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  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Mark Q. Martindale is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research spans multiple scientific disciplines, with a strong focus on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, alongside significant contributions to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences.

The scientist's publication record reflects an emphasis on marine organism biology and molecular mechanisms, engaging in fields such as paleontology, molecular biology, ecology, global and planetary change, and cell biology. Key research topics include marine invertebrate physiology and ecology, marine ecology and invasive species, coral and marine ecosystems studies, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, planarian biology and electrostimulation, Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ, and marine sponges and natural products.

Frequent collaborators in their work include Leslie S. Babonis, Joseph F. Ryan, Allison Edgar, Fredrik Hugosson, and Camille Enjolras. These collaborations appear across numerous projects, contributing to the breadth and scope of their scientific output.

Their research has been published extensively in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with 11 publications, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications, EvoDevo, and Molecular Biology and Evolution.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Mark Q. Martindale include:

  • On the origin and evolution of RNA editing in metazoans, 2023, Cell Reports
  • Plastic Ingestion in Post-hatchling Sea Turtles: Assessing a Major Threat in Florida Near Shore Waters, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Cnidarian-Symbiodiniaceae symbiosis establishment is independent of photosynthesis, 2022, Current Biology
  • Single-cell atavism reveals an ancient mechanism of cell type diversification in a sea anemone, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Ctenophores are direct developers that reproduce continuously beginning very early after hatching, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Mark Q. Martindale received the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Conservation of the sequence and temporal expression of let-7 heterochronic regulatory RNA

    Amy E. Pasquinelli;Brenda J. Reinhart;Frank Slack;Mark Q. Martindale

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

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

  • Sea Anemone Genome Reveals Ancestral Eumetazoan Gene Repertoire and Genomic Organization

    Nicholas H. Putnam;Mansi Srivastava;Uffe Hellsten;Bill Dirks

  • Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

    Andreas Hejnol;Matthias Obst;Alexandros Stamatakis;Michael Ott

  • The Genome of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi and Its Implications for Cell Type Evolution

    Joseph F. Ryan;Joseph F. Ryan;Kevin Pang;Christine E. Schnitzler;Anh Dao Nguyen

  • Unexpected complexity of the Wnt gene family in a sea anemone

    Arne Kusserow;Kevin Pang;Carsten Sturm;Martina Hrouda

  • Origins of Bilateral Symmetry: Hox and Dpp Expression in a Sea Anemone

    John R. Finnerty;Kevin Pang;Pat Burton;Dave Paulson

  • The origin and evolution of animal appendages

    Grace Panganiban;Steven M. Irvine;Chris Lowe;Henry Roehl

  • Investigating the origins of triploblasty: 'mesodermal' gene expression in a diploblastic animal, the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis (phylum, Cnidaria; class, Anthozoa).

    Mark Q. Martindale;Kevin Pang;John R. Finnerty

  • An ancient role for nuclear beta-catenin in the evolution of axial polarity and germ layer segregation.

    Athula H. Wikramanayake;Melanie Hong;Melanie Hong;Patricia N. Lee;Kevin Pang

  • The mid-developmental transition and the evolution of animal body plans

    Michal Levin;Leon Anavy;Alison G. Cole;Eitan Winter

  • Pre-bilaterian origins of the Hox cluster and the Hox code: evidence from the sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis.

    Joseph F. Ryan;Joseph F. Ryan;Maureen E. Mazza;Kevin Pang;David Q. Matus

  • Anatomy and development of the nervous system of Nematostella vectensis, an anthozoan cnidarian.

    Heather Q. Marlow;Mansi Srivastava;David Q. Matus;Daniel Rokhsar

  • A WNT of things to come: evolution of Wnt signaling and polarity in cnidarians.

    Patricia N. Lee;Kevin Pang;David Q. Matus;Mark Q. Martindale

  • Molecular evidence for deep evolutionary roots of bilaterality in animal development.

    David Q. Matus;Kevin Pang;Heather Marlow;Casey W. Dunn

  • The evolution of metazoan axial properties

    Mark Q. Martindale

  • Going where traditional markers have not gone before: utility of and promise for RAD sequencing in marine invertebrate phylogeography and population genomics

    A. M. Reitzel;S. Herrera;S. Herrera;M. J. Layden;M. Q. Martindale

  • Cephalopod Hox genes and the origin of morphological novelties

    Patricia N. Lee;Patricia N. Lee;Patrick Callaerts;Heinz G. de Couet;Mark Q. Martindale

  • The onset of microbial associations in the coral Pocillopora meandrina.

    Amy Apprill;Heather Q Marlow;Mark Q Martindale;Michael S Rappé

  • Genomic inventory and expression of Sox and Fox genes in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis.

    Craig R Magie;Kevin Pang;Mark Q Martindale

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Hejnol
Andreas Hejnol Friedrich Schiller University Jena
John R. Finnerty
John R. Finnerty Boston University
David Simmons
David Simmons Western Sydney University
Andreas D. Baxevanis
Andreas D. Baxevanis National Institutes of Health
Bernard M. Degnan
Bernard M. Degnan University of Queensland
Daniel S. Rokhsar
Daniel S. Rokhsar University of California, Berkeley
Steven H. D. Haddock
Steven H. D. Haddock Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Gonzalo Giribet
Gonzalo Giribet Harvard University
James C. Mullikin
James C. Mullikin National Institutes of Health
Billie J. Swalla
Billie J. Swalla University of Washington

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