FIU Discovery

Replacing mechanical protection with colorful faces-twice: parallel evolution of the non-operculate marine worm-snail genera Thylacodes (Guettard, 1770) and Cayo n. gen. (Gastropoda: Vermetidae).  PEERJ.  11.

Salmonella enterica Infection of Synanthropic Non-native Geckos in Southern Florida.  EcoHealth.  20:227-230.

Extreme male color polymorphism supports the introduction of multiple native-range Panther Chameleon (Furcifer pardalis) lineages to Florida, USA.  Reptiles & Amphibians.  28:257-261.

Provenance and genetic diversity of the non-native geckos Phelsuma grandis Gray 1870 and Gekko gecko (Linnaeus 1758) in southern Florida, USA.  BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS.  23:1649-1662.

Closing the Achievement Gap in a Large Introductory Course by Balancing Reduced In-Person Contact with Increased Course Structure.  CBE Life Sciences Education.  18.

A novel and enigmatic two-holed shell aperture in a new species of suspension-feeding worm-snail (Vermetidae).  PEERJ.  7.

Multiple Facets of Marine Invertebrate Conservation Genomics.  Annual Review of Animal Biosciences.  7:473-+.

Worm-snail Ships Out! Lack of Mobility No Obstacle to Travel.  NATURAL HISTORY.  125:10-13.

A new species of Novastoa Finlay, 1926 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vermetidae) from coral reefs of the Pacific Ocean.  European Journal of Taxonomy.  323:1-11.

Non-native molluscan colonizers on deliberately placed shipwrecks in the Florida Keys, with description of a new species of potentially invasive worm-snail (Gastropoda: Vermetidae).  PEERJ.  5.

A family-level Tree of Life for bivalves based on a Sanger-sequencing approach.  MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION.  107:191-208.

A phylogenetic backbone for Bivalvia: an RNA-seq approach.  PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES.  282.

Genetic Evidence for Multiple Sources of the Non-Native Fish Cichlasoma urophthalmus (Gunther; Mayan Cichlids) in Southern Florida.  PLOS ONE.  9.

Investigating the Bivalve Tree of Life - an exemplar-based approach combining molecular and novel morphological characters.  Invertebrate Systematics.  28:32-115.

Isolation and characterization of 18 novel polymorphic microsatellite markers from the Mayan cichlid (Cichlasoma urophthalmus).  Conservation Genetics Resources.  5:703-705.

The Ideas Lab Concept, Assembling the Tree of Life, and AVAToL.  PLoS Currents: Tree of Life. 

Phylogenetic analysis of four nuclear protein-encoding genes largely corroborates the traditional classification of Bivalvia (Mollusca).  MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION.  65:64-74.

GALAPAGOS AND COCOS ISLANDS: GEOGRAPHICALLY CLOSE, BOTANICALLY DISTANT.  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES.  173:36-53.

Imported Asian swamp eels (Synbranchidae: Monopterus) in North American live food markets: Potential vectors of non-native parasites.  Aquatic Invasions.  6:69-76.

Imported Asian swamp eels (Synbranchidae: Monopterus) in North American live food markets: Potential vectors of non-native parasites.  Aquatic Invasions.  6:69-76.

Are mangroves in the tropical Atlantic ripe for invasion? Exotic mangrove trees in the forests of South Florida.  BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS.  12:2509-2522.

Sessile snails, dynamic genomes: gene rearrangements within the mitochondrial genome of a family of caenogastropod molluscs.  BMC GENOMICS.  11.

An Asian orchid, Eulophia graminea (Orchidaceae: Cymbidieae), naturalizes in Florida.  Lankesteriana.  0.

The role of internal node sequences and the molecular clock in the analysis of serially-sampled data.  International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications.  4:107-121.

HIV-1 infection of monocytes is directly related to the success of HAART.  VIROLOGY.  369:35-46.

The identity, distribution, and impacts of non-native apple snails in the continental United States.  BMC Evolutionary Biology.  7.

Molecular systematics of Serrasalmidae: Deciphering the identities of piranha species and unraveling their evolutionary histories.  ZOOTAXA.  1-38.

Phylogeny of sea hares in the Aplysia clade based on mitochondrial DNA sequence data.  BULLETIN OF MARINE SCIENCE.  76:691-698.

Changing identities: tRNA duplication and remolding within animal mitochondrial genomes.  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.  100:15700-15705.

Genetic diversity in a morphologically conservative invasive taxon: Multiple introductions of swamp eels to the Southeastern United States.  CONSERVATION BIOLOGY.  16:1024-1035.

Fragmentary taxa, missing data, and ambiguity: mistaken assumptions and conclusions..  SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY.  51:369-381.

Phylogenetic and ontogenetic influences on the distribution of anthocyanins and betacyanins in leaves of tropical plants.  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES.  162:1141-1153.

The use of tat and env sequences from human immunodeficiency virus 1 in phylogenetic epidemiological studies.  ELECTROPHORESIS.  22:438-444.

Evolutionary History of Northern Hemisphere Nucella (Gastropoda, Muricidae): Molecular, Morphological, Ecological, and Paleontological Evidence.  Evolution.  50:2287.

Associations between physical isolation and geographical variation within three species of Neotropical birds.  MOLECULAR ECOLOGY.  5:33-46.

Evolutionary history of northern hemisphere Nucella (Gastropoda, Muricidae): Molecular, morphological, ecological, and paleontological evidence.  Evolution.  50:2287-2304.

Deducing the pattern of arthropod phytogeny from mitochondrial DNA rearrangements.  NATURE.  376:163-165.

Hydrophobicity and phylogeny.  NATURE.  373:565-566.

Compositional Bias, Character-State Bias, and Character-State Reconstruction Using Parsimony.  SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY.  43:482-496.

Compositional effects and weighting of nucleotide sequences for phylogenetic analysis.  SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY.  43:449-459.

The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): Developing Community Resources to Study Diverse Invertebrate Genomes.  JOURNAL OF HEREDITY.  105:1-18.

mtDNA ribosomal gene phylogeny of sea hares in the genus Aplysia (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Anaspidea):: Implications for comparative neurobiology.  SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY.  50:676-688.

DECONSTRUCTING DENDROPOMA: A SYSTEMATIC REVISION OF A WORLD-WIDE WORM-SNAIL GROUP, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA (CAENOGASTROPODA: VERMETIDAE).  Ed. 57. 

Beyond area relationships: Extinction and recolonization in molecular marine biogeography.  297-321.

Reconstructing ancestor-descendant lineages from serially-sampled data: A comparison study.  LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE. 807-814.

A major mitochondrial gene rearrangement among closely related species.  MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 1604-1609.

Advancing genomics through the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA) (vol 31, pg 1, 2017).  Invertebrate Systematics. 231-231.

Choosing the best genes for the job: The case for stationary genes in genome-scale phylogenetics.  SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY. 493-500.

Genotypic and phenotypic evidence indicates the introduction of two distinct forms of a non-native species ( Gekko gecko ) to Florida, USA

Negative impacts of invasive predators used as biological control agents against the pest snail Lissachatina fulica: the snail Euglandina 'rosea' and the flatworm Platydemus manokwari.  BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS. 997-1031.

Advancing genomics through the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA).  Invertebrate Systematics. 1-7.