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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 Recently Taught:

• SIO 184: Marine Invertebrates
• SIO 284: Marine Invertebrates
• SIO 295LS: Lab Marine Biodivrsty&Consrvtn
• SIO 295S: Marine Biodiversity&Conservatn
• SIO 297: Marine Biology Seminar
• SIO147: Applications of Phylogenetics
• SIO184: Marine Invertebrates
• SIO284: Marine Invertebrates
• SIO293: Applications of Phylogenetics
• SIO295LS: Lab Marine Biodivrsty&Consrvtn
• SIO295S: Marine Biodiversity&Conservatn
• SIO297: Marine Biology Seminar
• SIO30: The Oceans

Mentoring:

• Chia , Ming (Undergrad; 2012-)
• Francoeur, Alex (Undergrad; 2012-)
• Sasaki, Matthew (Undergrad; 2012-2012)
• Stiller, Josefin (Graduate; 2012-)
• Chen, Ashley (Undergrad; 2011-2012)
• Dorgan, Kelly (Post Doc; 2011-)
• Katz, Sigrid (Post Doc; 2011-)
• Law, Chris (Undergrad; 2011-2012)
• Moore, Jenna (Graduate; 2011-)
• Smith, Stephanie (Undergrad; 2011-2012)
• Feehery, Caitlin (Graduate; 2010-2012)
• Stiller, Josefin (Masters; 2010-2011)
• Borda, Liz (Post Doc; 2009-2010)
• Carvajal, Jose (Undergrad; 2009-2010)
• Garcia, Eric (Undergrad; 2009-2009)
• Miller, Allison (Undergrad; 2009-2009)
• Santiago, Dean (Undergrad; 2009-2009)
• Summers, Mindi (Graduate; 2009-)
• Tong, Gordon (Undergrad; 2009-2010)
• Tat, Christine (Undergrad; 2008-2008)
• Zheng, Kathy (Undergrad; 2008-2009)
• Chlebeck, Larry (Undergrad; 2007-2008)
• Huang, Danwei (Graduate; 2007-2012)
• Osborn, Karen (Post Doc; 2007-2010)
• Lai, Ming (Undergrad; 2006-2007)
• Rousset, Vincent (Post Doc; 2006-2008)

Publications; 2007-2013:

Ahrens JB, Borda E, Barroso R, Paiva PC, Campbell AM, Wolf A, Nugues M, Rouse GW & Schulze A (2013) The curious case of Hermodice carunculata (Annelida: Amphinomidae). Molecular Ecology 22:2280-2291.

Stiller J, Rousset V, Pleijel F, Chevaldonné P, Vrijenhoek RC & Rouse GW (2013) Phylogeny, biogeography and systematics of hydrothermal vent and methane seep Amphisamytha (Ampharetidae, Annelida), with descriptions of three new species. Systematics and Biodiversity 11:35–65.

Summers M, Katz S, Allen EA & Rouse GW (2013) Association of rhizobia with a marine polychaete. Environmental Microbiology Reports:DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12043.

Dorgan KM, Law CJ, & Rouse GW (2013) Meandering worms: mechanics of undulatory burrowing in muds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2948.

Aguado MT, Nygren A, & Rouse GW (2013) Two apparently unrelated groups of symbiotic annelids, Nautiliniellidae and Calamyzidae (Phyllodocida, Annelida), are a clade of derived chrysopetalid polychaetes. Cladistics DOI: 10.1111/cla.12011.

Law CJ, Dorgan KM & Rouse GW (2013) Validation of three sympatric Thoracophelia species (Annelida: Opheliidae) from Dillon Beach, California using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data. Zootaxa 3608, 67–74.

Brusa V, Aguado MT, Martín GS & Rouse GW (2013) Revision of the genus Eusyllis Malmgren, 1867 (Annelida: Phyllodocida: Syllidae: Eusyllinae), with the description of a new species from the eastern Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa, 3599, 37-50.

Rouse GW, Jermiin LS, Wilson NG, Eeckhaut I, Lanterbecq D, Oji T, Young CM, Browning T, Cisternas P, Helgen LE, Stuckey M & Messing CG (2013). Fixed, free and fixed: the fickle phylogeny of extant Crinoidea (Echinodermata) and their Permian-Triassic origin. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 66: 161–181.

Pleijel F, Aguado MT & Rouse GW (2012). New and lesser known species of Chrysopetalidae, Phyllodocidae and Syllidae from south California (Phyllodocida, Aciculata, Annelida). Zootaxa 3506:1-25.

Haig JA, Gillanders BM & Rouse GW (2012). Live fast, die young: the life cycle of the brooding feather star Aporometra wilsoni (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). Invertebrate Biology 131: 235–243.

Pleijel F, Rouse GW, Sundkvist T, & Nygren A (2012). A partial revision of Gyptis (Gyptini, Ophiodrominae, Hesionidae, Aciculata, Annelida), with descriptions of a new tribe and a new genus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165: 471-494.

Huusgaard, RS, Vismann B, Kühl M, Macnaugton, M, Colmander, V, Rouse, GW, Glover AG, Dahlgren T, Worsaae K, 2012. The potent respiratory system of Osedax mucofloris (Siboglinidae, Annelida) - a prerequisite for the origin of bone-eating Osedax? PLoS ONE. 7(4): e35975.

Levin LA, Orphan VJ, Rouse GW, Rathburn AE, Ussler III W, Cook GS, Goffredi SK, Perez EM, Waren A, Grupe B, Chadwick G, Strickrott B (2012). A hydrothermal seep on the Costa Rica margin: middle ground in a continuum of reducing ecosystems. Proc. Royal Soc B 279: 2580-2588.

Borda E, Kudenov JD, Beinhold C, Rouse GW (2012). Towards a revised Amphinomidae (Annelida, Amphinomida): description and affinities of a new genus and species from the Nile Deep-sea Fan, Mediterranean Sea. Zoologica Scripta 41, 307-325.

Pleijel F, Rouse GW & Nygren A (2012). A revision of Nereimyra (Psamathini, Hesionidae, Aciculata, Annelida. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164: 36–51.

Leasi F, Rouse GW, & Sørensen MV (2012). A new species of Paraseison (Rotifera: Seisonacea) from the coast of California, USA. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 92: 959-965.

Glavinic A, Benkendorff K, & Rouse GW (2012). Oogenesis and ultrastructure of the ovary in Neotrigonia margaritacea (Lamarck, 1804) (Bivalvia, Mollusca). Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, 56:111-123.

Parapar J, Gambi MC, & Rouse GW (2011). A revision of the deep-sea genus Axiokebuita Pocklington and Fournier, 1987 (Annelida: Scalibregmatidae). Italian Journal of Zoology 78: 148-162.

Smith SA, Wilson NG, Goetz F, Feehery C, Andrade SCS, Rouse GW, Giribet G, & Dunn CW (2011). Resolving the evolutionary relationships of molluscs with phylogenomic tools. Nature 480: 364-367.

Bailey JV, Salman, V, Rouse, GW, Schulz-Vogt HN, Levin LA & Orphan VJ (2011). Dimorphism in methane seep-dwelling ecotypes of the largest known bacteria. The ISME Journal 5:1926-1935.

Osborn KJ, Haddock SHD & Rouse GW (2011). Swima (Annelida, Acrocirridae), holopelagic worms from the deep Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163:663–678.

Aguado MT & Rouse GW (2011). Nautiliniellidae (Annelida) from Costa Rican cold seeps and a western Pacific hydrothermal vent, with description of four new species. Systematics and Biodiversity 9:109–131.

Rouse GW, Goffredi SK, Johnson SB, & Vrijenhoek RC. (2011). Not whale-fall specialists, Osedax worms also consume fishbones. Biology Letters, 7:736-739.

Huang D, Fitzhugh K, & Rouse GW. (2011). Inference of phylogenetic relationships within Fabriciidae (Sabellida, Annelida) using molecular and morphological data. Cladistics, 27: 356–379.

Edgecombe GD, Sørensen MV, Dunn CW, Hejnol A, Kristensen RM, Rouse GW, Worsaae K, & Giribet G (2011). Higher-level metazoan relationships: Recent progress and remaining questions. Organisms Diversity and Evolution 11:151–172.

Osborn KJ, Madin LP, & Rouse GW (2011). The remarkable squidworm is an example of discoveries awaiting in deep, pelagic habitats. Biology Letters 7: 449–453.

Osborn KJ, & Rouse GW (2011). Phylogenetics of Acrocirridae and Flabelligeridae (Cirratuliformia, Annelida). Zoologica Scripta 40: 204–219.

Wilson NG, & Rouse GW (2010). Convergent camouflage and the non-monophyly of ‘seadragons’ (Syngnathidae: Teleostei): Suggestions for a revised taxonomy of syngnathids. Zoologica Scripta 39: 551–558.

Kiel S, Goedert J, Kahl W-K, & Rouse GW. (2010). Fossil traces of the bone-eating worm Osedax in early Oligocene whale bones. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:8656-8659.

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 Phylogenetics & 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 GW, Wilson NG, Johnson S, Goffredi, SK, Smart T, Widmer C, Young, CM, & Vrijenhoek RC. (2009). Spawning and development in Osedax boneworms. Marine Biology 156:395–405.

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

Pleijel F, Rouse GW, & 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 GW. (2008). Is Diurodrilus an annelid? Journal of Morphology 269:1426-1455.

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

Vrijenhoek RC, Johnson SB, & Rouse, GW. (2008). Bone-eating Osedax females and their 'harems' of dwarf males are recruited from a common larval pool Molecular Ecology, 17: 4535-4544.

Kupriyanova EK, Bastida-Zavala R, Halt MN, Lee MSY, & Rouse GW. (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 GW, Worsaae K, Johnson, SB, Jones WJ, & Vrijenhoek RC. (2008). Acquisition of dwarf male 'harems' by recently settled females of Osedax roseus n. sp. (Siboglinidae; Annelida). Biological Bulletin 214: 67-82.

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

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

Dunn CW, Hejnol A, Matus DQ, Pang K, Browne WE, Smith SA, Seaver, E, Rouse, GW, Obst M, Edgecombe GD, Sørensen, MV, Haddock, SHD, Schmidt-Rhaesa A, Okusu A, Kristensen, RM, Wheeler WC, Martindale MQ, & Giribet G. (2008). Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life. Nature 452: 745-749.

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

Jones WJ, Johnson SB, Rouse GW. & Vrijenhoek RC (2008). Marine worms (genus Osedax) colonize cow bones. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275: 387-391.

Meyer A, Bleidorn C, Rouse GW, & 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, GW, Ruta, C, Wiklund, H, & 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, GW, & 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, CW, Edgecombe, GD, & Rouse, GW (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 DD, Kubokawa K, McCarthy JK, Murakami A., Porrachia M, Rouse GW, & Holland ND (2007). Endogenous green fluorescent protein (GFP) in amphioxus. Biol. Bull. 213, 95–100.

Braby CE, Rouse, GW, Johnson SB, Jones, WJ, & Vrijenhoek RC (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, Rouse GW, Erséus C, & Siddall ME (2007). A molecular phylogeny of annelids. Cladistics 23:41-63.

Osborn KJ, Rouse GW, Goffredi SK, & Robison BH (2007). Description and relationships of an unusual pelagic polychaete (Annelida, Chaetopteridae). Biological Bulletin 212:40-54.

Capa M, & Rouse GW. (2007) Phylogenetic relationships within Amphiglena Claparede, 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, & Rouse GW (2007). Two new species of Terebrasabella (Annelida: Sabellidae: Sabellinae) from Australia. Zootaxa 1434: 51-68.

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