Chercheurs

Sciences de la Vie / PALUMBI, STEPHEN R.

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Position

Principal Investigator
The Palumbi Lab, Stanford University, USA.

Thèmes de recherche

His research group engages in the study of the genetics, evolution, conservation, population biology and systematics of a diverse array of marine organisms. Professor Palumbi's own research interests are similarly widespread, and he has published on the genetics and evolution of sea urchins, whales, cone snails, corals, sharks, spiders, shrimps, bryozoans, and butterflyfishes. A primary focus is the use of molecular genetic techniques in conservation, including the identification of whale and dolphin products available in commercial markets. Current conservation work centers on the genetics of marine reserves designed for conservation and fisheries enhancement, with projects in the Philipppines, Bahamas and western US coast. In addition, basic work on the molecular evolution of reproductive isolation and its influence on patterns of speciation uses marine model systems such as sea urchins. This work is expanding our view of the evolution of gamete morphology and the genes involved. Steve's recent book, The Evolution Explosion: How humans cause rapid evolutionary change, shows how rapid evolution is central to emerging problems in modern society.

Prix et récompenses

Publications

Galindo, H.A., Olson, D.B., and Palumbi S.R. 2006 Genetics: a coupled oceanographic-genetic model predicts population structure of Caribbean corals. Current Biology 2006 Aug 22;16(16):1622-6

Palumbi, S. R., S. D. Gaines, H. Leslie, and R. R. Warner. 2003. New wave: high-tech tools to help marine reserve research. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1:(2)73-79

Palumbi, S. R. 2003. Population genetics, demographic connectivity and the design of marine protected areas. Ecological Applications 13:S146-S158.

Palumbi, S. R. 2003. Marine Reserves: A tool for ecosystem management and conservation. Pew Oceans Commission, Washington D. C.

Lubchenco, J, S. R. Palumbi, S. D. Gaines and S. Andelman. 2003. Plugging a hole in the ocean: the emerging science of marine reserves. Ecol. Applications 13: S3-S7.

Gerber, L. R. , L. W. Botsford, A. Hastings, H. Possingham, S. D. Gaines, S. R. Palumbi and S. Andelman. 2003. Population models for marine reserve design: A retrospective and prospective synthesis. Ecol. Applications 13: S47-64.

Geyer, L. B. and S.R. Palumbi. 2003. Reproductive character displacement and the genetics of gamete recognition in tropical sea urchins. Evolution. 57(5): 1049-1060.

Biermann, C.H., B.D. Kessing, S.R. Palumbi. 2003. Phylogeny and development of marine model species: strongylocentrotid sea urchins. Evolution and Development 5:360-371.

Warner, P.R.and S.R. Palumbi. 2003. Larvae retention: Genes or oceanography? Response. Science 300:1658.

Hare, M.P. and S.R. Palumbi. 2003. High intron sequence conservation across three mammalian orders suggests functional constraints. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20 (6):969-978.

Neafsey, D.E. and S.R. Palumbi. 2003. Genome size evolution in pufferfish: A comparative analysis of diodontid and tetraodontid pufferfish genomes. Genome Research 13(5):821-830.

Roman, J and S.R. Palumbi. 2003. Whales Before Whaling in the North Atlantic. Science. 301: 508-510.

Palumbi, S.R. and R.R. Warner 2003. Why gobies are like hobbits. Science 299:51-52.

Vollmer, S. and S. R. Palumbi.2002. Unisexual clones: Lizards and corals. Science 298:2130-2131.

Vollmer, S.V. and S.R. Palumbi. 2002. Hybridization and the evolution of reef coral diversity. Science. 296(5575):2023-2025.

Barber, P., M. K. Moosa and S. R. Palumbi. 2002. Rapid recovery of stomatopod populations on Krakatau: temporal and spatial scales of marine larval dispersal. Proc. Roy. Soc. London 269:1591-1597.

Barber P.H.,, et al. 2002. Sharp genetic breaks among populations of Haptosquilla pulchella (Stomatopoda) indicate limits to larval transport: patterns, causes, and consequences. Molecular Ecology. 11(4):659-674.

Hare, M.P., F. Cipriano, and S.R, Palumbi. 2002. Genetic evidence on the demography of speciation in allopatric dolphin species. Evolution. 56(4):804-816.

Ingram, K. K. and S. R. Palumbi. 2002. Characterization of microsatellite loci for the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile, and their potential for analysis of colony structure in invading Hawaiian populations. Molecular Ecology Notes 2:94-95.

Hellberg, M. E., R. S. Burton, J. E. Neigel, and S. R. Palumbi. 2002. Genetic assessment of connectivity among marine populations. Bulletin of Marine Science 70:273-290.

Simmonds, M.P., Haraguchi, K, Endo, T, Cipriano, F, Palumbi, S.R., Troisi, G.M. 2002. Human health significance of organochlorine and mercury contaminants in Japanese whale meat. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part A. 65(17):1211-1235

Palumbi, S.R. 2001. Humans as the world's greatest evolutionary force. Science. 293(.5536):1786-1790.

Palumbi, S.R. 2001. The evolution explosion : how humans cause rapid evolutionary change. New York: Norton, 277 pages.

Duda, T. F., et al. 2001. .Origins of diverse feeding ecologies within Conus, a genus of venomous marine gastropods. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 73(4):.391-409.

Palumbi, S.R.; F. Cipriano, Frank; and M.P. Hare. 2001. .Predicting nuclear gene coalescence from mitochondrial data: The three-times rule. Evolution; 55(5:859-868.

Palumbi, S.R. 2001. The ecology of marine protected areas. In: Marine Community Ecology ed. by M.D. Bertness, S.M. Gaines, and M.E. Hixon. . Sunderland, Mass: Sinauer Associates, pp.509-530.

Hare, M.P,, S.R. Palumbi, and C.A. Butman. 2000. Single-step species identification of bivalve larvae using multiplex polymerase chain reaction. Marine Biology. 137(5/6):.953-961.

Barber, P. H, et al. 2000.. Biogeography: a marine Wallace's line. Nature. 406(6797):692-693.

Baker, C.S., et al. 2000. Scientific whaling: Source of illegal products for market? Science. 290(5497):1695.

Baker, C.S., et al. 2000. Predicted decline of protected whales based on molecular genetic monitoring of Japanese and Korean markets. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B - Biological Sciences. 267(1449):1191-1199.

Duda, T.F. and S.R. Palumbi. 2000. Evolutionary diversification of multigene families: Allelic selection of toxins in predatory cone snails. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 17(9):1286-1293.

Hare, M.P., and S.R. Palumbi.. 1999. The accuracy of heterozygous base calling from diploid sequence and resolution of haplotypes using allele-specific sequencing. Molecular Ecology. 8(10):1750-1752.

Cipriano, F. and S.R. Palumbi. 1999. Genetic tracking of a protected whale. Nature. 397(6717):307-308.

Duda, T.F. and S.R. Palumbi. 1999. Molecular genetics of ecological diversification: Duplication and rapid evolution of toxin genes of the venomous gastropod Conus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) . 96(12): 6820-6823.

McMillan, W.O.,, et al. 1999. Color pattern evolution, assortative mating, and genetic differentiation in brightly colored butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae). Evolution. 53(1): 247-260.

Duda, T.F. and S.R. Palumbi. 1999.Population structure of the black tiger prawn, Penaeus monodon, among western Indian Ocean and western Pacific populations. Marine Biololgy. 134(4):705-710.

Duda, T.F. and S.R. Palumbi. 1999. Developmental shifts and species selection in gastropods. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). 96(18):10272-10277.

Palumbi, S.R. 1999. All males are not created equal: Fertility differences depend on gamete recognition polymorphisms in sea urchins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). 96(22):12632-12637.

France, S.C. et al. 1999 .Intraspecific genetic diversity in the marine shrimp Penaeus vannamei: Multiple polymorphic elongation factor-1 alpha loci revealed by intron sequencing. Marine Biotechnology. 1(3):261-268.

Palumbi, .S.R. 1999. The Prodigal Fish. Nature. 402(6763):733-135.