Publications

Publications

17. Despard, B. A., J. D. Selwyn, A. N. Shupp, and S. V. Vollmer. 2025. A Network Approach to White Band Disease Challenged Staghorn Coral Acropora cervicornis microRNAs and Their Targets. Ecology and Evolution 15:e71351.

16. Hogan, J. D., J. D. Selwyn, and C. M. Taylor. 2025. Long-Term Changes in Fish Assemblage Structure Associated with Hydrological Alteration in the Lower Rio Grande/Rio Bravo del Norte (USA/Mexico). Ichthyology & Herpetology 113:94–103.

15. Selwyn, J. D., B. A. Despard, K. A. Galvan-Dubois, E. C. Trytten, and S. V. Vollmer. 2025. Antibiotic pretreatment inhibits white band disease infection by suppressing the bacterial pathobiome. Frontiers in Marine Science 12:1–15

14. Selwyn, J. D., B. A. Despard, M. V. Vollmer, E. C. Trytten, and S. V. Vollmer. 2024. Identification of putative coral pathogens in endangered Caribbean staghorn coral using machine learning. Environmental Microbiology 26:e16700

13. Selwyn, J. D., and S. V. Vollmer. 2023. Whole genome assembly and annotation of the endangered Caribbean coral Acropora cervicornis. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics:jkad232

12. Vollmer, S. V.†, J. D. Selwyn†, B. A. Despard, and C. L. Roesel. 2023. Genomic signatures of disease resistance in endangered staghorn corals. Science 381:1451–1454

11. Mullis, M. M., J. D. Selwyn, R. Kevorkian, E. D. Tague, H. F. Castro, S. R. Campagna, K. G. Lloyd, and B. K. Reese. 2023. Microbial survival mechanisms within serpentinizing Mariana forearc sediments. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 99:fiad003

10. Selwyn J. D., Hunt E. P., Portnoy D. S., Hogan J. D. (2022) Maintenance of species boundaries within social aggregations of ecologically similar goby sister species. Marine Biology 169:32

9. Rue, C. R.*†, J. D. Selwyn†, P. M. Cockett, B. Gillis, L. Gurski, P. Jose, B. L. Kutil, S. F. Magnuson, L. Á. L. de Mesa, R. D. Overath, D. L. Smee, and C. E. Bird. (2021). Genetic diversity across the mitochondrial genome of eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in the northern Gulf of Mexico. PeerJ 9:e12205

8. Beeken, N. S., J. D. Selwyn, and J. D. Hogan. (2021). Determining the life history strategy of the cryptobenthic reef gobies Coryphopterus hyalinus and C. personatus. Marine Ecology Progress Series 659:161–173

7. Hamilton, A. M.*, J. D. Selwyn, R. M. Hamner, H. K. Johnson, T. Brown, S. K. Springer, and C. E. Bird. (2020). Biogeography of shell morphology in over-exploited shellfish reveals adaptive trade-offs on human-inhabited islands and incipient selectively driven lineage bifurcation. Journal of Biogeography 47:1494–1509

6. Selwyn, J. D., J. E. Johnson, A. M. Downey-Wall, A. M. Bynum, R. M. Hamner, J. D. Hogan, and C. E. Bird. (2017). Simulations indicate that scores of lionfish (Pterois volitans) colonized the Atlantic Ocean. PeerJ 5:e3996

5. Usseglio, P.†, J. D. Selwyn†, A. M. Downey-Wall, and J. D. Hogan. (2017). Effectiveness of removals of the invasive lionfish: how many dives are needed to deplete a reef? PeerJ 5:e3043

4. Harborne, A. R., J. D. Selwyn, J. M. Lawson, and M. Gallo. (2017). Environmental drivers of diurnal visits by transient predatory fishes to Caribbean patch reefs. Journal of Fish Biology 90:265–282

3. MacKay, M. M., B. Würsig, C. E. Bacon, and J. D. Selwyn. (2016). North Atlantic humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) hotspots defined by bathymetric features off western Puerto Rico. Canadian Journal of Zoology 94:517–527

2. Selwyn, J. D., J. D. Hogan, A. M. Downey-Wall, L. M. Gurski, D. S. Portnoy, and D. D. Heath. (2016). Kin-Aggregations Explain Chaotic Genetic Patchiness, a Commonly Observed Genetic Pattern, in a Marine Fish. PLOS ONE 11:e0153381

1. Selwyn, J., J. D. Hogan, A. Downey-Wall, and P. Usseglio. (2014). Decadal changes in reef fish recruitment at Turneffe Atoll, Belize: before and after lionfish invasion. Pages 213–216 Proceedings of the 66th Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute. Corpus Christi, Texas, USA

*: Mentored Undergraduate †: Equal First Author

In Review & Revision

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Dissertation & Thesis

1. Selwyn, J. D. 2022, May. Determining the Effect of Variability in Habitat Quality on Dispersal. Ph.D., Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. Ph.D. Dissertation

2. Selwyn, J. D. 2015, July. How does Dispersal affect Chaos: Viscous Populations and Families in a Common Caribbean Goby (Coryphopterus personatus). Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. MS Thesis