Publications

• A handbook on mentoring students in undergraduate research: proven strategies for success (ISBN-10: 0-692-78964-2; ISBN-13: 978-0-692-78964-3; digital or hard copy freely available upon request) By CityTech's Undergraduate Research Committee (Oct 26 2016)
• A global eDNA comparison of freshwater bacterioplankton assemblages focusing on large-river floodplain lakes of Brazil By Microbial Ecology (Sep 09 2016)
• The mitogenome of the bed bug Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) By Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources (Jun 20 2016)
• Genome assembly, annotation, & geospatial phylogenomics of the bedbug (Cimex lectularius). By Nature Communications (Jan 13 2016)
• Comparative transcriptomic analyses of three species of Placobdella (Rhynchodbdellida: Glossiphoniidae) confirms a single origin of blood feeding in leeches. By Journal of Parasitology (Oct 26 2015)
• Multiplexed pyrosequencing of nine sea anemone (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia: Actiniaria) mitochondrial genomes. By Mitochondrial DNA (Jun 24 2015)
• A RNA-seq approach to identify putative toxins from acrorhagi in aggressive and non-aggressive Anthopleura elegantissima polyps. By BMC Genomics (Mar 21 2015)
• Morphological and molecular variability of the sea anemone Phymanthus crucifer (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Actiniaria, Actinoidea). By Journal of the Marine Biological Association of th (Jul 31 2014)
• Hidden among sea anemones: The first comprehensive phylogenetic reconstruction of the order Actiniaria (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Hexacorallia) reveals a novel group of hexacorals. By PLoS ONE (May 07 2014)
• Pyrosequencing the salivary transcriptome of Haemadipsa interrupta (Annelida: Clitellata: Haemadipsidae): anticoagulant diversity and insight into the evolution of anticoagulation capabilities in leeches. By Invertebrate Biology (Nov 08 2013)
• The evolutionary history of the order Antipatharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) as inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA: Implications for black coral taxonomy and systematics. By Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Sep 05 2013)
• Isoparactis fionae sp. nov. (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria) from Southern Patagonia with a discussion of the family Isanthidae. By Organisms Diversity and Evolution (Aug 14 2013)
• Telopathes magna gen. nov., spec. nov. (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia: Schizopathidae) from deep waters off Atlantic Canada and the first molecular phylogeny of the deep-sea family Schizopathidae. By Zootaxa (Aug 13 2013)
• Discovery of Aphanipathes verticillata (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia: Aphanipathidae) in the Hawaiian Islands. By Zootaxa (Jun 15 2012)
• Using morphometrics, in situ observations and genetic characters to distinguish among commercially valuable Hawaiian black coral species; a redescription of Antipathes grandis Verrill, 1928 (Antipatharia: Antipathidae). By Invertebrate Systematics (Aug 30 2010)
• Deep-sea octocorals and antipatharians show no evidence of seamount-scale endemism in the NW Atlantic. By Marine Ecology Progress Series (Dec 17 2009)
• Exploring the utility of an indel-rich, mitochondrial intergenic region as a molecular barcode for bamboo corals (Octocorallia: Isididae). By Marine Genomics (Nov 06 2009)
• The mitochondrial genome of a deep-sea bamboo coral (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Isididae): genome structure and putative origins of replication are not conserved among octocorals. By Journal of Molecular Evolution (May 28 2008)
• The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns & diversity three hundred years after Linneaus. By Zootaxa (Dec 21 2007)
• The complete mitochondrial genome of the black coral Chrysopathes formosa (Cnidaria:Anthozoa:Antipatharia) supports classification of antipatharians within the subclass Hexacorallia. By Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (Sep 06 2006)