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Brian Bowen
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
805 Points

Contributions by role

Author 670
Reviewer 135

Contributions by subject area

Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Biodiversity
Conservation Biology
Ecology
Marine Biology
Zoology
Biogeography
Genetics
Molecular Biology
Genomics
Taxonomy
Bioinformatics
Natural Resource Management
Animal Behavior
Evolutionary Studies
Population Biology

Brian W Bowen

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

I began a lifelong interest in marine biogeography by spending summers on Cape Cod, at the boundary between the Gulf of Maine and the mid-Atlantic coast. After an ill-advised attempt at a biomedical career, I earned a B.S. in biology at Providence College (1980), a M.A. at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (1987) under John A. Musick, a Ph.D. in genetics (1992) under John C. Avise at University of Georgia, and subsequently worked as a post-doctoral researcher and assistant professor at University of Florida. In March 2003 I joined Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology at University of Hawaii, and was promoted to research professor in 2009. During this interval I conducted globe-spanning genetic surveys of marine fish and turtles, for a total of about 200 publications. Recent accomplishments include co-authorship of the best selling textbook Diversity of Fishes, with a third edition due in November 2022. I run a large lab with Dr. Robert Toonen, with the goal of identifying how marine biodiversity is generated and maintained, in the service of conservation. I am a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Animal Behavior Ecology Genetics Marine Biology Molecular Biology

Editorial Board Member

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Hawaii
University of Hawaii at Manoa

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 6
  • Reviewed 3
June 1, 2023
Phylogeography of sharks and rays: a global review based on life history traits and biogeographic partitions
Sudha Kottillil, Chetan Rao, Brian W. Bowen, Kartik Shanker
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15396 PubMed 37283899
October 21, 2020
Genomics versus mtDNA for resolving stock structure in the silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis)
Derek W. Kraft, Emily E. Conklin, Evan W. Barba, Melanie Hutchinson, Robert J. Toonen, Zac H. Forsman, Brian W. Bowen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10186 PubMed 33150082
September 27, 2018
Geopolitical species revisited: genomic and morphological data indicate that the roundtail chub Gila robusta species complex (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) is a single species
Joshua M. Copus, W. L. Montgomery, Zac H. Forsman, Brian W. Bowen, Robert J. Toonen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5605 PubMed 30294509
April 24, 2018
Shifting reef fish assemblages along a depth gradient in Pohnpei, Micronesia
Richard R. Coleman, Joshua M. Copus, Daniel M. Coffey, Robert K. Whitton, Brian W. Bowen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4650 PubMed 29707432
March 6, 2018
The little shrimp that could: phylogeography of the circumtropical Stenopus hispidus (Crustacea: Decapoda), reveals divergent Atlantic and Pacific lineages
‘Ale‘alani Dudoit, Matthew Iacchei, Richard R. Coleman, Michelle R. Gaither, William E. Browne, Brian W. Bowen, Robert J. Toonen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4409 PubMed 29527409
October 4, 2016
A comprehensive investigation of mesophotic coral ecosystems in the Hawaiian Archipelago
Richard L. Pyle, Raymond Boland, Holly Bolick, Brian W. Bowen, Christina J. Bradley, Corinne Kane, Randall K. Kosaki, Ross Langston, Ken Longenecker, Anthony Montgomery, Frank A. Parrish, Brian N. Popp, John Rooney, Celia M. Smith, Daniel Wagner, Heather L. Spalding
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2475 PubMed 27761310

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May 9, 2018
Pelagic larval duration, growth rate, and population genetic structure of the tidepool snake moray Uropterygius micropterus around the southern Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, and the central Philippines
Wen-Chien Huang, Jui-Tsung Chang, Chun Liao, Atsushi Tawa, Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Te-Yu Liao, Jen-Chieh Shiao
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4741 PubMed 29761056
December 19, 2017
Simulations indicate that scores of lionfish (Pterois volitans) colonized the Atlantic Ocean
Jason D. Selwyn, John E. Johnson, Alan M. Downey-Wall, Adam M. Bynum, Rebecca M. Hamner, J. Derek Hogan, Christopher E. Bird
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3996 PubMed 29302383
February 13, 2014
Hawksbill × loggerhead sea turtle hybrids at Bahia, Brazil: where do their offspring go?
Maira C. Proietti, Julia Reisser, Luis F. Marins, Maria A. Marcovaldi, Luciano S. Soares, Danielle S. Monteiro, Sarath Wijeratne, Charitha Pattiaratchi, Eduardo R. Secchi
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.255 PubMed 24688839