Publications
Please see Jeanne Serb’s Google Scholar page for the most up-to-date list of publications. If you do not have access to the journal, we will gladly send pdf copies of our publications upon request.
2019
Audino JÁ, JM Serb, JEAR Marian. In review. Phylogeny and anatomy of marine mussel (Mytilidae) reveal convergent evolution of siphon traits in association with similar ecology.
Smedley GD, Audino JÁ C. Grula, AJ Porath-Krause, AN Pairett, A Alejandrino, L Lacey, F Masters, PF Duncan, EE Strong, JM Serb. 2019. Identifying the sister taxon to the Pectinidae reveals contradicting topologies. Molecular Phylogenetic and Evolution. 137: 293-299.
Audino JÁ, JM Serb, JEAR Marian. 2019. Ark clams and relatives (Bivalvia: Arcida) show convergent morphological evolution associated with lifestyle transitions in the marine benthos. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 126: 866-884.
2017
Sherratt E, JM Serb, DC Adams. 2017. Rates of morphological evolution, asymmetry and morphological integration of shell shape in scallops (Bivalvia: Pectinidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology, special issue “In the Light of Evolution.” 17: 248.
Faggionato D, JM Serb. 2017. A strategy to identify and test putative light sensitive non-opsin GPCRs: a case study. Biological Bulletin 233: 70-82.
Serb JM, A Alejandrino, E Sherratt, AC Kraemer, DC Adams. 2017. Phylogenetic convergence and multiple shell shape optima for gliding scallops (Bivalvia: Pectinidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30: 1736-1747.
2016
Ramirez MD, AN Pairett, MS Pankey, JM Serb, DI Speiser, AJ Swafford, TH Oakley. 2016. The last common ancestor of most bilaterian animals possessed at least 9 opsins. Genome Biology and Evolution 8: 3640-3652.
Porath-Krause AJ, AN Pairett, D Faggionato, BS Birla, K Sankar, JM Serb. 2016. Structural differences and differential expression among duplicated rhabdomeric opsins indicate functional change in photoreception of the scallop (Pectinidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology 16: 250-265.
Sherratt E, A Alejandrino, AC Kraemer, DC Adams, JM Serb. 2016. Trends in the sand: directional evolution in shell shape of recessing scallops (Bivalvia: Pectinidae). Evolution 70: 2061-2073.
Serb JM. 2016. Reconciling morphological and molecular approaches to develop a phylogeny for the Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). In Scallops: Biology, Ecology and Aquaculture (S Shumway J Parsons, eds.) Pp 1-28.
Kraemer AC, JM Serb, DC Adams. 2016. Both novelty and conspicuousness influence selection on Plethodon cinereus color pattern by mammal predators. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 118: 889-900.
2015
Kraemer AC, JM Serb, DC Adams. 2015. Model toxin level does not directly influence the evolution of mimicry in the salamander Plethodon cinereus. Evolutionary Ecology 29:511-523.
Kraemer AC, JM Serb, DC Adams. 2015. Batesian mimics influence the evolution of conspicuousness in an aposematic salamander. Journal of Experimental Biology. 28: 1016–1023.
2014
Speiser DI, MS Pankey, AK Zaharoff, BA Battelle, HD Bracken-Grissom, JW Breinholt, SM Bybee, TW Cronin, A Garm, AR Lindgren, NH Patel, ML Porter, ME Protas, AS Rivera, JM Serb, KS Zigler, KA Crandall, TH Oakley. 2014. Using phylogenetically-informed annotation (PIA) to search for light-interacting genes in transcriptomes from non-model organisms. BMC Bioinformatics 15: 350-362.
Mynhardt G, A Alejandrino, L Puslednik, J Corrales, JM Serb. 2014. Shell shape convergence masks biological diversity in gliding scallops: description of Ylistrum n. gen. (Pectinidae) from the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Journal of Molluscan Studies 80: 400-411.
2013
Pairett AN, JM Serb. 2013. De novo assembly and characterization of two transcriptomes reveal multiple light-mediated functions in the scallop eye (Bivalvia: Pectinidae). PLoS ONE 8(7): e69852.
Serb JM, AJ Porath-Krause, AN Pairett. 2013. Uncovering a gene duplication of the photoreceptive protein, opsin, in scallops (Bivalvia: Pectinidae). Integrative and Comparative Biology 53(1): 68-77.
Zhang X, MH West Greenlee, JM Serb. 2013. EnRICH: Extraction and Ranking using Integration and Criteria Heuristics. BMC Systems Biology 7: 4
2012
Sparkman AM, TS Schwartz, JA Madden, SE Boyken, NB Ford, JM Serb, AM Bronikowski. 2012. Rates of molecular evolution vary in vertebrates for insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), a pleiotropic locus that regulates life history traits. General and Comparative Endocrinology 178: 164-173.
2011
Zhang X, JM Serb, MH West Greenlee. 2011. Mouse retinal development: a dark horse model for systems biology research. Bioinformatics and Biology Insights 5: 99-113.
Alejandrino A, L Puslednik, JM Serb. 2011. Convergent and parallel evolution in complex behaviors of the scallops (Bivalvia: Pectinidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 164. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-164
Serb JM, A Alejandrino, E Otárola-Castillo, DC Adams. 2011. Morphological convergence of distantly related scallop species (Pectinidae). Zoological Journal of Linnean Society. 163: 571-584.
Serb JM, MC Orr, MH West Greenlee. 2010. Using evolutionary conserved gene networks as a strategy to leverage high throughput gene expression queries. PLoS ONE 5: e12525
Rivera AS, MS Pankey, DC Plachetzki, C Villacorta, AE Syme, JM Serb, AR Omilian, TH Oakley. 2010. Gene duplication and the origins of morphological complexity in pancrustacean eyes, a genomic approach. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10:123.
2010
2009
Hemmingsen AH, KJ Roe, JM Serb. 2009. Development and characterization of twelve microsatellite markers for the endangered winged-mapleleaf, Quadrula fragosa (Bivalvia: Unionidae). Molecular Ecology Resources 9: 1460-1466.
2008
Serb JM. 2008. Introduction to the symposium “Molluscan models: Advancing our understanding of the eye.”American Malacological Bulletin 26: 1-2.
Serb JM. 2008. Developing molluscan models to study the disease, ecology, and evolution of the eye. American Malacological Bulletin 26: 3-18.
Serb JM, DJ Eernisse. 2008. Charting evolution’s trajectory: using molluscan eye diversity to understand parallel and convergent evolution. Evolution: Education and Outreach 1(4): 439-447.
Puslednik L, JM Serb. 2008. Molecular phylogenetics of the Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) and the effect of outgroup selection and increased taxon sampling on tree topology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48: 1178-1188.
Campbell DC, PD Johnson, JD Williams, AK Rindsberg, JM Serb, KK Small, C Lydeard. 2008. Identification of “extinct” freshwater mussel species using DNA barcoding. Molecular Ecology Resources 8: 711-724.
Serb JM, MC Barnhart. 2008. Congruence and conflict between molecular and reproductive characters when assessing biological diversity in the western fanshell Cyprogenia aberti (Bivalvia: Unionidae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 95: 248-261.
2006
Serb JM. 2006. Discovery of genetically distinct sympatric lineages in the freshwater mussel Cyprogenia aberti (Bivalvia: Unionidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies 72: 425-434.
Serb JM, TH Oakley. 2005. Hierarchical phylogenetics as a quantitative analytical framework for evolutionary developmental biology. Bioessays 27:1158-1166.
Plachetzki DC, JM Serb, TH Oakley. 2005. New insights into the evolutionary history of photoreceptor cells. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20: 465-467.
Campbell DC, JM Serb, JE Buhay, KJ Roe, RL Minton, and C Lydeard. 2005. Phylogeny of North American amblemines: Prodigious polyphyly proves pervasive. Invertebrate Biology 124: 131-164.
Serb JM, C Lydeard. 2003. Complete mtDNA sequence of the North American freshwater mussel, Lampsilis ornata (Unionidae): An examination of the evolution and phylogenetic utility of mitochondrial genome organization in Bivalvia (Mollusca). Molecular Biology and Evolution 20: 1854-1866.
Serb JM, JE Buhay, C Lydeard. 2003. Molecular systematics of the North American freshwater bivalve genus Quadrula (Unionidae: Ambleminae) based on mitochondrial ND1 sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 28: 1-11.
Buhay JE, JM Serb, CR Dean, Q Parham, C Lydeard. 2002. Conservation genetics of two endangered unionid bivalve species: Epioblasma florentina walkeri and Epioblasma capsaeformis (Unionidae: Lampsilini). Journal of Molluscan Studies 68: 385-391.
Serb JM, CA Phillips, JB Iverson. 2000. Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the species complex Kinosternon flavescens (Kinosternidae) based on complete mitochondrial DNA sequences of the control region. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 18: 149-162.
Phillips CA, T Uzzell, CM Spolsky, JM Serb, RE Szafoni, TR Pollowy. 1997. Persistent high levels of tetraploidy in salamanders of the Ambystoma jeffersonianum complex. Journal of Herpetology 31: 530-535.