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2026

In press at Science Advances-

Pittoors, N. C., S. M. Tweedt, L. J. McCartin, S. A. Vohsen, L. Lopera, S. Mihalek, J. Lai, K. M. Durkin, L. Weigt, M. F. Nuttall, A. Bracco, C. P. Meyer, and S. Herrera. Environmental filtering shapes patch dynamics across isolated mesophotic reefs. BioRxiv 2025. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.02.686126 . 

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Herrera, S., A. F. Govindarajan, E. Andruszkiewicz Allan, R. Francolini, E. Frates, L. McCartin, N. C. Pittoors, M. Sengthep, S. Stover, S. Vohsen, and N. Yang. Depth-dependent eDNA abundances across ecosystems inform deep-sea sampling strategies. BioRxiv 2026. DOI: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.12.724363

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McCartin, L.J., Vohsen, S.A., Wood, A. L., Horowitz, J., Oroszco-Juarbe, J.J., Pittoors, N.C., Morrissey, D.,Vaga, C.F., Hansel, C.M., Collins, A.G., Quattrini, A.M., Herrera, S. Accounting for intra and intergenomic sequence variation in reference barcodes improves eDNA metabarcoding biodiversity assessment. Molecular Ecology Resources. 26, no. 3: e70130. 2026. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.70130

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2024

​Maloney, R. T.,Ye A. Q., Saint Pre, S-K., Alisch, T., Zimmerman, D.M., Pittoors, N.C., and de Bivort, B.L. 2024. Drift in Individual Behavioral Phenotype as a Strategy for Unpredictable Worlds. eLife. DOI:https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.103585.

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McCartin, L.J., Saso, E., Vohsen, S., Pittoors, N.C., Demetriades, P., McFadden, C., Quattrini, A., and Herrera, S. Nuclear eDNA metabarcoding primers for anthozoan coral biodiversity assessment. 2024. PeerJ ; DOI:https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18607. 

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2023

Herrera, S., Chadwick, W.W., Jackson, M.G., Konter, J., McCartin, L., Pittoors, N., Bushta, E., Merle, S.G. 2023. From basalt to biosphere: Early non-vent community succession on the erupting Vailulu'u deep seamount. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1110062.

 

2022

McDermort, J.M., Parnell-Turner, R., Barreyre, T., Herrera, S., Downing, C., Pittoors, N.C., Pehr, K., Vohsen, S.A., Dowd, W.S., Wu, J., Marjanoic, M., Fornari, D. 2022. Discovery of active off-axis vents at 9º 54’N East Pacific Rise. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2205602119.

 

2019

Maciejewski, M.F., Meyer, K.S., Wheeler, J.D., Anderson, E.J., Pittoors, N.C., Mullineaux, L.S. 2019. Helical swimming as an exploratory behavior in competent larvae of the eastern oyster larvae (Crassostrea virginica). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 510: 86-94. DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2018.10.007.

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In Preparation:

In preparation for Molecular Ecology-

​​​Pittoors, N.C., Lopera-Garcia, L.F., Glaska, M.P., Vohsen, S.A., West, D., Quattrini, A.M., Bracco, A., Herrera, S. Stepping-Stone Population Structure and Widespread Clonality of the Mesophotic Octocoral Swiftia exserta in the Warm Temperate Northwest Atlantic. 

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In preparation for Scientific Reports-

Pittoors, N.C., Al-Shaer, L., Linde, H., Johnstone, J., Layden, M., Herrera, S. Epigenetic sex determination and conserved sex-linked genes in the mesophotic octocoral Swiftia exserta.