Recent Publications
*graduate student authors, ** undergraduate student authors, ^Book chapter
- A Freidlander, W Goodell, J Giddens, Erin Easton, and D Wagner. Deep-sea biodiversity at the
extremes of the Salas y Gómez and Nazca ridges with implications for conservation. (2021) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253213
- A Mecho, B Dewitte, J Sellanes, S van Gennip, Erin Easton, and J Gusmoa. Environmental drivers of
mesophotic echinoderm assemblages of the southeastern Pacific Ocean. (2021) https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.574780
- Tapia-Guerra, J.M., Mecho, A., Easton, E.E., Gallardo, M., Sellanes, J. 2021. First description of deep benthic habitats and communities of oceanic islands and seamounts of the Nazca Desventuradas Marine Park, Chile. Scientific Reports 11:6209. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85516-8
- Wagner, D., van der Meer, L., Gorny, M., Sellanes, J., Gaymer, C.F., Soto, E.H., Easton, E.E., Friedlander, A.M., Lindsay, D.J. Molodtsova, T.N., Boteler, B., Durussel, C., Gjerde, K.M., Currie, D., Gianni, M., Brooks, C.M., Shiple, M., Wilhelm, T.A., Quesada, M., Thomas, T., Dunstan, P.K, Clark, N.A., Villanueva, L., Pyle, R.L., Clark, M., Georgian, S.E., Morgan, L.E. 2021. The Salas y Gómez and Nazca ridges: A review of the importance, opportunities and challenges for protecting a global diversity hotspot on the high seas. Marine Policy 126:104377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104377
- Mecho, A., Dewitte, B., Sellanes, J., van Gennip, S., Easton, E.E., Gusmao, J.B. 2021. Environmental drivers of mesophotic echinoderm assemblages of the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science. 8:574780. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.574780
- Asorey, C., Sellanes, J., Easton, E. E., Bieler, R., Mecho, A. 2020. Architectonica karsteni Rutsch, 1934 (Gastropoda: Architectonicidae) in seamounts of the Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park: First evidence of an extant population in Chilean waters since the Miocene. Nautilus. 134(2):1-10.
- Shepherd, B., Pinheiro, H., Phelps, T., Easton, E. E., Pérez-Matus, A., Rocha, L. 2020. A New Species of Chromis (Teleostei: Pomacentridae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and Salas y Gómez, Chile. Copeia. 108 (2), 326-332. https://doi.org/10.1643/CI-19-294
- Easton, E.E., Hicks, D. Complete mitogenome of Carijoa riisei (Octocorallia: Alcyonacaea: Stolonifera: Clavulariidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part. B. 5, 1826–1827. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2020.1750998
- Morelos*, N., Easton, E.E., Friedlander, A. M., Harvey, E. S., Garcia, R., Gaymer, C.F. 2019. Spatial and seasonal differences in the top predators of Easter Island: essential data for implementing the new Rapa Nui multiple-uses marine protected area. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 29 (S2), 118–129. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3068
- Mecho, A., Sellanes, J., Easton, E.E., Gorny, M., Mah, C. 2019. Unexplored diversity of the mesophotic echinoderm fauna of the Easter Island ecoregion. Marine Biology, 166, 91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-019-3537-x
- Easton, E.E., Hicks, D. 2019. Complete mitochondrial genome of Callogorgia cf. gracilis (Octocorallia: Calcaxonia: Primnoidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part. B. 4, 361–362. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2018.1544042
- Hoeksema, B.M., Sellanes, J., Easton, E.E. 2019. A high-latitude, mesophotic Cycloseris field at 85 m depth off Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Bulletin of Marine Science. 95(1), 101–102. https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2018.0053
- ^Easton, E. E., Gorny, M., Mecho, A., Sellanes, J., Gaymer, C. F., Spalding, H. L., Aburto, J. 2019. Chile and the Salas y Gómez Ridge. In: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems, Coral Reefs of the World, vol 12, pp. 477-490. Loya, Y., Puglise, K. Bridge, T. (eds.) Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92735-0_27
- Rodriguez*, R., Easton, E. E., Shirley, T. C., Tunnell, J. W. Jr., Hicks, D. 2018. Preliminary multivariate comparison of coral assemblages on carbonate banks in the western Gulf of Mexico. Gulf and Caribbean Research. 29(1), 23–33. https://doi.org/10.18785/gcr.2901.11
- Gorny, M., Easton, E. E., Sellanes, J. 2018. First record of black corals (Antipatharia) in shallow coastal waters of northern Chile by means of underwater video. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research. 46, 457–460. http://dx.doi.org/10.3856/vol46-issue2-fulltext-20
- Easton, E. E., Gaymer, C. F., Friedlander, A.M., Herlan, J. J. 2018. Effects of herbivore abundance, wave exposure, and depth on benthic coral communities of the Easter Island Ecoregion. Marine and Freshwater Research. 69(6), 997–1006. https://doi.org/10.1071/MF17064
- Rohal, M., Thistle, D. Easton E. E. 2018. Extraction of metazoan meiofauna from muddy deep-sea samples: operator and taxon effects on efficiency. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 502, 105–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2017.01.006
- Easton, E E., Sellanes, J. 2018. First record of the yellowfin soldierfish, Myripristis chryseres Jordan and Evermann 1903 (Beryciformes: Holocentridae), in the Easter Island Ecoregion. Pacific Science 72, 143–148. https://doi.org/10.2984/72.1
- Easton, E. E., Gaymer, C. F., Sellanes, J., Morales*, N., Berkenpas, E., Gorny, M. 2016. Diversity of deep-sea fishes of the Easter Island Ecoregion. Deep-sea Research Part II 137, 78–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.12.006
- Easton, E. E., Thistle, D. 2016. Do some deep-sea, sediment-dwelling species of harpacticoid copepods have 1,000-km-scale range sizes? Molecular Ecology 25, 4301-4318. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13744
- Easton, E. E., Darrow**, E. M., Spears T., Thistle D. 2014. The mitochondrial genomes of Amphiascoides atopus and Schizopera knabeni (Harpacticoida: Miraciidae) reveal similarities between the copepod orders Harpacticoida and Poecilostomatoida. Gene 538, 123–137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2013.12.053
- Easton, E. E., Thistle, D. 2014. An effective procedure for DNA isolation and voucher recovery from millimeter-scale copepods and new primers for the 18S rRNA and cytb genes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 465, 135–143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2014.06.016
- Rohal, M., Thistle, D., Easton, E. E. 2014. Meiofaunal abundances on the continental rise off the coast of California. Deep-sea Research Part I 93, 131–144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2014.07.004
- Easton, E. E., D. Thistle, and T. Spears. 2010. Species boundaries in Zausodes-complex species (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Harpacticidae) from the north-eastern Gulf of Mexico. Invertebrate Systematics 24, 258–270. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS09038
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