Stephen Palumbi Websites: Palumbi Lab Live videocam view of Lover's Point from Dr. Palumbi's window
Professor Palumbi is a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, married to physician Mary Roberts, father of two teenagers, and founding member of the band Flagella. Selected PublicationsVollmer, S.V. and S.R. Palumbi. 2002. Hybridization and the evolution of reef coral diversity. Science. 296(5575):2023-2025. Barber P.H.,, et al. 2002. Sharp genetic breaks among populations of Haptosquilla pulchella (Stomatopoda) indicate limits to larval transport: patterns, causes, and consequences. Molecular Ecology. 11(4):659-674. Hare, M.P., F. Cipriano, and S.R, Palumbi. 2002. Genetic evidence on the demography of speciation in allopatric dolphin species. Evolution. 56(4):804-816. Palumbi, S.R. 2001. Humans as the world's greatest evolutionary force. Science. 293(.5536):1786-1790. Palumbi, S.R. 2001. The evolution explosion : how humans cause rapid evolutionary change. New York: Norton, 277 pages. Duda, T. F., et al. 2001. .Origins of diverse feeding ecologies within Conus, a genus of venomous marine gastropods. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 73(4):.391-409. Palumbi, S.R.; F. Cipriano, Frank; and M.P. Hare. 2001. .Predicting nuclear gene coalescence from mitochondrial data: The three-times rule. Evolution; 55(5:859-868. Palumbi, S.R. 2001. The ecology of marine protected areas. In: Marine Community Ecology ed. by M.D. Bertness, S.M. Gaines, and M.E. Hixon. . Sunderland, Mass: Sinauer Associates, pp.509-530. Hare, M.P,, S.R. Palumbi, and C.A. Butman. 2000. Single-step species identification of bivalve larvae using multiplex polymerase chain reaction. Marine Biology. 137(5/6):.953-961. Barber, P. H, et al. 2000.. Biogeography: a marine Wallace's line. Nature. 406(6797):692-693. Baker, C.S., et al. 2000. Scientific whaling: Source of illegal products for market? Science. 290(5497):1695. Baker, C.S., et al. 2000. Predicted decline of protected whales based on molecular genetic monitoring of Japanese and Korean markets. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B - Biological Sciences. 267(1449):1191-1199. Duda, T.F. and S.R. Palumbi. 2000. Evolutionary diversification of multigene families: Allelic selection of toxins in predatory cone snails. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 17(9):1286-1293. Hare, M.P., and S.R. Palumbi.. 1999. The accuracy of heterozygous base calling from diploid sequence and resolution of haplotypes using allele-specific sequencing. Molecular Ecology. 8(10):1750-1752. Cipriano, F. and S.R. Palumbi. 1999. Genetic tracking of a protected whale. Nature. 397(6717):307-308. Duda, T.F. and S.R. Palumbi. 1999. Molecular genetics of ecological diversification: Duplication and rapid evolution of toxin genes of the venomous gastropod Conus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) . 96(12): 6820-6823. McMillan, W.O.,, et al. 1999. Color pattern evolution, assortative mating, and genetic differentiation in brightly colored butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae). Evolution. 53(1): 247-260. Duda, T.F. and S.R. Palumbi. 1999.Population structure of the black tiger prawn, Penaeus monodon, among western Indian Ocean and western Pacific populations. Marine Biololgy. 134(4):705-710. Duda, T.F. and S.R. Palumbi. 1999. Developmental shifts and species selection in gastropods. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). 96(18):10272-10277. Palumbi, S.R. 1999. All males are not created equal: Fertility differences depend on gamete recognition polymorphisms in sea urchins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). 96(22):12632-12637. France, S.C. et al. 1999 .Intraspecific genetic diversity in the marine shrimp Penaeus vannamei: Multiple polymorphic elongation factor-1 alpha loci revealed by intron sequencing. Marine Biotechnology. 1(3):261-268. Palumbi, .S.R. 1999. The Prodigal Fish. Nature. 402(6763):733-135. |
Stephen R. Palumbi received is Ph.D. from University of Washington in marine ecology. His research group engages in the study of the genetics, evolution, conservation, population biology and systematics of a diverse array of marine organisms. Professor Palumbi's own research interests are similarly widespread, and he has published on the genetics and evolution of sea urchins, whales, cone snails, corals, sharks, spiders, shrimps, bryozoans, and butterflyfishes. A primary focus is the use of molecular genetic techniques in conservation, including the identification of whale and dolphin products available in commercial markets. Current conservation work centers on the genetics of marine reserves designed for conservation and fisheries enhancement, with projects in the Philipppines, Bahamas and western US coast. In addition, basic work on the molecular evolution of reproductive isolation and its influence on patterns of speciation uses marine model systems such as sea urchins. This work is expanding our view of the evolution of gamete morphology and the genes involved. Steve's latest book The Evolution Explosion: How humans cause rapid evolutionary change shows how rapid evolution is central to emerging problems in modern society, and has been cited for its easy access for non-scientists. In Fall 2002, Steve appears in the TV series The Future is Wild, an computer-animated exploration of the possible courses of evolution in the next few hundred million years.