PeerJ Author & Reviewer

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Allen G Collins

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

My research focuses on the systematics, evolution and natural history of medusozoan cnidarians and sponges.

Biodiversity Evolutionary Studies Zoology

Work details

Research Zoologist

National Systematics Lab of NOAA's Fisheries Service

Invertebrate Zoology

Curator

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

January 2005

Identities

@collins_noaasi

Websites

PeerJ Contributions

August 5, 2022

Skimming for barcodes: rapid production of mitochondrial genome and nuclear ribosomal repeat reference markers through shallow shotgun sequencing

Mykle L. Hoban, Jonathan Whitney, Allen G. Collins, Christopher Meyer, Katherine R. Murphy, Abigail J. Reft, Katherine E. Bemis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13790 PubMed 35959477

September 9, 2021

The importance of molecular characters when morphological variability hinders diagnosability: systematics of the moon jellyfish genus Aurelia (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa)

Jonathan W. Lawley, Edgar Gamero-Mora, Maximiliano M. Maronna, Luciano M. Chiaverano, Sérgio N. Stampar, Russell R. Hopcroft, Allen G. Collins, André C. Morandini

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11954 PubMed 34589293

September 9, 2021

Tackling the phylogenetic conundrum of Hydroidolina (Cnidaria: Medusozoa: Hydrozoa) by assessing competing tree topologies with targeted high-throughput sequencing

Bastian Bentlage, Allen G. Collins

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12104 PubMed 34589302

July 9, 2020

A collection of hexactinellids (Porifera) from the deep South Atlantic and North Pacific: new genus, new species and new records

Cristiana Castello-Branco, Allen G. Collins, Eduardo Hajdu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9431 PubMed 32714660

April 1, 2019

Eyes in Staurozoa (Cnidaria): a review

Lucília Souza Miranda, Allen Gilbert Collins

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6693 PubMed 30972259

October 13, 2017

Multigene phylogeny of the scyphozoan jellyfish family Pelagiidae reveals that the common U.S. Atlantic sea nettle comprises two distinct species (Chrysaora quinquecirrha and C. chesapeakei)

Keith M. Bayha, Allen G. Collins, Patrick M. Gaffney

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3863 PubMed 29043109

October 27, 2016

Comparative internal anatomy of Staurozoa (Cnidaria), with functional and evolutionary inferences

Lucília S. Miranda, Allen G. Collins, Yayoi M. Hirano, Claudia E. Mills, Antonio C. Marques

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2594 PubMed 27812408

May 5, 2016

Systematics of stalked jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Staurozoa)

Lucília S. Miranda, Yayoi M. Hirano, Claudia E. Mills, Audrey Falconer, David Fenwick, Antonio C. Marques, Allen G. Collins

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1951 PubMed 27168970

November 19, 2015

Phylogenetic analysis of higher-level relationships within Hydroidolina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) using mitochondrial genome data and insight into their mitochondrial transcription

Ehsan Kayal, Bastian Bentlage, Paulyn Cartwright, Angel A. Yanagihara, Dhugal J. Lindsay, Russell R. Hopcroft, Allen G. Collins

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1403 PubMed 26618080

February 20, 2019 - Version: 2

Eyes in Staurozoa (Cnidaria): a review

Lucília Souza Miranda, Allen Gilbert Collins

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27362v2

August 21, 2017 - Version: 1

Comprehensive phylogenomic analyses resolve cnidarian relationships and the origins of key organismal traits

Ehsan Kayal, Bentlage Bastian, M Sabrina Pankey, Aki Ohdera, Monica Medina, David C Plachetzki, Allen Collins, Joseph F Ryan

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3172v1

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October 26, 2017

Species–specific crab predation on the hydrozoan clinging jellyfish Gonionemus sp. (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa), subsequent crab mortality, and possible ecological consequences

Mary R. Carman, David W. Grunden, Annette F. Govindarajan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3966 PubMed 29085761

February 16, 2017

Exoskeletons of Bougainvilliidae and other Hydroidolina (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa): structure and composition

María A. Mendoza-Becerril, José Eduardo A.R. Marian, Alvaro Esteves Migotto, Antonio Carlos Marques

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2964 PubMed 28224050

October 11, 2016

Corallimorpharians are not “naked corals”: insights into relationships between Scleractinia and Corallimorpharia from phylogenomic analyses

Mei Fang Lin, Wen Hwa Chou, Marcelo V. Kitahara, Chao Lun Allen Chen, David John Miller, Sylvain Forêt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2463 PubMed 27761308