“…Two main themes of this work are asymptotic behavior of zeros of certain polynomials and topological properties of related quadratic differentials. The study of asymptotic root distributions of hypergeometric, Jacobi, and Laguerre polynomials with variable real parameters, which grow linearly with degree, became a rather hot topic in recent publications, which attracted attention of many authors [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [22], [24], [25], [27]. In this paper, we survey some known results in this area and present some new results keeping focus on Jacobi polynomials.…”