Monica near the Wall, La Parguera, Puerto Rico

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

Nikolaos V. Schizas
Department of Marine Sciences
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Isla Magueyes Laboratories
Call Box 9000, Mayagüez, PR 00681
Mayagüez, PR 00681

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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Lab People

Matt Lucas, Ph.D. student (Molecular Ecology of mesophotic scleractinian corals)

Monica Rojas, M.S. candidate (Population structure of Caribbean ophiurids)

Alexandre Jassoud, M.S. candidate (Genetic structure of Caribbean and Mediterranean populations of Octopus vulgaris)

Luis Rodriguez, new graduate student (from Univ of Puerto Rico Ponce),

Alumni of the Lab

Joselyd Garcia, Awarded M.S. in Spring 2008 (Molecular ecology of Acropora around Puerto Rico).
Joselyd was the recipient of the 2008 Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

Tania Lado-Insua, visiting student, 2007 Universidad de Vigo, Spain (Genetic variation in Caribbean Corallimorpharia)
Currently at the Univ of Rhode Island pursuing a PhD in Marine Engineering

Carlos Prada, Research Associate 2005-2008(Patterns of genetic variation in the gorgonian Plexaura flexuosa). Now pursuing a PhD at LSU

Field Activities

Panama, January 2009

Guadeloupe, October 2008

St. Kitts & St. Maarten, January 2008

Curacao, October 2007

Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas, September 2005

Dominican Republic, January 2004

Research cruise with the R/V Chapman, May 2004

Lab Instrumentation and Layout

Selected Publications

Papers In Review

(*)J Garcia Reyes, NV Schizas. Genetic variability and fine-scale population structure in the threatened coral species Acropora palmata and A. cervicornis around Puerto Rico

(*)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. Bulletin of Marine Science

Recently Published Papers, (*) = Papers with students

Andrew L. Rhyne, Dong Zhang, J Lin, NV Schizas (2009). Not any two will do: DNA divergence and interpopulation reproductive compatibility in a simultaneous hermaphroditic shrimp, Lysmata wurdemanni. Marine Ecology Progress Series 388:185-195(pdf)

Hans-U. Dahms, S Chullasorn, NV Schizas, P Kangtia, W Anansatitporn, Wan-Xi Yang (2009). Review of naupliar development among Tisbidae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) with a phylogenetic analysis and naupliar description of Tisbe thailandensis from Thailand. Zoological Studies 48(6):780-796 (pdf)

(*)H Torres-Pratts, MT Schärer and NV Schizas (2009) Genetic diversity of Chelonibia caretta, commensal barnacles of the endangered hawksbill sea turtle Eretmochelys imbricata from the Caribbean (Puerto Rico). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK 89:(4) 719-725 (pdf)(Copyright of Cambridge University Press).

S Chullasorn, H-U Dahms, NV Schizas, P Kangtia (2009). Phylogenetic inferences of Tisbe Lilljeborg, 1853 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) with a new species of Tisbe thailandensis from Bangsaen Beach, Thailand. Hydrobiologia 627: 1-17 DOI 10.1007/s10750-009-9711-2 (pdf)

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):253-259. (pdf)

(*)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)

Older papers

Teaching

Biological Oceanography (CIMA 6618)

Special Topics: DNA data analysis (CMOB 8998)

Current topics seminar (CMOB 8785)

Useful Links

International Assoc of Meiobenthologists

Archipelagos - Institute of Marine & Environmental Research of the Aegean Sea

Bruce Coull's Web site

Todd Oakley's Web site

Dick Hudson's Web site

Jeff Levinton's Marine Biology Web site

Molecular Population Genetics