Greg Rouse

grouse AT ucsd.edu

Research Interests

My research currently concentrates on the phylogeny and systematics of groups such as:

• Annelids
  • Terebelliformia (with Vincent Rousset and Fredrik Pleijel)
  • Serpulidae and Serpulidae (with Lena Kupriyanova)
  • Cirratuliformia (with Magda Halt)
  • & the extraordinary Osedax (with Bob Vrijenhoek et al.)
• Crinoid echinoderms (with Chuck Messing and Lars Jermiin)
• Sea dragons (with Nerida Wilson and Steve Donnellan)
• Phylogeny of protostome animals (Gonzalo Giribet et al.)

I am also curator of the SIO Benthic Invertebrates Collection

Previous Projects and Data

Selected Recent Publications

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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.

Rouse, G.W., Worsaae, K., Johnson, S.B., Jones, W.J. & 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.

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

Rouse, G.W. & Pleijel, F. (2007) Annelida. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. & Shear, W. A. Eds.), Linnaeus Tercentenary: Progress in Invertebrate Taxonomy. Zootaxa,1668: 245-264. 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. Biological Bulletin. 213, 95–100.

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

Rouse, G.W. & Pleijel, F. (Eds). 2006. Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Annelida. Science Publishers, Inc., Enfield, New Hampshire.

Bertrand, Y., Pleijel, F. & Rouse, G. W. (2006). Taxonomic surrogacy in biodiversity assessments, and the meaning of Linnaean ranks. Systematics and Biodiversity 4, 149–159.

Helgen, L.E. & Rouse, G.W. 2006. Species delimitation and distribution in Aporometra (Crinoidea: Echinodermata); endemic Australian featherstars Invertebrate Systematics, 20, 395-414.

Rousset, V., Rouse, G.W., Siddall, M.E., Tillier, A. & Pleijel, F. 2004. The phylogenetic position of Siboglinidae (Annelida), inferred from 18S rRNA, 28S rRNA, and morphological data. Cladistics, 20, 518-533.

Rouse, G.W., Goffredi, S.K. & Vrijenhoek, R.C. 2004. Osedax: Bone-eating marine worms with dwarf males. Science, 305, 668-671.

Rouse, G.W. & Pleijel, F. 2001. Polychaetes. Oxford University Press, London.

Rouse, G. 2000. The epitome of hand waving? Larval Feeding and hypotheses of metazoan phylogeny. Evolution and Development, 2, 222-233.