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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Harilaos A. Lessios is affiliated with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, focusing on several specialized subfields such as Oceanography, Ecology, Aquatic Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecological Modeling.

The core topics of Lessios' work are centered on Marine and coastal plant biology, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Echinoderm biology and ecology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, and Marine Ecology and Invasive Species.

Lessios has published extensively across various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Science Advances
  • Invertebrate Biology
  • Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their notable recent papers include:

  • "A scuticociliate causes mass mortality of Diadema antillarum in the Caribbean Sea" (2023, Science Advances)
  • "DNA barcoding of echinopluteus larvae uncovers cryptic diversity in neotropical echinoids" (2020, Invertebrate Biology)
  • "Slow evolution under purifying selection in the gamete recognition protein bindin of the sea urchin Diadema" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "Eggs of echinoids separated by the Isthmus of Panama harbor divergent microbiota" (2020, Marine Ecology Progress Series)
  • "Phylogeography, colouration, and cryptic speciation across the Indo-Pacific in the sea urchin genus Echinothrix" (2021, Scientific Reports)

Lessios frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Erwan Courville
  • Élie Poulin
  • Thomas Saucède
  • Rich Mooi
  • Andrea Martínez Salinas

Among Lessios' recognitions is the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography

    Gary G. Mittelbach;Douglas W. Schemske;Howard V. Cornell;Andrew P. Allen

  • Formation of the Isthmus of Panama

    Aaron O’Dea;Harilaos A. Lessios;Anthony G. Coates;Ron I. Eytan

  • Spread of Diadema Mass Mortality Through the Caribbean

    H. A. Lessios;D. R. Robertson;J. D. Cubit

  • MASS MORTALITY OF DIADEMA ANTILLARUM IN THE CARIBBEAN: What Have We Learned?

    H A Lessios

  • The Great American Schism: Divergence of Marine Organisms After the Rise of the Central American Isthmus

    Harilaos A. Lessios

  • POPULATION STRUCTURE AND SPECIATION IN TROPICAL SEAS: GLOBAL PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF THE SEA URCHIN DIADEMA

    Harilaos A. Lessios;Bailey D. Kessing;John S. Pearse

  • Crossing the Impassable: Genetic Connections in 20 Reef Fishes Across the Eastern Pacific Barrier

    H.A Lessios;D.R Robertson

  • Specimen collection: An essential tool

    L. A. Rocha;A. Aleixo;G. Allen;F. Almeda

  • Testing electrophoretic data for agreement with hardy-weinberg expectations

    H. A. Lessios

  • PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF THE PANTROPICAL SEA URCHIN TRIPNEUSTES: CONTRASTING PATTERNS OF POPULATION STRUCTURE BETWEEN OCEANS

    H. A. Lessios;J. Kane;D. R. Robertson

  • PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF THE PANTROPICAL SEA URCHIN EUCIDARIS IN RELATION TO LAND BARRIERS AND OCEAN CURRENTS

    H. A. Lessios;B. D. Kessing;D. R. Robertson;G. Paulay

  • Dispersal barriers in tropical oceans and speciation in Atlantic and eastern Pacific sea urchins of the genus Echinometra.

    Michael A. McCartney;Gwen P. Keller;Harilaos A. Lessios

  • MASSIVE GENE FLOW ACROSS THE WORLD'S MOST POTENT MARINE BIOGEOGRAPHIC BARRIER

    H.A Lessios;B.D Kessing;D.R Robertson

  • Mass mortality of Diadema antillarum on the Caribbean coast of Panama

    H. A. Lessios;J. D. Cubit;D. R. Robertson;M. J. Shulman

  • The Great Diadema antillarum Die-Off: 30 Years Later*

    Harilaos A. Lessios

  • TEST FOR SIMULTANEOUS DIVERGENCE USING APPROXIMATE BAYESIAN COMPUTATION

    Michael J. Hickerson;Eli A. Stahl;Harilaos A. Lessios

  • Rate variation of protein and mitochondrial DNA evolution as revealed by sea urchins separated by the isthmus of Panama.

    Eldredge Bermingham;H. A. Lessios

  • A threat to coral reefs multiplied? Four species of crown-of-thorns starfish

    Catherine Vogler;John Benzie;Harilaos Lessios;Paul Barber

  • Historical biogeography and speciation in the reef fish genus Haemulon (Teleostei: Haemulidae).

    Luiz A. Rocha;Kenyon C. Lindeman;Claudia R. Rocha;Harilaos A. Lessios

  • GAMETIC INCOMPATIBILITY BETWEEN SPECIES OF THE SEA URCHIN ECHINOMETRA ON THE TWO SIDES OF THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA

    H. A. Lessios;C. W. Cunningham

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy Knowlton
Nancy Knowlton National Museum of Natural History
Jeremy B. C. Jackson
Jeremy B. C. Jackson American Museum of Natural History
Paul H. Barber
Paul H. Barber University of California, Los Angeles
Allen Gilbert Collins
Allen Gilbert Collins National Museum of Natural History
Luiz A. Rocha
Luiz A. Rocha California Academy of Sciences
Derek E. G. Briggs
Derek E. G. Briggs Yale University
William T. Wcislo
William T. Wcislo Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Robert F. Stallard
Robert F. Stallard Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Jonathan A. Eisen
Jonathan A. Eisen University of California, Davis
Eli A. Stahl
Eli A. Stahl Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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