Ellen E. StrongResearch Zoologist

• Phone: 202-633-1742
• Fax: 202-633-0182
• E-mail: StrongE@si.edu


• Mailing Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  PO Box 37012, MRC 163
  Washington, DC 20013-7012
  


• Courier Delivery Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  National Museum of Natural History
  10th and Constitution Ave, NW
  Washington, DC 20560-0163
  

Responsibilities: Research Zoologist, Curator of Mollusca

Education:
B.A. (Honors), University of California, Berkeley, California, 1991.
Ph.D., The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 2000.

Research Interests:
Anatomy-Homology-Phylogeny of Caenogastropoda using morphology and molecules-Phylogeny and Systematics of Cerithioidea using morphology and molecules-Invasion of freshwater-Miniaturization

Recent Publications:
Kantor, Yuri I., Strong, Ellen E. and Puillandre, Nicolas 2012. A new lineage of conoidea (gastropoda: neogastropoda) revealed by morphological and molecular data. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 78(3): 246-255. doi:10.1093/mollus/eys007

Hayes, Kenneth A., Cowie, Robert H., Thiengo, Silvana C. and Strong, Ellen E. 2012. Comparing apples with apples: clarifying the identities of two highly invasive Neotropical Ampullariidae (Caenogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 166(4): 723-753. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00867.x

Gomez, Maria I., Strong, Ellen E. and Glaubrecht, Matthias 2011. Redescription and Anatomy of the Viviparous Freshwater Gastropod Hemisinus lineolatus (W. Wood, 1828) from Jamaica (Cerithioidea, Thiaridae). Malacologia, 53(2): 229-250.

Strong, Ellen E., Colgan, Donald J., Healy, John M., Lydeard, Charles, Ponder, Winston F. and Glaubrecht, Matthias 2011. Phylogeny of the gastropod superfamily Cerithioidea using morphology and molecules. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 162(1): 43-89.

Churchill, Celia K. C., Strong, Ellen E. and Ó Foighil, Diarmaid 2011. Hitchhiking juveniles in the rare neustonic gastropod Recluzia cf. jehennei ( Janthinidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 77(4): 441-444. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr020

Churchill, Celia K. C., Foighil, Diarmaid Ó., Strong, Ellen E. and Gittenberger, Adriaan 2011. Correspondence: Females floated first in bubble-rafting snails. Current Biology, 21(19): R802-R803. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.08.011

Strong, Ellen E. 2011. More than a gut feeling: utility of midgut anatomy in phylogeny of the Cerithioidea (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 162(3): 585-630. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00687.x

Johnson, S. B., Waren, A., Lee, R. W., Kano, Y., Kaim, A., Davis, A., Strong, Ellen E. and Vrijenhoek, R. C. 2010. Rubyspira, New Genus and Two New Species of Bone-Eating Deep-Sea Snails With Ancient Habits. Biological Bulletin, 219(2): 166-177.

Reynolds, Kyle C., Watanabe, Hiromi, Strong, Ellen E., Sasaki, Takenori, Uematsu, Katsuyuki, Miyake, Hiroshi, Kojima, Shigeaki, Suzuki, Yohey, Fujikura, Katsunori, Kim, Stacy and Young, Craig M. 2010. New Molluscan Larval Form: Brooding and Development in a Hydrothermal Vent Gastropod, Ifremeria nautilei (Provannidae). Biological Bulletin, 219(1): 7-11.

Strong, Ellen E. and Glaubrecht, Matthias 2010. Anatomy of the Tiphobiini from Lake Tanganyika (Cerithioidea, Paludomidae). Malacologia, 52(1): 115-153.

Lieb, Bernhard, Gebauer, Wolfgang, Christos, Gatsogiannism, Depoix, Frank, Hellmann, Nadja, Harasewych, M. G., Strong, Ellen E. and Markl, Jü 2010. Molluscan mega-hemocyanin: an ancient oxygen carrier tuned by a 500 kDa polypeptide. Frontiers in Zoology, 7(14): 1-13.

Bouchet, Philippe and Strong, Ellen E. 2010. Historical name-bearing types in marine molluscs: an impediment to biodiversity studies?. In: Polaszek, Andrew, Systema Naturae 250 - The Linnaean Ark. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, pp.61-72.

Strong, Ellen E. and Koehler, Frank 2009. Morphological and molecular analysis of 'Melania' jacqueti Dautzenberg and Fischer, 1906: from anonymous orphan to critical basal offshoot of the Semisulcospiridae (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea). Zoologica Scripta, 38(5): 483-502. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00385.x

Puillandre, N., Strong, Ellen E., Bouchet, Philippe, Boisselier, M. -C, Couloux, A. and Samadi, S. 2009. Identifying gastropod spawn from DNA barcodes: possible but not yet practicable. Molecular Ecology Resources, 9(5): 1311-1321.



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