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Jonathan B. Geller is affiliated with Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and molecular biology, with a particular focus on biodiversity studies using environmental DNA and microbial community ecology. Their work also touches on genomics, phylogenetic studies, marine ecology, and artificial intelligence.

The researcher has contributed to various subfields, including ecology, molecular biology, artificial intelligence, paleontology, and global and planetary change. Their main topics of study include environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, protist diversity and phylogeny, identification and quantification in food, marine invertebrate physiology and ecology, as well as marine ecology and invasive species.

Jonathan B. Geller's recent publications include:

  • Towards reproducible metabarcoding data: Lessons from an international cross-laboratory experiment, 2021, Molecular Ecology Resources
  • DNA metabarcoding marker choice skews perception of marine eukaryotic biodiversity, 2021, Environmental DNA
  • Zooplankton biogeographic boundaries in the California Current System as determined from metabarcoding, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Additions to the hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) of marine fouling communities on the mainland of Ecuador and in the Galapagos Islands, 2020, Aquatic Invasions
  • Baba is You is Undecidable, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Anastasija Zaiko
  • Paul Greenfield
  • Cathryn L. Abbott
  • Ulla von Ammon
  • Jaret Bilewitch

Their work has been published across a variety of venues, including:

  • Molecular Ecology Resources
  • Environmental DNA
  • PLoS ONE
  • Aquatic Invasions
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • Ecological Roulette: The Global Transport of Nonindigenous Marine Organisms

    James T. Cariton;Jonathan B. Geller

  • Redesign of PCR primers for mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I for marine invertebrates and application in all‐taxa biotic surveys

    J. Geller;Christopher P. Meyer;M. Parker;H. Hawk

  • FINE SCALE ENDEMISM ON CORAL REEFS: ARCHIPELAGIC DIFFERENTIATION IN TURBINID GASTROPODS

    Christopher P. Meyer;Jonathan B. Geller;Gustav Paulay

  • Tsunami-driven Rafting: Transoceanic Species Dispersal and Implications for Marine Biogeography

    James T. Carlton;John W. Chapman;Jonathan B. Geller;Jessica A. Miller

  • Genetic patterns across multiple introductions of the globally invasive crab genus Carcinus

    John A. Darling;Mark J. Bagley;Joe Roman;Carolyn K. Tepolt

  • Genetic Perspectives on Marine Biological Invasions

    Jonathan B. Geller;John A. Darling;James T. Carlton

  • Historical Extinctions in the Sea

    James T. Carlton;Jonathan B. Geller;Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla;Elliott A. Norse

  • Cryptic invasions of the crab Carcinus detected by molecular phylogeography

    J. B. Geller;E. D. Walton;E. D. Grosholz;G. M. Ruiz

  • Decline of a Native Mussel Masked by Sibling Species Invasion

    Jonathan B. Geller

  • Zoogeographic Distributions of the Sibling Species Mytilus galloprovincialis and M. trossulus (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) and Their Hybrids in the North Pacific.

    T H Suchanek;Jonathan B. Geller;B R Kreiser;J B Mitton

  • The importance of standardization for biodiversity comparisons: A case study using autonomous reef monitoring structures (ARMS) and metabarcoding to measure cryptic diversity on Mo’orea coral reefs, French Polynesia

    Emma Ransome;Jonathan B. Geller;Molly Timmers;Matthieu Leray

  • PCR-based detection of mtDNA haplotypes of native and invading mussels on the northeastern Pacific coast: latitudinal pattern of invasion

    J. B. Geller;J. T. Carlton;D. A. Powers

  • Breaking up and getting together: evolution of symbiosis and cloning by fission in sea anemones (Genus Anthopleura).

    Jonathan B. Geller;Erica D. Walton

  • Benthic invertebrate communities on three seamounts off southern and central California, USA

    Lonny Lundsten;James P. Barry;Gregor M. Cailliet;David A. Clague

  • European green crabs (Carcinus maenas) in the northeastern Pacific: genetic evidence for high population connectivity and current-mediated expansion from a single introduced source population.

    C. K. Tepolt;J. A. Darling;M. J. Bagley;J. B. Geller

  • Microsatellite variation, effective population size, and population genetic structure of vermilion snapper, Rhomboplites aurorubens, off the southeastern USA

    M. J. Bagley;D. G. Lindquist;J. B. Geller

  • Ecology of cryptic invasions: latitudinal segregation among Watersipora (Bryozoa) species

    Joshua A. Mackie;John A. Darling;Jonathan B. Geller

  • Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Japanese tsunami marine debris washing ashore in the northwestern United States

    Dale R. Calder;Henry H.C. Choong;James T. Carlton;John W. Chapman

  • Interspecific and intrapopulation variation in mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences of Mytilus spp. (Bivalvia: Mollusca).

    Geller Jb;Carlton Jt;Powers Da

  • FINE SCALE ENDEMISM ON CORAL REEFS: ARCHIPELAGIC DIFFERENTIATION IN TURBINID GASTROPODS

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  • Mitochondrial Genome Rearrangements in the Scleractinia/Corallimorpharia Complex: Implications for Coral Phylogeny

    Mei-Fang Lin;Marcelo Visentini Kitahara;Haiwei Luo;Dianne Tracey

  • Ballast water as a vector for tintinnid transport

    Pierce Rw;Carlton Jt;Carlton Da;Geller Jb

  • Towards reproducible metabarcoding data - lessons from an international cross-laboratory experiment

    Anastasija Zaiko;Anastasija Zaiko;Paul Greenfield;Paul Greenfield;Cathryn Abbott;Ulla von Ammon

Frequent Co-Authors

James T. Carlton
James T. Carlton Williams College
Gregory M. Ruiz
Gregory M. Ruiz Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Christopher P. Meyer
Christopher P. Meyer Smithsonian Institution
Allen Gilbert Collins
Allen Gilbert Collins National Museum of Natural History
John A. Darling
John A. Darling Environmental Protection Agency
Robert C. Vrijenhoek
Robert C. Vrijenhoek Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Michael J. Blum
Michael J. Blum University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Chaolun Allen Chen
Chaolun Allen Chen Academia Sinica
Edwin D. Grosholz
Edwin D. Grosholz University of California, Davis
Dennis A. Powers
Dennis A. Powers Stanford University

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