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Research Interests
My research focuses on understanding how biodiversity arises and is maintained in marine invertebrates in the context of a changing environment, at the species, population, and individual levels. My work primarily focuses on mollusks, but I also work on other marine invertebrate taxa, such as scleractinian corals. To investigate the evolutionary processes driving marine biodiversity, I combine underwater fieldwork and museum collection samples. My analytical approaches include comparative phylogenomic, population genomics, functional genomics, and molecular ecology.
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Publications
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2025/01
Photosymbiosis shaped animal genome architecture and gene evolution as revealed in giant clams
Communications Biology, 1, 8
2025/01
Comparative Genomics Points to Ecological Drivers of Genomic Divergence Among Intertidal Limpets
Molecular Ecology resources
2025/02
Genomic Insights From Natural History Collections Reveal Cryptic Speciation in Coral Guard Crabs (Family: Trapeziidae)
Ecology and Evolution, 2, 15
2025/03
Restoration innovation: Fusing microbial memories to engineer coral resilience
One earth, 3, 8
2024/03
The genome sequence of a heart cockle, Fragum whitleyi Iredale, 1929
Wellcome Open Research, 130, 9
2024/03
The genome sequence of a heart cockle, Fragum fragum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Wellcome Open Research, 129, 9
2024/06
Boring life: early colony formation and growth in the endolithic bryozoan genus Penetrantia Silén, 1946
Zoological Letters, 1, 10
2024/07
The genome sequence of the heart cockle, Fragum sueziense (Issel, 1869)
Wellcome Open Research, 9
2024/04
Boring systematics: A genome skimmed phylogeny of ctenostome bryozoans and their endolithic family Penetrantiidae with the description of one new species
Ecology and Evolution, 4, 14
2024/00
Photosymbiosis Shaped Animal Genome Architecture and Gene Evolution as Revealed in Giant Clams
bioRxiv
2024/08
Comparative genomics points to ecological drivers of genomic divergence among intertidal limpets
Molecular Ecology resources
2024/12
Genomic data reveals habitat partitioning in massive Porites on Guam, Micronesia
Scientific reports, 1, 14
2024/12
Ecology of endolithic bryozoans: colony development, growth rates and interactions of species in the genus Immergentia
Zoological Letters, 1, 10
2023/07
Genomic signatures suggesting adaptation to ocean acidification in a coral holobiont from volcanic CO2 seeps
Communications Biology, 1, 6
2023/00
Three new species of Nautilus Linnaeus, 1758 (Mollusca, Cephalopoda) from the Coral Sea and South Pacific
ZooKeys, 1143
2023/12
Boring bryozoans: an investigation into the endolithic bryozoan family Penetrantiidae
Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 4, 23
2022/05
Phylogeny of Amphidinium (Dinophyceae) from Guam and Okinawa, with descriptions of A. pagoense sp. nov. and A. uduigamense sp. nov.
Phycologia, 3, 61
2022/04
Effects of elevated temperature on reproduction and larval settlement in Leptastrea purpurea
Coral Reefs, 2, 41
2021/09
Phylogeny of Micronesian emperor fishes and evolution of trophic types
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 162
2021/10
Evolutionary management of coral‐reef fisheries using phylogenies to predict density dependence
Ecological applications, 7, 31
2021/05
Going with the flow: How corals in high‐flow environments can beat the heat
Molecular Ecology, 9, 30
2021/11
Diversity and toxicity of Pacific strains of the benthic dinoflagellate Coolia (Dinophyceae), with a look at the Coolia canariensis species complex
Harmful Algae, 109
2021/06
Tightening the girdle: phylotranscriptomics of Polyplacophora
Journal of Molluscan Studies, 2, 87
2020/12
Shedding light: a phylotranscriptomic perspective illuminates the origin of photosymbiosis in marine bivalves
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 20
2019/06
Putting keyhole limpets on the map: phylogeny and biogeography of the globally distributed marine family Fissurellidae (Vetigastropoda, Mollusca)
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 135
2019/07
Revisiting metazoan phylogeny with genomic sampling of all phyla
Proceedings of the royal society B, 1906, 286
2019/02
Resolving the relationships of clams and cockles: dense transcriptome sampling drastically improves the bivalve tree of life
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1896, 286
2017/02
A family-level tree of life for bivalves based on a Sanger-sequencing approach
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 107
2017/11
Genomic signatures of evolution in Nautilus—An endangered living fossil
Molecular Ecology, 21, 26
2017/02
Nacre tablet thickness records formation temperature in modern and fossil shells
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 460
2016/06
Cementing mussels to oysters in the pteriomorphian tree: a phylogenomic approach
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 1833, 283
2016/12
The family Pinnidae (Bivalvia) in the Philippine archipelago: observations on its distribution and phylogeography
Nautilus, 4, 130
2015/02
Re-evaluating the phylogeny of Sipuncula through transcriptomics
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 83
2015/12
Identification of genes associated with shell color in the black-lipped pearl oyster, Pinctada margaritifera
BMC genomics, 16
2015/09
Comparative phylogeography and population genetic structure of three widespread mollusc species in the Mediterranean and near Atlantic
Marine ecology, 3, 36
2014/09
Effects of habitat fragmentation on the genetic structure and connectivity of the black-lipped pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera populations in French Polynesia
Marine Biology, 9, 161
2014/11
Occurrence of a bivalve-inhabiting marine hydrozoan (Hydrozoa: Hydroidolina: Leptothecata) in the amber pen-shell Pinna carnea Gmelin, 1791 (Bivalvia …
Journal of Molluscan Studies, 4, 80
2014/01
On the occurrence of Tuleariocaris neglecta Chace, 1969 (Decapoda, Palaemonidae, Pontoniinae) on Echinometra lucunter (Linnaeus, 1758)(Echinodermata, Echinoidea, Echinometridae …
Crustaceana, 5, 87
2014/06
First molecular phylogeny of the circumtropical bivalve family Pinnidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia): Evidence for high levels of cryptic species diversity
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 75
2012/04
Housekeeping mutualisms: do more symbionts facilitate host performance?
PloS one, 4, 7
2012/06
Translocation of wild populations: conservation implications for the genetic diversity of the black‐lipped pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera
Molecular Ecology, 12, 21
2011/03
Correction Method for Null Alleles in Species with Variable Microsatellite Flanking Regions, A Case Study of the Black-Lipped Pearl Oyster Pinctada margaritifera
Journal of Heredity, 2, 102
2011/01
Individual‐based analysis opens new insights into understanding population structure and animal behaviour
Molecular Ecology, 2, 20
2007/07
Patterns of lineage diversification in rabbitfishes
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 1, 44
2007/00
Cytochrome b barcoding, molecular systematics and geographic differentiation in rabbitfishes (Siganidae)
Comptes rendus. Biologies, 1, 330