Dr. Michael Hart, Associate Professor, Marine Population Biology

Population genetics

Addison, J. A., and M. W. Hart. 2005. Colonization, dispersal, and hybridization influence phylogeography of North Atlantic sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis). Evolution, in press. PDF

Cassista, M. C., and M. W. Hart. 2005. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers in the surfclam Mactromeris polynyma. Molecular Ecology Notes, in press. PDF

Addison, J. A., and M. W. Hart. 2004. Analysis of population genetic structure of the green sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis) using microsatellites. Marine Biology 144: 243-251. PDF

Addison, J. A., and M. W. Hart. 2002. Characterization of microsatellite loci in sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus spp.). Molecular Ecology Notes 2:493-494. PDF

Molecular systematics

Hart, M. W., and R. D. Podolsky. 2005. Mitochondrial DNA phylogeny and rates of larval evolution in Macrophiothrix brittlestars. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, in press. Available on-line 19 Nov. 2004. PDF

Hart, M. W., S. L. Johnson, J. A. Addison, and M. Byrne. 2004. Strong character incongruence and character choice in asterinid sea star phylogeny. Invertebrate Biology 123, in press. PDF

Dartnall, A. J., M. Byrne, J. Collins, and M. W. Hart. 2003. A new viviparous species of asterinid (Echinodermata, Asteroidea, Asterinidae) and a new genus to accommodate the species of pan-tropical exiguoid sea stars. Zootaxa 359:1-14. PDF

Evolution & ecology of development

Henry, L.-A., and M. W. Hart. 2004. Regeneration from partial mortality in sessile colonial marine invertebrates. International Review of Hydrobiology, in press. PDF

Byrne, M., M. Hart, A. Cerra, & P. Cisternas. 2003. Reproduction and larval morphology of broadcasting and viviparous species in the Cryptasterina species complex. Biological Bulletin 205:285-294. PDF

Hart, M. W., M. Byrne, and S. L. Johnson. 2003. Cryptic species and modes of development in Patiriella pseudoexigua (Asteroidea: Asterinidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 83: 1109-1116. PDF

Grosberg, R. K., and M. W. Hart. 2000. Mate selection and the evolution of highly polymorphic self/nonself recognition genes. Science 289:2111-2114. PDF

Reviews

Hart, M. W. 2003. Larvae and larval evolution. In Key Concepts and Approaches in Evolutionary Developmental Biology (B. K. Hall and W. Olson, eds.), pp. 228-234. Harvard University Press.

Hart, M. W. 2002. Germ line and soma. In Encyclopedia of Evolution (M. Pagel, ed.), pp. 443-446. Oxford University Press.

Hart, M. W. 2002. Life history evolution and comparative developmental biology of echinoderms. Evolution and Development 4:62-71. PDF

Hart, M. W. 2000. Phylogenetic analyses of mode of larval development. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology 11:411-418. PDF