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The Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook was founded in 1969 and was one of the first departments of its kind in the world. The department and graduate program has an international reputation in the fields of evolutionary biology and ecology......
Selected Recent Publications More...

Twining, B.S., and S.B. Baines. 2013. The trace metal composition of marine phytoplankton. Annual Review of Marine Science. Published online Aug. 26, 2012. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-121211-172322.

Baines, S.B., B.S. Twining, M.A. Brzezinski, J.W. Krause, S. Vogt, D. Assael and H. McDaniel. 2012. Significant silicon accumulation by marine picocyanobacteria. Nature Geoscience 5:886-891.

Twining, B.S, S.B. Baines, S. Vogt and D.M. Nelson. 2012. The role of diatoms in the biogeochemical cycling of nickel. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 26:GB4001 DOI: 10.1029/2011GB004233

Vine D.M., C. Holzner, S.B. Baines, D. Pellicia, A. Berry, I. McNulty, S. Vogt, A.G. Peele, K.A. Nugent. 2012. Simultaneous X-ray fluorescence and ptychographic microscopy of Cyclotella meneghiniana. Optics Express 20:18287-18296. DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.018287

Lohman, B. K, H. I. Sirotkin, and M. A. Bell. 2013. A whole-mount method for trypsin clearing and collagen type II antibody staining. Copeia 2013:127-131.

Dávalos, L.M., and A.L. Russell. 2012. Deglaciation explains bat extinction in the Caribbean. Ecology and Evolution 2(12), 1-7.

Levinton, J.S., Mackie, J. 2013. Latitudinal Diversity Relationships of Fiddler Crabs: Biogeographic Differences United by Temperature. Global Ecology and Biogeography, DOI: 10.1111/geb.12064.

Levinton Jeffrey S. 2013. Extinction in the Fossil Record. In: Levin S.A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, second edition, Volume 3, pp. 413-425. Waltham, MA: Academic Press.

Opulente, D. A., C. M. Morales, L. Carey, J. S. Rest. 2013. Coevolution Trumps Pleiotropy: Carbon Assimilation Traits Are Independent of Metabolic Network Structure in Budding Yeast. PLoS ONE, 8(1): e54403. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0054403.

Patrick J. Lyons. 2013. The benefit of obligate versus facultative strategies in a shrimp–goby mutualism. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-013-1497-6.

Rest, J. S., C. M. Morales, J. B. Waldron, D. A. Opulente, J. Fisher, S. Moon, K. Bullaughey, L. Carey, D. Dedousis. 2012. Nonlinear Fitness Consequences of Variation in Expression Level of a Eukaryotic Gene. Molecular Biology and Evolution. doi: 10.1093/molbev/mss248.

Xi, Z., Y. Wang, R. K. Bradley, M. Sugumaran, C. J. Marx, J. S. Rest, C. C. Davis. 2013. Massive mitochondrial gene transfer in a parasitic flowering plant clade. PLoS Genetics, 9(2): e1003265. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003265

Xi, Z., R. K. Bradley, K. J. Wurdack, K. M. Wong, M. Sugumaran, K. Bomblies, J. S. Rest*, C. C. Davis. 2012. Horizontal transfer of expressed genes in a parasitic flowering plant. BMC Genomics. 13:227. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-13-227. *Co-corresponding author

Adams, Dean C. , F. James Rohlf, and Dennis E. Slice. 2013. A field comes of age: geometric morphometrics in the 21st century. Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 24(1):


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Ecology and Evolution Dissertation Defense

2:00 P.M., Tuesday, May 7, 2013 in Room 305, Student Activities Center
Title: Development and Application of Species Distribution Models for Conservation Assessments in Data Poor Regions: A Case Study with Birds of Colombia.
Jorge I. Velasquez-Tibata, Dept. of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University

Colloquium Calendar for Spring semester 2013

01/30/2013 Ana Davidson,
Title: Biodiversity conservation: from prairie dogs to global mammal extinction
Host: TBA

02/06/2013 Cancelled, Francesca Gherardi, U Florence Italy
Title: Alien crustaceans and climate change: risks and opportunities
Host: TBA

02/13/2013 Dmitri Petrov, Stanford
Title: Genomic evidence of rapid polygenic adaptation over seasonal timescales in Drosophila
Host: Mike Bell

02/20/2013 Janet Nye, SoMAS
Title: The effects of fishing and temperature on abundance and spatial distribution of Northwest Atlantic fish stocks
Host: Dianna Padilla

02/27/2013 Fernando Lima, CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Title: Understanding the mechanistic link between environmental heterogeneity, physiology and metapopulation structure to forecast the effects of climate change at continental scales
Host: Stephen Sabatino

03/06/2013 Karen Chan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Title: Larvae in the changing ocean: Observational and modeling case studies of larval echinoderms
Host: Dianna Padilla

03/13/2013 Saved for Search,
Title: TBA
Host: TBA

03/20/2013 No Seminar (Spring Break Mar 18 - 24)

03/27/2013 Saved for Search,
Title: TBA
Host: TBA

04/03/2013 Nancy Moran, Yale
Title: Dynamics of genomes in bacterial symbionts and impacts on host evolution
Host: Jeff Levinton

04/10/2013 Brian Helmuth, Northeastern University
Title: Forecasting the impacts of climate change on coastal ecosystems: When do the details matter?
Host: Dianna Padilla

04/17/2013 Zoe Cardon, MBL Cancelled
Title: Dried out but not dead! Hints from desert green algae about the evolution of desiccation tolerance among green plants?
Host: Jackie Collier

04/24/2013 Lena Struwe, Rutgers University
Title: Host niche conservatism or specialization? Evolutionary host patterns in /Ophiognomonia /(Diaporthales: Ascomycota) and the relationship of species diversification to ecological vicariance and plant host niches
Host: TBA

05/01/2013 Futuyma Lecture - Mohamed Noor, Duke University
Title: Recombination rate influences adaptation and speciation in the Drosophila pseudoobscura species group
Host: Walt Eanes

05/07/2013 Williams Lecture - Jeffrey Feder, Notre Dame University
Title: Sequential divergence across trophic levels in an ecological community of parasitoids
Time & Location: 5:00pm, 038 LSB
Host: Graduate Students

05/08/2013 Williams Lecture - Jeffrey Feder, Notre Dame University
Title: The Genomics of Speciation
Host: Graduate Students
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