Crandall, E.D., Jones, M.E., Munoz, M., Akinronbe, B., Erdmann, M., and Barber, P.H. (2008) Comparative phylogeography of two seastars and their ectosymbionts within the Coral Triangle. Molecular Ecology 17: 5276 - 5290.
Vigliola, L., Doherty, P.J., Meekan, M.G., Drown, D.M., Jones, M.E., and Barber, P.H. (2007) Genetic identity determines risk of post-settlement mortality of a coral reef fish. Ecology 88(5): 1263 - 1277.
Jones, M.E. and Barber, P.H. (2005) Characterization of microsatellite loci for the detection of temporal genetic shifts within a single cohort of the brown demoiselle, Neopomacentrus filamentosus. Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 834 - 836.
Jones, M.E. (2005) Comparative phylogeography, population structure, and extended maternal care in three intertidal haustoriid amphipods from the western North Atlantic. M.S. Thesis, College of Charleston, Grice Marine Lab.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Barber, P.H., Vigliola, L., Jones, M.E., Meekan, M.G., Drown, D.M., and Doherty, P.J. (in prep) Evolution of genetic structure in non-coding mtDNA results from ecological selection in Neopomacentrus filamentosus.
Jones, M.E. and Barber, P.H. (in prep) Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci for the Atlantic Silverside, Menidia menidia. Molecular Ecology Resources
Jones, M.E., Conover, D.O., Barber, P.H. and others (in prep) Historical and contemporary influences on spatial genetic structure of the Atlantic Silverside across a marine environmental gradient.
Jones, M.E. and France, S.C. (in prep) Ecological niche requirements trump major oceanographic processes in controlling the phylogeographic structure of direct-developing benthic marine invertebrates.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
American Fisheries Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2007) Invited Speaker to Special Session in Landscape Genetics (co-author with DO Conover and PH Barber), “Determining the geographic scale of gene flow in Menidia menidia across a latitudinal gradient.”
New England Molecular Evolutionary Biology Meeting, Amherst, MA (2006) Oral Presentation (co-author with PH Barber, L Vigliola, MG Meekan, DM Drown, and PJ Doherty), “Evidence for a selective advantage conferred by sequence variation in non-coding mtDNA of a common reef fish.”
Society for the Study of Evolution, Annual Meeting, Stony Brook, NY (2006) Oral Presentation (co-author with SC France), “Ecological niche requirements trump major oceanographic processes in shaping phylogeographic structure of direct developing intertidal invertebrates.”
New England Molecular Evolutionary Biology Meeting, Wellesley, MA (2005) Oral Presentation, “Ecological niche requirements trump large-scale oceanographic processes in controlling phylogeographic structure of benthic marine invertebrates with low dispersal potential.”
Southeast Ecology and Population Genetics Group Meeting, Beaufort, NC (2002) Oral Presentation (co-author with SC France), “Mitochondrial DNA analysis of two congeneric marine amphipods reveals disparate patterns of variation: consequence of maternal care?”
31st Annual Marine Benthic Ecology Meetings, Orlando, FL (2002) Poster Presentation (co-author with SC France), “The effects of maternal care on dispersal and genetic population structure of western North Atlantic haustoriid amphipods.”
PUBLICATIONS ON WHICH I AM ACKNOWLEDGED FOR CONTRIBUTING
Annis, E.R. (2004) Biology and ecology of larval lobsters (Homarus americanus): Implications for population connectivity and larval transport. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maine, Darling Marine Center.
Barber, P.B. and Boyce, S.L. (2006) Estimating diversity of Indo-Pacific coral reef stomatopods through DNA barcoding of stomatopod larvae. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences 273(1597): 2053-2061.
Cannon, C.H. and Manos, P.S. (2001) Combining and comparing morphometric shape descriptors with a molecular phylogeny: The case of fruit type evolution in Bornean Lithocarpus (Fagaceae). Systematic Biology 50(6): 860-880.
Cannon, C.H. and Manos, P.S. (2003) Phylogeography of the Southeast Asian stone oaks (Lithocarpus). Journal of Biogeography 30: 211-226.
Manos, P.S., Doyle, J.J., & Nixon, K.C. (1999) Phylogeography, biogeography, and processes of molecular differentiation in Quercus subgenus Quercus (Fagaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 12(3): 333-349.
Manos, P.S. and Miller, R.E. (2001) Phylogenetic analysis of Ipomoea, Argyreia, Stictocardia, and Turbina suggests a generalized model of morphological evolution in Morning Glories. Systematic Botany 26(3): 585-602.
Manos, P.S. and Stanford, A.M. (2001) The historical biogeography of Fagaceae: Tracking the tertiary history of temperate and subtropical forests of the northern hemisphere. International Journal of Plant Sciences 162(6): S77-S93.
Manos, P.S. and Stone, D.E. (2001) Evolution, Phylogeny, and Systematics of the Juglandaceae. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 88: 231-269.
Manos, P.S., Zhou, Z., and Cannon, C.H. (2001) Systematics of Fagaceae: Phylogenetic tests of reproductive trait evolution. International Journal of Plant Sciences 162(6): 1361-1379.
Miller, R.E., McDonald, J.A., and Manos, P.S. (2004) Systematics of Ipomoea subgenus Quamoclit (Convolvulaceae) based on ITS sequence data and a Bayesian phylogenetic analysis. American Journal of Botany 91(8): 1208-1218.
Miller, R.E., Rausher, M.D., and Manos, P.S. (1999) Phylogenetic systematics of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) based on ITS and Waxy sequences. Systematic Botany 24(2): 209-227.
“Data from a Dinosaur” - 377 gel image of sea star mtDNA