Bracken-Grissom, Heather

Heather Bracken-Grissom
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Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences , College of Arts, Sciences & Education

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hbracken@fiu.edu

selected publications

Article
- 2021
  
  More from less: Genome skimming for nuclear markers for animal phylogenomics, a case study using decapod crustaceans
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/jcbiol/ruab009
- 2021
  
  First worldwide molecular phylogeny of the morphologically and ecologically hyperdiversified snapping shrimp genus Alpheus (Malacostraca: Decapoda). MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION. 158.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107080 Web of Science: 000632429800002
- 2021
  
  Lighting the way: Forces driving the diversification of bioluminescent signalling in sea fireflies
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/mec.15880 Web of Science: 000634293600001
- 2021
  
  Editorial: Deep Pelagic Ecosystem Dynamics in a Highly Impacted Water Column: The Gulf of Mexico After Deepwater Horizon
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.653074 Web of Science: 000631381600001
- 2021
  
  How to become a crab: Phenotypic constraints on a recurring body plan. BIOESSAYS.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/bies.202100020 Web of Science: 000626836000001
- 2021
  
  Monsters in the dark: Systematics and biogeography of the stygobitic genus godzillius (crustacea: Remipedia) from the lucayan archipelago
  Full Text via DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.751.1383
- 2021
  
  Surf and turf vision: Patterns and predictors of visual acuity in compound eye evolution. ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT. 60.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2020.101002 Web of Science: 000623900400002
- 2020
  
  A Multidisciplinary Approach to Investigate Deep-Pelagic Ecosystem Dynamics in the Gulf of Mexico Following Deepwater Horizon. FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE. 7.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.548880 Web of Science: 000605646500001
- 2020
  
  Author Correction: Light organ photosensitivity in deep-sea shrimp may suggest a novel role in counterillumination (Scientific Reports, (2020), 10, 1, (4485), 10.1038/s41598-020-61284-9)
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-65514-y
- 2020
  
  Illuminating the impact of diel vertical migration on visual gene expression in deep-sea shrimp. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY. 29:3494-3510.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/mec.15570 Web of Science: 000562443300001
- 2020
  
  Visual perception of light organ patterns in deep-sea shrimps and implications for conspecific recognition. ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 10:9503-9513.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6643 Web of Science: 000556756900001
- 2020
  
  Anchialine adjustments: an updated phylogeny and classification for the family Barbouriidae Christoffersen, 1987 (Decapoda: Caridea). JOURNAL OF CRUSTACEAN BIOLOGY. 40:401-411.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/jcbiol/ruaa037 Web of Science: 000598791200006
- 2020
  
  An encounter between a pelagic shark and giant cephalopod. JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/jfb.14415 Web of Science: 000542477900001
- 2020
  
  Population genomics of three deep-sea cephalopod species reveals connectivity between the Gulf of Mexico and northwestern Atlantic Ocean. DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS. 158.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2020.103222 Web of Science: 000523718600004
- 2020
  
  Light organ photosensitivity in deep-sea shrimp may suggest a novel role in counterillumination. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 10.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-61284-9 Web of Science: 000560132500001
- 2020
  
  Light organ photosensitivity in deep-sea shrimp may suggest a novel role in counterillumination
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-61284-9 Web of Science: 000560038200001
- 2020
  
  Comparative Population Genomics and Biophysical Modeling of Shrimp Migration in the Gulf of Mexico Reveals Current-Mediated Connectivity. FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE. 7.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00019 Web of Science: 000513492700001
- 2019
  
  Notes on the behavior and first records of three enigmatic anchialine shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea: Barbouriidae, Palaemonidae) in the Bahamas. JOURNAL OF CRUSTACEAN BIOLOGY. 39:684-688.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/jcbiol/ruz061 Web of Science: 000507311500002
- 2019
  
  Freshwater-to-marine transitions may explain the evolution of herbivory in the subgenus Mollienesia (genus Poecilia, mollies and guppies). BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. 127:742-761.
  Web of Science: 000485141200003
- 2019
  
  Comparative mitogenomics of the Decapoda reveals evolutionary heterogeneity in architecture and composition. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 9.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-47145-0 Web of Science: 000476874600054
- 2019
  
  A phylogenomic framework, evolutionary timeline and genomic resources for comparative studies of decapod crustaceans. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 286.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0079 Web of Science: 000465657800011
- 2019
  
  A tree money grows on: the first inclusive molecular phylogeny of the economically important pink shrimp (Decapoda:Farfantepenaeus) reveals cryptic diversity. INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS. 33:488-500.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1071/IS18044 Web of Science: 000468005800007
- 2019
  
  A journey on plate tectonics sheds light on European crayfish phylogeography. ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 9:1957-1971.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4888 Web of Science: 000461114900033
- 2019
  
  Widespread phenotypic hypervariation in the enigmatic anchialine shrimp Barbouria cubensis (Decapoda: Barbouriidae)
  Full Text via DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4648.1.1
- 2018
  
  RNA profile diversity across arthropoda: Guidelines, methodological artifacts, and expected outcomes
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/biomethods/bpy012
- 2018
  
  Bathynomus giganteus (Isopoda: Cirolanidae) and the canyon: a population genetics assessment of De Soto Canyon as a glacial refugium for the giant deep-sea isopod. HYDROBIOLOGIA. 825.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10750-018-3563-6 Web of Science: 000450649200014
- 2018
  
  Phylogenetic annotation and genomic architecture of opsin genes in Crustacea. HYDROBIOLOGIA. 825.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10750-018-3678-9 Web of Science: 000450649200010
- 2018
  
  Transcriptomic Insights into the Loss of Vision in Molnar Janos Cave's Crustaceans. INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY. 58:452-464.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/icb/icy071 Web of Science: 000451996200009
- 2018
  
  DECAPOD DIVERSITY ASSOCIATED WITH DEEP-SEA OCTOCORALS IN THE GULF OF MEXICO. CRUSTACEANA. 91.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1163/15685403-00003829 Web of Science: 000443699000010
- 2018
  
  The Application of Novel Research Technologies by the Deep Pelagic Nekton Dynamics of the Gulf of Mexico (DEEPEND) Consortium. MARINE TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY JOURNAL. 52.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.4031/MTSJ.52.6.10 Web of Science: 000457656100013
- 2017
  
  Advancing genomics through the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA)
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1071/IS16059
- 2017
  
  Corrigendum to: Advancing genomics through the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA) (Invertebrate Systematics (2017) 31: 1 (1-7) DOI: 10.1071/IS16059)
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1071/IS16059_CO
- 2017
  
  Phylogenetic evidence from freshwater crayfishes that cave adaptation is not an evolutionary dead-end. EVOLUTION. 71:2522-2532.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/evo.13326 PMID: 28804900 Web of Science: 000412834700018
- 2017
  
  The role of isolation on contrasting phylogeographic patterns in two cave crustaceans. BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY. 17.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1186/s12862-017-1094-9 PMID: 29216829 Web of Science: 000417601800002
- 2016
  
  Life in the Underworld: Anchialine cave biology in the era of speleogenomics. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPELEOLOGY. 45:149-170.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.5038/1827-806X.45.2.1954 Web of Science: 000383778600005
- 2016
  
  Phylogeny of Stenopodidea (Crustacea : Decapoda) shrimps inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial genes reveals non-monophyly of the families Spongicolidae and Stenopididae and most of their composite genera. INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS. 30:479-490.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1071/IS16024 Web of Science: 000387249500004
- 2016
  
  The Origin of Large-Bodied Shrimp that Dominate Modern Global Aquaculture. PLOS ONE. 11.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158840 PMID: 27415002 Web of Science: 000379579500043
- 2015
  
  A synthetic phylogeny of freshwater crayfish: insights for conservation. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 370.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0009 PMID: 25561670 Web of Science: 000347312400008
- 2015
  
  Phylogenetic and transcriptomic analyses reveal the evolution of bioluminescence and light detection in marine deep-sea shrimps of the family Oplophoridae (Crustacea: Decapoda). MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION. 83:278-292.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.11.013 PMID: 25482362 Web of Science: 000350008400025
- 2015
  
  THE FOREST FOR THE TREES: EVALUATING MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES WITH AN EMPHASIS ON HIGHER-LEVEL DECAPODA. JOURNAL OF CRUSTACEAN BIOLOGY. 35:577-592.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1163/1937240X-00002371 Web of Science: 000361166600001
- 2014
  
  Molecular phylogenetics of American snapping shrimps allied to Alpheus floridanus Kingsley, 1878 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae). ZOOTAXA. 3895:492-502.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3895.4.2 PMID: 25543583 Web of Science: 000346899000002
- 2014
  
  ON STABILISING THE NAMES OF THE INFRAORDERS OF THALASSINIDEAN SHRIMPS, AXIIDEA DE SAINT LAURENT, 1979 AND GEBIIDEA DE SAINT LAURENT, 1979 (DECAPODA). CRUSTACEANA. 87:1258-1272.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1163/15685403-00003354 Web of Science: 000342332200008
- 2014
  
  Provisional revision of American snapping shrimp allied to Alpheus floridanus Kingsley, 1878 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) with notes on A. floridanus africanus. ZOOTAXA. 3895:451-491.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3895.4.1 PMID: 25543582 Web of Science: 000346899000001
- 2014
  
  Seaweeds and Decapod Crustaceans on Gulf Deep Banks after the Macondo Oil Spill. BIOSCIENCE. 64:808-819.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biu119 Web of Science: 000341124000008
- 2014
  
  The Emergence of Lobsters: Phylogenetic Relationships, Morphological Evolution and Divergence Time Comparisons of an Ancient Group (Decapoda: Achelata, Astacidea, Glypheidea, Polychelida). SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY. 63:457-479.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syu008 PMID: 24562813 Web of Science: 000338133300001
- 2014
  
  The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): Developing Community Resources to Study Diverse Invertebrate Genomes. JOURNAL OF HEREDITY. 105:1-18.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/jhered/est084 Web of Science: 000328427800001
- 2014
  
  Using phylogenetically-informed annotation (PIA) to search for light-interacting genes in transcriptomes from non-model organisms. BMC BIOINFORMATICS. 15.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1186/s12859-014-0350-x PMID: 25407802 Web of Science: 000347428200001
- 2013
  
  A comprehensive and integrative reconstruction of evolutionary history for Anomura (Crustacea: Decapoda). BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY. 13.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-128 PMID: 23786343 Web of Science: 000321580600001
- 2012
  
  Phylogenetic relationships, character evolution, and taxonomic implications within the slipper lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae)
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.09.019
- 2012
  
  Phylogenetics links monster larva to deep-sea shrimp. ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 2:2367-2373.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ece3.347 PMID: 23145324 Web of Science: 000312451300001
- 2011
  
  Targeted amplicon sequencing (TAS): A scalable next-gen approach to multilocus, multitaxa phylogenetics
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr106
- 2011
  
  Directed next generation sequencing for phylogenetics: An example using Decapoda (Crustacea)
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2011.05.010
Editorial Material
- 2018
  
  Preface: Recent advances in Crustacean Genomics. HYDROBIOLOGIA.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10750-018-3773-y Web of Science: 000450649200001
Letter
- 2018
  
  New NSF policy will stifle innovation. SCIENCE.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1126/science.aav4793 Web of Science: 000447680100033
Meeting Abstract
- 2018
  
  Transcriptomic and epigenetic insights into the evolution of vision loss in cave-dweling crustaceans. INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY. E175-E175.
  Web of Science: 000429309602217

chaired theses and dissertations

Timm, Laura, Evolutionary and Population Dynamics of Crustaceans in the Gulf of Mexico 2018

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Collaborative Research: The evolution of bioluminescence and light detection in deep-sea shrimp (Oplophoridae and Sergestidae) awarded by National Science Foundation 2016 - 2020
Training workshop on genomic methods and analysis for early-career invertebrate systematists awarded by National Science Foundation 2018 - 2019
DISSERTATION RESEARCH:Phylogenetic, transcriptomic, and epigenetic analyses of vision and chemoreception in cave adapted crustaceans awarded by National Science Foundation 2017 - 2019
DEEPEND: Deep-Pelagic Nekton Dynamics of the Gulf of Mexico awarded by Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative 2015 - 2018
Evolution in the underworld: Molecular insights from subterranean waters. awarded by Cave Research Foundation 2016 - 2017
Bioluminescence and Vision in the Deep-sea Benthos II awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin 2015 - 2017
Stress Response of Decapod Crustaceans to BP Oil Spill awarded by Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative 2012 - 2015

teaching activities

BSC3941-B52: Biological Sciences Research Internship Fall Term 2019
BSC6913-B52: Student Research Lab Fall Term 2019
BSC6913-B52: Student Research Lab Spring Term 2019
PCB3063-B51: Genetics Spring Term 2019

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Heather Bracken-Grissom

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publication subject areas

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Environmental Sciences & Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics & Heredity
Geology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Mathematical & Computational Biology
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