Herman Wirshing

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• 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, de, Jesus Navarrete, Di Domenico, Maikon, Goetz, Freya, Hall, Jeffrey A., Hochberg, Rick, Jörger, Katharina M., Jondelius, Ulf, Todaro, M. A., Wirshing, Herman H., Norenburg, Jon L., and Thomas, W. K. 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: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
• 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

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