Allen G. Collins Zoologist, NMFS, NOAA
National Systematics Lab

Nawrocki, Annalise M., Collins, Allen G., Hirano, Yayoi M., Schuchert, Peter and Cartwright, Paulyn 2013. Phylogenetic placement of Hydra and relationships within Aplanulata (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 67(1): 60-71. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.12.016

Hill, Malcolm S., Hill, April L., Lopez, Jose, Peterson, Kevin J., Pomponi, Shirley, Diaz, Maria C., Thacker, Robert W., Adamska, Maja, Boury-Esnault, Nicole, Cárdenas, Paco, Chaves-Fonnegra, Andia, Danka, Elizabeth, De Laine, Bre-Onna, Formica, Dawn, Hajdu, Eduardo, Lobo-Hajdu, Gisele, Klontz, Sarah, Morrow, Christine C., Patel, Jignasa, Picton, Bernard, Pisani, Davide, Pohlmann, Deborah, Redmond, Niamh E., Reed, John, Richey, Stacy, et al 2013. Reconstruction of Family-Level Phylogenetic Relationships within Demospongiae (Porifera) Using Nuclear Encoded Housekeeping Genes. PLoS ONE, 8(1) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050437

Diaz, M. C., Thacker, R. W., Redmond, N. E., Matterson, K. O. and Collins, Allen G. 2013. Phylogenetic Novelties and Geographic Anomalies among Tropical Verongida. Integrative and Comparative Biology, doi:10.1093/icb/ict033

Lewis, Cheryl, Migita, Masao, Hashimoto, Hiroshi and Collins, Allen G. 2012. On the occurrence of freshwater jellyfish in Japan 1928–2011: eighty-three years of records of mamizu kurage (Limnomedusae, Olindiidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 125(2): 165-179. doi:10.2988/11-31.1

Appeltans, Ward, Ahyong, Shane T, Anderson, Gary, Angel, Martin V, Artois, Tom, Bailly, Nicolas, Bamber, Roger, Barber, Anthony, Bartsch, Ilse, Berta, Annalisa, Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, Magdalena, Bock, Phil, Boxshall, Geoff, Boyko, Christopher B, Brandão, Simone Nunes, Bray, Rod A, Bruce, Niel L, Cairns, Stephen D, Chan, Tin-Yam, Cheng, Lanna, Collins, Allen G, Cribb, Thomas, Curini-Galletti, Marco, Dahdouh-Guebas, Farid, Davie, Peter J F., et al 2012. The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity. Current Biology, 22(23): 2189-2202. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036

Dohrmann, Martin, Vargas, Sergio, Janussen, Dorte, Collins, Allen G. and Wörheide, Gert 2012. Molecular paleobiology of early-branching animals: integrating DNA and fossils elucidates the evolutionary history of hexactinellid sponges. Paleobiology, 39(1): 95-108. doi:10.1666/0094-8373-39.1.95

Weigt, Lee A., Driskell, Amy C., Ormos, Andrea, Meyer, Christopher P. and Collins, Allen Gilbert 2012. Introduction to animal DNA barcoding protocols. In: DNA Barcodes: Methods and Protocols.(Methods in molecular biology) pp.11-16.

Smith, David R., Kayal, Ehsan, Yanagihara, Angel A., Collins, Allen G., Pirro, Stacy and Keeling, Patrick J. 2012. First Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence from a Box Jellyfish Reveals a Highly Fragmented Linear Architecture and Insights into Telomere Evolution. Genome Biology and Evolution, 4(1): 52-58. doi:10.1093/gbe/evr127

Kayal, Ehsan, Bentlage, Bastian, Collins, Allen G., Kayal, Mohsen, Pirro, Stacy and Lavrov, Dennis V. 2012. Evolution of Linear Mitochondrial Genomes in Medusozoan Cnidarians. Genome Biology and Evolution, 4(1): 1-12. doi:10.1093/gbe/evr123

Collins, Allen G., Bentlage, Bastian, Gillan, William (Bud), Lynn, Tara H., Morandini, Andre C. and Marques, Antonio C. 2011. Naming the Bonaire banded box jelly, Tamoya ohboya, n. sp. (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Carybdeida: Tamoyidae). Zootaxa, 2753: 53-68.

Orellana, Evan R. and Collins, Allen G. 2011. First report of the box jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora (Cubozoa: Tripedaliidae) in the continental USA, from Lake Wyman, Boca Raton, Florida. Marine Biodiversity Records, 4 doi:10.1017/S1755267211000133

Kahn, Amanda S., Matsumoto, George I., Hirano, Yayoi M. and Collins, Allen Gilbert 2010. Haliclystus californiensis, a "new" species of stauromedusa (Cnidaria: Staurozoa) from the northeast Pacific, with a key to the species of Haliclystus. Zootaxa, 2518: 49-59.

Bentlage, Bastian, Cartwright, Paulyn, Yanagihara, Angel A., Lewis, Cheryl, Richards, Gemma S. and Collins, Allen Gilbert 2010. Evolution of box jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa), a group of highly toxic invertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London) B, 277(1680): 493-501.

Miranda, Lucilia S., Collins, Allen Gilbert and Marques, Antonio C. 2010. Molecules Clarify a Cnidarian Life Cycle - The "Hydrozoan'' Microhydrula limopsicola Is an Early Life Stage of the Staurozoan Haliclystus antarcticus. Plos One, 5(4): e10182 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010182

Bayha, Keith M., Dawson, Michael N., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Barbeitos, Marcos S. and Haddock, Steven H. D. 2010. Evolutionary Relationships Among Scyphozoan Jellyfish Families Based on Complete Taxon Sampling and Phylogenetic Analyses of 18S and 28S Ribosomal DNA. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 50(3): 436-455.

Dohrmann, M., Collins, Allen Gilbert and Woerheide, G. 2009. New insights into the phylogeny of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida): Monophyly of Lyssacinosida and Euplectellinae, and the phylogenetic position of Euretidae. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 52: 257-262.

Dohrmann, Martin, Janussen, Dorte, Reitner, Joachim, Collins, Allen Gilbert and Wörheide, Gert 2008. Phylogeny and Evolution of Glass Sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida). Systematic Biology, 57(3): 388-405.

Lewis, Cheryl, Kubota, Shin, Migotto, Alvaro E. and Collins, Allen Gilbert 2008. Sexually Dimorphic Cubomedusa Carybdea sivickisi (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) in Seto, Wakayama, Japan. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 40(5/6): 1-8.

Jankowski, T., Collins, Allen Gilbert and Campbell, R. 2008. Global diversity of inland water cnidarians. Hydrobiologia, 595: 35-40.

Kilvington, C. C., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Kosevich, I. A., Pyataeva, S. V. and Robson, E. A. 2008. Protohydra leuckarti near Plymouth. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 88: 1555-1557.

Cartwright, Paulyn, Evans, Nathaniel M., Dunn, Casey W., Marques, Antonio C., Miglietta, Maria Pia, Schuchert, Peter and Collins, Allen Gilbert 2008. Phylogenetics of Hydroidolina (Hydrozoa: Cnidaria). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 88: 1663-1672.

Collins, Allen G., Bentlage, Bastian, Lindner, Alberto, Lindsay, Dhugal, Haddock, Steven H. D., Jarms, Gerhard, Norenburg, Jon L., Jankowski, Thomas and Cartwright, Paulyn 2008. Phylogenetics of Trachylina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) with new insights on the evolution of some problematical taxa. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 88: 1673-1685.

Fukami, Hironobu, Chen, Chaolun Allen, Budd, Ann F., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Wallace, Carden, Chuang, Yao-Yang, Chen, Chienhsun, Dai, Chang-Feng, Iwao, Kenji, Sheppard, Charles and Knowlton, Nancy 2008. Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genes Suggest that Stony Corals Are Monophyletic but Most Families of Stony Corals Are Not (Order Scleractinia, Class Anthozoa, Phylum Cnidaria). PLoS ONE, 3(9): e3222

Evans, N. M., Lindner, A., Raikova, E. V., Collins, Allen Gilbert and Cartwright, Paulyn 2008. Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic parasite, Polypodium hydriforme, within the Phylum Cnidaria. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 8(139).

Tabachnick, K. R. and Collins, Allen Gilbert 2008. Glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida) of the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Marine Biology Research, 4: 25-47.

Cartwright, Paulyn and Collins, Allen Gilbert 2007. Fossils and phylogenies: integrating multiple lines of evidence to investigate the origin of early major metazoan lineages. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 47(5): 744-751.

Daly, M., Brugler, M. R., Cartwright, Paulyn, Collins, Allen Gilbert, Dawson, M. N., Fautin, D. G., France, S. C., McFadden, C. S., Opresko, Dennis M., Rodriguez, E., Roman, S. L. and Stake, J. L. 2007. The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus. Zootaxa, 1668: 127-182.

Cartwright, Paulyn, Halgedahl, Susan L., Hendricks, Jonathan R., Jarrard, Richard D., Marques, Antonio C., Collins, Allen Gilbert and Lieberman, Bruce S. 2007. Exceptionally Preserved Jellyfishes from the Middle Cambrian. PLoS ONE, 2(10): e1121

van Iten, H., Moraes Leme, J. De, Simoes, M. G., Marques, A. C. and Collins, Allen Gilbert 2006. Reassessment of the phylogenetic position of conulariids (?Ediacaran-Triassic) within the subphylum Medusozoa (phylum Cnidaria). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 4(2): 109-118.

Lutz, Richard A., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Annis, Eric R., Reed, Andrew J., Bennett, Kyle F., Halanych, Kenneth M. and Vrijenhoek, Robert C. 2006. Stauromedusan populations inhabiting deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the southern East Pacific Rise. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 47: 409-414.

Medina, M., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Takaoka, T. L., Kuehl, J. V. and Boore, J. L. 2006. Naked Corals: Skeleton Loss in Scleractinia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103: 9096-9100.

Collins, Allen G., Schuchert, P., Marques, A. C., Jankowski, T., Medina, M. and Schierwater, B. 2006. Medusozoan Phylogeny and Character Evolution Clarified by New Large and Small Subunit rDNA Data and an Assessment of the Utility of Phylogenetic Mixture Models. Systematic Biology, 55(1): 97-115.

Collins, Allen G., Bentlage, Bastian, Matsumoto, G. I., Haddock, H. D., Osborn, K. and Schierwater, B. 2006. Solution to the phylogenetic enigma of Tetraplatia, a worm-shaped cnidarian. Biology Letters, 2: 120-124.

Collins, J. A. and Collins, Allen Gilbert 2005. Systematics as a Hypothesis-Based Science and its Fundamental Role in Understanding Oceans. In: OCEANS, 2005. Proceedings of MTS/IEEE. pp.1395-1402.

Tomassetti, P., Voigt, O., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Porrello, S., Pearse, V. B. and Schierwater, B. 2005. Placozoans (Trichoplax adhaerens Schulze, 1883) in the Mediterranean Sea. Meiofauna Marina, 14: 5-7.

Collins, Allen G., Winkelmann, S., Hadrys, H. and Schierwater, B. 2005. Phylogeny of Capitata (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) and Corynidae in light of mitochondrial 16S rDNA data. Zoologica Scripta, 34: 91-99.

Collins, Allen G. and Daly, M. 2005. A new deepwater species of Stauromedusae, Lucernaria janetae (Cnidaria, Staurozoa, Lucernariidae), and a preliminary investigation of stauromedusan phylogeny based on nuclear and mitochondrial rDNA data. Biological Bulletin, 208: 221-230.

Collins, Allen G., Cartwright, Paulyn, McFadden, C. S. and Schierwater, B. 2005. Phylogenetic context and basal metazoan model systems. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 45: 585-594.

Voigt, O., Collins, Allen Gilbert, Pearse, V. B., Pearse, J. S., Hadrys, H. and Schierwater, B. 2004. Placozoa no longer a phylum of one. Current Biology, 14: R944-R945.

Hamilton, H., Caballero, S., Collins, Allen Gilbert and Brownell, Robert L., Jr. 2001. Evolution of river dolphins. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London) B, 268(1466): 549-556.

Collins, Allen G. and Valentine, J. W. 2001. Defining phyla: evolutionary pathways to metazoan body plans. Evolution & Development, 3(6): 432-442.

Collins, Allen G., Lipps, J. H. and Valentine, J. W. 2000. Modern mucociliary creeping trails and the bodyplans of Neoproterozoic trace-makers. Paleobiology, 26(1): 47-55.

Collins, Allen G. 2000. Towards understanding the phylogenetic history of Hydrozoa: hypothesis testing with 18S gene sequence data. Scientia Marina, 64(1): 5-22.

Collins, Allen G. 1999. Molecules and evolutionary history. In: Springer, Dale A. and Scotchmoor, Judith G., Evolution : investigating the evidence. [Pittsburgh, PA]: Paleontological Society,(Paleontological Society Papers) pp.

Collins, Allen G. 1998. Evaluating multiple alternative hypotheses for the origin of Bilateria: an analysis of 18S rRNA molecular evidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 95(26): 15458-15463.