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• Tackling the phylogenetic conundrum of Hydroidolina (Cnidaria: Medusozoa: Hydrozoa) by assessing competing tree topologies with targeted high-throughput sequencing.

  Authors:Bastian Bentlage and Allen G. CollinsFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 9, 20218,332 words Article 1460LHigher-level relationships of the Hydrozoan subclass Hydroidolina, which encompasses the vast majority of medusozoan cnidarian species diversity, have been elusive to confidently infer. The most widely adopted...

• Phylogenetic context and basal metazoan model systems

  Authors:Allen G. Collins, Paulyn Cartwright, Catherine S. McFadden, and Bernd SchierwaterFrom:Integrative and Comparative Biology (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 2005207 words Author abstract

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• Molecules Clarify a Cnidarian Life Cycle - The "Hydrozoan" Microhydrula limopsicola Is an Early Life Stage of the Staurozoan Haliclystus antarcticus

  Authors:Lucilia S. Miranda, Allen G. Collins, and Antonio C. MarquesFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 5, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 14, 20105,771 words Article 1460LBackground Life cycles of medusozoan cnidarians vary widely, and have been difficult to document, especially in the most recently proposed class Staurozoa. However, molecular data can be a useful tool to elucidate...

• Exceptionally Preserved Jellyfishes from the Middle Cambrian

  Authors:Paulyn Cartwright, Susan L. Halgedahl, Jonathan R. Hendricks, Richard D. Jarrard, Antonio C. Marques, Allen G. Collins, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 2, Issue 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 31, 20073,765 words Article 1470LCnidarians represent an early diverging animal group and thus insight into their origin and diversification is key to understanding metazoan evolution. Further, cnidarian jellyfish comprise an important component of...

• The importance of standardization for biodiversity comparisons: A case study using autonomous reef monitoring structures (ARMS) and metabarcoding to measure cryptic diversity on Mo'orea coral reefs, French Polynesia

  Authors:Emma Ransome, Jonathan B. Geller, Molly Timmers, Matthieu Leray, Angka Mahardini, Andrianus Sembiring, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 21, 20178,577 words Report 1510LThe advancement of metabarcoding techniques, declining costs of high-throughput sequencing and development of systematic sampling devices, such as autonomous reef monitoring structures (ARMS), have provided the means to...

• Reconstruction of Family-Level Phylogenetic Relationships within Demospongiae (Porifera) Using Nuclear Encoded Housekeeping Genes

  Authors:Malcolm S. Hill, April L. Hill, Jose Lopez, Kevin J. Peterson, Shirley Pomponi, Maria C. Diaz, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 23, 201310,160 words Article 1460LAuthor(s): Malcolm S. Hill 1 , April L. Hill 1 , Jose Lopez 2 , Kevin J. Peterson 3 , Shirley Pomponi 4 , Maria C. Diaz 5 , Robert W. Thacker 6 , Maja Adamska 7 , Nicole Boury-Esnault 8 , Paco Cárdenas 9 , Andia...

• Phylogenetic analysis of higher-level relationships within Hydroidolina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) using mitochondrial genome data and insight into their mitochondrial transcription

  Authors:Ehsan Kayal, Bastian Bentlage, Paulyn Cartwright, Angel A. Yanagihara, Dhugal J. Lindsay, Russell R. Hopcroft, et al.From:PeerJ (Vol. 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 19, 20158,671 words Article 1460LHydrozoans display the most morphological diversity within the phylum Cnidaria. While recent molecular studies have provided some insights into their evolutionary history, sister group relationships remain mostly...

• Nearly complete 28S rRNA gene sequences confirm new hypotheses of sponge evolution

  Authors:Robert W. Thacker, April L. Hill, Malcolm S. Hill, Niamh E. Redmond, Allen G. Collins, Christine C. Morrow, et al.From:Integrative and Comparative Biology (Vol. 53, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 2013240 words Report

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• Phylogenetic novelties and geographic anomalies among tropical verongida

  Authors:Maria C. Diaz, Robert W. Thacker, Niamh E. Redmond, Kenan O. Matterson, and Allen G. CollinsFrom:Integrative and Comparative Biology (Vol. 53, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 2013359 words Report

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• Evaluating hypotheses of basal animal phylogeny using complete sequences of large and small subunit rRNA

  Authors:Monica Medina, Allen G. Collins, Jeffrey D. Silberman, and Mitchell L. SoginFrom:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (Vol. 98, Issue 17) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 14, 2001238 words Article

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• Naked corals: skeleton loss in scleractinia

  Authors:Monica Medina, Allen G. Collins, Tori L. Takaoka, Jennifer V. Kuehl, and Jeffrey L. BooreFrom:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (Vol. 103, Issue 24) Peer-Reviewed

  June 13, 2006257 words Author abstract 60L

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• A collection of hexactinellids (Porifera) from the deep South Atlantic and North Pacific: new genus, new species and new records.

  Authors:Cristiana Castello-Branco, Allen G. Collins, and Eduardo HajduFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 8) Peer-Reviewed

  July 9, 20207,065 words Report 1270LThis article describes or redescribes four hexactinellid sponges, namely Poliopogon amadou, Euplectella sanctipauli sp. nov., Bolosoma perezi sp. nov. and Advhena magnifica gen. et sp. nov. P. amadou, E. sanctipauli sp....

• Box jellyfish Alatina alata has a circumtropical distribution

  Authors:Jonathan W. Lawley, Cheryl Lewis Ames, Bastian Bentlage, Angel Yanagihara, Roger Goodwill, Ehsan Kayal, et al.From:The Biological Bulletin (Vol. 231, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 20169,608 words Report 1290LAbstract. Species of the box jellyfish (Cubozoa) genus Alatina are notorious for their sting along the beaches of several localities of the Atlantic and Pacific. These species include Alatina alata on the Caribbean...

• A new deepwater species of Stauromedusae, Lucernaria janetae (Cnidaria, Staurozoa, Lucernariidae), and a preliminary investigation of stauromedusan phylogeny based on nuclear and mitochondrial rDNA data

  Authors:Allen G. Collins and Marymegan DalyFrom:The Biological Bulletin (Vol. 208, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20055,782 words Article The deepwater stauromedusan Lucernaria janetae n. sp is described from adult and juvenile specimens collected from the East Pacific Rise. Lucernaria janetae is the first species in the genus recorded from the Pacific...

• Comparative internal anatomy of Staurozoa (Cnidaria), with functional and evolutionary inferences

  Authors:Lucilia S. Miranda, Allen G. Collins, Yayoi M. Hirano, Claudia E. Mills, and Antonio C. MarquesFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 27, 201624,005 words Article 1230LComparative efforts to understand the body plan evolution of stalked jellyfishes are scarce. Most characters, and particularly internal anatomy, have neither been explored for the class Staurozoa, nor broadly applied in...

• Mycalina: another crack in the poecilosclerida framework

  Authors:Eduardo Hajdu, Thiago S. de Paula, Niamh E. Redmond, Bruno Cosme, Allen G. Collins, and Gisele Lobo-HajduFrom:Integrative and Comparative Biology (Vol. 53, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 2013135 words Report

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• Evolutionary relationships among scyphozoan jellyfish families based on complete taxon sampling and phylogenetic analyses of 18S and 2 8S ribosomal DNA

  Authors:Keith M. Bayha, Michael N. Dawson, Allen G. Collins, Marcos S. Barbeitos, and Steven H.D. HaddockFrom:Integrative and Comparative Biology (Vol. 50, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 2010239 words Author abstract, Rep...

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• Reductio ad absurdum: testing the evolutionary relationships of Ediacaran and Paleozoic problematic fossils using molecular divergence dates

  Authors:Ben Waggoner and Allen G. CollinsFrom:Journal of Paleontology (Vol. 78, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 2004247 words Author abstract

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• Evaluating multiple alternative hypotheses for the origin of Bilateria: an analysis of 18S rRNA molecular evidence

  Author:Allen G. CollinsFrom:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (Vol. 95, Issue 26) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 22, 1998241 words Article

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• Systematics of stalked jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Staurozoa)

  Authors:Lucilia S. Miranda, Yayoi M. Hirano, Claudia E. Mills, Audrey Falconer, David Fenwick, Antonio C. Marques, et al.From:PeerJ (Vol. 4) Peer-Reviewed

  May 5, 201614,348 words Article 1140LStaurozoan classification is highly subjective, based on phylogeny-free inferences, and suborders, families, and genera are commonly defined by homoplasies. Additionally, many characters used in the taxonomy of the...