Publications
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Population genomics of a sailing siphonophore reveals genetic structure in the open ocean
Current Biology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.05.066
Church, S. H., Abedon, R. B., Ahuja, N., Anthony, C. J., Destanović, D., Ramirez, D. A., Rojas, L. M., Albinsson, M. E., Álvarez Trasobares, I., Bergemann, R. E., Bogdanovic, O., Burdick, D. R., Cunha, T. J., Damian-Serrano, A. … & Dunn, C. W. (2025)
Current Biology
Spinning and corkscrewing of oceanic macroplankton revealed through in situ imaging
Sutherland, K. R., Damian-Serrano, A., Du Clos, K. T., Gemmell, B. J., Colin, S. P., & Costello, J. H. (2024)
Science Advances
Colonial architecture modulates the speed and efficiency of multi-jet swimming in salp colonies
Damian-Serrano A., Walton, K.A., Bishop-Perdue, A., Bagoye, S, Du Clos, K. T., Gemmell, B. J., Colin, S. P., Costello, J.H., Sutherland, K.R. (2025)
Journal of Experimental Biology
Vertical trophic structure and niche partitioning of gelatinous predators in a pelagic food web: Insights from stable isotopes of siphonophores
Hetherington, E. D., Close, H. G., Haddock, S. H. D., Damian-Serrano, A., Dunn, C. W., Wallsgrove, N. J., Doherty, S. C., & Choy, C. A. (2024)
Limnology and Oceanography
Yellow tails in Iasis cylindrica (Salpida: Salpidae) chains suggest zooid-type subspecialization in salp colonies
Damian-Serrano A. (2024)
Ecology — The Scientific Naturalist
A developmental ontology for the colonial architecture of salps
Damian-Serrano A., Sutherland, K.R. (2024)
The Biological Bulletin (Cover)
A new molecular phylogeny of salps (Tunicata: Thalicea: Salpida) and the evolutionary history of their colonial architecture
Damian-Serrano A., Hughes, M., Sutherland, K.R. (2023)
Integrative Organismal Biology
Characterizing the secret diets of siphonophores (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) using DNA metabarcoding
Damian-Serrano A., Hetherington E.D., Choy CA, Haddock S.H.D., Lapides A., Dunn C.W. (2022)
PLoS ONE
Evolutionary causes and consequences of ungulate migration
Abraham, J.O., Upham, N.S., Damian-Serrano, A., Jesmer, B.R. (2021)
Nature Ecology & Evolution
Integrating siphonophores into marine food-web ecology
Hetherington, E.D., Damian-Serrano, A., Haddock, S.H.D., Dunn, C.W., Choy, C.A. (2022)
Limnology & Oceanography Letters — Current Evidence
Damian-Serrano, A., Haddock, S.H., & Dunn, C.W. (2021)
Integrative and Organismal Biology
Nunez, J.C.B., Rong, S., Ferranti, D.A., Damian-Serrano, A., Neil, K.B., Glenner, H., Elyanow, R.G., Brown, B.R., Alm-Rosenblad, M., Blomberg, A. & Johannesson, K. (2021)
Molecular Ecology
The evolution of siphonophore tentilla for specialized prey capture in the open ocean
Damian-Serrano, A., Haddock, S.H.D., & Dunn, C.W. (2021)
PNAS (Cover)
Ecological load and balancing selection in circumboreal barnacles
Nunez, J.C., Rong, S., Damian-Serrano, A., Burley, J.T., Elyanow, R.G., Ferranti, D.A., Neil, K.B., Glenner, H., Rosenblad, M.A., Blomberg, A., and Johannesson, K., (2020)
Molecular Biology & Evolution
A mesopelagic ctenophore representing a new family, with notes on family-level taxonomy in Ctenophora: Vampyroctena delmarvensis gen. nov. sp. nov. (Vampyroctenidae, fam. nov.).
Townsend, J.P., Tassia, M.G., Damian-Serrano, A., Whelan, N.V., Halanych, K.M., & Sweeney, A.M. (2020)
Marine Biodiversity
Erythromycin sensitivity across different taxa of marine phytoplankton. A novel approach to sensitivity of microalgae and the evolutionary history of the 23S gene
Sendra, M., Damian-Serrano, A., Araujo, C.V.M., Moreno-Garrido, I., & Blasco, J. (2018)
Aquatic Toxicology
Improved phylogenetic resolution within Siphonophora (Cnidaria) with implications for trait evolution
Munro, C., Siebert, S., Zapata, Z., Howison, M., Damian-Serrano, A., Church, S.H., Goetz, F.E., Pugh, P.R., Haddock, S., & Dunn, C.W. (2018)
Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution