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ROUSE, GREG

Professor

Curator

Degrees:

• B.S., University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
• M.S., University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
• Ph.D., University of Sydney

Research Interests:

• Animal phylogeny, biodiversity and taxonomy, particularly annelids and echinoderms
• Evolution of life history strategies in marine animals
• Evolution of whalefall, hydrothermal vent and methane seep fauna
• Seadragon (Syngnathidae) phylogeny and phylogeography

Courses:

• BGGN500: Apprentice Teaching
• BIEB147: Introduction to Phylogenetics
• BISP195: Intro to Teaching in Biology
• BISP199: Individual Research for Ugrads
• ERC92: Honors Project
• ESYS190A: Envir Sys/Senior Project
• SIO199: Special Studies
• SIO297: Marine Biology Seminar
• SIO299: Research
• SIO30: The Oceans

Honors and Awards:

• Reinhardt Rieger Award in Zoomorphology (shared with K. Worsaae), 2008

Mentoring:

• Borda, Liz (Post Doc; 2009-)
• Garcia, Eric (Undergrad; 2009-2009)
• Jose , Carvajal (Undergrad; 2009-)
• Miller, Allison (Undergrad; 2009-2009)
• Santiago, Dean (Undergrad; 2009-2009)
• Tong, Gordon (Undergrad; 2009-)
• Tat, Christine (Undergrad; 2008-2008)
• Zheng, Kathy (Undergrad; 2008-2009)
• Chlebeck, Larry (Undergrad; 2007-2008)
• Huang, Danwei (Graduate; 2007-)
• Osborn, Karen (Post Doc; 2007-)
• Lai, Ming (Undergrad; 2006-2007)
• Rousset, Vincent (Post Doc; 2006-2008)

Publications; 2007-2010:

Worsaae K, Rouse GW. (2010). The simplicity of males: progenetic dwarf males of four species of Osedax (Annelida) investigated by investigated by confocal laser scanning microscopy. Journal of Morphology 271:127-142.

Lanterbecq D, Rouse GW, Eeckhaut I. (2010). Evidence for cospeciation events in the host-symbiont system involving crinoids (Echinodermata) and their obligate associates, the myzostomids (Myzostomida, Annelida). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54:357-371.

Wilson NG, Rouse GW, Giribet G. (2010). Novel molecular data quantifies support for a molluscan clade Serialia (Monoplacophora + Polyplacophora). Molecular Phylogentics & Evolution 54:187-193.

Kupriyanova EK, ten Hove HA, Sket B, Zakšek V, Trontelj P, Rouse GW. (2009). Evolution of the unique freshwater cave-dwelling tube worm Marifugia cavatica (Annelida: Serpulidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 7:389–401.

Vrijenhoek RC, Johnson SB, Rouse GW. (2009). A remarkable diversity of bone-eating worms (Osedax; Siboglinidae, Annelida). BMC Biol 7:74.

Hejnol A, Obst M, Stamatakis A, Ott M, Rouse GW, Edgecombe GD, Martinez P, Baguñà J, Bailly X, Jondelius U, Wiens M, Müller WEG, Seaver E, Wheeler WC, Martindale MQ, Giribet G, Dunn CW. (2009) Assessing the root of the bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods. Proc Roy Soc B 276:4261-4270.

Lanterbecq, D, Rouse, GW, Eeckhaut, I. (2009) Bodyplan diversification in crinoid-associated myzostomids (Myzostomida, Protostomia). Invertebrate Biology 128: 283-301.

Giribet G, Dunn CW, Edgecombe GD, Hejnol A, Martindale MQ, Rouse, GW. (2009) Assembling the Spiralian (=Lophotrochozoan) Tree of Life. Animal Evolution: Genes, Genomes, Fossils and Trees. M. J. Telford and D. T. J. Littlewood, Oxford University Press pp. 52-64.

Osborn KJ, Haddock SHD, Madin LP, Pleijel F, Rouse GW. (2009) Deep-sea, swimming worms with luminescent “bombs”. Science 325: 964.

Worsaae K, Rouse GW. (2009) Mesonerilla neridae, n. sp. (Nerillidae): First meiofaunal annelid from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Zoosymposia 2: 297–303.

Halt MN, Kupriyanova EK, Cooper SJB, Rouse GW. (2009) Naming species with no morphological indicators: species status of Galeolaria caespitosa (Annelida, Serpulidae) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences and morphology. Invertebrate Systematics 23: 205-222.

Owen CL, Messing CG, Rouse GW, Shivji MS (2009) Using a combined approach to explain the morphological and ecological diversity in Phanogenia gracilis Hartlaub, 1893 (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) sensu lato: two species or intraspecific variation? Marine Biology 156:1517 - 1529.

Wilson NG, Huang D, Goldstein MC, Cha H, Giribet G, Rouse GW (2009) Field collection of Laevipilina hyalina (McLean, 1979) from southern California, the the most accessible living monoplacophoran. Molluscan Research 75: 195-197.

Rouse, G.W., Wilson, N.G., Johnson, S.B., Goffredi, S.K., Smart, T., Widmer, C., Young, C.M., Vrijenhoek, R.C. (2009) Spawning and development in Osedax boneworms. Marine Biology 156:395–405.

Pleijel F., Dahlgren T., Rouse G.W. (2009) Progress in science: from Siboglinidae to Pogonophora and Vestimentifera and back to Siboglinidae. Comptes rendus-Biologies 332: 140–148.

Pleijel, F., Rouse, G.W., Nygren, A., (2009) Five colour morphs and three new species of Gyptis (Hesionidae, Annelida) under a jetty in Edithburgh, South Australia. Zoologica Scripta 38 89–99.

Worsaae, K. & Rouse, G.W. (2008) Is Diurodrilus an annelid? Journal of Morphology 269:1426-1455.

Haig, J., Rouse, G.W. (2008) Larval development of the featherstar Aporometra wilsoni (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). Invertebrate Biology 127: 460-469.

Vrijenhoek, R.C., S. B. Johnson, S.B. & Rouse, G.W. (2008) Bone-eating Osedax females and their 'harems' of dwarf males are recruited from a common larval pool Molecular Ecology, 17: 4535-4544.

Kupriyanova, E.K., Bastida-Zavala, R., Halt, M.N., Lee, M.S.Y., Rouse, G.W. (2008) Phylogeny of the Serpula-Crucigera-Hydroides clade (Serpulidae; Annelida) using molecular and morphological data: implications for operculum evolution. Invertebrate Systematics 22: 425-437.

Rouse, G.W., Worsaae, K., Johnson, S.B., Jones, W.J. and Vrijenhoek, R.C. (2008) Acquisition of dwarf male 'harems' by recently settled females of Osedax roseus n. sp. (Siboglinidae; Annelida). Biological Bulletin 214: 67-82.

Osborn, K.J. & Rouse, G.W. (2008) Multiple origins of pelagicism within Flabelligeridae (Annelida). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 49: 386-392.

Rousset, V., Plaisance, L., Erseus, C., Siddall, M.E. & Rouse, G.W. (2008) Evolution of habitat preference in Clitellata (Annelida). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 95, 447-464.

Dunn, C.W., Hejnol, A., Matus, D.Q., Pang, K., Browne, W.E., Smith, S.A., Seaver, E., Rouse, G.W., Obst, M., Edgecombe, G.D., Sørensen, M.V., Haddock, S.H.D., Schmidt-Rhaesa, A., Okusu, A., Kristensen, R.M., Wheeler, W.C., Martindale, M.Q. & Giribet, G. (2008) Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life. Nature 452: 745-749.

Kupriyanova, E. K. and Rouse, G. W. (2008) Yet another example of paraphyly in Annelida: Molecular evidence that Sabellidae contains Serpulidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46: 1174-1181.

Jones, W.J., Johnson, S.B., Rouse, G.W. and Vrijenhoek, R.C. (2008) Marine worms (genus Osedax) colonize cow bones. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275: 387-391.

Meyer, A., Bleidorn, C., Rouse, G.W. and Hausen, H. (2008) Morphological and molecular data suggest a cosmopolitan distribution of the polychaete Proscoloplos cygnochaetus Day, 1954 (Annelida, Orbiniidae). Marine Biology 153: 879-889.

Pleijel, F., Rouse, G.W., Ruta, C., Wiklund, H. and Nygren, A. (2008) Vrijenhoekia balaenophila, a new hesionid polychaete from a whale fall off California. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 152: 625-634.

Rouse, G. W. & Pleijel, F. (2007) Annelida. In Linnaeus Tercentenary: Progress in Invertebrate Taxonomy. Zootaxa, vol. 1668 (ed. Z.-Q. Zhang & W. A. Shear), pp. 245-264: Magnolia Press.

Giribet, G., Dunn, C.W., Edgecombe, G.D. and Rouse, G.W. (2007) A modern look at the Animal Tree of Life. In Linnaeus Tercentenary: Progress in Invertebrate Taxonomy. Zootaxa,, vol. 1668 (ed. Z.-Q. Zhang & W. A. Shear), pp. 61-79: Magnolia Press.

DeHeyn, D. D., Kubokawa, K., McCarthy, J. K., Murakami, A., Porrachia, M., Rouse, G. W. & Holland, N. D. (2007) Endogenous green fluorescent protein (GFP) in amphioxus. Biol. Bull. 213, 95–100.

Braby, C. E., Rouse, G. W., Johnson, S. B., Jones, W. J. & Vrijenhoek, R. C. (2007) Bathymetric and temporal variation among Osedax boneworms and associated megafauna on whale-falls in Monterey Bay, California. Deep-Sea Research I 54, 1773–1791.

Rousset, V., F. Pleijel, G.W. Rouse, C. Erséus, and M. E. Siddall. (2007) A molecular phylogeny of annelids. Cladistics 23:41-63.

Osborn, K. J., G. W. Rouse, S. K. Goffredi, and B. H. Robison. (2007) Description and relationships of an unusual pelagic polychaete (Annelida, Chaetopteridae). Biological Bulletin 212:40-54.

Capa, M., and G. W. Rouse. (2007) Phylogenetic relationships within Amphiglena Claparède, 1864 (Polychaeta: Sabellidae), description of five new species from Australia, a new species from Japan, and comments on previously described species. J. nat. Hist. 41:1-30.

Murray, A. and G.W. Rouse (2007) Two new species of Terebrasabella (Annelida: Sabellidae: Sabellinae) from Australia. Zootaxa 1434: 51-68.

Nishi, E. and G.W. Rouse (2007) A new species of Phyllochaetopterus (Chaetopteridae: Annelida) from near hydrothermal vents in the Lau Basin, western Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 1621: 55–64.