Below are publications produced by students, postdocs, and faculty of the lab. Lab members’ names are underlined. Please feel free to email Amanda Kahn for reprints.
2024
Leys, S.P., E.J.K. Esposito, A.S. Kahn. (2024). The physiology of sponge behavior. Frontiers in Invertebrate Physiology: A Collection of Reviews, Volume 1: Non-Bilaterian Phyla 65–128.
2023
Barry, J.P., S.Y. Litvin, A. DeVogelaere, D.W. Caress, C.F. Lovera, A.S. Kahn, E.J. Burton, C. King, J.B. Paduan, C. Geoffrey Wheat, F. Girard, S. Sudek, A.M. Hartwell, A.D. Sherman, P.R. McGill, A. Schnittger, J.R. Voight, E.J. Martin. (2023). Abyssal hydrothermal springs—Cryptic incubators for brooding octopus. Science Advances 9:eadg3247.
McDermott, S., A. DeVogelaere, J. Barry, A.S. Kahn. (2023). Effects of a lost shipping container in the deep sea. National Marine Sanctuary Conservation Series ONMS-23-05. U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.
2022
Leys, S.P., E. Matveev, P. Aragonés Suarez, A.S. Kahn, S. Saeed Asadzadeh, T. Kiørboe, P.S. Larsen, J.H. Walther, G. Yahel (2022). Matters Arising ‘Models of flow through sponges must consider the sponge tissue’. Nature, 603: E23–E25. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04380-8
Starr, R., J. Caselle, A.S. Kahn, A. Lauermann, J. Lindholm, B. Tissot, S. Ziegler, C. Bretz, P. Carlson, K. Cieri, J. Hoeke, C. Jainese, G. Martel, S. McDermott, J. Mohay, P. Salinas-Ruiz (2022). Monitoring and evaluation of mid-depth rock ecosystems in the California MLPA Marine Protected Area network. Report to the Ocean Protection Council, Project R/MPA-48. January 2022. 145 pp.
2021
Naugle, M.S., T.A. Oliver, D.J. Barshis, R.D. Gates, C.A. Logan (2021). Variation in coral thermotolerance across a pollution gradient erodes as coral symbionts shift to more heat-tolerant genera. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8: 760–891. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.760891. *co-advised student research published out of the Logan Lab
2020
Archer, S.K., A.S. Kahn, M. Thiess, L. Law, S.P. Leys, S.C. Johannessen, C.A. Layman, L. Burke, and A. Dunham (2020). Foundation species abundance influences food web topology on glass sponge reefs. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7: 799. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.549478.
Saxena S., Heller P., Kahn A.S., and Aiello I. (2020). Poriferal Vision: classifying benthic sponge spicules to assess historical impacts of marine climate change. In: Helic D, Leitner G, Stettinger M, Felfernig A, Raś ZW (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. Proc International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Cham. Vol 121117:205-213. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-59491-6_19.
Law, L.K., H.M. Reiswig, B.S. Ott, N. McDaniel, A.S. Kahn, K.C. Guillas, C. Dinn, and S.P. Leys (2020). Description and distribution of Desmacella hyalina sp. nov. (Porifera, Desmacellidae), a new cryptic demosponge in glass sponge reefs from the western coast of Canada. Marine Biodiversity, 50(4):1-20. doi: 10.1007/s12526-020-01076-6. Preprint, Data
Kahn, A.S., C.W. Pennelly, P.R. McGill, and S.P. Leys (2020). Behaviors of sessile benthic animals in the abyssal northeast Pacific Ocean. Submitted to Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 173:104729, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2019.104729. Data
2019
Guillas, K.C., A.S. Kahn, N. Grant, S.K. Archer, A. Dunham, and S.P. Leys (2019). Settlement of juvenile glass sponges and other invertebrate cryptofauna on the Hecate Strait glass sponge reefs. Submitted to Invertebrate Biology, 138(4):e12266, doi: 10.1111/ivb.12266.
Leys, S.P., J.L. Mah, P.R. McGill, L. Hamonic, and A.S. Kahn (2019). Sponge behavior and the chemical basis of responses: a post-genomic view. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icz122, doi: 10.1093/icb/icz122. Supplementary file
Grant, N., E. Matveev, A.S. Kahn, S.K. Archer, A. Dunham, R. Bannister, D. Eerkes-Medrano, and S.P. Leys (2019). Effect of suspended sediments on the pumping rates of three species of glass sponge in situ. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 615:79-101. Data
2018
Leys, S.P., and A.S. Kahn (2018). Oxygen and the energetic requirements of the first multicellular animals. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icy051. doi: 10.1093/icb/icy051.
Grant, N., E. Matveev, A.S. Kahn, and S.P. Leys (2018). Suspended sediment causes feeding current arrests in situ in the glass sponge Aphrocallistes vastus. Marine Environmental Research, 137:111-120. doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2018.02.020. Data
Archer, S.K., A.S. Kahn, T. Norgard, F. Girard, C. Du Preez, and A. Dunham (2018). Pyrosome consumption by benthic organisms during blooms in the NE Pacific and Gulf of Mexico. Ecology, 99(4):981-984, doi: 10.1002/ecy.2097.
Kahn, A.S., and J.B. Geller (2018). Partial mitochondrial genome sequences of two abyssal sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida): Bathydorus laniger and Docosaccus maculatus. Genome Announcements 6e:00234-18, doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00234-18.
Kahn, A. S., J.W.F. Chu, and S.P. Leys (2018). Trophic ecology of glass sponge reefs in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia. Scientific Reports 8:756, doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-19107-x. Data
2017
Leys, S.P., A.S. Kahn, J.K.H. Fang, T. Kutti, and R. Bannister (2017). Phagocytosis of microbial symbionts balances the carbon and nitrogen budget for the deep-water boreal sponge Geodia barretti. Limnology and Oceanography, 63: 187-202, doi:10.1002/lno.10623. Data
Kahn, A.S., and S.P. Leys (2017). Spicule and flagellated chamber formation in a growth zone of Aphrocallistes vastus (Porifera, Hexactinellida). Invertebrate Biology, 136(1): 22-30.
2016
Kahn, A.S., and S.P. Leys (2016). The role of cell replacement in benthic-pelagic coupling by suspension feeders. Royal Society Open Science 3(11), 160484, doi: 10.1098/rsos.160484. Data
Kahn, A.S., L. Vehring, R.R. Brown, and S.P. Leys (2016). Dynamic change, recruitment, and resilience in reef-forming glass sponges. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 96(2):429-436.
2015
Kahn, A.S., G. Yahel, V. Tunnicliffe, and S.P. Leys (2015). Benthic grazing by deep-water glass sponge reefs. Limnology and Oceanography, 60(1):78-88.
2013
Kahn, A.S., J.B. Geller, H.M. Reiswig, and K. L. Smith, Jr. (2013). Bathydorus laniger and Docosaccus maculatus (Lyssacinosida; Hexactinellida): Two new species of glass sponges from the abyssal eastern North Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa, 3646:386-400.
2012
Kahn, A.S., H.A. Ruhl, and K.L. Smith, Jr. (2012). Temporal changes in plate sponge populations in the abyssal northeast Pacific. Deep-Sea Research Part I, 70:36-41.
2010
Kahn, A.S., G.I. Matsumoto, Y.M. Hirano, and A.G. Collins (2010). Haliclystus californiensis, a “new” species of stauromedusa (Cnidaria: Staurozoa) from the northeast Pacific, with a key to the species of Haliclystus. Zootaxa, 2518:49-59.
2009
Patty, C., B. Barnett, B. Mooney, A. Kahn, S. Levy, Y. Liu, P. Pianetta, and J. Andrews (2009). Using X-ray microscopy and Hg L3 XANES to study Hg binding in the rhizosphere of Spartina cordgrass. Environmental Science and Technology, 43(19):7397-7402.