Herman Wirshing

• Ph.D., Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, 2012
• M.S., Nova Southeastern University, 2003
• B.S., Florida State University, 1998 

Molecular genetic analyses of invertebrate taxa​​​

Journal Article

• Quattrini, Andrea M., Snyder, Karen E., Purow-Ruderman, Risa, Seiblitz, Isabela G. L., Hoang, Johnson, Floerke, Natasha, Ramos, Nina I., Wirshing, Herman H., Rodriguez, Estefanía, and McFadden, Catherine S. 2023. "Mito-nuclear discordance within Anthozoa, with notes on unique properties of their mitochondrial genomes." Scientific Reports, 13, (1) 7443. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34059-1.
• Quattrini, Andrea M., Herrera, Santiago, Adams, J. Mike, Grinyó, Jordi, Allcock, A. Louse, Shuler, Andrew, Wirshing, Herman H., Cordes, Erik E., and McFadden, Catherine S. 2022. "Phylogeography of Paramuricea: The Role of Depth and Water Mass in the Evolution and Distribution of Deep-Sea Corals." Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.849402.
• Titus, Benjamin M., Laroche, Robert, Rodríguez, Estefanía, Wirshing, Herman H., and Meyer, Christopher P. 2020. "Host identity and symbiotic association affects the taxonomic and functional diversity of the clownfish-hosting sea anemone microbiome." Biology Letters, 16, (2). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0738.
• Harasewych, M. G., Sei, Makiri, Wirshing, Herman H., González, Vanessa L., and Uribe, Juan E. 2019. "The complete mitochondrial genome of Neptuneopsis gilchristi GB Sowerby III, 1898 (Neogastropoda: Volutidae: Calliotectinae)." The Nautilus, 133, (3-4) 67–73.
• Cairns, Stephen D. and Wirshing, Herman H. 2018. "A phylogenetic analysis of the Primnoidae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Calcaxonia) with analyses of character evolution and a key to the genera and subgenera." BMC Evolutionary Biology, 18, (66). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1182-5.
• Leasi, Francesca, Sevigny, Joseph L., Laflamme, Eric M., Artois, Tom, Curini-Galletti, Marco, Navarrete de Jesus, Alberto, Di Domenico, Maikon, Goetz, Freya, Hall, Jeffrey A., Hochberg, Rick, Jörger, Katharina M., Jondelius, Ulf, Todaro, M. Antonio, Wirshing, Herman H., Norenburg, Jon L., and Thomas, W. Kelley. 2018. "Biodiversity estimates and ecological interpretations of meiofaunal communities are biased by the taxonomic approach." Communications Biology, 1 112. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0119-2.
• Rouzé, Héloïse, Lecellier, Gaël J., Saulnier, Denis, Planes, Serge, Gueguen, Yannick, Wirshing, Herman H., and Berteaux-Lecellier, V. 2017. "An updated assessment of Symbiodinium spp. that associate with common scleractinian corals from Moorea (French Polynesia) reveals high diversity among background symbionts and a novel finding of clade B." PeerJ, 5 e2856. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2856.
• Enochs, I. C., Manzello, D. P., Wirshing, Herman H., Carlton, R., and Serafy, J. 2016. "Micro-CT analysis of the Caribbean octocoral Eunicea flexuosa subjected to elevated pCO2." ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil, 73, (3) 910–919. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsv159.
• Wirshing, Herman H. and Baker, Andrew C. 2016. "On the difficulty of recognizing distinct Symbiodinium species in mixed communities of algal symbionts." Molecular ecology, 25, (12) 2724–2726. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13676.
• Cairns, Stephen D. and Wirshing, Herman H. 2015. "Phylogenetic reconstruction of scleraxonian octocorals supports the resurrection of the family Spongiodermidae (Cnidaria, Alcyonacea)." Invertebrate Systematics, 29, (4) 345–368. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS14063.
• Shrestha, Yesha, Wirshing, Herman H., and Harasewych, M. G. 2015. "The Genus Cerion (Gastropoda: Cerionidae) in the Florida Keys." PLoS ONE, 10, (9) 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137325.
• Wirshing, Herman H. and Baker, Andrew C. 2015. "Molecular and Morphological Species Boundaries in the Gorgonian Octocoral Genus Pterogorgia (Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae)." PLOS ONE, 10, (7). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133517.
• Wirshing, Herman H. and Baker, Andrew C. 2014. "Molecular evolution of calcification genes in morphologically similar but phylogenetically unrelated scleractinian corals." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 77 281–295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.04.015.
• Wirshing, Herman H., Feldheim, Kevin A., and Baker, Andrew C. 2013. "Vectored dispersal of Symbiodinium by larvae of a Caribbean gorgonian octocoral." Molecular ecology, 22, (17) 4413–4432. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12405.
• Bo, M., Baker, A. C., Gaino, E., Wirshing, Herman H., Scoccia, F., and Bavestrello, G. 2011. "First description of algal mutualistic endosymbiosis in a black coral (Anthozoa: Antipatharia)." Marine Ecology Progress Series, 435 1–11. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps09228.
• Etnoyer, Peter J., Wirshing, Herman H., and Sánchez, Juan A. 2010. "Rapid Assessment of Octocoral Diversity and Habitat on Saba Bank, Netherlands Antilles." PLoS ONE, 5, (5). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010668.
• Smith, L. W., Wirshing, Herman H., Baker, A. C., and Birkeland, C. 2008. "Environmental versus Genetic Influences on Growth Rates of the Corals Pocillopora eydouxi and Porites lobata (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) ¹." Pacific Science, 62, (1) 57–69. https://doi.org/10.2984/1534-6188(2008)62[57:EVGIOG]2.0.CO;2.
• Sanchez, Juan Armando and Wirshing, Herman H. 2005. "A field key to the identification of tropical western Atlantic Zooxanthellate Octocorals (Octocorallia: Cnidaria)." Caribbean Journal of Science, 41, (3) 508–522.
• Wirshing, Herman H., Messing, C. G., Douady, C. J., Reed, J., Stanhope, M. J., and Shivji, M. S. 2005. "Molecular evidence for multiple lineages in the gorgonian family Plexauridae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia)." Marine Biology, 147, (2) 497–508. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-005-1592-y.