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
• First detection of white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) and infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHHNV) from wild-caught giant tiger prawn, Penaeus monodon Fabricius, 1798 (Penaeoidea: Penaeidae) from the Gulf of Mexico and Northwestern Atlantic Ocean
• Conservation status of freshwater gastropods of Canada and the United States,Estado de la conservación de los gasterópodos de Canadá y los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
• Discovery and evolution of novel hemerythrin genes in annelid worms
• A new species of Myxobolus Bütschli, 1882 (Bivalvulida:Myxobolidae) infecting stratum spongiosum of the imperiled sicklefin redhorse, Moxostoma sp. (Cypriniformes:Catostomidae) from the Little Tennessee River, North Carolina, USA
• Assessing Genomic Diversity, Connectivity, and Riverscape Genetics Hypotheses in the Endangered Rough Hornsnail, Pleurocera foremani, following Habitat Disruption
• Assessing the diversity of Western North American Juga (Semisulcospiridae, Gastropoda)
• A new species of Myxobolus (Myxozoa: Bivalvulida) infecting the medulla oblongata and nerve cord of brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis in southern Appalachia (New River, NC, USA)
• Neotropical Turtle Blood Flukes: Two New Genera and Species from the Amazon River Basin with a Key to Genera and Comments on a Marine-Derived Parasite Lineage in South America
• Hidden in the hills: phylogeny of the freshwater mussel genus Alasmidonta (Bivalvia: Unionidae) and description of a new species
• Morphology, molecules and taxonomy: Extreme incongruence in pleurocerids (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea, Pleuroceridae)
• First Record of a Polystome from Alligator Snapping Turtle, Macrochelys temminckii (Cryptodira: Chelydridae) or Mississippi; with Comments on "Neopolystoma orbiculare (Stunkard, 1916)" and Its Junior Subjective Synonyms
• Nemertean toxin genes revealed through transcriptome sequencing
• A novel assembly pipeline and functional annotations for targeted sequencing: A case study on the globally threatened Margaritiferidae (Bivalvia: Unionida)
• FIRST RECORD OF A SPECIES OF MERMITHIDAE BRAUN, 1883 INFECTING A DECAPOD, PALAEMON PALUDOSUS (PALAEMONIDAE)
• Presence or absence of carinae in closely related populations of Leptoxis ampla (Anthony, 1855) (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea: Pleuroceridae) is not the result of ecophenotypic plasticity
• Using genomics, morphometrics, and environmental niche modeling to test the validity of a narrow-range endemic snail, Patera nantahala (Gastropoda, Polygyridae)
• Surveys that prioritize site number over time per site will result in better gastropod status assessments: a case study on the rediscovery of Big Black Rocksnail
• Miscues misplace sponges
• A New Species of ThelohanellusKudo, 1933 (Myxozoa: Bivalvulida) Infecting Skeletal Muscle of Blacktail Shiner, Cyprinella venusta Girard, 1856 (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) in the Chattahoochee River Basin, Georgia
• First record of occurrence and genetic characterization of a population of northern snakehead channa argus (Cantor, 1842) in Georgia, USA
• Range reduction of Oblong Rocksnail, Leptoxis compacta, shapes riverscape genetic patterns
• Description, life cycle, and phylogenetics of Proterometra wigglewomble n. sp. (Digenea: Azygiidae) from the Cahaba River, Alabama, U.S.A.
• Employing Phylogenomics to Resolve the Relationships among Cnidarians, Ctenophores, Sponges, Placozoans, and Bilaterians
• Toll-like receptor pathway evolution in deuterostomes
• Who let the CAT out of the bag? Accurately dealing with substitutional heterogeneity in phylogenomic analyses
• Gymnurahemecus bulbosus gen. et sp. nov. (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) infecting smooth butterfly rays, Gymnura micrura (Myliobatiformes: Gymnuridae) in the northern Gulf of Mexico, with a taxonomic key and further evidence for monophyly of chondrichthyan blood flukes
• Erratum: Pushing barcodes to their limits: Phylogenetic placement of Fontigens Pilsbry, 1933 (Caenogastropoda: Littorinimorpha: Truncatelloidea) and elevation of Fontigentidae Taylor, 1966 (Journal of Molluscan Studies (2022) 88:1 (eyab038) DOI: 10.1093/mollus/eyab038)
• Pushing barcodes to their limits: Phylogenetic placement of Fontigens Pilsbry, 1933 (Caenogastropoda: Littorinimorpha: Truncatelloidea) and elevation of Fontigentidae Taylor, 1966
• On the identity of leptoxis Taeniata - A misapplied name for the threatened painted rocksnail (Cerithioidea, pleuroceridae)
• Coupling of dietary phosphorus and growth across diverse fish taxa: A meta-analysis of experimental aquaculture studies
• Population genomics reveal low differentiation and complex demographic histories in a highly fragmented and endangered freshwater mussel
• Population genomics of the endangered freshwater mussel, Arcidens wheeleri (Unionoidea: Unionidae: Anodontini), in the Little River, Arkansas, USA