The nearshore marine environment is a laboratory for ecology and evolution where the ocean meets the land. How does geography influence gene flow and adaptation along the shore?

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D.J. Barshis, E.E. Sokta, R.P. Kelly, A. Sivasundar, B.A. Menge, J. Barth, and S.R. Palumbi.  2011. Coastal Upwelling May Drive Sweepstakes Recruitment in the Acorn Barnacle Balanus glandula. Marine Ecology Progress Series 439: 139-150.

Kelly, R.P., and S.R. Palumbi.  2010.  Genetic Structure Among 50 Species of the Northeastern Pacific Rocky Intertidal Community. PLoS ONE 5(1): e8594. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008594

Kelly, R.P., T.A. Oliver, A. Sivasundar, and S.R. Palumbi.  2010.  A Method for Detecting Population Genetic Structure in Diverse, High Gene-Flow Species.  Journal of Heredity 101(4): 423-436.

Kelly, R.P., and S.R. Palumbi.  2009. General-use polymerase chain reaction primers for amplification and direct sequencing of enolase, a single-copy nuclear gene, from different animal phyla.  Molecular Ecology Resources 9: 144-147.

Kelly, R.P., and D.J. Eernisse.  2008. Reconstructing a Radiation: The Chiton Genus Mopalia in the North Pacific.  Invertebrate Systematics 22: 17-28.

Kelly, R.P. and D.J. Eernisse.  2007.  Southern Hospitality: A Latitudinal Gradient in Gene Flow in the Marine Environment.  Evolution 61(3): 700-707.

Kelly, R.P., I.N. Sarkar, D.J. Eernisse, and R. Desalle.  2007.  DNA Barcoding Using Chitons (genus Mopalia).  Molecular Ecology Notes 7: 177-183.