Invertebrate population genetics across Earth's largest habitat: The deep‐sea floor

ML Taylor, CN Roterman - Molecular Ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the deep sea being the largest habitat on Earth, there are just 77 population genetic
studies of invertebrates (115 species) inhabiting non‐chemosynthetic ecosystems on the …

Cold-water corals in a changing ocean

JM Roberts, SD Cairns - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•Cold-water corals are an important part of deep-water ecosystems.•Research on
cold-water corals has grown rapidly from the mid-1990s.•Integrated interdisciplinary …

Going where traditional markers have not gone before: utility of and promise for RAD sequencing in marine invertebrate phylogeography and population genomics

AM Reitzel, S Herrera, MJ Layden… - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Characterization of large numbers of single‐nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP s)
throughout a genome has the power to refine the understanding of population demographic …

RAD sequencing enables unprecedented phylogenetic resolution and objective species delimitation in recalcitrant divergent taxa

S Herrera, TM Shank - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2016 - Elsevier
Species delimitations is problematic in many cases due to the difficulty of evaluating
predictions from species hypotheses. In many cases delimitations rely on subjective …

Evolutionary and biogeographical patterns of barnacles from deep‐sea hydrothermal vents

S Herrera, H Watanabe, TM Shank - Molecular ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The characterization of evolutionary and biogeographical patterns is of fundamental
importance to identify factors driving biodiversity. Due to their widespread but discontinuous …

Exploration of the canyon-incised continental margin of the northeastern United States reveals dynamic habitats and diverse communities

AM Quattrini, MS Nizinski, JD Chaytor… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The continental margin off the northeastern United States (NEUS) contains numerous,
topographically complex features that increase habitat heterogeneity across the region …

Niche divergence by deep‐sea octocorals in the genus Callogorgia across the continental slope of the Gulf of Mexico

AM Quattrini, SE Georgian, L Byrnes… - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental variables that are correlated with depth have been suggested to be among
the major forces underlying speciation in the deep sea. This study incorporated …

A comparison of genetic connectivity in two deep sea corals to examine whether seamounts are isolated islands or step** stones for dispersal

KJ Miller, RM Gunasekera - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Ecological processes in the deep sea are poorly understood due to the logistical constraints
of sampling thousands of metres below the ocean's surface and remote from most land …

A chemosynthetic weed: the tubeworm Sclerolinum contortum is a bipolar, cosmopolitan species

MN Georgieva, H Wiklund, JB Bell, MH Eilertsen… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background Sclerolinum (Annelida: Siboglinidae) is a genus of small, wiry deep-
sea tubeworms that depend on an endosymbiosis with chemosynthetic bacteria for their …

Species delimitation in the reef coral genera Echinophyllia and Oxypora (Scleractinia, Lobophylliidae) with a description of two new species

R Arrigoni, ML Berumen, CA Chen, TI Terraneo… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2016 - Elsevier
Scleractinian corals are affected by environment-induced phenotypic plasticity and
intraspecific morphological variation caused by genotype. In an effort to identify new …