[1] In 1986, she and her husband published the textbook Biology of Amphibians that was to act as a key reference work on the subject.
[3] It was noted by Hans-Dieter Sues in a 2009 review of a separate work that the text "remains the best survey of the diversity and biology of extant amphibians.
[1] Her research has been published on the morphology of amphibians, beginning with cranial studies in the 1970s to phylogenetic investigations between living and fossil frog species in the 1980s, along with additional relational genetics of groups in the following decade.
While continuing with this osteology research, Trueb retired from her lab position in 1997, becoming "Curator-In-Charge" for the University of Kansas Natural History Museum until 2008.
[5] Trueb married fellow herpetologist William E. Duellman in April 1965 and they had a daughter together in 1970.