Overview
overview
- Evolutionary biologist, bioinformatics
research interests
- Systematics and molecular evolution
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected publications
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2019Closing the Achievement Gap in a Large Introductory Course by Balancing Reduced In-Person Contact with Increased Course StructureFull Text via DOI: 10.1187/cbe.18-08-0153 Web of Science: 000465386400013
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2019A novel and enigmatic two-holed shell aperture in a new species of suspension-feeding worm-snail (Vermetidae)Full Text via DOI: 10.7717/peerj.6569 Web of Science: 000460030200016
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2019Multiple Facets of Marine Invertebrate Conservation GenomicsFull Text via DOI: 10.1146/annurev-animal-020518-115034 Web of Science: 000460206800022
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2017
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2017A new species of Novastoa Finlay, 1926 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vermetidae) from coral reefs of the Pacific OceanFull Text via DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.323 Web of Science: 000402414900001
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2017A family-level Tree of Life for bivalves based on a Sanger-sequencing approachFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.11.003 Web of Science: 000394200500018
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2015A phylogenetic backbone for Bivalvia: an RNA-seq approachFull Text via DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2332 Web of Science: 000350077000002
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2014Investigating the Bivalve Tree of Life - an exemplar-based approach combining molecular and novel morphological charactersFull Text via DOI: 10.1071/IS13010 Web of Science: 000333043200003
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2014The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): Developing Community Resources to Study Diverse Invertebrate GenomesFull Text via DOI: 10.1093/jhered/est084 Web of Science: 000328427800001
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2013Isolation and characterization of 18 novel polymorphic microsatellite markers from the Mayan cichlid (Cichlasoma urophthalmus)Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12686-013-9886-8 Web of Science: 000322619900025
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2013The Ideas Lab Concept, Assembling the Tree of Life, and AVAToLFull Text via DOI: 10.1371/currents.tol.0fdb85e1619f313a2a5a2ec3d7a8df9e Web of Science: 000440284100001
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2012GALAPAGOS AND COCOS ISLANDS: GEOGRAPHICALLY CLOSE, BOTANICALLY DISTANTFull Text via DOI: 10.1086/662657 Web of Science: 000299022300005
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2010Are mangroves in the tropical Atlantic ripe for invasion? Exotic mangrove trees in the forests of South FloridaFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9660-8 Web of Science: 000279682800013
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2010Sessile snails, dynamic genomes: gene rearrangements within the mitochondrial genome of a family of caenogastropod molluscsFull Text via DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-440 Web of Science: 000282787100004
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2007HIV-1 infection of monocytes is directly related to the success of HAARTFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2007.07.010 Web of Science: 000251022200004
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2007The identity, distribution, and impacts of non-native apple snails in the continental United StatesFull Text via DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-97 Web of Science: 000248125700001
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2003Changing identities: tRNA duplication and remolding within animal mitochondrial genomesFull Text via DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2535036100 Web of Science: 000187554600075
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2001Phylogenetic and ontogenetic influences on the distribution of anthocyanins and betacyanins in leaves of tropical plantsFull Text via DOI: 10.1086/321926 Web of Science: 000170186500013
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1995Deducing the pattern of arthropod phytogeny from mitochondrial DNA rearrangementsFull Text via DOI: 10.1038/376163a0
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Book
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Book Chapter
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1998Beyond area relationships: Extinction and recolonization in molecular marine biogeography. 297-321.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-8948-3_16
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Conference
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2006Reconstructing ancestor-descendant lineages from serially-sampled data: A comparison study. 807-814.Web of Science: 000238389400108
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Letter
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2001A major mitochondrial gene rearrangement among closely related species. 1604-1609.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003949 Web of Science: 000170275500022
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Other Scholarly Work
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2005Choosing the best genes for the job: The case for stationary genes in genome-scale phylogenetics. 493-500.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/10635150590947339 Web of Science: 000230302500012
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Review
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2017Advancing genomics through the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA). 1-7.Full Text via DOI: 10.1071/IS16059
Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
- Chang, Richard Y, Intraspecific Relationships in Paracalanus quasimodo [Calinoideae] and Temora turbinata [Calinoideae] along the Southeastern Coast of the United States 2013
- Freeman, Barbara L., Genetic diversity and population structure of non-indigenous burmese pythons (Python Molurus Bivittatus) in Everglades National Park, Florida 2008
Research
principal investigator on
- Platydemus manokwari and Native Snail Surveys in Everglades and Big Cypress awarded by National Park Service 2021 - 2024
- Tree Snail Status and New Guinea Flatworm Distribution in South Florida awarded by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2020 - 2022
- The distribution of the New Guinea flatworm Platydemus manokwari in Florida, and the potential impact of this nonnative species on Florida's residents and native species awarded by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation 2017 - 2018
- Collaborative Research: REVSYS: Worm-Snails Revised (Mollusca: Gastropoda). awarded by National Science Foundation 2009 - 2015
- Collaborative Research: Phylogeny on the Half-Shell -- Assembling the Bivalve Tree of Life awarded by National Science Foundation 2007 - 2014
- Host Bivalve AToL meeting in Miami awarded by National Science Foundation 2011 - 2012
- Parasites of Native and Non-Native Apple Sanils in Florida. awarded by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation 2008 - 2009
- Determining the Native Region of the Lobate Lac Scale: A Cooperative Agreement. awarded by U.S. Department of Agriculture 2008
- Population strucuture of the native apple snail, Pomacea Paludosa, a key indicator species in Florid s aquatic ecosystems: Historical strucuture and anthropogenic effects awarded by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2005 - 2008
co-principal investigator on
- TCI-Chesney Graduate Assistant Support awarded by Bruce Chesney 2018 - 2020
Contact
full name
- Timothy Collins
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5720-271X (confirmed)
visualizations
publication subject areas
- Agriculture
- Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Biodiversity & Conservation
- Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
- Education & Educational Research
- Environmental Sciences & Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics & Heredity
- Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
- Marine & Freshwater Biology
- Plant Sciences
- Science & Technology - Other Topics
- Virology
- Zoology