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Sean Craig

Biology, Ecology, Zoology, Biological Sciences & Marine Biology / Humboldt State University
: Science A-457 / : 707-826-3656 / : sfc4@humbo@example.com @example.com @example.comldt.edu / : HSU-REU site, Faculty Website

About me

My research focuses on 2 areas: 1) The evolution of self-nonself recognition and fusion in marine colonial animals, particularly Bryozoans. I am interested in the evolution of cooperation and colony formation in a broad spectrum of animals.
(2) I am interested in rocky intertidal and subtidal marine community ecology, with a particular focus on interactions between native and introduced species during succession and how those species alter the pattern of succession. My students are currently working on facilitation in mussel beds and how that ecosystem service is altered by global warming, how individual species' morphology can alter patterns of free space and succession, how invasive bryozoan species can alter marine community species richness, as well as restoration ecology with the native oyster Ostrea concaphila. Past student projects have focused on anthropogenic impacts on marine boulder-field communities as well as the effects of warming on photosynthate release in symbiotic dinoflagellates (with Prof. Ruth Gates at Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology)

Publications

1. Pemberton, A.J., L.J. Hansson, S.F. Craig, R.N. Hughes, and J.D. Bishop. 2007. Microscale genetic differentiation in a sessile invertebrate with cloned larvae: investigating the role of polyembryony. Marine Biology 153(1): 71-82. (article)

2. Hughes, R.N., M.E. D'Amato, J.D. Bishop, G.R. Carvalho, S.F. Craig, L.J. Hansson, M.A. Harley, and A.J. Pemberton. 2005. Paradoxical polyembryony? Embryonic cloning in an ancient order of marine bryozoans. Biology Letters 1: 178-180. (article)

3. Hughes, R.N., P.H. Manriquez, S. Morley, S.F. Craig, and J.D. Bishop. 2005. Kin or self recognition? Colonial fusibility of the bryozoan Celleporella hyalina. Evolution & Development 6(6): 431-437. (article)

4. Boyle, Michael, Dean Janiak, and Sean F Craig. 2004. Succession in a Humboldt bay marine fouling community: the role of exotic species, larval settlement and winter storms. Presented at Proceedings of the 2004 Humboldt Bay Symposium, 1-4 April, in Eureka. (presentation)

5. Craig, S.F., M.E. D'Amato, M. Harley, R.N. Hughes, and G.R. Carvalho. 2001. Isolation and characterization of microsatellites in the bryozoan Crisia denticulata. Molecular Ecology Notes 100(1): 1-2. (article)

6. Craig, S.F. and K. Wasson. 2000. Self/non-self recognition and fusion in the bryozoan Hippodiplosia inscultpa. In Biology and Paleobiology of Bryozoans: Proceedings of the 11th International Bryozoology Association Conference, edited by P.J. Hayward and J. Taylor, 189-196. (bookchapter)

7. Judge, M.L. and S.F. Craig. 1997. Water flow effects on recruitment and growth of barnacles and hydroids: results from in situ manipulation of water currents. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology & Ecology 210(2): 209-222. (article)

8. Craig, S.F., L.B. Slobodkin, and G. Wray. 1997. The 'Paradox' of Polyembryony: A review of the cases and a hypothesis for its evolution. Evolutionary Ecology 11(2): 127-143. (article)

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