Publications
Ron I. Eytan, Philip A. Hastings, and Michael E. Hellberg. Extreme rates of mitochondrial evolution and high mitochondrial to nuclear substitution rate ratios in coral reef fishes. In Revision.
Wainwright, P.C., W.L. Smith, J.S. Sparks, K.L. Tang, L.A. Ferry-Graham, R.I. Eytan, and T.J. Near. The evolution of pharyngognathy: a phylogenetic and functional appraisal of the pharyngeal jaw key innovation in Labroidei and beyond. In Press. Systematic Biology.
Near, T. J., R.I. Eytan, A. Dornburg, K. L. Kuhn, J. A. Moore, M. P. Davis, P. C. Wainwright, M. Friedman, and W. L. Smith. 2012. Resolution of ray-finned fish phylogeny and timing of diversification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109:13698-13703.
Small, S.T., R.I. Eytan, K. Bockrath, and J.P. Wares. 2012. Evaluation of genetic structure across freshwater mussel community (genus Elliptio) in the Altamaha River basin. Conservation Genetics 13:965-975.
Ron I. Eytan, Philip A. Hastings, Barbara R. Holland, and Michael E. Hellberg. (2012) Reconciling molecules and morphology: molecular systematics and biogeography of Neotropical blennies (Acanthemblemaria). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62:159-173.
Ron I. Eytan and Michael E. Hellberg. (2010) Nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data reveal
and conceal different demographic histories and population genetic processes in Caribbean reef
fishes. Evolution 64:3380-3397.
Qinggang Xue, Michael E. Hellberg, Kevin L. Schey, Naoki Itoh, Ron I. Eytan, Richard K.
Cooper, Jerome F. La Peyre.
(2010)
Cv-lysozyme 3 suggests an evolutionary pathway from host
defense to digestion in the Eastern Oyster,
Crassostrea virginica. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10:213.
Marshall L. Hayes, Ron I. Eytan, Michael E. Hellberg. (2010) High amino acid diversity and
positive selection at a putative coral immunity gene (tachylectin-2). BMC Evolutionary Biology
10:150.
Eytan, R.I., Hayes, M., Arbour-Reily, P., Miller, M. and Hellberg, M.E. (2009) Nuclear
sequences reveal mid-range isolation of an imperiled deep-water coral population. Molecular
Ecology 18:2375-2389.
G. Serkerkova, P.A. Loomis, B. Changyaleket, L. Zheng, R. Eytan, B. Chen, E. Mugnaini, and
J.R. Bartles (2003) Novel espin actin-bundling proteins are localized to Purkinje cell dendritic
spines and bind the SH3 adapter protein insulin receptor substrate p53. Journal of Neuroscience
23(4):1310-9