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Stephen R. Palumbi received his Ph.D. from University of Washington in marine ecology. His research group engages in the study of the genetics, evolution, conservation, population biology and systematics of a diverse array of marine organisms. Professor Palumbi's own research interests are similarly widespread, and he has published on the genetics and evolution of sea urchins, whales, cone snails, corals, sharks, spiders, shrimps, bryozoans, and butterflyfishes. A primary focus is the use of molecular genetic techniques in conservation, including the identification of whale and dolphin products available in commercial markets. Current conservation work centers on the genetics of marine reserves designed for conservation and fisheries enhancement, with projects in the Philipppines, Bahamas and western US coast. In addition, basic work on the molecular evolution of reproductive isolation and its influence on patterns of speciation uses marine model systems such as sea urchins. This work is expanding our view of the evolution of gamete morphology and the genes involved. Steve's recent book, The Evolution Explosion: How humans cause rapid evolutionary change, shows how rapid evolution is central to emerging problems in modern society. In January 2003, Steve appears in the TV series The Future is Wild, an computer-animated exploration of the possible courses of evolution in the next few hundred million years. 
Publications Alter, S. E.; Rynes, E; and Palumbi S. P. 2007. DNA evidence for historic population size and past ecosystem impacts of gray whales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(38) 15162-15167 View PDF Worm, B.; Barbier, E.B.; Beaumont, N.; Duffy, J. E.; Folke, C.; Halpern, B.S.; Jackson, J.B.C.; Lotze, H.K.; Micheli, F; Palumbi, S.R.; Sala, E.; Selkoe, K.A.; Stachowicz, J.J.; Watson, R. 2006 Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services. Science 314(5800):787-79 [PDF] Palumbi, S. R. and Sotka, E. E. 2006. The use of genetic clines to estimate dispersal distances of marine larvae. Ecology 87(5):1094-1103. View PDF Palumbi, S. R. 2005. Coral Gardens: Paternity and Drug Testing on the Reef. Current Biology 15(14):544-545
View PDF Geyer, L and S. R. Palumbi. 2005. Conspecific sperm precedence in two species of tropical sea urchins. Evolution 59 (1): 97-104 View PDF Palumbi, S. R. 2005. Germ theory for ailing corals. Nature 434(7034): 713-15 View PDF Palumbi, S. R. and Lesios H. A. 2005. Evolutionary animation: how do molecular phylogenies compare to Mayr's reconstruction of speciation patterns in the sea? Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Science 102(supp. 1):6566-72 View PDF Duda T. F. and Palumbi S. R. 2004 Gene expression and feeding ecology: evolution of piscivory in the venomous gastropod genus Conus. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London-Biological Science 271:1165-1174 View PDF Palumbi, S. R. 2004 Marine Reserves and Ocean Neighborhoods: The Spatial Scale of Marine Populations and Their Management. Annual Review of Environmental Resources 29:31-68 View PDF Palumbi, S. R. 2004 Why mothers matter. Nature 430(7000):621-22 View PDF Palumbi S R, Roman J. 2004. Counting Whales in the North Atlantic - Response. Science 303: 4 View PDF Roman, J. and Palumbi, S. R. 2004 A global invader at home: population structure of the green crab, Carcinus maenas, in Europe. Molecular Ecology 13(10):2891-2898 View PDF Sotka, E. E., Wares, J. P., Barth, J. A., Grosberg, R. K., and Palumbi, S. R. 2004 Strong genetic clines and geographical variation in gene flow in the rocky intertidal barnacle Balanus glandula. Molecular Ecology 13:2143-56 View PDF Vollmer, S. V. and Palumbi S. R. 2004 Testing the utility of internally transcribed spacer sequences in coral phylogenetics. Molecular Ecology 13(10):2763-2772 View PDF Palumbi, S. R, Gaines, S. D, Leslie, H., and Warner, R. R. 2003 New wave: high-tech tools to help marine reserve research Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1(2):73-79 View PDF Biermann, C. H., B. D. Kessing, et al. 2003. Phylogeny and development of marine model species: Strongylocentrotid sea urchins. Evolution & Development 5:360-371. View PDF Gerber, L. R., L. W. Botsford, et al. 2003. Population models for marine reserve resign: A retrospective and prospective synthesis. Ecological Applications 13:S47-S64. View PDF Geyer, L. B., and S. R. Palumbi. 2003. Reproductive character displacement and the genetics of gamete recognition in tropical sea urchins. Evolution 57:1049-1060. View PDF Hare, M. P., and S. R. Palumbi. 2003. High intron sequence conservation across three mammalian orders suggests functional constraints. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20:969-978 View PDF Hughes, T. P., A. H. Baird, et al. 2003a. Climate change, human impacts, and the resilience of coral reefs. Science 301:929-933. View PDF Hughes, T. P., A. H. Baird, et al. 2003b. Causes of coral reef degradation - response. Science 302:1503-1504. View PDF Landry, C., L. B. Geyer, et al. 2003. Recent speciation in the indo-west pacific: Rapid evolution of gamete recognition and sperm morphology in cryptic species of sea urchin. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 270:1839-1847. View PDF Lubchenco, J., S. R. Palumbi, et al. 2003. Plugging a hole in the ocean: The emerging science of marine reserves. Ecological Applications 13:S3-S7. View PDF Neafsey, D. E., and S. R. Palumbi. 2003. Genome size evolution in pufferfish: A comparative analysis of diodontid and tetraodontid pufferfish genomes. Genome Research 13:821-830. View PDF Palumbi, S. R. 2003. Ecological subsidies alter the structure of marine communities. Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences 100:11927-11928. View PDF Palumbi, S. R. 2003. Population genetics, demographic connectivity, and the design of marine reserves. Ecological Applications 13:S146-S158. View PDF Palumbi, S.R. and R.R. Warner 2003. Why gobies are like hobbits. Science 299:51-52. View PDF Roman, J. and Palumbi, S. R. 2003. Whales before whaling in the North Atlantic. Science 301:508-510. View PDF Warner, R. R., and S. R. Palumbi. 2003. Larvae retention: genes or oceanography? Response. Science 300:1658. View PDF Barber, P.H., Moosa, M.K., Palumbi, S.R. 2002. Rapid recovery of genetic diversity of stomatopod populations on Krakatau: Temporal and spatial scales of marine larval dispersal. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences SeriesB 269(1500):1591-1597 View PDF Barber P.H., et al. 2002. Sharp genetic breaks among populations of Haptosquilla pulchella (Stomatopoda) indicate limits to larval transport: patterns, causes, and consequences. Molecular Ecology. 11(4):659-674. View PDF Hare, M.P., F. Cipriano, and S.R, Palumbi. 2002. Genetic evidence on the demography of speciation in allopatric dolphin species. Evolution. 56(4):804-816. View PDF Hare, M., Palumbi, S.R. 2002. Genetic distinctiveness of inshore and offshor Spisula clams. Journal of Shellfish Research 21: 381. Ingram, K.K., Palumbi, S.R. 2002. Characterization of microsatellite loci for Argentine ant, Linepithema humile, and their potential for analysis of colony structure in invading Hawaiian populations. Molecular Ecology Notes 2:94-95 View PDF Simmonds, M.P., Haraguchi, K., Endo, T., Cipriano, F., Palumbi, S.R., Troisi, G.M. 2002. Human health significance of organochlorine and mercury contaminants in Japanese whale meat. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health 65(17):1211-1235 View PDF Vollmer, S.V. and Palumbi, S.R. 2002. Unisexual clones: Lizards and corals: Response. Science 298 (5601):2130-2131. View PDF Vollmer, S.V. and Palumbi, S.R.. 2002. Hybridization and the evolution of reef coral diversity. Science. 296(5575):2023-2025. View PDF Palumbi, S.R. 2001. Humans as the world's greatest evolutionary force. Science. 293(.5536):1786-1790. View PDF Palumbi, S.R. 2001. The evolution explosion: how humans cause rapid evolutionary change. New York: Norton, 277 pages. Duda, T. F., et al. 2001. .Origins of diverse feeding ecologies within Conus, a genus of venomous marine gastropods. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 73(4):.391-409. Palumbi, S.R.; F. Cipriano, Frank; and M.P. Hare. 2001. .Predicting nuclear gene coalescence from mitochondrial data: The three-times rule. Evolution 55(5):859-868. View PDF Palumbi, S.R. 2001. The ecology of marine protected areas. In: Marine Community Ecology ed. by M.D. Bertness, S.M. Gaines, and M.E. Hixon.. Sunderland, Mass: Sinauer Associates, pp.509-530. Baker, C.S., et al. 2000. Scientific whaling: Source of illegal products for market? Science . 290(5497):1695. Baker, C.S., et al. 2000. Predicted decline of protected whales based on molecular genetic monitoring of Japanese and Korean markets. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences. 267(1449):1191-1199. View PDF Barber, P. H, et al. 2000. Biogeography: a marine Wallace's line. Nature. 406(6797):692-693. View PDF Duda, T.F. and S.R. Palumbi. 2000. Evolutionary diversification of multigene families: Allelic selection of toxins in predatory cone snails. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 17(9):1286-1293. View PDF Hare, M.P, S.R. Palumbi, and C.A. Butman. 2000. Single-step species identification of bivalve larvae using multiplex polymerase chain reaction. Marine Biology. 137(5/6):.953-961. View PDF Cipriano, F. and S.R. Palumbi. 1999. Genetic tracking of a protected whale. Nature. 397(6717):307-308. View PDF Duda, T.F. and S.R. Palumbi. 1999. Molecular genetics of ecological diversification: Duplication and rapid evolution of toxin genes of the venomous gastropod Conus. Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences 96(12): 6820-6823. View PDF Duda, T.F. and S.R. Palumbi. 1999. Population structure of the black tiger prawn, Penaeus monodon, among western Indian Ocean and western Pacific populations. Marine Biology. 134(4):705-710. View PDF Duda, T.F. and S.R. Palumbi. 1999. Developmental shifts and species selection in gastropods. Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences 96(18):10272-10277. View PDF France, S.C. et al. 1999 .Intraspecific genetic diversity in the marine shrimp Penaeus vannamei: Multiple polymorphic elongation factor-1 alpha loci revealed by intron sequencing. Marine Biotechnology. 1(3):261-268. View PDF Hare, M.P., and S.R. Palumbi.. 1999. The accuracy of heterozygous base calling from diploid sequence and resolution of haplotypes using allele-specific sequencing. Molecular Ecology. 8(10):1750-1752. McMillan, W.O., et al. 1999. Color pattern evolution, assortative mating, and genetic differentiation in brightly colored butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae). Evolution. 53(1): 247-260. View PDF Palumbi, S.R. 1999. All males are not created equal: Fertility differences depend on gamete recognition polymorphisms in sea urchins. Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences. 96(22):12632-12637. View PDF Palumbi, .S.R. 1999. The Prodigal Fish. Nature. 402(6763):733-135. View PDF Palumbi, S. R. and Cipriano, F. 1998. Species identification using genetic tools: the value of nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences in whale conservation. The Journal of Heredity 89(5):459-464 View PDF Villablanca, F. X., Roderick, G. K., and Palumbi, S. R. 1998. Invasion genetics of the Mediterranean fruit fly: variation in multiple nuclear introns. Molecular Ecology 7:547-560 View PDF McMillan, W. O. and Palumbi, S. R. 1997. Rapid rate of control-region evolution in Pacific butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae). Journal of Molecular Evolution 45:473-484 View PDF Romano, S. L. and Palumbi, S. R. 1997 Molecular evolution of a portion of the mitochondrial 16S ribosomal gene region in scleractinian corals. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 45:397-411 View PDF Metz, E. C. and Palumbi, S. R. 1996. Positive selection and sequence rearrangements generate extensive polymorphism in the gamete recognition protein bindin. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 13:397-406 View PDF McMillan, W. O. and Palumbi S. R. 1995. Concordant evolutionary patterns among Indo-West Pacific butterflyfishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences. 260(1358):229-236 View PDF Gillespie, R. G., Croom, H. B., and Palumbi, S. R. 1994. Multiple origins of a spider radiation in Hawaii. Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Science 91: 2290-2294 View PDF Palumbi, S. R. 1994 Genetic Divergence, Reproductive Isolation, and Marine Speciation. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 25:547-572 View PDF Palumbi, S. R. and Baker, C. S. 1994. Contrasting population structure from nuclear intron sequences and mtDNA of humpback whales. Molecular Biology and Evolution 11(3):426-435 View PDF Bowman, B. H. and Palumbi, S. R. 1993. Rapid production of single-stranded sequencing template from amplified DNA using magnetic beads. Methods in Enzymology 224:399-406 View PDF Martin, A. P. and Palumbi, S. R. 1993. Protein evolution in different cellular environments: cytochrome b in sharks and mammals. Molecular Biology and Evolution 10(4):873-891 View PDF Martin, A. P. and Palumbi, S. R. 1993. Body size, metabolic rate, generation time, and the molecular clock. Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences 90(9):4087-4091 View PDF Martin, A. P., Naylor, G. J. P, and Palumbi, S. R. 1992. Rates of mitochondrial DNA evolution in sharks are slow compared with mammals. Nature 357:153-157 View PDF Palumbi, S. R. 1992 Marine speciation on a small planet. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 7, 114-118 View PDF Palumbi, S. R. and Metz, E. C. 1991. Strong reproductive isolation between closely related tropical sea urchins (genus Echinometra). Molecular Biology and Evolution 8(2):227-239 View PDF Baker, C. S. et al. 1990. Influence of seasonal migration on geographic distribution of mitochondrial DNA haplotypes in humpback whales. Nature 344:2380240 View PDF
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