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Michael N Dawson is affiliated with the University of California, Merced in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, focusing on several subfields that include Ecology, Molecular Biology, Oceanography, Ecological Modeling, and Genetics.

The topics of their research work cover a diverse range including Species Distribution and Climate Change, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Marine and Coastal Plant Biology, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Landscape analyses using eDNA metabarcoding and Earth observation predict community biodiversity in California (2021), published in Ecological Applications
  • The Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics Project: probing the evolution of symbiosis across the tree of life (2021), published in Wellcome Open Research
  • An initial comparative genomic autopsy of wasting disease in sea stars (2020), published in Molecular Ecology
  • Comparative phylogeography in the genomic age: Opportunities and challenges (2022), published in Journal of Biogeography
  • Lassa Virus Circulation in Small Mammal Populations in Bo District, Sierra Leone (2021), published in Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael N Dawson include:

  • Lauren M. Schiebelhut
  • John P. Wares
  • Melissa B. DeBiasse
  • Merly Escalona
  • Mohan P A Marimuthu

Their work has been extensively published in several academic venues, most notably:

  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Journal of Heredity
  • Biological Bulletin
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • The magnitude of global marine species diversity

    Ward Appeltans;Shane T. Ahyong;Shane T. Ahyong;Gary Anderson;Martin V. Angel

  • Ecological and evolutionary insights from species invasions

    Dov F. Sax;John J. Stachowicz;James H. Brown;John F. Bruno

  • The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus

    Marymegan Daly;Mercer R. Brugler;Paulyn Cartwright;Allen G. Collins

  • Molecular Evidence for Cryptic Species of Aurelia aurita (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa)

    Michael N. Dawson;David K. Jacobs

  • Questioning the Rise of Gelatinous Zooplankton in the World's Oceans

    Robert H. Condon;William M. Graham;Carlos M. Duarte;Kylie Anne Pitt

  • Identification of genetically and oceanographically distinct blooms of jellyfish - DUPE OF DU:30098064

    P.L.M. Lee;M.N. Dawson;S.P. Neill;P.E. Robins

  • Global phylogeography of Cassiopea (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae): molecular evidence for cryptic species and multiple invasions of the Hawaiian Islands

    Brenden S. Holland;Michael N. Dawson;Gerald L. Crow;Dietrich K. Hofmann

  • Phylogeography in coastal marine animals: a solution from California?

    Michael N Dawson

  • Coupled biophysical global ocean model and molecular genetic analyses identify multiple introductions of cryptogenic species

    Michael N Dawson;Alex Sen Gupta;Matthew H. England

  • Field preservation of marine invertebrate tissue for DNA analyses.

    Mike N Dawson;Kevin A. Raskoff;David K. Jacobs

  • Comparative phylogeography of sympatric sister species, Clevelandia ios and Eucyclogobius newberryi (Teleostei, Gobiidae), across the California Transition Zone.

    M. N Dawson;K. D. Louie;M. Barlow;D. K. Jacobs

  • The role of molecular genetics in sculpting the future of integrative biogeography

    Brett R. Riddle;Michael N. Dawson;Elizabeth A. Hadly;David J. Hafner

  • Macro-morphological variation among cryptic species of the moon jellyfish, Aurelia (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa)

    M.N. Dawson;M.N. Dawson

  • A review and synthesis on the systematics and evolution of jellyfish blooms: advantageous aggregations and adaptive assemblages

    William M. Hamner;Michael N Dawson

  • Incipient speciation of Catostylus mosaicus (Scyphozoa, Rhizostomeae, Catostylidae), comparative phylogeography and biogeography in south‐east Australia

    Michael N Dawson

  • Geographic variation and ecological adaptation in Aurelia (Scyphozoa, Semaeostomeae): some implications from molecular phylogenetics

    Mike N. Dawson;Laura E. Martin

  • Rapid evolutionary radiation of marine zooplankton in peripheral environments

    Michael N Dawson;William M. Hamner

  • Domestic waste and TBT pollution in coastal areas of Ambon Island (Eastern Indonesia)

    S.M. Evans;M. Dawson;J. Day;C.L.J. Frid

  • Evolutionary Relationships Among Scyphozoan Jellyfish Families Based on Complete Taxon Sampling and Phylogenetic Analyses of 18S and 28S Ribosomal DNA

    Keith M. Bayha;Michael N. Dawson;Allen Gilbert Collins;Marcos S. Barbeitos

  • Coastal and marine zooplankton: diversity and biology

    Iain Suthers;Michael Dawson;Kylie Anne Pitt;Anthony G. Miskiewicz

  • Unmasking Aurelia species in the Mediterranean Sea: an integrative morphometric and molecular approach

    Simonetta Scorrano;Giorgio Aglieri;Ferdinando Boero;Michael N. Dawson

  • Macro-morphological variation among cryptic species of the moon jellyfish, Aurelia (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa)

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Frequent Co-Authors

Joaquín Hortal
Joaquín Hortal Spanish National Research Council
Richard K. Grosberg
Richard K. Grosberg University of California, Davis
Richard Field
Richard Field University of Nottingham
Julian P. Sachs
Julian P. Sachs University of Washington
Allen Gilbert Collins
Allen Gilbert Collins National Museum of Natural History
Cathy H. Lucas
Cathy H. Lucas University of Southampton
Kylie Anne Pitt
Kylie Anne Pitt Griffith University
Shane T. Ahyong
Shane T. Ahyong Australian Museum
Farid Dahdouh-Guebas
Farid Dahdouh-Guebas Université Libre de Bruxelles
Laurence P. Madin
Laurence P. Madin Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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