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Latitudinal variation and plasticity in response to temperature in Geukensia demissa by Erlenbach, Theresa R., Wares, John P.

“…As global temperatures warm, species must adapt to a changing climate or transition to a different location suitable for their survival. Understanding the…”
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Diversity, divergence and density: How habitat and hybrid zone dynamics maintain a genomic cline in an intertidal barnacle by Wares, John P., Strand, Allan E., Sotka, Erik E., Bernardi, Giacomo

“…Aim As within‐species genomic data have been shown useful in interpreting broader biogeographic trends, we analysed the mode of population genomic isolation…”
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The location, strength, and mechanisms behind marine biogeographic boundaries of the east coast of North America by Pappalardo, Paula, Pringle, James M., Wares, John P., Byers, James E.

“…Classic biogeographic studies emphasized differences in species composition between regions to define biogeographic provinces and delimit biogeographic…”
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Evidence That Microorganisms at the Animal-Water Interface Drive Sea Star Wasting Disease by Aquino, Citlalli A, Besemer, Ryan M, DeRito, Christopher M, Kocian, Jan, Porter, Ian R, Raimondi, Peter T, Rede, Jordan E, Schiebelhut, Lauren M, Sparks, Jed P, Wares, John P, Hewson, Ian

“…Sea star wasting (SSW) disease describes a condition affecting asteroids that resulted in significant Northeastern Pacific population decline following a mass…”
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The unexpected mating system of the androdioecious barnacle Chelonibia testudinaria (Linnaeus 1758) by Ewers-Saucedo, Christine, Hope, Neva B., Wares, John P.

“…Androdioecy was first described by Darwin in his seminal work on barnacle diversity; he identified males and hermaphrodites in the same reproductive…”
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Circulation constrains the evolution of larval development modes and life histories in the coastal ocean by Pringle, James M, Byers, James E, Pappalardo, Paula, Wares, John P, Marshall, Dustin

“…The evolutionary pressures that drive long larval planktonic durations in some coastal marine organisms, while allowing direct development in others, have been…”
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Colonization and/or mitochondrial selective sweeps across the North Atlantic intertidal assemblage revealed by multi-taxa approximate Bayesian computation by Ilves, Katriina L, Huang, Wen, Wares, John P, Hickerson, Michael J

“…Intertidal and subtidal communities of the western and eastern coasts of the North Atlantic Ocean were greatly affected by Pleistocene glaciations, with some…”
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Spatial Homogeneity of Bacterial Communities Associated with the Surface Mucus Layer of the Reef-Building Coral Acropora palmata by Kemp, Dustin W, Rivers, Adam R, Kemp, Keri M, Lipp, Erin K, Porter, James W, Wares, John P

“…Coral surface mucus layer (SML) microbiota are critical components of the coral holobiont and play important roles in nutrient cycling and defense against…”
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Mitochondrial cytochrome b sequence data are not an improvement for species identification in scleractinian corals by Wares, John P

“…There are well-known difficulties in using the cytochrome oxidase I (COI) mitochondrial gene region for population genetics and DNA barcoding in corals. A…”
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Large-scale gene flow in the barnacle Jehlius cirratus and contrasts with other broadly-distributed taxa along the Chilean coast by Guo, Baoying, Wares, John P

“…We evaluate the population genetic structure of the intertidal barnacle across a broad portion of its geographic distribution using data from the mitochondrial…”
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The Genomic Ghosts of Geukensia granosissima by Wares, John P.

“…Observations that biodiversity—particularly in coastal marine species—is redistributing itself as the environment changes have been key indicators of the…”
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RNA expression and disease tolerance are associated with a "keystone mutation" in the ochre sea star Pisaster ochraceus by Chandler, V Katelyn, Wares, John P

“…An overdominant mutation in an intron of the elongation factor 1- (EF1A) gene in the sea star has shown itself to mediate tolerance to "sea star wasting…”
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GROWTH, MORTALITY, AND MATING GROUP SIZE OF AN ANDRODIOECIOUS BARNACLE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EVOLUTION OF DWARF MALES by Ewers-Saucedo, Christine, Arendt, Michael D., Wares, John P., Rittschof, Daniel

“…Androdioecy is a sexual system characterized by the coexistence of hermaphrodites and males. It has evolved several times independently in ancestrally…”
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Can Theory Improve the Scope of Quantitative Metazoan Metabarcoding? by Wares, John P, Pappalardo, Paula

“…Using high-throughput sequencing approaches to quantify biodiversity has a number of hurdles, in particular that the number of reads for a given taxon may not…”
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Approximate Bayesian estimation of extinction rate in the Finnish Daphnia magna metapopulation by Robinson, John D., Hall, David W., Wares, John P.

“…Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) is useful for parameterizing complex models in population genetics. In this study, ABC was applied to simultaneously…”
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What doesn't kill them makes them stronger: an association between elongation factor 1-α overdominance in the sea star Pisaster ochraceus and "sea star wasting disease" by Wares, John P, Schiebelhut, Lauren M

“…In recent years, a massive mortality event has killed millions of sea stars, of many different species, along the Pacific coast of North America. This disease…”
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Mitochondrial diversity in Gonionemus (Trachylina:Hydrozoa) and its implications for understanding the origins of clinging jellyfish in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean by Govindarajan, Annette F, Carman, Mary R, Khaidarov, Marat R, Semenchenko, Alexander, Wares, John P

“…Determining whether a population is introduced or native to a region can be challenging due to inadequate taxonomy, the presence of cryptic lineages, and poor…”
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Transcriptome analysis and SNP development can resolve population differentiation of Streblospio benedicti, a developmentally dimorphic marine annelid by Zakas, Christina, Schult, Nancy, McHugh, Damhnait, Jones, Kenneth L, Wares, John P

“…Next-generation sequencing technology is now frequently being used to develop genomic tools for non-model organisms, which are generally important for…”
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Microsatellite loci discovery from next-generation sequencing data and loci characterization in the epizoic barnacle Chelonibia testudinaria (Linnaeus, 1758) by Ewers-Saucedo, Christine, Zardus, John D, Wares, John P

“…Microsatellite markers remain an important tool for ecological and evolutionary research, but are unavailable for many non-model organisms. One such organism…”
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Genetic Effective Size Is Three Orders of Magnitude Smaller Than Adult Census Size in an Abundant, Estuarine-Dependent Marine Fish (Sciaenops ocellatus) by Turner, Thomas F, Wares, John P, Gold, John R

“…Using eight microsatellite loci and a variety of analytical methods, we estimated genetic effective size (N(e)) of an abundant and long-lived marine fish…”
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