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
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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
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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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An Environmental DNA Primer for Microbial and Restoration Ecology
Tessler M, Cunningham SW, Ingala MR, Warring SD, Brugler MR
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Microbial Ecology, Published online 02/03/23
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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)
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Diversity, accept after minor revision (decision: 01/25/23)
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