Faculty Info: Jon Geller
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JONATHAN GELLER Professor, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and San Jose State B.S., University of California at Davis M.S., University of California at Davis Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley Email: geller@mlml.calstate.edu Lab Website: http://invert.mlml.calstate.edu |
Specific Research Interests: I am broadly interested in the evolutionary ecology of marine invertebrates, with three major foci: phylogeography, the genetics of biological invasions, and the interface of developmental biology and ecology. Phylogeogrphy is the investigation of intraspecific phylogenies in a geographic context, and the Invertebrate Lab has conducted studies of molluscs, cnidarians and echinoderms from California, the Indo-West Pacific, and South America. We also study the genetic consequences of biological invasions in terms of population genetics, as well as a growing interest in functional genomic approaches. Our studies of "eco-devo" center on the evolution of clonality in sea anemones. Current Projects: (1) The evolution of gamete receptor proteins in tropical limpets; (2) The role of apoptosis in fission in sea anemones; (3) Phylogeography of cone snails (genus Conus) in the Indo-West Pacific; (4) Characterization of allorecognition receptors in sea anemones. Selected Publications: Fitzgerald, L. and J.B. Geller. Nuclear intron phylogenies and evolution of clonality among northeastern Pacific Anthopleura. Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics. In review Geller, J.B. Fission in sea anemones: integrative studies of life cycle evolution. Journal of Integrative and Comparative Biology. In press Geller J.B., Meyer, C., and G. Paulay. Fine scale endemism on Pacific coral reefs: evidence from a gastropod. Evolution. In press Geller, J.B. 2003. A review of apparent 20th century changes in the presence of mussles (Mytilus trossulus) and marcroalgae in Arctic Alaska, and of historical and palenotological evidence used to related mollusc distrubtions to climate change. Arctic 56:391-407 Geller, J.B. and E.D. Walton. 2001. Breaking up and getting together: evolution of symbiosis and cloning by fission in sea anemones (genus Anthopleura). Evolution 55:1781-1794 Ting, J.H., and J.B. Geller. 2000. Clonal diversity in introduced populations of the sea anemone Diadumene lineata (Verill, 1869) (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) revealed by SSCP analysis of the ribosomal ITS region. Biological Invasions 2:23-32 Bagley, M.J., and J.B Geller. 2000. Microsatellite DNA analysis of native and invading populations of European Green crabs. Proceedings of the National Conference on Marine Bioinvasions. MIT Sea Grant Publication, Cambridge, MA Carlton, J.T, Geller, J.B., Reaka-Kudla, M.L., and Norse, E. 1999. Historical extinctions in the sea. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 30: 515-538 Geller, J.B. 1999. Decline of a native species masked by sibling species invasion: The case of Californian marine mussels. Conservation Biology, 13:661-664 Bagley, M.J., D.L. Lindquist and J.B. Geller. 1999. Microsatellite variation, effective population size and population genetic structure of vermilion snapper, Rhomboplites aurorubens, off the southeastern United States. Marine Biology 134:609-620 |
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