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  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Ann Bucklin is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, contributing 33 and 11 publications respectively. Within these areas, their work extensively covers subfields such as Ecology, Molecular Biology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's research topics include Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Identification and Quantification in Food, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, and Marine and fisheries research. These topics highlight a focus on molecular and ecological methods applied to marine and environmental systems.

They have published in various scientific journals, with a concentration in the following venues:

  • ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Marine Biology
  • Marine Biodiversity
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Jennifer M. Questel
  • Paola G. Batta-Lona
  • Peter H. Wiebe
  • Leocadio Blanco-Bercial
  • Katja T. C. A. Peijnenburg

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Ann Bucklin are:

  • Toward a global reference database of COI barcodes for marine zooplankton, 2021, Marine Biology
  • Metabarcoding of zooplankton diversity within the Chukchi Borderland, Arctic Ocean: improved resolution from multi-gene markers and region-specific DNA databases, 2021, Marine Biodiversity
  • Metabarcoding analysis of regional variation in gut contents of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus in the North Atlantic Ocean, 2020, Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography
  • COI Metabarcoding of Zooplankton Species Diversity for Time-Series Monitoring of the NW Atlantic Continental Shelf, 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • New insights into biodiversity, biogeography, ecology, and evolution of marine zooplankton based on molecular approaches, 2021, ICES Journal of Marine Science

Ann Bucklin has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1995.

Best Publications

  • DNA Barcoding of Marine Metazoa

    Ann Bucklin;Dirk Steinke;Leocadio Blanco-Bercial

  • Molecular systematic and phylogenetic assessment of 34 calanoid copepod species of the Calanidae and Clausocalanidae

    A. Bucklin;B. W. Frost;J. Bradford-Grieve;L. D. Allen

  • Metabarcoding of marine zooplankton: prospects, progress and pitfalls

    Ann Bucklin;Penelope K. Lindeque;Naiara Rodriguez-Ezpeleta;Aitor Albaina

  • A “Rosetta Stone” for metazoan zooplankton: DNA barcode analysis of species diversity of the Sargasso Sea (Northwest Atlantic Ocean)

    Ann Bucklin;Brian D. Ortman;Robert M. Jennings;Lisa M. Nigro

  • Taxonomic and systematic assessment of planktonic copepods using mitochondrial COI sequence variation and competitive, species-specific PCR

    A. Bucklin;M. Guarnieri;R. S. Hill;A. M. Bentley

  • DNA barcoding of Arctic Ocean holozooplankton for species identification and recognition

    Ann Bucklin;Russell R. Hopcroft;Ksenia N. Kosobokova;Lisa M. Nigro

  • Molecular systematics of six Calanus and three Metridia species (Calanoida: Copepoda)

    A. Bucklin;B. W. Frost;T. D. Kocher

  • DNA barcodes for species identification of euphausiids (Euphausiacea, Crustacea)

    Ann Bucklin;Peter H. Wiebe;Sara B. Smolenack;Nancy J. Copley

  • DNA Barcoding the Medusozoa using mtCOI

    Brian D. Ortman;Ann Bucklin;Francesc Pagès;Marsh Youngbluth

  • Toward a global reference database of COI barcodes for marine zooplankton

    Ann Bucklin;Katja T. C. A. Peijnenburg;Katja T. C. A. Peijnenburg;Ksenia N. Kosobokova;Todd O’Brien

  • Low mitochondrial diversity and small effective population sizes of the copepods Calanus finmarchicus and Nannocalanus minor: possible impact of climatic variation during recent glaciation

    A Bucklin;P H Wiebe

  • Molecular phylogeny of the Calanoida (Crustacea: Copepoda).

    Leocadio Blanco-Bercial;Janet Bradford-Grieve;Ann Bucklin

  • Multiplexed species-specific PCR protocol to discriminate four N. Atlantic Calanus species, with an mtCOI gene tree for ten Calanus species

    R. S. Hill;L. D. Allen;A. Bucklin

  • DNA barcoding of marine copepods: assessment of analytical approaches to species identification.

    Leocadio Blanco-Bercial;Astrid Cornils;Nancy Copley;Ann Bucklin

  • Molecular phylogeography and evolutionary history of the estuarine copepod, Acartia tonsa, on the Northwest Atlantic coast

    Christopher C. Caudill;Ann Bucklin

  • Diversity and community structure of pelagic fishes to 5000 m depth in the Sargasso Sea

    Tracey T. Sutton;Peter H. Wiebe;Laurence Madin;Ann Bucklin

  • Distribution and relative abundance of Pseudocalanus moultoni and P. newmani (Copepoda: Calanoida) on Georges Bank using molecular identification of sibling species

    A. Bucklin;A. M. Bentley;S. P. Franzen

  • Species diversity of planktonic gastropods (Pteropoda and Heteropoda) from six ocean regions based on DNA barcode analysis

    Robert M. Jennings;Ann Bucklin;Holger Ossenbrügger;Russell R. Hopcroft

  • Molecular diversity of the copepod, Nannocalanus minor: Genetic evidence of species and population structure in the North Atlantic Ocean

    Ann Bucklin;Todd C. LaJeunesse;Eva Curry;John Wallinga;John Wallinga

  • Population genetic variation of Calanus finmarchicus in Icelandic waters: preliminary evidence of genetic differences between Atlantic and Arctic populations

    A. Bucklin;O. S. Astthorsson;A. Gislason;L. D. Allen

  • Methods for population genetic analysis of zooplankton

    A. Bucklin

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter H. Wiebe
Peter H. Wiebe Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Russell R. Hopcroft
Russell R. Hopcroft University of Alaska Fairbanks
Laurence P. Madin
Laurence P. Madin Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Stein Kaartvedt
Stein Kaartvedt University of Oslo
Dennis J. McGillicuddy
Dennis J. McGillicuddy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Andrew E. Christie
Andrew E. Christie University of Hawaii at Manoa
Tomaso Patarnello
Tomaso Patarnello University of Padua
Bruce W. Frost
Bruce W. Frost University of Washington
Thomas Kocher
Thomas Kocher University of Maryland, College Park
Edward G. Durbin
Edward G. Durbin University of Rhode Island

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