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18904
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2144
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770

Overview

Greg W. Rouse is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within environmental and biological sciences, with a particular focus on marine and aquatic ecosystems.

The main fields of study include Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these, subfields emphasize Oceanography, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Aquatic Science.

The primary topics covered in their research are:

  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Echinoderm biology and ecology

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Greg W. Rouse include:

  • Characterization of deep-sea benthic invertebrate megafauna of the Galapagos Islands, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Spaghetti to a Tree: A Robust Phylogeny for Terebelliformia (Annelida) Based on Transcriptomes, Molecular and Morphological Data, 2020, Biology
  • Methanotrophic bacterial symbionts fuel dense populations of deep-sea feather duster worms (Sabellida, Annelida) and extend the spatial influence of methane seepage, 2020, Science Advances
  • Phylogenomic analysis of Syngnathidae reveals novel relationships, origins of endemic diversity and variable diversification rates, 2022, BMC Biology
  • Phylogenomic analyses of echinoid diversification prompt a re-evaluation of their fossil record, 2022, eLife

Co-authors frequently working with Greg W. Rouse are:

  • Tilic Ekin
  • Fredrik Pleijel
  • Avery S. Hiley
  • Josefin Stiller
  • Shana K. Goffredi

Publication venues where Greg W. Rouse has contributed notably include:

  • Zootaxa
  • Diversity
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Invertebrate Systematics
  • Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

Greg W. Rouse has also published a book titled Annelida in 2022 under Oxford University Press.

Best Publications

  • Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

    Casey W. Dunn;Casey W. Dunn;Andreas Hejnol;David Q. Matus;Kevin Pang

  • Biodiversity on the Rocks: Macrofauna Inhabiting Authigenic Carbonate at Costa Rica Methane Seeps.

    Lisa A. Levin;Guillermo F. Mendoza;Benjamin M. Grupe;Jennifer P. Gonzalez

  • Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

    Andreas Hejnol;Matthias Obst;Alexandros Stamatakis;Michael Ott

  • Cladistics and polychaetes

    Greg W. Rouse;Kristian Fauchald

  • Resolving the evolutionary relationships of molluscs with phylogenomic tools

    Stephen A. Smith;Nerida G. Wilson;Nerida G. Wilson;Freya E. Goetz;Caitlin Feehery;Caitlin Feehery

  • Polychaete systematics: Past and present

    Kristian Fauchald;Greg W. Rouse

  • The DNA sequence and biological annotation of human chromosome 1

    S. G. Gregory;S. G. Gregory;K. F. Barlow;K. E. McLay;R. Kaul

  • Hydrothermal Vents and Methane Seeps: Rethinking the Sphere of Influence

    Lisa A. Levin;Amy R. Baco;David A. Bowden;Ana Colaco

  • Osedax: Bone-Eating Marine Worms with Dwarf Males

    G W Rouse;G W Rouse;Shana K Goffredi;R C Vrijenhoek

  • Higher-level metazoan relationships: recent progress and remaining questions

    Gregory D. Edgecombe;Gonzalo Giribet;Casey W. Dunn;Andreas Hejnol

  • A molecular phylogeny of annelids

    Vincent Rousset;Fredrik Pleijel;Greg W. Rouse;Christer Erséus

  • Complete Genome Sequence of the Genetically Tractable Hydrogenotrophic Methanogen Methanococcus maripaludis

    E. L. Hendrickson;R. Kaul;Y. Zhou;D. Bovee

  • Trochophore concepts: ciliary bands and the evolution of larvae in spiralian Metazoa

    Greg W. Rouse

  • THE SPERMATOZOA OF THE POLYCHAETA (ANNELIDA): AN ULTRASTRUCTURAL REVIEW

    B. G. M. Jamieson;G. W. Rouse

  • Broadcasting fables: Is external fertilization really primitive? Sex, size, and larvae in sabellid polychaetes

    Greg Rouse;Kirk Fitzhugh

  • Evolutionary innovation: a bone-eating marine symbiosis.

    Shana K. Goffredi;Victoria J. Orphan;Greg W. Rouse;Greg W. Rouse;Linda Jahnke

  • Molecular phylogeny of extant Holothuroidea (Echinodermata).

    Allison K. Miller;Alexander M. Kerr;Gustav Paulay;Mike Reich

  • The Articulation of Annelids

    Greg W. Rouse;Kristian Fauchald

  • Bathymetric and temporal variation among Osedax boneworms and associated megafauna on whale-falls in Monterey Bay, California

    Caren E. Braby;Greg W. Rouse;Shannon B. Johnson;William J. Jones

  • Articulating “Archiannelids”: Phylogenomics and Annelid Relationships, with Emphasis on Meiofaunal Taxa

    Sonia Cristina da Silva Andrade;Marta Novo;Gisele Yukimi Kawauchi;Katrine Worsaae

Frequent Co-Authors

Nerida G. Wilson
Nerida G. Wilson University of Western Australia
Gonzalo Giribet
Gonzalo Giribet Harvard University
Robert C. Vrijenhoek
Robert C. Vrijenhoek Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Lisa A. Levin
Lisa A. Levin University of California, San Diego
Victoria J. Orphan
Victoria J. Orphan California Institute of Technology
Danwei Huang
Danwei Huang National University of Singapore
Erik E. Cordes
Erik E. Cordes Temple University
Gregory D. Edgecombe
Gregory D. Edgecombe Natural History Museum
Andreas Hejnol
Andreas Hejnol Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Maria Cristina Gambi
Maria Cristina Gambi National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics

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