2019
Camacho, O., Fernández‐García, C., Vieira, C., Gurgel, C. F. D., Norris, J. N., Freshwater, D. W., & Fredericq, S. (2019). The systematics of Lobophora (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) in the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans: eight new species. Journal of phycology. DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12850
Collin, R., Venera‐Pontón, D. E., Driskell, A. C., Macdonald, K. S., Chan, K. Y. K., & Boyle, M. J. (2019). Documenting neotropical diversity of phoronids with DNA barcoding of planktonic larvae. Invertebrate Biology, e12242. DOI: 10.1111/ivb.12242
Collin, R., Venera-Pontón, D., Driskell, A., Macdonald, K., & Boyle, M. (2019). Planktotrophic Brachiopod Larvae from the Pacific and Caribbean of Panama. Diversity, 11(1), 2. DOI: 10.3390/d11010002
Curini-Galletti, M., Stocchino, G. A., & Norenburg, J. L. (2019). New species of Duplominona Karling, 1966 and Pseudominona Karling, 1978 (Platyhelminthes: Proseriata) from the Caribbean. Zootaxa, 4657(1), zootaxa-4657. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4657.1.5
Jaime G. Morín, E. Venera-Pontón Dagoberto, C. Driskell Amy, A. Sánchez Juan, R. Lasker Howard, Collin Rachel (2019). Reference DNA barcodes and other mitochondrial markers for identifying Caribbean Octocorals. Biodiversity Data Journal, 7, e30970. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.7.e30970
Oliveira, L. M., Hoeksema, B. W., & Rocha, R. M. (2019). Polysyncraton (Ascidiacea, Didemnidae): a re-examination of some specimens and descriptions of three new species. European Journal of Taxonomy, 2019(519), 1-25. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.519
Rocha, R. M., & Counts, B. K. (2019). Pyura (Tunicata: Ascidiacea: Pyuridae) on the coasts of Panama. Zootaxa, 4564(2), 491-513. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4564.2.9
Skinner, L. F., Rocha, R. M., & Counts, B. K. (2019). Pyura gangelion and Pyura beta sp.nov. (Ascidiacea: Pyuridae): an exotic and a new tunicate from the West Atlantic. Zootaxa, 4545(2), 264-276. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.2.6
Vicente, J., Ríos, J. A., Zea, S., & Toonen, R. J. (2019). Molecular and morphological congruence of three new cryptic Neopetrosia spp. in the Caribbean. PeerJ, 7, e6371. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.6371
Worsaae, K., Mikkelsen, M. D., & Martínez, A. (2019). Description of six new species of Mesonerilla (Nerillidae, Annelida) and an emended description of M. intermedia Wilke, 1953, from marine and cave environments. Marine Biodiversity, 1-25. DOI: 10.1007/s12526-019-00984-6
2018
Anker, A. (2018). Alpheus naranjo, a new brightly coloured snapping shrimp from the Caribbean coast of Panama (Malacostraca, Decapoda, Alpheidae). Zootaxa, 4433(3), 574-582. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4433.3.11
Medrano, S., Krug, P. J., Gosliner, T. M., Kumar, A. B., & Valdés, Á. (2018). Systematics of Polybranchia Pease, 1860 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Sacoglossa) based on molecular and morphological data. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly050
Miglietta, M. P., Maggioni, D., & Matsumoto, Y. (2018). Phylogenetics and species delimitation of two hydrozoa (phylum Cnidaria): Turritopsis (McCrady, 1857) and Pennaria (Goldfuss, 1820). Marine Biodiversity, 1-16. DOI: 10.1007/s12526-018-0891-8
Miglietta, M. P., Piraino, S., Pruski, S., Alpizar Gonzalez, M., Castellanos-Iglesias, S., Jerónimo-Aguilar, S., … & Moncada, A. (2018). An integrative identification guide to the Hydrozoa (Cnidaria) of Bocas del Toro, Panama. Neotropical Biodiversity, 4(1), 103-113. DOI: 10.1080/23766808.2018.1488656
Pachelle, P. P., Leray, M., Anker, A., & Lasley, Robert (2018). Five new records of marine shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea, Stenopodidea) from the Caribbean coast of Panama. Zootaxa, 4438(1), 128-136. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4438.1.5
Paiva, S. V., & Rocha, R. M.(2018). A large marine Caribbean mushroom field: description of Eudistoma amanitum sp. nov.(Ascidiacea: Polycitoridae). Zootaxa, 4399(3), 443-450. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4399.3.13
2017
De Grave, S., & Anker, A. (2017). An annotated checklist of marine caridean and stenopodidean shrimps (Malacostraca: Decapoda) of the Caribbean coast of Panama. Nauplius, 25. DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e2017015
Richards, J. L., Sauvage, T., Schmidt, W. E., Fredericq, S., Hughey, J. R., & Gabrielson, P. W. (2017). The coralline genera Sporolithon and Heydrichia (Sporolithales, Rhodophyta) clarified by sequencing type material of their generitypes and other species. Journal of phycology, 53(5), 1044-1059. DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12562
Valdés, Á., Breslau, E., Padula, V., Schrödl, M., Camacho, Y., Malaquias, M. A. E., … & Gosliner, T. M. (2017). Molecular and morphological systematics of Dolabrifera Gray, 1847 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Aplysiomorpha). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 184(1), 31-65. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx099
2016
Anker, A., & Caripe, J. V. (2016). Leptalpheus pereirai sp. nov., a new alpheid shrimp from Panama and Venezuela (Decapoda: Caridea). Zootaxa, 4127(1), 185-191. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4127.1.11
Collin, R., Fredericq, S., Freshwater, D. W., Gilbert, E., Madrid, M., Maslakova, S., … & Thacker, R. W. (2016). TaxaGloss-A glossary and translation tool for biodiversity studies. Biodiversity Data Journal, (4). DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e10732
Goodheart, J. A., Ellingson, R. A., Vital, X. G., Galvão Filho, H. C., McCarthy, J. B., Medrano, S. M., … & Hoover, C. A. (2016). Identification guide to the heterobranch sea slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Bocas del Toro, Panama. Marine Biodiversity Records, 9(1), 56. DOI: 10.1186/s41200-016-0048-z
Grajales, A., & Rodríguez, E. (2016). Elucidating the evolutionary relationships of the Aiptasiidae, a widespread cnidarian–dinoflagellate model system (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria: Metridioidea). Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 94, 252-263. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.09.004
Hernandez-Kantun, J. J., Gabrielson, P., Hughey, J. R., Pezzolesi, L., Rindi, F., Robinson, N. M., … & Adey, W. (2016). Reassessment of branched Lithophyllum spp. (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in the Caribbean Sea with global implications. Phycologia, 55(6), 619-639. DOI: 10.2216/16-7.1
Iha, C., O’Shaughnessy, K. A., Guimarães, S. M., Oliveira, M. C., & Freshwater, D. W. (2016). Taxonomic reappraisal of Gelidium coarctatum (Gelidiales, Rhodophyta) and Gelidium lineare sp. nov. from the tropical western Atlantic. Phycologia, 55(5), 555-563. DOI: 10.2216/16-17.1
Krug, P. J., Vendetti, J. E., & Valdés, Á. (2016). Molecular and morphological systematics of Elysia Risso, 1818 (Heterobranchia: Sacoglossa) from the Caribbean region. Zootaxa, 4148(1), 1-137. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4148.1.1
Pardos, F., Herranz, M., & Sánchez, N. (2016). Two sides of a coin: the phylum Kinorhyncha in Panama. II) Pacific Panama. Zoologischer Anzeiger-A Journal of Comparative Zoology, 265, 26-47. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2016.06.006
Pardos, F., Sánchez, N., & Herranz, M. (2016). Two sides of a coin: the phylum Kinorhyncha in Panama. I) Caribbean Panama. Zoologischer Anzeiger-A Journal of Comparative Zoology, 265, 3-25. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2016.06.005
Valdez, A., Medrano, S., & Bhave, V. (2016). A new species of Cuthona Alder and Hancock, 1855 (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia: Tergipedidae) from the Caribbean Sea. Nautilus, 130(2), 72-78.
2015
Easson, C. G., Matterson, K. O., Freeman, C. J., Archer, S. K., & Thacker, R. W. (2015). Variation in species diversity and functional traits of sponge communities near human populations in Bocas del Toro, Panama. PeerJ, 3, e1385. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1385
Martínez, A., Di Domenico, M., Rouse, G. W., & Worsaae, K. (2015). Phylogeny and systematics of Protodrilidae (Annelida) inferred with total evidence analyses. Cladistics, 31(3), 250-276. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12089
2014
Di Domenico, M., Martínez, A., Lana, P., & Worsaae, K. (2014). Molecular and morphological phylogeny of Saccocirridae (Annelida) reveals two cosmopolitan clades with specific habitat preferences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 75, 202-218. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.003
Kantun, J. J. H., Riosmena-Rodriguez, R., Adey, W. H., & Rindi, F. (2014). Analysis of the cox 2-3 spacer region for population diversity and taxonomic implications in rhodolith-forming species (Rhodophyta: Corallinales). Phytotaxa, 190(1), 331-354. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.190.1.20
Leasi, F., & Norenburg, J. L. (2014). The necessity of DNA taxonomy to reveal cryptic diversity and spatial distribution of meiofauna, with a focus on Nemertea. PLoS one, 9(8), e104385. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104385
Olson, J. B., Thacker, R. W., & Gochfeld, D. J. (2014). Molecular community profiling reveals impacts of time, space, and disease status on the bacterial community associated with the Caribbean sponge Aplysina cauliformis. FEMS microbiology ecology, 87(1), 268-279. DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12222
Redmond, N. E., Morrow, C. C., Thacker, R. W., Diaz, M. C., Boury-Esnault, N., Cárdenas, P., … & Kayal, E. (2013). Phylogeny and systematics of Demospongiae in light of new small-subunit ribosomal DNA (18S) sequences. Integrative and comparative biology, 53(3), 388-415. DOI: 10.1093/icb/ict078
Sal-Moyano, M., Lagos-Tobias, A., Felder, D. L., & Mantelatto, F. L. (2014). Relative growth and reproductive parameters in a population of Microphrys bicornutus (Brachyura, Majoidea) from Bocas del Toro, Caribbean Sea, Panama. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía. DOI: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/22034/stri_Sal-Moyano_2014_RevBioMarOce.pdf
Thoma, B. P., Guinot, D., & Felder, D. L. (2014). Evolutionary relationships among American mud crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthoidea) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial markers, with comments on adult morphology. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 170(1), 86-109. DOI: 10.1111/zoj12093
2013
Alvizu, A., Díaz, M. C., Bastidas, C., Rützler, K., Thacker, R. W., & Márquez, L. M. (2013). A skeleton‐less sponge of Caribbean mangroves: invasive or undescribed?. Invertebrate Biology, 132(2), 81-94. DOI: 10.1111/ivb.12015
Cañete, J. I., & Rocha, R. M. (2013). Modiolarca lateralis (Pteryomorphia: Mytilidae): Bivalvo asociado a seis especies de ascidias de Bocas del Toro, Panamá. Latin american journal of aquatic research, 41(5), 1030-1035. DOI: 103856/vol41-issue5-fulltext-25
Diaz, M. C., Thacker, R. W., Redmond, N. E., Matterson, K. O., & Collins, A. G. (2013). Phylogenetic novelties and geographic anomalies among tropical Verongida. Integrative and comparative biology, 53(3), 482-494. DOI: 10.1093/icb/ict033
Freeman, C. J., Thacker, R. W., Baker, D. M., & Fogel, M. L. (2013). Quality or quantity: is nutrient transfer driven more by symbiont identity and productivity than by symbiont abundance?. The ISME journal, 7(6), 1116. DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.7
Hajdu, E., de Paula, T. S., Redmond, N. E., Cosme, B., Collins, A. G., & Lôbo-Hajdu, G. (2013). Mycalina: another crack in the Poecilosclerida framework. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 53(3), 462-472. DOI: 10.1093/icb/ict074
Hirose, M., & Hirose, E. (2013). Photosymbiotic ascidians from oceanic islands in the tropical Pacific as candidates of long-dispersal species: morphological and genetic identification of the species. Aquatic Invasions, 8(3). DOI: 10.3391/ai.2013.8.3.03
Martínez, A., Di Domenico, M., Jörger, K., Norenburg, J., & Worsaae, K. (2013). Description of three new species of Protodrilus (Annelida, Protodrilidae) from Central America. Marine Biology Research, 9(7), 676-691. DOI: 10.1080/17451000.2013.765574
Page, T. J., Torati, L. S., Cook, B. D., Binderup, A., Pringle, C. M., Reuschel, S., … & Hughes, J. M. (2013). Invertébrés sans frontières: large scales of connectivity of selected freshwater species among Caribbean Islands. Biotropica, 45(2), 236-244. DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2012.00900.x
Pérez-Portela, R., Arranz, V., Rius, M., & Turon, X. (2013). Cryptic speciation or global spread? The case of a cosmopolitan marine invertebrate with limited dispersal capabilities. Scientific Reports, 3, 3197. DOI: 10.1038/srep03197
Thacker, R. W., Hill, A. L., Hill, M. S., Redmond, N. E., Collins, A. G., Morrow, C. C., … & Hall, C. (2013). Nearly complete 28S rRNA gene sequences confirm new hypotheses of sponge evolution. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 53(3), 373-387. DOI: 10.1093/icb/ict071
Wirshing, H. H., Feldheim, K. A., & Baker, A. C. (2013). Vectored dispersal of Symbiodinium by larvae of a Caribbean gorgonian octocoral. Molecular ecology, 22(17), 4413-4432. DOI: 10.1111/mec.12405
2012
Brown, F. D., & Swalla, B. J. (2012). Evolution and development of budding by stem cells: ascidian coloniality as a case study. Developmental biology, 369(2), 151-162. DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2012.05.038
Hirose, E., Turon, X., López-Legentil, S., Erwin, P. M., & Hirose, M. (2012). First records of didemnid ascidians harbouring Prochloron from Caribbean Panama: Genetic relationships between Caribbean and Pacific photosymbionts and host ascidians. Systematics and Biodiversity, 10(4), 435-445. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2012.735716
Mamoozadeh, N. R., & Freshwater, D. W. (2012). Polysiphonia sensu lato (Ceramiales, Florideophyceae) species of Caribbean Panama including Polysiphonia lobophoralis sp. nov. and Polysiphonia nuda sp. nov. Botanica marina, 55(4), 317-347. DOI: 10.1515/bot-2012-0147
Torati, L. S., & Mantelatto, F. L. (2012). Ontogenetic and evolutionary change of external morphology of the neotropical shrimp Potimirim (Holthuis, 1954) explained by a molecular phylogeny of the genus. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 32(4), 625-640. DOI: 10.1163/193724012X635322
2011
Bonnet, N. Y., & Rocha, R. M. (2011). The family Ascidiidae Herdman (Tunicata: Ascidiacea) in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Description of six new species. Zootaxa, 2864, 1-33. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2864.1.1
Freeman, C. J., & Thacker, R. W. (2011). Complex interactions between marine sponges and their symbiotic microbial communities. Limnology and Oceanography, 56(5), 1577-1586. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.5.1577
Hochberg, R., & Atherton, S. (2011). A new species of Lepidodasys (Gastrotricha, Macrodasyida) from Panama with a description of its peptidergic nervous system using CLSM, anti-FMRFamide and anti-SCPB. Zoologischer Anzeiger-A Journal of Comparative Zoology, 250(2), 111-122. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2010.12.002
Krayesky, D. M., Norris, J. N., West, J. A., & Fredericq, S. (2011). The Caloglossa leprieurii complex (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) in the Americas: the elucidation of overlooked species based on molecular and morphological evidence. Cryptogamie, Algologie, 32(1), 37-63. DOI: 10.7872/crya.v32.iss1.2011.037
Shenkar, N., & Swalla, B. J. (2011). Global diversity of Ascidiacea. PLoS One, 6(6), e20657. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020657
Torati, L. S., Page, T., De Grave, S., & Anker, A. (2011). Atyidae and Palaemonidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) of Bocas del Toro, Panama. Check List, 7, 798. DOI: 10.15560/11026
2010
Collin, R., Mobley, A. S., Lopez, L. B., Leys, S. P., Diaz, M. C., & Thacker, R. W. (2010). Phototactic responses of larvae from the marine sponges Neopetrosia proxima and Xestospongia bocatorensis (Haplosclerida: Petrosiidae). Invertebrate Biology, 129(2), 121-128. DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2010.00196.x
Hochberg, R., & Atherton, S. (2010). Acanthodasys caribbeanensis sp. n., a new species of Thaumastodermatidae (Gastrotricha, Macrodasyida) from Belize and Panama. Zookeys, 61(1). DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.61.552
2009
Cardenas, P., Menegola, C., Rapp, H. T., & Diaz, M. C. (2009). Morphological description and DNA barcodes of shallow-water Tetractinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from Bocas del Toro, Panama, with description of a new species. Zootaxa, 2276, 1-39. DOI: https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/7227
Cárdenas, P., Rapp, H. T., Schander, C., & Tendal, O. S. (2010). Molecular taxonomy and phylogeny of the Geodiidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Astrophorida) combining phylogenetic and Linnaean classification. Zoologica scripta, 39(1), 89-106. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00402.x
De Grave, S. (2009). A further sponge-dwelling species of the Periclimenes iridescens complex from the western Atlantic (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae). Crustaceana, 829-836. DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27743340
Sánchez, J. A. (2009). Systematics of the candelabrum gorgonian corals (Eunicea Lamouroux; Plexauridae; Octocorallia; Cnidaria). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 157(2), 237-263. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00515.x
Sperling, E. A., Peterson, K. J., & Pisani, D. (2009). Phylogenetic-signal dissection of nuclear housekeeping genes supports the paraphyly of sponges and the monophyly of Eumetazoa. Molecular biology and evolution, 26(10), 2261-2274. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp148
2008
Erwin, P. M., & Thacker, R. W. (2008). Cryptic diversity of the symbiotic cyanobacterium Synechococcus spongiarum among sponge hosts. Molecular Ecology, 17(12), 2937-2947. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03808.x
Erwin, P. M., & Thacker, R. W. (2008). Phototrophic nutrition and symbiont diversity of two Caribbean sponge–cyanobacteria symbioses. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 362, 139-147. DOI: 10.3354/meps07464
2007
Diaz, M. C., Thacker, R. W., Rützler, K., & Piantoni, C. (2007). Haliclona (Soestella) walentinae (Chalinidae, Haplosclerida) and Xestospongia bocatorensis (Petrosiidae, Haplosclerida), two new sponge species from Caribbean Panamá with filamentous cyanobacterial symbionts. Porifera Research-Biodiversity, Innovation and Sustainability, 31-39. http://www2.ib.usp.br/~mcust/7thISS/09-book/pdf/7thISS%20-%20Book%20-%20Porifera%20Research.pdf
Erwin, P. M. & Thacker, R. W.. (2007). Incidence and identity of photosynthetic symbionts in Caribbean coral reef sponge assemblages. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 87(6), 1683-1692. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315407058213
Erwin, P. M., & Thacker, R. W. (2007). Incidence and identity of photosynthetic symbionts in Caribbean coral reef sponge assemblages. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 87(6), 1683-1692. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315407058213
Erwin, P. M., & Thacker, R. W. (2007). Phylogenetic analyses of marine sponges within the order Verongida: a comparison of morphological and molecular data. Invertebrate Biology, 126(3), 220-234. DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2007.00092.x
Gochfeld, D.J., C. Schlöder, & Thacker, R.W. (2007). Sponge community structure and disease prevalence on coral reefs in Bocas del Toro. Porifera Research: Biodiversity, Innovation, and Sustainability, 335-343. http://www2.ib.usp.br/~mcust/7thISS/09-book/pdf/7thISS%20-%20Book%20-%20Porifera%20Research.pdf
Thacker, R. W., Diaz, M. C., Rützler, K., Erwin, P. M., Kimble, S. J., Pierce, M. J., & Dillard, S. L. (2007). Phylogenetic relationships among the filamentous cyanobacterial symbionts of Caribbean sponges and a comparison of photosynthetic production between sponges hosting filamentous and unicellular cyanobacteria. Porifera research: Biodiversity, innovation and sustainability, 621-626. http://www2.ib.usp.br/~mcust/7thISS/09-book/pdf/7thISS%20-%20Book%20-%20Porifera%20Research.pdf