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Department of Marine Sciences

University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

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The lab

Dannise and Nick going to the field, La Parguera, November 2006

At Lee Stocking Island, September 2005
Nick Schizas (left) and Hernan Torres-Pratts (right)
Nick on the boat

Nikolaos V. Schizas
Department of Marine Sciences
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Isla Magueyes Laboratories
P.O. Box 908
Lajas, PR 00667

E-mail: n_schizas [at] cima.uprm.edu
Tel (Office): 1-787-899-2048 ext. 242
Tel (Lab) : 1-787-899-2048 ext 225
Fax: 1-787-899-5500
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Selected Publications

Papers In Review

Phylogenetic inferences of Tisbe Lilljeborg, 1853 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) with a new species of Tisbe thailandensis from Bangsaen Beach, Thailand. S Chullasorn, H-U Dahms, NV Schizas, P Kangtia

D Ruiz-Ramos, E Hernandez, NV Schizas. Population status of the long-spined urchin Diadema antillarum in Puerto Rico 20 years after a mass mortality event.

H. Torres-Pratts, M. T. Schärer and N. V. Schizas. Mitochondrial DNA from epibiont barnacles does not differentiate sex-specific migration patterns of hawksbill turtles in the Caribbean.

Hans-U. Dahms, NV Schizas, S Chullasorn, P Kangtia, W Anansatitporn, Wan-Xi Yang. Review of naupliar development among Tisbidae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) with a phylogenetic analysis and naupliar description of Tisbe thailandensis from Thailand

Andrew L. Rhyne, Dong Zhang, J Lin, NV Schizas. Not any two will do: DNA divergence and interpopulation reproductive compatibility in a simultaneous hermaphroditic shrimp, Lysmata wurdemanni

Published Papers, (*) = Papers with students

V Pesic, T Chatterjee, NV Schizas (2008). Marine water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Pontarachnidae) from the Caribbean Sea, with description of one new species. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 49(3):000-000.

(*)C Prada, NV Schizas, PM Yoshioka (2008). Phenotypic plasticity or speciation? A case from a clonal marine organism. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:47 (Featured article in BMC Evolutionary Biology, February 29 2008) (pdf)

(*)H Torres-Pratts, NV Schizas (2007). Meiofaunal colonization of decaying leaves of the red mangrove Rhizophora mangle, in southwestern Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science, 43 (1): 127-137. (pdf). High resolution pictures of Figure 2 (here) and Figure 3 (here).

NV Schizas, TC Shirley (2006). Apolethon hippoperus (Copepoda, Harpacticoida)- a new species from southeastern Alaska. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 26 (3): 341-354. (pdf)

Hans-Uwe Dahms, NV Schizas, TC Shirley (2005). Naupliar evolutionary novelties of Stenhelia peniculata (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from Alaska affirming taxa belonging to different categorical rank. Invertebrate Zoology, 2(1): 1-14. (pdf)

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