Peer-Reviewed Publications

Mitogenomics reveals low variation within a trigeneric complex of black corals from the North Pacific Ocean

Bledsoe-Becerra YM*, Whittaker IS*, Horowitz J, Naranjo KM*, Johnson-Rosemond J*, Mullins KH*, Cunningham KM*, Shetty S*, Messinides SN*, Behney MS*, Fehsal JA*, Watson AN*, McKnight KE*, Nasiadka TW*, Popa H, Pettay DT, Appiah-Madson HJ, Distel DL, Brugler MR (*undergraduate)

Organisms Diversity & Evolution, Volume 22, Pages 343–353, January 2022

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The Emergence of eDNA: An interdisciplinary tool helps monitor biodiversity and health

Lesley Evans Ogden

BioScience, Volume 72, Issue 1, Pages 5–12, January 2022

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Contrasting modes of mitochondrial genome evolution in sister taxa of wood-eating marine bivalves (Teredinidae and Xylophagaidae)

Li Y, Altamia MA, Shipway JR, Brugler MR, Bernardino AF, de Brito TL, Lin Z, da Silva Oliveira FA, Sumida P, Smith CR, Trindade-Silva A, Halanych KM, Distel DL

Genome Biology & Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 6, evac089, June 2022

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New genus and species of black coral from the SW Pacific and Antarctica (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia: Schizopathidae)

Opresko DM, Stewart R, Voza T, Tracey D, Brugler MR

Zootaxa, Volume 5169, Number 1, Pages 31-48, July 2022

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Transcriptomics of a Greenlandic snailfish reveals exceptionally high expression of antifreeze protein transcripts

Burns JA, Gruber DF, Gaffney JP, Sparks JS, Brugler MR

Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Volume 18, Pages 1-9, August 2022

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An Environmental DNA Primer for Microbial and Restoration Ecology

Tessler M, Cunningham SW, Ingala MR, Warring SD, Brugler MR

Microbial Ecology, Volume 85, Pages 796–808, February 2023

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The deepest genus of Antipatharia: taxonomic position revealed and revised

Molodtsova TN, Opresko DM, O’Mahoney M, Simakova UV, Kolyuchkina GA, Bledsoe YM*, Nasiadka TW*, Ross RF*, Brugler MR (*undergraduate)

Diversity, Volume 15, Number 3, Page 436, March 2023

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Bathymetric evolution of black corals through deep time

Horowitz H, Quattrini AM, Brugler MR, Miller DJ, Pahang K, Bridge TCL, Cowman PF

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Volume 290, Page 20231107, October 2023

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Complete mitochondrial genomes of the black corals Alternatipathes mirabilis Opresko & Molodtsova, 2021 and Parantipathes larix (Esper, 1788) (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Hexacorallia, Antipatharia, Schizopathidae)

Cruz BA*, Cappelmann A*, Chutjian H*, Roman JC*, Reid MA*, Wright J*, Gonzalez AD*, Keyman T*, Griffith K*, Appiah‑Madson HJ, Distel DL, Hayes VE, Drewery J, Pettay DT, Staton JL, Brugler MR (*undergraduate)

Zookeys, Volume 1196, Pages 79–93, March 2024

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Environmental DNA Isolation, Validation, and Preservation Methods

Cunningham SW, Tessler M, Johnson-Rosemond J*, Whittaker IS*, Brugler MR (*undergraduate)

In: DeSalle, R. (eds) DNA Barcoding. Methods in Molecular Biology, Volume 2744, Chapter 10, Pages 171-180. Humana, New York, NY., April 2024

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