Nathan Whelan

Publications

• Ctenophore relationships and their placement as the sister group to all other animals
• Phylogenomics of tubeworms (Siboglinidae, Annelida) and comparative performance of different reconstruction methods
• Unrecognized diversity of a scale worm, Polyeunoa laevis (Annelida: Polynoidae), that feeds on soft coral
• Available data do not rule out Ctenophora as the sister group to all other Metazoa
• Prodigious polyphyly in Pleuroceridae (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea)
• Genetic diversity and historical demography in Bellamya gastropods from the Lake Victoria ecoregion reveal early and severe population collapse
• Using genomics, morphometrics, and environmental niche modeling to test the validity of a narrow-range endemic snail, Patera nantahala (Gastropoda, Polygyridae)
• Subterranean freshwater gastropod biodiversity and conservation in the United States and Mexico
• A systematic revision of the genus Juga from fresh waters of the Pacific Northwest, USA (Cerithioidea, Semisulcospiridae)
• Species tree inference in the age of genomics
• Rediscovery of Leptoxis compacta (Anthony, 1854) (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea: Pleuroceridae)
• Radular Morphology of Extinct Pleurocerids (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea: Pleuroceridae)
• Seasonal reproductive anatomy and sperm storage in pleurocerid gastropods (Cerithioidea: Pleuroceridae)
• Morphology, molecules and taxonomy: extreme incongruence in pleurocerids (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea, Pleuroceridae)
• Error, signal, and the placement of Ctenophora sister to all other animals
• Conservation Status of Freshwater Gastropods of Canada and the United States
• Coupling of dietary phosphorus and growth across diverse fish taxa: a meta-analysis of experimental aquaculture studies
• Molecular phylogenetic analysis of tropical freshwater mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida) resolves the position of Coelatura and supports a monophyletic Unionidae
• Who Let the CAT Out of the Bag? Accurately Dealing with Substitutional Heterogeneity in Phylogenomic Analyses
• Nemertean Toxin Genes Revealed through Transcriptome Sequencing
• Life-history traits and shell morphology in the genus Leptoxis Rafinesque, 1819 (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea: Pleuroceridae)
• Riverscape genetic variation, migration patterns, and morphological variation of the threatened Round Rocksnail, Leptoxis ampla
• Conservation genomics reveals low genetic diversity and multiple parentage in the threatened freshwater mussel, Margaritifera hembeli
• A mesopelagic ctenophore representing a new family, with notes on family-level taxonomy in Ctenophora: Vampyroctena delmarvensis gen. nov. sp. nov. (Vampyroctenidae, fam. nov.)
• Range reduction of the Oblong Rocksnail, Leptoxis compacta, shapes riverscape genetic patterns