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  • 2013 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Christine A. Maggs is affiliated with Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom and focuses on research primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work extensively covers subfields including Oceanography, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics of research addressed by Christine A. Maggs include Marine and coastal plant biology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Bryophyte Studies and Records, Identification and Quantification in Food, Lichen and fungal ecology, Marine and fisheries research, and Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds.

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Maggs are:

  • Genomic analysis of the lectotype specimens of European Ulva rigida and Ulva lacinulata (Ulvaceae, Chlorophyta) reveals the ongoing misapplication of names, 2021, European Journal of Phycology
  • Taxonomic revisions based on genetic analysis of type specimens of Ulva conglobata, U. laetevirens, U. pertusa and U. spathulata (Ulvales, Chlorophyta), 2020, Phycological Research
  • An appraisal of Ulva (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta) taxonomy, 2022, Journal of Applied Phycology
  • Non-indigenous seaweeds in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Macaronesia: a critical synthesis of diversity, spatial and temporal patterns, 2023, European Journal of Phycology
  • Phylogenetic analyses of Macaronesian turf-forming species reveal cryptic diversity and resolve Stichothamnion in the Vertebrata clade (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta), 2021, European Journal of Phycology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Christine A. Maggs include:

  • Pilar Díaz-Tapia
  • Frédéric Mineur
  • Juliet Brodie
  • Olivier De Clerck
  • Frédérik Leliaert

Christine A. Maggs regularly publishes in venues such as Applied Phycology, European Journal of Phycology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Cryptogamie Algologie, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

The researcher was recognized as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Linnaeus was right all along: Ulva and Enteromorpha are not distinct genera

    Hillary S. Hayden;Jaanika Blomster;Christine A. Maggs;Paul C. Silva

  • EVALUATING SIGNATURES OF GLACIAL REFUGIA FOR NORTH ATLANTIC BENTHIC MARINE TAXA

    Christine A. Maggs;Rita Castilho;David Foltz;Christy Henzler

  • Environmental tolerances of free-living coralline algae (maerl): implications for European marine conservation

    Sian Wilson;Charmaine Blake;John A Berges;Christine A Maggs

  • Novel morphology in Enteromorpha (Ulvophyceae) forming green tides

    Jaanika Blomster;Saara Bäck;David P. Fewer;Mikko Kiirikki

  • Changing coasts: marine aliens and artificial structures

    Frederic Mineur;Elizabeth J. Cook;Dan Minchin;Katrin Bohn

  • Molecular phylogenetic evidence for a reversible morphogenetic switch controlling the gross morphology of two common genera of green seaweeds, Ulva and Enteromorpha.

    I H Tan;J Blomster;G Hansen;E Leskinen

  • Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1 Rhodophyta, Part 3A Ceramiales.

    Christine Maggs;M.H. Hommersand

  • Insights into the Evolution of Multicellularity from the Sea Lettuce Genome

    Olivier De Clerck;Shu Min Kao;Kenny A. Bogaert;Jonas Blomme

  • Unique genetic variation at a species' rear edge is under threat from global climate change

    Jim Provan;Christine A. Maggs

  • MOLECULAR AND MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF ENTEROMORPHA INTESTINALIS AND E. COMPRESSA (CHLOROPHYTA) IN THE BRITISH ISLES

    Jaanika Blomster;Christine A. Maggs;Michael J. Stanhope

  • Phylogeography of the invasive seaweed Asparagopsis (Bonnemaisoniales, Rhodophyta) reveals cryptic diversity

    Nikos Andreakis;Gabriele Procaccini;Christine Maggs;Wiebe H. C. F. Kooistra

  • rbcL sequences reveal multiple cryptic introductions of the Japanese red alga Polysiphonia harveyi

    Lynne McIvor;Christine A. Maggs;Jim Provan;Michael J. Stanhope

  • Phylogeographic analysis of the red seaweed Palmaria palmata reveals a Pleistocene marine glacial refugium in the English Channel

    Jim Provan;Remi A. Wattier;Christine A. Maggs

  • Tracking the invasive history of the green alga Codium fragile ssp. tomentosoides

    Jim Provan;Susan Murphy;Christine A. Maggs

  • Tracking biological invasions in space and time: elucidating the invasive history of the green alga Codium fragile using old DNA

    Jim Provan;David Booth;Nicola P. Todd;Gemma E. Beatty

  • Hull fouling on commercial ships as a vector of macroalgal introduction

    Frédéric Mineur;Mark P. Johnson;Christine A. Maggs;Herre Stegenga

  • Red algal exotics on North Sea coasts

    Christine A. Maggs;Herre Stegenga

  • RESURRECTION OF THE GENUS OSMUNDEA WITH AN EMENDATION OF THE GENERIC DELINEATION OF LAURENCIA (CERAMIALES, RHODOPHYTA)

    K.W. Nam;Christine Maggs;D.J. Garbary

  • Congruence between nuclear and mitochondrial genes in Demospongiae: a new hypothesis for relationships within the G4 clade (Porifera: Demospongiae).

    C.C. Morrow;B.E. Picton;D. Erpenbeck;N. Boury-Esnault

  • Comparative growth rates and internal banding periodicity of maerl species (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) from northern Europe

    Charmaine Blake;Christine A. Maggs

  • Data mining approach identifies research priorities and data requirements for resolving the red algal tree of life

    Heroen Verbruggen;Christine A Maggs;Gary W Saunders;Line Le Gall

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael D. Guiry
Michael D. Guiry University of Galway
Gavin Walker
Gavin Walker University of Limerick
Michael J. Stanhope
Michael J. Stanhope Cornell University
Heroen Verbruggen
Heroen Verbruggen University of Melbourne
Brendan Gilmore
Brendan Gilmore Queen's University Belfast
Gary W. Saunders
Gary W. Saunders University of New Brunswick
Olivier De Clerck
Olivier De Clerck Ghent University
Chris Harrod
Chris Harrod University of Glasgow
Siew-Moi Phang
Siew-Moi Phang UCSI University
Marc Verlaque
Marc Verlaque Aix-Marseille University

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