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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Robert C. Vrijenhoek is affiliated with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on ecology and oceanography. They have contributed to subfields such as Ecology, Molecular Biology, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's academic output covers various topics, prominently within marine biology and ecology research. Other major topics of investigation include identification and quantification in food, cephalopods and marine biology, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, and microbial community ecology and physiology.

Robert C. Vrijenhoek's most recent papers illustrate a broad scope of research interests. These include:

  • Table 1 in A new Gammarus species from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (China) with a key to Xinjiang freshwater gammarids (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridae), 2022, PubMed
  • Allopatric and Sympatric Drivers of Speciation in Alviniconcha Hydrothermal Vent Snails, 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Zooplankton biogeographic boundaries in the California Current System as determined from metabarcoding, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Range extensions of Pacific bone-eating worms (Annelida, Siboglinidae, Osedax), 2023, Biodiversity Data Journal
  • Seasonal and synoptic oceanographic changes influence the larval biodiversity of a retentive upwelling shadow, 2020, Progress In Oceanography

The researcher's frequent co-authors reflect ongoing collaboration with peers in related studies. These include Shannon B. Johnson, Corinna Breusing, Verena Tunnicliffe, David A. Clague, and Roxanne A. Beinart.

Publication venues where Robert C. Vrijenhoek has contributed include Molecular Biology and Evolution, PLoS ONE, Biodiversity Data Journal, Progress In Oceanography, and PubMed.

Award distinctions include being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1989.

Best Publications

  • DNA primers for amplification of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I from diverse metazoan invertebrates.

    O. Folmer;Michael B. Black;Walter R. Hoeh;Richard A. Lutz

  • Genome 10K: A Proposal to Obtain Whole-Genome Sequence for 10 000 Vertebrate Species

    David Haussler;Stephen J. O'Brien;Oliver A. Ryder;F. Keith Barker

  • Evolution and Biogeography of Deep-Sea Vent and Seep Invertebrates

    C. L. Van Dover;C. R. German;K. G. Speer;L. M. Parson

  • Biogeography and Ecological Setting of Indian Ocean Hydrothermal Vents

    C. L. Van Dover;S. E. Humphris;D. Fornari;C. M. Cavanaugh

  • Conservation Genetics in the Management of Desert Fishes

    Gary K. Meffe;Robert C. Vrijenhoek

  • Osedax: Bone-Eating Marine Worms with Dwarf Males

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

  • Factors Affecting Clonal Diversity and Coexistence

    Robert C. Vrijenhoek

  • Red Queen hypothesis supported by parasitism in sexual and clonal fish

    Curtis M. Lively;Curtis M. Lively;Clark Craddock;Robert C. Vrijenhoek

  • Evolution of Fish Species Flocks

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  • Are hydrothermal vent animals living fossils

    Crispin T.S. Little;Robert C. Vrijenhoek

  • Genetic diversity and connectivity of deep-sea hydrothermal vent metapopulations.

    Robert C. Vrijenhoek

  • Fitness differences among remnant populations of the endangered sonoran topminnow.

    JM Quattro;RC Vrijenhoek

  • Ecological Differentiation Among Clones: The Frozen Niche Variation Model

    R. C. Vrijenhoek

  • Genetic diversity and fitness in small populations

    R. C. Vrijenhoek

  • Unisexual Fish: Model Systems for Studying Ecology and Evolution

    Robert C. Vrijenhoek

  • Evolutionary genetics and ecology of sperm-dependent parthenogenesis

    L. W. Beukeboom;R. C. Vrijenhoek

  • Conservation genetics of freshwater fish

    R. C. Vrijenhoek

  • ANIMAL CLONES AND DIVERSITY

    Robert C. Vrijenhoek

  • Blake Ridge methane seeps: characterization of a soft-sediment, chemosynthetically based ecosystem

    C.L. Van Dover;P. Aharon;J.M. Bernhard;E. Caylor

  • Cospeciation of chemoautotrophic bacteria and deep sea clams.

    Andrew S. Peek;Robert A. Feldman;Richard A. Lutz;Robert C. Vrijenhoek

  • HETEROZYGOSITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY UNDER SEXUAL AND ASEXUAL BREEDING SYSTEMS.

    Robert C. Vrijenhoek;Steven Lerman

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. Lutz
Richard A. Lutz Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Greg W. Rouse
Greg W. Rouse University of California, San Diego
Timothy M. Shank
Timothy M. Shank Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Nerida G. Wilson
Nerida G. Wilson University of Western Australia
Cindy Lee Van Dover
Cindy Lee Van Dover Duke University
Daniel Desbruyères
Daniel Desbruyères French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Verena Tunnicliffe
Verena Tunnicliffe University of Victoria
David A. Clague
David A. Clague Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
John C. Avise
John C. Avise University of California, Irvine
Didier Jollivet
Didier Jollivet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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