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Allen Collins
Affiliate Research Zoologist, NOAA Fisheries, Curator of Medusozoa, Porifera, Ctenophora and ProtozoaDepartment / Division
Education
- Amherst College, Majors: Mathematics and Economics, Degree and Date: BA, 1987
- University of California at Berkeley, Department of Integrative Biology, Major Professor: James W. Valentine, Degree and Date: PhD, 1999
Additional Resources
Learn more about ongoing research in the Collins Lab
Collections Areas
- Cnidaria
- Ctenophora
- Porifera
- Protozoa
Affiliations
- Director and Research Zoologist, National Systematics Lab of NOAA's Fisheries
Research Interests
My research focuses on the evolutionary history of relatively simple animals, cnidarians (jellyfishes, corals, etc.), placozoans (aka Trichoplax), and sponges. I generate and use evolutionary trees, known as phylogenetic hypotheses, to better understand how the amazing biodiversity of these groups -- in terms of morphology, life history, and genetics -- has come to be.
Publications
Journal Article
- Fonfría, Eva S., Straehler-Pohl, Ilka, Stampar, Sérgio N., Collins, Allen G., Hoverd, William Alan, and Bordehore, Cesar. 2024. "Copula lucentia sp. nov., a new box jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Carybdeida) from Western Mediterranean Sea." Marine Biodiversity, 54, (5). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-024-01460-6.
- Tan, Kei Chloe, Ames, Cheryl Lewis, and Collins, Allen G. 2024. "Complete linear mitochondrial genomes for Cephea cephea and Mastigias albipunctata (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae), with an analysis of phylogenetic relationships." Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources, 9, (11) 1544–1548. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2024.2429644.
- Vaga, C. F., Seiblitz, I. G. L., Stolarski, J., Capel, K. C. C., Quattrini, A. M., Cairns, S. D., Huang, D., Quek, R. Z. B., and Kitahara, M. V. 2024. "300 million years apart: the extreme case of macromorphological skeletal convergence between deltocyathids and a turbinoliid coral (Anthozoa, Scleractinia)." Invertebrate Systematics, 38, (4). https://doi.org/10.1071/IS23053.
- Molinari, Clarissa G., Collins, Allen G., and Morandini, André C. 2023. "A morphological review of the jellyfish genus Nausithoe Kölliker, 1853 (Nausithoideae, Coronatae, Scyphozoa, Cnidaria)." Zootaxa, 5336, (1) 1–32. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5336.1.1.
- Goodheart, Jessica A., Collins, Allen G., Cummings, Michael P., Egger, Bernhard, and Rawlinson, Kate A. 2023. "A phylogenomic approach to resolving interrelationships of polyclad flatworms, with implications for life-history evolution." Royal Society Open Science, 10, (3). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220939.
- Montenegro, Javier, Collins, Allen G., Hopcroft, Russell R., Questel, Jennifer M., Thuesen, Erik V., Bachtel, Tiffany S., Bergman, Leah A., Sangekar, Mehul N., Drazen, Jeffrey C., and Lindsay, Dhugal J. 2023. "Heterogeneity in diagnostic characters across ecoregions: A case study with Botrynema (Hydrozoa: Trachylina: Halicreatidae)." Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1101699.
- Verhaegen, Gerlien, Sangekar, Mehul Naresh, Bentlage, Bastian, Hoving, Henk‐Jan, Collins, Allen G., and Lindsay, Dhugal. 2023. "Drivers behind the diversity and distribution of a widespread midwater narcomedusa." Limnology and Oceanography, https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12408.
- Lawley, Jonathan W., Gamero-Mora, Edgar, Maronna, Maximiliano M., Chiaverano, Luciano M., Stampar, Sérgio N., Hopcroft, Russell R., Collins, Allen G., and Morandini, André C. 2022. "Morphology is not always useful for diagnosis, and that's ok: Species hypotheses should not be bound to a class of data. Reply to Brown and Gibbons (S Afr J Sci. 2022;118(9/10), Art. #12590)." South African Journal of Science, 118, (9). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2022/14495.
- Hoban, Mykle L., Whitney, Jonathan, Collins, Allen G., Meyer, Christopher, Murphy, Katherine R., Reft, Abigail J., and Bemis, Katherine E. 2022. "Skimming for barcodes: rapid production of mitochondrial genome and nuclear ribosomal repeat reference markers through shallow shotgun sequencing." PeerJ, 10. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13790.
- Peterson, Miles, I., Tan, Kei Chloe, Collins, Allen, Kitano, Satoshi, Kusuoka, Yasushi, Suzuki, Takahito G., Migita, Masao, Iesa, Iffah, Pirro, Stacy, Lindsay, Dhugal, and Ames, Cheryl Lewis. 2022. "A description of a novel swimming behavior in a dioecious population of Craspedacusta sowerbii, the rediscovery of the elusive Astrohydra japonica and the first genetic analysis of freshwater jellyfish in Japan." Plankton & Benthos Research, 17, (2) 231–248. https://doi.org/10.3800/pbr.17.231.
- O'Brien, Kristin M., Crockett, Elizabeth L., Adams, Byron J., Amsler, Charles D., Appiah-Madson, Hannah, Collins, Allen, Desvignes, Thomas, Detrich, H. William, III, Distel, Daniel L., Eppley, Sarah M., Frable, Benjamin W., Franz, Nico M., Grim, Jeffrey M., Kocot, Kevin M., Mahon, Andrew R., Mayfield-Meyer, Teresa, Mikucki, Jill A., Moser, William E., Schmull, Michaela, Seid, Charlotte A., Smith, Craig R., Todgham, Anne E., and Watkins-Colwell, Gregory. 2022. "The time is right for an Antarctic biorepository network." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, (50). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2212800119.
- Ames, Cheryl L., Ohdera, Aki H., Colston, Sophie M., Collins, Allen G., Fit, William K., Morandini, André C., Erickson, Jefferey S., and Vora, Gary J. 2021. "Fieldable Environmental DNA Sequencing to Assess Jellyfish Biodiversity in Nearshore Waters of the Florida Keys, United States." Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.640527.
- Bentlage, Bastian and Collins, Allen G. 2021. "Tackling the phylogenetic conundrum of Hydroidolina (Cnidaria: Medusozoa: Hydrozoa) by assessing competing tree topologies with targeted high-throughput." Peerj, 9. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12104.
- Klompen, Anna M. L., Kayal, Ehsan, Collins, Allen G., and Cartwright, Paulyn. 2021. "Phylogenetic and Selection Analysis of an Expanded Family of Putatively Pore-Forming Jellyfish Toxins (Cnidaria: Medusozoa)." Genome Biology and Evolution, 13, (6). https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab081.
- Casey, Jordan M., Ransome, Emma, Collins, Allen G., Mahardini, Angka, Kurniasih, Eka M., Sembiring, Andrianus, Schiettekatte, Nina M. D., Cahyani, Ni Kadek Dita, Wahyu Anggoro, Aji, Moore, Mikaela, Uehling, Abby, Belcaid, Mahdi, Barber, Paul H., Geller, Jonathan B., and Meyer, Christopher P. 2021. "DNA metabarcoding marker choice skews perception of marine eukaryotic biodiversity." Environmental DNA, 3, (6) 1229–1246. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.245.
- Lawley, Jonathan W., Gamero-Mora, Edgar, Maronna, Maximiliano M., Chiaverano, Luciano M., Stampar, Sergio N., Hopcroft, Russell R., Collins, Allen G., and Morandini, Andre C. 2021. "The importance of molecular characters when morphological variability hinders diagnosability: systematics of the moon jellyfish genus Aurelia (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa)." Peerj, 9. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11954.
- Miranda, Thais P., Fernandez, Marina O., Genzano, Gabriel N., Pena Cantero, Alvaro L., Collins, Allen G., and Marques, Antonio C. 2021. "Biodiversity and biogeography of hydroids across marine ecoregions and provinces of southern South America and Antarctica." Polar Biology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-021-02909-1.
- Collins, Allen G., Paulay, Gustav, Meyer, Christopher P., Duffy, J. Emmett, and Wetzer, Regina. 2021. "The U.S. Ocean Biocode." Marine Technology Society Journal, 55, (3) 140–141. https://doi.org/10.4031/MTSJ.55.3.33.
- Pappalardo, Paula, Collins, Allen G., Pagenkopp Lohan, Katrina M., Hanson, Kate M., Truskey, Sarit B., Jaeckle, William, Ames, Cheryl Lewis, Goodheart, Jessica A., Bush, Stephanie L., Biancani, Leann M., Strong, Ellen E., Vecchione, Michael, Harasewych, M. G., Reed, Karen, Lin, Chan, Hartil, Elise C., Whelpley, Jessica, Blumberg, Jamie, Matterson, Kenan, Redmond, Niamh E., Becker, Allison, Boyle, Michael J., and Osborn, Karen J. 2021. "The role of taxonomic expertise in interpretation of metabarcoding studies." ICES Journal of Marine Science, 78, (9) 3397–3410. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsab082.
- Astarini, Ida Ayu, Ningsih, Enex Yuniarti, Simanungkalit, Devy, Ardiana, Shella Ayu, Al Malik, M. Danie, Yusmalinda, Ni Luh Astria, Sembiring, Andrianus, Pertiwi, Ni Putu Dian, Cahyani, Ni Kadek Dita, and Collins, Allen. 2021. "Genetic variation of longtail tuna Thunnus tonggol landed in four fish markets in Indonesia based on mitochondrial DNA." Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity, 22, (4). https://doi.org/10.13057/biodiv/d220408.
- Ames, Cheryl L., Klompen, Anna M. L., Badhiwala, Krishna, Muffett, Kade, Reft, Abigail J., Kumar, Mehr, Janssen, Jennie D., Schultzhaus, Janna N., Field, Lauren D., Muroski, Megan E., Bezio, Nick, Robinson, Jacob T., Leary, Dagmar H., Cartwright, Paulyn, Collins, Allen G., and Vora, Gary J. 2020. "Cassiosomes are stinging-cell structures in the mucus of the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana." Communications Biology, 3, (1) Article 67. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0777-8.
- Castello-Branco, Cristiana, Collins, Allen G., and Hajdu, Eduardo. 2020. "A collection of hexactinellids (Porifera) from the deep South Atlantic and North Pacific: new genus, new species and new records." PeerJ, 8. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9431.
- Cunha, Amanda F., Collins, Allen G., and Marques, Antonio C. 2020. "When morphometry meets taxonomy: morphological variation and species boundaries in Proboscoida (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa)." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 190, (2) 417–447. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz166.
- Fernandez, Marina O., Collins, Allen G., and Marques, Antonio C. 2020. "Gradual and rapid shifts in the composition of assemblages of hydroids (Cnidaria) along depth and latitude in the deep Atlantic Ocean." Journal of Biogeography, 47, (7) 1541–1551. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13853.
- Fernandez, Marina Oliveira, Collins, Allen G., Gittenberger, Arjan, Roy, Kaustuv, and Marques, Antonio Carlos. 2020. "Traits and depth: What do hydroids tell us about morphology and life‐history strategies in the deep sea?" Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29, (5) 908–924. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13074.
- Ford, Michael, Bezio, Nicholas, and Collins, Allen. 2020. "Duobrachium sparksae (incertae sedis Ctenophora Tentaculata Cydippida): A new genus and species of benthopelagic ctenophore seen at 3,910 m depth off the coast of Puerto Rico." Plankton and Benthos Research, 15, (4) 296–305. https://doi.org/10.3800/pbr.15.296.
- Miranda, Lucilia Souza and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2019. "Eyes in Staurozoa (Cnidaria): a review." Peerj, 7, (e6693). https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6693.
- Morrow, Christine, Cardenas, Paco, Boury-Esnault, Nicole, Picton, Bernard, Mccormack, Grace, Van Soest, Rob, Collins, Allen, Redmond, Niamh, Maggs, Christine, Sigwart, Julia, and Allcock, Louise A. 2019. "Integrating morphological and molecular taxonomy with the revised concept of Stelligeridae (Porifera: Demospongiae)." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 187, (1) 31–81. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz017.
- Moura, Carlos J., Collins, Allen G., Santos, Ricardo S., and Lessios, Harilaos. 2019. "Predominant east to west colonizations across major oceanic barriers: Insights into the phylogeographic history of the hydroid superfamily Plumularioidea, suggested by a mitochondrial DNA barcoding marker." Ecology and Evolution, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5608.
- Ohdera, Aki, Ames, Cheryl L., Dikow, Rebecca B., Kayal, Ehsan, Chiodin, Marta, Busby, Ben, La, Sean, Pirro, Stacy, Collins, Allen G., Medina, Mónica, and Ryan, Joseph F. 2019. "Box, stalked, and upside-down? Draft genomes from diverse jellyfish (Cnidaria, Acraspeda) lineages: Alatina alata (Cubozoa), Calvadosia cruxmelitensis (Staurozoa), and Cassiopea xamachana (Scyphozoa)." GigaScience, 8, (7). https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giz069.
- Bentlage, Bastian, Osborn, Karen J., Lindsay, Dhugal J., Hopcroft, Russell R., Raskoff, Kevin A., and Collins, Allen G. 2018. "Corrigendum to Loss of metagenesis and evolution of a parasitic life style in a group of open-ocean jellyfish Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 124 (2018) 50-59." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 126 390–391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.017.
- Bentlage, Bastian, Osborn, Karen J., Lindsay, Dhugal J., Hopcroft, Russell R., Raskoff, Kevin A., and Collins, Allen G. 2018. "Loss of metagenesis and evolution of a parasitic life style in a group of open ocean jellyfish." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 124 50–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.02.030.
- Goodheart, Jessica A., Bleidißel, Sabrina, Schillo, Dorothee, Strong, Ellen E., Ayres, Daniel L., Preisfeld, Angelika, Collins, Allen G., Cummings, Michael P., and Wägele, Heike. 2018. "Comparative morphology and evolution of the cnidosac in Cladobranchia (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia)." Frontiers in Zoology, 15, (1) 43. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-018-0289-2.
- Kayal, Ehsan, Bentlage, Bastian, Pankey, M. Sabrina, Ohdera, Aki H., Medina, Monica, Plachetzki, David C., Collins, Allen G., and Ryan, Joseph F. 2018. "Phylogenomics provides a robust topology of the major cnidarian lineages and insights on the origins of key organismal traits." Bmc Evolutionary Biology, 18 68–68. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1142-0.
- Mendoza-Becerril, Maria A., Jaimes-Becerra, Adrian Jose, Collins, Allen G., and Marques, Antonio C. 2018. "Phylogeny and morphological evolution of the so-called bougainvilliids (Hydrozoa, Hydroidolina)." Zoologica Scripta, 47, (5) 608–622. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12291.
- Miranda, Lucília S., Mills, Claudia E., Hirano, Yayoi M., Collins, Allen G., and Marques, Antonio C. 2018. "A review of the global diversity and natural history of stalked jellyfishes (Cnidaria, Staurozoa)." Marine Biodiversity, 48, (4) 1695–1714. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0721-4.
- Moura, Carlos J., Lessios, Harilaos, Cortes, Jorge, Nizinski, Martha S., Reed, John, Santos, Ricardo S., and Collins, Allen G. 2018. "Hundreds of genetic barcodes of the species-rich hydroid superfamily Plumularioidea (Cnidaria, Medusozoa) provide a guide toward more reliable taxonomy." Scientific Reports, 8 17986. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35528-8.
- Ohdera, Aki H., Abrams, Michael J., Ames, Cheryl L., Baker, David M., Suescún-Bolívar, Luis P., Collins, Allen G., Freeman, Christopher J., Gamero-Mora, Edgar, Goulet, Tamar L., Hofmann, Dietrich K., Jaimes-Becerra, Adrian, Long, Paul F., Marques, Antonio C., Miller, Laura A., Mydlarz, Laura D., Morandini, Andre C., Newkirk, Casandra R., Putri, Sastia P., Samson, Julia E., Stampar, Sérgio, Steinworth, Bailey, Templeman, Michelle, Thomé, Patricia E., Vlok, Marli, Woodley, Cheryl M. et al. 2018. "Upside-Down but Headed in the Right Direction: Review of the Highly Versatile Cassiopea xamachana System." Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 6 35. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2018.00035.
- Bayha, Keith M., Collins, Allen G., and Gaffney, Patrick M. 2017. "Multigene phylogeny of the scyphozoan jellyfish family Pelagiidae reveals that the common U.S. Atlantic sea nettle comprises two distinct species (Chrysaora quinquecirrha and C. chesapeakei)." PeerJ, 5 1–43. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3863.
- Cunha, Amanda F., Collins, Allen Gilbert, and Marques, Antonio C. 2017. "Phylogenetic relationships of Proboscoida Broch, 1910 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa): Are traditional morphological diagnostic characters relevant for the delimitation of lineages at the species, genus, and family levels?" Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 106 118–135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.09.012.
- Goodheart, Jessica A., Bazinet, Adam L., Valdés, Ángel, Collins, Allen G., and Cummings, Michael P. 2017. "Prey preference follows phylogeny: evolutionary dietary patterns within the marine gastropod group Cladobranchia (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia)." BMC Evolutionary Biology, 17, (1) 221. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1066-0.
- Kubota, Shin and Collins, Allen G. 2017. "A single origin of bivalve-inhabiting hydrozoans (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Leptomedusae) in the family Eirenidae based on an analysis of 16S rRNA gene." Biogeography, 19 75–79.
- Lindsay, Dhugal John, Grossmann, Mary Matilda, Bentlage, Bastian, Collins, Allen Gilbert, Minemizu, Ryo, Hopcroft, Russell Ross, Miyake, Hiroshi, Hidaka-Umetsu, Mitsuko, and Nishikawa, Jun. 2017. "The perils of online biogeographic databases: a case study with the 'monospecific' genus Aegina (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Narcomedusae)." Marine Biology Research, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2016.1268261.
- Miranda, Lucilia S., Branch, George M., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Hirano, Yayoi M., Marques, Antonio C., and Griffiths, Charles L. 2017. "Stalked jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Staurozoa) of South Africa, with the description of Calvadosia lewisi sp nov." Zootaxa, 4227, (3) 369–389. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.5.
- Miranda, Lucília S., García-Rodríguez, Jimena, Collins, Allen G., Morandini, André C., and Marques, Antonio C. 2017. "Evolution of the claustrum in Cnidaria: comparative anatomy reveals that it is exclusive to some species of Staurozoa and absent in Cubozoa." Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 17, (4) 753–766. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-017-0342-6.
- Ransome, Emma, Geller, Jonathan B., Timmers, Molly, Leray, Matthieu, Mahardini, Angka, Sembiring, Andrianus, Collins, Allen Gilbert, and Meyer, Christopher P. 2017. "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." PLOS ONE, 12, (4). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175066.
- Ames, Cheryl Lewis, Ryan, Joseph F., Bely, Alexandra E., Cartwright, Paulyn, and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2016. "Erratum to: A new transcriptome and transcriptome profiling of adult and larval tissue in the box jellyfish Alatina alata: an emerging model for studying venom, vision and sex." BMC Genomics, 17, (1) 980. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-016-3305-y.
- Ames, Cheryl Lewis, Ryan, Joseph F., Bely, Alexandra E., Cartwright, Paulyn, and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2016. "A new transcriptome and transcriptome profiling of adult and larval tissue in the box jellyfish Alatina alata: an emerging model for studying venom, vision and sex." BMC Genomics, 17, (1) 650. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-016-2944-3.
- Kayal, Ehsan, Bentlage, Bastian, and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2016. "Insights into the transcriptional and translational mechanisms of linear organellar chromosomes in the box jellyfish Alatina alata (Cnidaria: Medusozoa: Cubozoa)." RNA biology, 13, (9) 799–809. https://doi.org/10.1080/15476286.2016.1194161.
- Lasley, Robert M., Ames, Cheryl Lewis, Erdman, Robert, Parks, Sheri, and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2016. "First record of the box jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Tripedaliidae) in the Gulf of Mexico." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 129, (1) 164–172. https://doi.org/10.2988/0006-324X-129.Q2.164.
- Lawley, Jonathan W., Ames, Cheryl Lewis, Bentlage, Bastian, Yanagihara, Angel, Goodwill, Roger, Kayal, Ehsan, Hurwitz, Kikiana, and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2016. "Box Jellyfish Alatina alata Has a Circumtropical Distribution." Biological Bulletin, 231, (2) 152–169. https://doi.org/10.1086/690095.
- Miranda, Lucília S., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Hirano, Yayoi M., Mills, Claudia E., and Marques, Antonio C. 2016. "Comparative internal anatomy of Staurozoa (Cnidaria), with functional and evolutionary inferences." PeerJ, 4 e2594. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2594.
- Miranda, Lucília S., Hirano, Yayoi M., Mills, Claudia E., Falconer, Audrey, Fenwick, David, Marques, Antonio C., and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2016. "Systematics of stalked jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Staurozoa)." PeerJ, 4 e1951. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1951.
- Pyataeva, Sofia V., Hopcroft, Russell R., Lindsay, Dhugal J., and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2016. "DNA barcodes unite two problematic taxa: the meiobenthic Boreohydra simplex is a life-cycle stage of Plotocnide borealis (Hydrozoa: Aplanulata)." Zootaxa, 4150, (1) 85–92. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4150.1.5.
- Goodheart, Jessica A., Bazinet, Adam L., Collins, Allen Gilbert, and Cummings, Michael P. 2015. "Relationships within Cladobranchia (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) based on RNA-Seq data: an initial investigation." Royal Society Open Science, 2, (9) 150196. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150196.
- Kayal, Ehsan, Bentlage, Bastian, Cartwright, Paulyn, Yanagihara, Angel A., Lindsay, Dhugal J., Hopcroft, Russell R., and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2015. "Phylogenetic analysis of higher-level relationships within Hydroidolina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) using mitochondrial genome data and insight into their mitochondrial transcription." PeerJ, 3 e1403. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1403.
- Lindsay, Dhugal J., Grossmann, Mary M., Nishikawa, Jun, Bentlage, Bastian, and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2015. "DNA Barcoding of Pelagic Cnidarians: Current Status and Future Prospects." Bulletin- Plankton Society of Japan, 62, (1) 39–43.
- Miranda, L. S., Collins, Allen Gilbert, and Marques, Antonio C. 2015. "Is Haootia quadriformis related to extant Staurozoa (Cnidaria)? Evidence from the muscular system reconsidered." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282, (1803). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2396.
- Zapata, Felipe, Goetz, Freya E., Smith, Stephen A., Howison, Mark, Siebert, Stefan, Church, Samuel H., Sanders, Steven M., Ames, Cheryl Lewis, McFadden, Catherine S., France, Scott C., Daly, Marymegan, Collins, Allen Gilbert, Haddock, Steven H. D., Dunn, Casey W., and Cartwright, Paulyn. 2015. "Phylogenomic Analyses Support Traditional Relationships within Cnidaria." PloS One, 10, (10). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139068.
- Bracken-Grissom, Heather, Collins, Allen Gilbert, Collins, Timothy, Crandall, Keith, Distel, Daniel, Dunn, Casey, Giribet, Gonzalo, Haddock, Steven, Knowlton, Nancy, Martindale, Mark, Medina, Monica, Messing, Charles, O'Brien, Stephen J., Paulay, Gustav, Putnam, Nicolas, Ravasi, Timothy, Rouse, Greg W., Ryan, Joseph F., Schulze, Anja, Worheide, Gert, Adamska, Maja, Bailly, Xavier, Breinholt, Jesse, Browne, William E., Diaz, M. Christina et al. 2014. "The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): Developing Community Resources to Study Diverse Invertebrate Genomes." The Journal of Heredity, 105, (1) 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/est084.
- Grossmann, Mary M., Collins, Allen Gilbert, and Lindsay, Dhugal J. 2014. "Description of the eudoxid stages of Lensia havock and Lensia leloupi (Cnidaria: Siphonophora: Calycophorae), with a review of all known Lensia eudoxid bracts." Systematics and Biodiversity, 12, (2) 163–180. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2014.902867.
- Diaz, Maria C., Thacker, Robert W., Redmond, Niamh E., Matterson, Kenan O., and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2013. "Phylogenetic Novelties and Geographic Anomalies among Tropical Verongida." Integrative & Comparative Biology, 53, (3) 482–494. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/ict033.
- Grossmann, Mary M., Lindsay, Dhugal J., and Collins, Allen G. 2013. "The end of an enigmatic taxon: Eudoxia macra is the eudoxid stage of Lensia cossack (Siphonophora, Cnidaria)." Systematics and Biodiversity, 11, (3) 381–387. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2013.825658.
- Hajdu, Eduardo, de Paula, Thiago S., Redmond, Niamh E., Cosme, Bruno, Collins, Allen Gilbert, and Lôbo-Hajdu, Gisele. 2013. "Mycalina: Another Crack in the Poecilosclerida Framework." Integrative and Comparative Biology, 53, (3) 462–472. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/ict074.
- Harrison, Genelle F., Kim, Kiho, and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2013. "Low genetic diversity of the putatively introduced, brackish water hydrozoan, Blackfordia virginica (Leptothecata: Blackfordiidae), throughout the United States, with a new record for Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 126, (2) 91–102. https://doi.org/10.2988/0006-324X-126.2.91.
- Hill, Malcolm S., Hill, April L., Lopez, Jose, Peterson, Kevin J., Pomponi, Shirley, Diaz, Maria C., Thacker, Robert W., Adamska, Maja, Boury-Esnault, Nicole, Cárdenas, Paco, Chaves-Fonnegra, Andia, Danka, Elizabeth, De Laine, Bre-Onna, Formica, Dawn, Hajdu, Eduardo, Lobo-Hajdu, Gisele, Klontz, Sarah, Morrow, Christine C., Patel, Jignasa, Picton, Bernard, Pisani, Davide, Pohlmann, Deborah, Redmond, Niamh E., Reed, John, Richey, Stacy et al. 2013. "Reconstruction of Family-Level Phylogenetic Relationships within Demospongiae (Porifera) Using Nuclear Encoded Housekeeping Genes." PLoS ONE, 8, (1) e50437. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050437.
- Kayal, Ehsan, Roure, Béatrice, Philippe, Hervé, Collins, Allen Gilbert, and Lavrov, Dennis V. 2013. "Cnidarian phylogenetic relationships as revealed by mitogenomics." BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-5.
- Klautau, Michelle, Azevedo, Fernanda, Cóndor-Luján, Báslavi, Rapp, Hans Tore, Collins, Allen Gilbert, and Russo, Claudia A. 2013. "A molecular phylogeny for the order Clathrinida rekindles and refines Haeckel's taxonomic proposal for calcareous sponges." Integrative & Comparative Biology, 53, (3) 447–461. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/ict039.
- Lewis, Cheryl, Bentlage, Bastian, Yanagihara, Angel, Gillan, William, Blerk, Johan Van, Keil, Daniel P., Bely, Alexandra E., and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2013. "Redescription of Alatina alata (Reynaud, 1830) (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) from Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean." Zootaxa, 3737, (4) 473–487. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3737.4.8.
- Marques, Antonio C., Maronna, Maximiliano M., and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2013. "Putting GenBank Data on the Map." Science, 341, (6152) 1341–1341. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.341.6152.1341-a.
- Miranda, Lucília S., Collins, Allen Gilbert, and Marques, Antonio C. 2013. "Internal anatomy of Haliclystus antarcticus (Cnidaria, Staurozoa) with a discussion on histological features used in staurozoan taxonomy." Journal of Morphology, 247, (12) 1365–1383. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.20185.
- Morrow, Christine C., Redmond, Niamh E., Picton, Bernard E., Thacker, Robert W., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Maggs, Christine A., Sigwart, Julia D., and Allcock, A. Louise. 2013. "Molecular Phylogenies Support Homoplasy of Multiple Morphological Characters Used in the Taxonomy of Heteroscleromorpha (Porifera: Demospongiae)." Integrative & Comparative Biology, 53, (3) 428–446. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/ict065.
- Nawrocki, Annalise M., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Hirano, Yayoi M., Schuchert, Peter, and Cartwright, Paulyn. 2013. "Phylogenetic placement of Hydra and relationships within Aplanulata (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa)." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 67, (1) 60–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.12.016.
- Redmond, Niamh E., Morrow, Christine C., Thacker, Robert W., Diaz, Maria C., Boury-Esnault, N., Cárdenas, P., Hajdu, E., Lôbo-Hajdu, G., Picton, B. E., Pomponi, S. A., Kayal, E., and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2013. "Phylogeny and Systematics of Demospongiae in Light of New Small-Subunit Ribosomal DNA (18S) Sequences." Integrative & Comparative Biology, 53, (3) 388–415. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/ict078.
- Thacker, Robert W., Hill, April L., Hill, Malcom S., Redmond, Niamh E., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Morrow, Christine C., Spicer, Lori, Carmack, Cheryl A., Zappe, Megan E., Pohlmann, Deborah, Hall, Chelsea, Diaz, Maria C., and Bangalore, PurushothamV. 2013. "Nearly Complete 28S rRNA Gene Sequences Confirm New Hypotheses of Sponge Evolution." Integrative & Comparative Biology, 53, (3) 373–387. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/ict071.
- Appeltans, Ward, Ahyong, Shane T, Anderson, Gary, Angel, Martin V, Artois, Tom, Bailly, Nicolas, Bamber, Roger, Barber, Anthony, Bartsch, Ilse, Berta, Annalisa, Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, Magdalena, Bock, Phil, Boxshall, Geoff, Boyko, Christopher B, Brandão, Simone Nunes, Bray, Rod A, Bruce, Niel L, Cairns, Stephen D., Chan, Tin-Yam, Cheng, Lanna, Collins, Allen Gilbert, Cribb, Thomas, Curini-Galletti, Marco, Dahdouh-Guebas, Farid, Davie, Peter J F. et al. 2012. "The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity." Current Biology, 22, (23) 2189–2202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036.
- Dohrmann, Martin, Vargas, Sergio, Janussen, Dorte, Collins, Allen Gilbert, and Wörheide, Gert. 2012. "Molecular paleobiology of early-branching animals: integrating DNA and fossils elucidates the evolutionary history of hexactinellid sponges." Paleobiology, 39, (1) 95–108. https://doi.org/10.1666/0094-8373-39.1.95.
- Kayal, Ehsan, Bentlage, Bastian, Collins, Allen Gilbert, Kayal, Mohsen, Pirro, Stacy, and Lavrov, Dennis V. 2012. "Evolution of Linear Mitochondrial Genomes in Medusozoan Cnidarians." Genome Biology and Evolution, 4, (1) 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evr123.
- Lewis, Cheryl, Migita, Masao, Hashimoto, Hiroshi, and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2012. "On the occurrence of freshwater jellyfish in Japan 1928-2011: eighty-three years of records of mamizu kurage (Limnomedusae, Olindiidae)." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 125, (2) 165–179. https://doi.org/10.2988/11-31.1.
- Smith, David Roy, Kayal, Ehsan, Yanagihara, Angel A., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Pirro, Stacy, and Keeling, Patrick J. 2012. "First Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence from a Box Jellyfish Reveals a Highly Fragmented Linear Architecture and Insights into Telomere Evolution." Genome Biology and Evolution, 4, (1) 52–58. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evr127.
- Collins, Allen Gilbert, Bentlage, Bastian, Gillan, William (Bud), Lynn, Tara H., Morandini, Andre C., and Marques, Antonio C. 2011. "Naming the Bonaire banded box jelly, Tamoya ohboya, n. sp. (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Carybdeida: Tamoyidae)." Zootaxa, (2753) 53–68.
- Orellana, Evan R. and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2011. "First report of the box jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora (Cubozoa: Tripedaliidae) in the continental USA, from Lake Wyman, Boca Raton, Florida." Marine Biodiversity Records, 4 e54. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755267211000133.
- Bayha, Keith M., Dawson, Michael N., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Barbeitos, Marcos S., and Haddock, Steven H. D. 2010. "Evolutionary Relationships Among Scyphozoan Jellyfish Families Based on Complete Taxon Sampling and Phylogenetic Analyses of 18S and 28S Ribosomal DNA." Integrative and Comparative Biology, 50, (3) 436–455. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icq074.
- Bentlage, Bastian, Cartwright, Paulyn, Yanagihara, Angel A., Lewis, Cheryl, Richards, Gemma S., and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2010. "Evolution of box jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa), a group of highly toxic invertebrates." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277, (1680) 493–501. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.1707.
- Kahn, Amanda S., Matsumoto, George I., Hirano, Yayoi M., and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2010. "Haliclystus californiensis, a "new" species of stauromedusa (Cnidaria: Staurozoa) from the northeast Pacific, with a key to the species of Haliclystus." Zootaxa, (2518) 49–59.
- Miranda, Lucilia S., Collins, Allen Gilbert, and Marques, Antonio C. 2010. "Molecules Clarify a Cnidarian Life Cycle - The "Hydrozoan'' Microhydrula limopsicola Is an Early Life Stage of the Staurozoan Haliclystus antarcticus." Plos One, 5, (4) e10182. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010182.
- Dohrmann, M., Collins, Allen Gilbert, and Woerheide, G. 2009. "New insights into the phylogeny of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida): Monophyly of Lyssacinosida and Euplectellinae, and the phylogenetic position of Euretidae." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 52 257–262.
- Cartwright, Paulyn, Evans, Nathaniel M., Dunn, Casey W., Marques, Antonio C., Miglietta, Maria Pia, Schuchert, Peter, and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2008. "Phylogenetics of Hydroidolina (Hydrozoa: Cnidaria)." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 88 1663–1672.
- Collins, Allen Gilbert, Bentlage, Bastian, Lindner, Alberto, Lindsay, Dhugal, Haddock, Steven H. D., Jarms, Gerhard, Norenburg, Jon L., Jankowski, Thomas, and Cartwright, Paulyn. 2008. "Phylogenetics of Trachylina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) with new insights on the evolution of some problematical taxa." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 88 1673–1685.
- Dohrmann, Martin, Janussen, Dorte, Reitner, Joachim, Collins, Allen Gilbert, and Wörheide, Gert. 2008. "Phylogeny and Evolution of Glass Sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida)." Systematic Biology, 57, (3) 388–405. https://doi.org/10.1080/10635150802161088.
- Evans, Nathaniel M., Lindner, A., Raikova, E. V., Collins, Allen Gilbert, and Cartwright, Paulyn. 2008. "Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic parasite, Polypodium hydriforme, within the Phylum Cnidaria." BMC Evolutionary Biology, 8 139.
- Fukami, Hironobu, Chen, Chaolun Allen, Budd, Ann F., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Wallace, Carden, Chuang, Yao-Yang, Chen, Chienhsun, Dai, Chang-Feng, Iwao, Kenji, Sheppard, Charles, and Knowlton, Nancy. 2008. "Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genes Suggest that Stony Corals Are Monophyletic but Most Families of Stony Corals Are Not (Order Scleractinia, Class Anthozoa, Phylum Cnidaria)." PLoS ONE, 3, (9) e3222. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003222.
- Jankowski, T., Collins, Allen Gilbert, and Campbell, R. 2008. "Global diversity of inland water cnidarians." Hydrobiologia, 595 35–40.
- Kilvington, C. C., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Kosevich, I. A., Pyataeva, S. V., and Robson, E. A. 2008. "Protohydra leuckarti near Plymouth." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 88 1555–1557.
- Lewis, Cheryl, Kubota, Shin, Migotto, Alvaro E., and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2008. "Sexually Dimorphic Cubomedusa Carybdea sivickisi (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) in Seto, Wakayama, Japan." Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 40, (5/6) 1–8.
- Tabachnick, K. R. and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2008. "Glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida) of the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge." Marine Biology Research, 4 25–47.
- Cartwright, Paulyn and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2007. "Fossils and phylogenies: integrating multiple lines of evidence to investigate the origin of early major metazoan lineages." Integrative and Comparative Biology, 47, (5) 744–751. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icm071.
- Cartwright, Paulyn, Halgedahl, Susan L., Hendricks, Jonathan R., Jarrard, Richard D., Marques, Antonio C., Collins, Allen Gilbert, and Lieberman, Bruce S. 2007. "Exceptionally Preserved Jellyfishes from the Middle Cambrian." PLoS ONE, 2, (10) e1121.
- Daly, M., Brugler, Mercer R., Cartwright, Paulyn, Collins, Allen Gilbert, Dawson, M. N., Fautin, D. G., France, S. C., McFadden, C. S., Opresko, Dennis M., Rodriguez, E., Roman, S. L., and Stake, J. L. 2007. "The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus." Zootaxa, 1668 127–182.
- Collins, Allen Gilbert, Bentlage, Bastian, Matsumoto, G. I., Haddock, H. D., Osborn, Karen J., and Schierwater, B. 2006. "Solution to the phylogenetic enigma of Tetraplatia, a worm-shaped cnidarian." Biology Letters, 2 120–124.
- Collins, Allen Gilbert, Schuchert, P., Marques, A. C., Jankowski, T., Medina, M., and Schierwater, B. 2006. "Medusozoan Phylogeny and Character Evolution Clarified by New Large and Small Subunit rDNA Data and an Assessment of the Utility of Phylogenetic Mixture Models." Systematic Biology, 55, (1) 97–115. https://doi.org/10.1080/10635150500433615.
- Lutz, Richard A., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Annis, Eric R., Reed, Andrew J., Bennett, Kyle F., Halanych, Kenneth M., and Vrijenhoek, Robert C. 2006. "Stauromedusan populations inhabiting deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the southern East Pacific Rise." Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 47 409–414.
- Medina, M., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Takaoka, T. L., Kuehl, J. V., and Boore, J. L. 2006. "Naked Corals: Skeleton Loss in Scleractinia." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103 9096–9100.
- van Iten, H., Moraes Leme, J. De, Simoes, M. G., Marques, A. C., and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2006. "Reassessment of the phylogenetic position of conulariids (?Ediacaran-Triassic) within the subphylum Medusozoa (phylum Cnidaria)." Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 4, (2) 109–118. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1477201905001793.
- Collins, Allen G. and Daly, Marymegan. 2005. "A new deepwater species of Stauromedusae, Lucernaria janetae (Cnidaria, Staurozoa, Lucernariidae), and a preliminary investigation of stauromedusan phylogeny based on nuclear and mitochondrial rDNA data." Biological Bulletin, 208 221–230.
- Collins, Allen Gilbert, Cartwright, Paulyn, McFadden, C. S., and Schierwater, B. 2005. "Phylogenetic context and basal metazoan model systems." Integrative and Comparative Biology, 45 585–594.
- Collins, Allen Gilbert, Winkelmann, S., Hadrys, H., and Schierwater, B. 2005. "Phylogeny of Capitata (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) and Corynidae in light of mitochondrial 16S rDNA data." Zoologica Scripta, 34 91–99.
- Tomassetti, P., Voigt, O., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Porrello, S., Pearse, V. B., and Schierwater, B. 2005. "Placozoans (Trichoplax adhaerens Schulze, 1883) in the Mediterranean Sea." Meiofauna Marina, 14 5–7.
- Marques, Antonio C. and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2004. "Cladistic analysis of Medusozoa and cnidarian evolution." Invertebrate Biology, 123, (1) 23–42.
- Silberman, Jeffrey D., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Gershwin, Lisa-Ann, Johnson, Patricia J., and Roger, Andrew J. 2004. "Ellobiopsids of the Genus Thalassomyces are Alveolates." Journal of eukaryotic microbiology, 51, (2) 246–252.
- Voigt, O., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Pearse, V. B., Pearse, J. S., Hadrys, H., and Schierwater, B. 2004. "Placozoa no longer a phylum of one." Current Biology, 14 R944–R945.
- Voigt, Oliver, Collins, Allen Gilbert, Pearse, Vicki Buchsbaum, Pearse, John S., Ender, Andrea, Hadrys, Heike, and Schierwater, Bernd. 2004. "Supplemental Data: Placozoa -No Longer a Phylum of One." Current Biology, (22) 944–945.
- Waggoner, Ben and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2004. "Reductio ad absurdum: Testing the evolutionary relationships of Ediacaran and Paleozoic problematic fossils using molecular divergence dates." Journal of Paleontology, 78, (1) 51–61.
- Medina, Monica, Collins, Allen Gilbert, Taylor, John W., Valentine, James W., Lipps, Jere H., Amaral-Zettler, Linda, and Sogin, Mitchell L. 2003. "Phylogeny of Opisthokonta and the evolution of multicellularity and complexity in Fungi and Metazoa." Intenrational journal of astrobiology, 2, (3) 203–211.
- Roy, Kaustuv, Collins, Allen Gilbert, Becker, Bonnie J., Begovic, Emina, and Engle, John M. 2003. "Anthropogenic impacts and historical decline in body size of rocky intertidal gastropods in southern California." Ecology Letters, 6 205–211.
- Winkel, Kenneth D., Hawdon, Gabrielle M., Fenner, Peter J., Gershwin, Lisa-Ann, Collins, Allen Gilbert, and Tibballs, James. 2003. "Jellyfish antivenom: Past, Present and Future." Journal of Toxicology: Toxin Reviews, 22, (1) 115–127. https://doi.org/10.1081/TXR-120019024.
- Castilla, J. C., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Meyer, Christopher P., Guinez, R., and Lindberg, D. R. 2002. "Recent introduction of the dominant tunicate, Pyura praeputialis (Urochordata, Pyuridae) to Antofagasta, Chile." Molecular ecology, 11 1579–1584.
- Gershwin, Lisa-Ann and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2002. "A preliminary phylogeny of Pelagiidae (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa) , with new observations of Chrysaora colorata comb. nov." Journal of Natural History, 36, (2) 127–148. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930010003819.
- Collins, Allen Gilbert and Valentine, J. W. 2001. "Defining phyla: evolutionary pathways to metazoan body plans." Evolution & Development, 3, (6) 432–442.
- Hamilton, H., Caballero, S., Collins, Allen Gilbert, and Brownell, Robert L., Jr. 2001. "Evolution of river dolphins." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 268, (1466) 549–556.
- Medina, Monica, Collins, Allen Gilbert, Silberman, Jeffrey D., and Sogin, Mitchell L. 2001. "Evaluating hypotheses of basal animal phylogeny using complete sequences of large and small subunit rRNA." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 98, (17) 9707–9712.
- Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2000. "Towards understanding the phylogenetic history of Hydrozoa: hypothesis testing with 18S gene sequence data." Scientia Marina, 64, (1) 5–22.
- Collins, Allen Gilbert, Lipps, J. H., and Valentine, J. W. 2000. "Modern mucociliary creeping trails and the bodyplans of Neoproterozoic trace-makers." Paleobiology, 26, (1) 47–55.
- Valentine, James W. and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2000. "The significance of moulting in Ecdysozoan evolution." Evolution & development, 2, (3) 152–156.
- Collins, Allen Gilbert. 1998. "Evaluating multiple alternative hypotheses for the origin of Bilateria: an analysis of 18S rRNA molecular evidence." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 95, (26) 15458–15463.
- Valentine, James W., Collins, Allen Gilbert, and Meyer, Christopher P. 1994. "Morphological complexity increase in metazoans." Paleobiology, 20, (2) 131–142.
Dataset
- Goodheart, Jessica, Collins, Allen, Cummings, Michael P., Egger, Bernhard, and Rawlinson, Kate. 2022. [Dataset] Phylogenomics suggests that larvae are ancestral in polyclads, but not homologous to the trochophore. Distributed by Dryad. https://doi.org/10.6076/D1JG60.
- Pappalardo, Paula, Collins, Allen G., Pagenkopp Lohan, Katrina M., Hanson, Kate M., Truskey, Sarit B., Jaeckle, William, Lewis Ames, Cheryl, Goodheart, Jessica A., Bush, Stephanie L., Biancani, Leann M., Strong, Ellen E., Vecchione, Michael, Harasewych, M. G., Reed, Karen, Lin, Chan, Hartil, Elise, Whelpley, Jessica, Blumberg, Jamie, Matterson, Kenan, Redmond, Niamh E., Becker, Allison, Boyle, Michael J., and Osborn, Karen J. 2021. [Dataset] Data from: The role of taxonomic expertise in interpretation of metabarcoding studies. Distributed by Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/DRYAD.TDZ08KPZX.
- Ames, Cheryl L., Ryan, Joseph F., Bely, Alexandra E., Cartwright, Paulyn, and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2016. [Dataset] Supplemental Information for A new transcriptome and transcriptome profiling of adult and larval tissue in the box jellyfish Alatina alata: an emerging model for studying venom, vision and sex. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3471425.v6.
Conference Proceedings
- Girasek, Quinn, Copeland, Adrienne, Egan, Katharine, and Collins, Allen G. 2021. "Investigating Mesopelagic Organism Occurrence Along the Southeastern United States." from American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10509752.1.
Book Chapter
- Weigt, Lee A., Driskell, Amy C., Ormos, Andrea, Meyer, Christopher P., and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2012. "Introduction to animal DNA barcoding protocols." In DNA Barcodes: Methods and Protocols. 11–16. In Methods in molecular biology, 858. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-591-6_2.
- Collins, Allen G. 2009. "Recent Insights into Cnidarian Phylogeny." In Proceedings of the Smithsonian Marine Science Symposium. 139–149. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. In Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences, 38. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.01960768.38.139.
- Collins, J. A. and Collins, Allen Gilbert. 2005. "Systematics as a Hypothesis-Based Science and its Fundamental Role in Understanding Oceans." In OCEANS, 2005. Proceedings of MTS/IEEE. Washington, DC ed. 1395–1402.
- Collins, Allen Gilbert. 1999. "Molecules and evolutionary history." In Evolution : investigating the evidence. Springer, Dale A. and Scotchmoor, Judith G., editors. [Pittsburgh, PA]: Paleontological Society. In Paleontological Society Papers.