Melissa H. Pespeni

The paper identifies abiotic and biotic drivers of local adaptation in dogwhelks and predicts future evolutionary responses to environmental changes.

This study develops a novel CTmax assay to compare thermal acclimation capacity across three sea urchin species, finding significant variation in their upper thermal tolerance and acclimatory responses.

The paper identifies nine putative chromosomal inversions in purple sea urchins, three showing signs of selection, suggesting structural variants contribute to adaptation in marine species with high gene flow.

The paper uses genomic and morphological data from coastal dogwhelks to identify glacial refugia and their impact on population structure and shell morphology.

The paper examines immune and microbial changes in sea stars during the early stages of Sea Star Wasting Disease, identifying immune activation and microbial shifts linked to disease onset.

This study investigates how environmental variability affects the evolution of genotype-to-phenotype maps and evolvability across different fitness landscapes.

This study shows that developmental temperature affects transcriptomic responses to acute heat stress and thermal tolerance in copepods.

This study experimentally evolved marine copepods under global change stressors and found complementary genetic and epigenetic changes contribute to resilience, with epigenetic changes linked to stress response and gene expression.

This study generates and analyzes transcriptomes of Tripneustes gratilla across tissues, sex, and life stages to identify gene expression differences and expansions.