Selected Lab Publications
Helm, RR, S Siebert, S Tulin, J Smith, CW Dunn (2013) Characterization of differential transcript abundance through time during Nematostella vectensis development. BMC Genomics. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-14-266
Dunn, CW (2013) Evolution: Out of the Ocean. Current Biology 23:R242-R243. doi:10.1038/10.1016/j.cub.2013.01.06
Smith, SA, NG Wilson, F Goetz, C Feehery, SCS Andrade, GW Rouse, G Giribet, CW Dunn (2011) Resolving the evolutionary relationships of molluscs with phylogenomic tools. Nature 480:364-367. doi:10.1038/nature10526
Smith, SA, J Beaulieu, A Stamatakis, and MJ Donoghue (2011) Understanding angiosperm diversification using large and small phylogenies. American J. of Botany. 98: 404-414.doi:10.3732/ajb.1000481
Soltis, DE, SA Smith, N Cellinese, et al. (2011) Angiosperm phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa. American J. of Botany.98:704.doi:10.3732/ajb.1000404
Siebert, S, MD Robinson, SC Tintori, F Goetz, RR Helm, SA Smith, N Shaner, SHD Haddock, CW Dunn (2011) Differential Gene Expression in the Siphonophore Nanomia bijuga (Cnidaria) Assessed with Multiple Next-Generation Sequencing Workflows. PLoS One 6(7): e22953. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022953 (pdf)
Edgecombe, GD, G Giribet, CW Dunn, A Hejnol, RM Kristensen, RC Neves, GW Rouse, K Worsaae, and MV Sørensen (2011) Higher-level metazoan relationships: recent progress and remaining questions. Organisms, Diversity, and Evolution. doi:10.1007/s13127-011-0044-4 (pdf)
Haddock, SHD and CW Dunn (2011) Practical Computing for Biologists. Sinauer Associates (Sunderland, MA). Book Site, Read more at the publisher's site
Hejnol, A, M Obst, A Stamatakis, M Ott, G Rouse, G Edgecombe, P Martinez, J Baguñà, X Bailly, U Jondelius, M Wiens, WEG Müller, Elaine Seaver, WC Wheeler, MQ Martindale, G Giribet, and CW Dunn (2009) Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods. Proc. R. Soc. B. 276:4261-4270 doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0896
Dunn, CW (2009) Siphonophores. Current Biology 19:R233-R234. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.02.009
Giribet, G, CW Dunn, GD Edgecombe, A Hejnol, MQ Martindale, and GW Rouse (2009) Assembling the spiralian tree of life (p 52-64) In: Animal Evolution. MJ Telford and DTJ Littlewood (eds). Oxford University Press.
Cartwright, P, NM Evans, CW Dunn, AC Marques, MP Miglietta, P Schuchert, and AG Collins (2008) Phylogenetics of Hydroidolina (Hydrozoa: Cnidaria). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 88:1663-1672. doi:10.1017/S0025315408002257 (pdf)
Dunn, CW, A Hejnol, DQ Matus, K Pang, WE Browne, SA Smith, E Seaver, GW Rouse, M Obst, GD Edgecombe, MV Sorensen, SHD Haddock, A Schmidt-Rhaesa, A Okusu, RM Kristensen, WC Wheeler, MQ Martindale, and G Giribet (2008) Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the Animal Tree of Life. Nature. 452:745-749. doi:10.1038/nature06614
Smith, SA and CW Dunn (2008) Phyutility: a phyloinformatics tool for trees, alignments, and molecular data. Bioinformatics. 24:715-716. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm619 (pdf)
Giribet, G, CW Dunn, GD Edgecombe, and GW Rouse (2007) A modern look at the Animal Tree of Life. Zootaxa 1668:61-79. (pdf)
Oota, H, CW Dunn, WC Speed, AJ Pakstis, MA Palmatier, JR Kidd and KK Kidd (2007) Conservative evolution in duplicated genes of the primate Class I ADH cluster. Gene. 392:64-76. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2006.11.008 (pdf)
Mills, CE, AC Marques, AE Migotto, DR Calder, C Hand, JT Rees, SHD Haddock, CW Dunn, and PR Pugh. (2007) Hydrozoa: Polyps, Hydromedusae, and Siphonophora. In: The Light & Smith manual: intertidal invertebrates from central California to Oregon, 4th edition. JT Carlton (ed). University of California Press.
Dunn, CW and GP Wagner (2006) The evolution of colony-level development in the Siphonophora (Cnidaria:Hydrozoa). Development, Genes, and Evolution. 216:743-754. doi:10.1007/s00427-006-0101-8 (pdf)
Matus, DQ, K Pang, H Marlow, CW Dunn, GH Thomsen, and MQ Martindale (2006) Deep evolutionary roots for bilaterality in the metazoa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103:11195-11200. doi:10.1073/pnas.0601257103 (pdf)
Matus, DQ, RR Copley, CW Dunn, A Hejnol, H Eccleston, KM Halanych, MQ Martindale, and MJ Telford (2006) Broad Taxon and Gene Sampling Indicate that Chaetognaths Are Protostomes. Current Biology 16:R575-R576 doi:10.1016/j.cub.2006.07.017 (pdf)
Dunn, CW, PR Pugh, and SHD Haddock (2005) Molecular phylogenetics of the Siphonophora (Cnidaria), with implications for the evolution of functional specialization. Systematic Biology 54:916-935. doi:10.1080/10635150500354837 (pdf)
Dunn, CW (2005) The complex colony-level organization of the deep-sea siphonophore Bargmannia elongata (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) is directionally asymmetric and arises by the subdivision of pro-buds. Developmental Dynamics. 234:835-834. doi:10.1002/dvdy.20483 (pdf)
Dunn, CW, PR Pugh, and SHD Haddock (2005) Marrus claudanielis, a new species of deep-sea physonect siphonophore (Siphonophora, Physonectae). Bull. Mar. Sci. 76:699-714. (pdf)
Haddock, SHD, CW Dunn, PR Pugh. and C.E. Schnitzler. (2005) Bioluminescent and red-fluorescent lures in a deep-sea siphonophore. Science. 309:263. doi:10.1126/science.1110441 (pdf)
Haddock, SHD, CW Dunn, and PR Pugh (2005) A reexamination of siphonophore terminology and morphology, applied to the description of two new prayine species with remarkable bio-optical properties. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 85:695-707. doi:10.1017/S0025315405011616 (pdf)
Haddock, SHD and CW Dunn (2005) The complex world of siphonohpores. JMBA Global Marine Environment 2005(2):24-25. (pdf)
Lynch, VJ, JJ Roth, K Takahashi, CW Dunn, DF Nonaka, G Stopper and GP Wagner (2004) Adaptive evolution of HoxA-11 and HoxA-13 at the origin of the uterus in mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 271:2201-2207. doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.2848 (pdf)