem engineer changes biotic interactions between native and non‐native taxa. Ecology and Evolution, 13(2), e9820.
Adams, S. A., Graham, N. R., Holmquist, A. J., Sheffer, M. M., Steigerwald, E. C., Sahasrabudhe, R., ... & Gillespie, R. G. (2023). Reference genome of the long-jawed orb-weaver, Tetragnatha versicolor (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Journal of Heredity, 114(4), 395-403.
Holmquist, A. J., Gillespie, R. G. (2022). Finding spider woman: the past and present role of women in arachnology. Arachnology, 19(sp1), 126-136.
Zaroff, E., Holmquist, A. J. (2021). Access to Public Parks, Drinking Fountains, and Clean Public Drinking Water Across Income Brackets in the Bay Area. Journal of Emerging Investigators. July 2021.
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