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Timothy Collins
PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer
3,965 Points

Contributions by role

Author 200
Reviewer 30
Editor 3,735

Contributions by subject area

Biodiversity
Marine Biology
Taxonomy
Zoology
Conservation Biology
Biogeography
Evolutionary Studies
Genetics
Freshwater Biology
Bioinformatics
Paleontology
Computational Science
Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Genomics
Ecology
Molecular Biology
Population Biology
Environmental Impacts
Entomology
Environmental Sciences
Coupled Natural and Human Systems
Biological Oceanography
Science and Medical Education
Human-Computer Interaction
Histology
Animal Behavior
Agricultural Science
Anthropology
Veterinary Medicine
Computational Biology
Statistics
Climate Change Biology

Timothy M Collins

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Full Professor and former Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida International University. Director of FIU DNA Core facility. Past Program Director for NSF Division of Environmental Biology, Systematics and Biodiversity Cluster.

Research interests include: Molecular Systematics, Evolution, Biogeography, and Phylogeography: Rates, patterns, and mechanisms of molecular evolution , including nucleotide sequence evolution and mitochondrial gene order change, and consequences for phylogenetic reconstruction and reconstruction of ancestral states. Integration of molecular data with paleontological and morphological data. Using phylogenies to address biological questions.

Biodiversity Biogeography Bioinformatics Climate Change Biology Conservation Biology Evolutionary Studies Genetics Genomics Marine Biology Zoology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Florida International University

Work details

Professor

Florida International University
Biological Sciences

Websites

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 3
  • Edited 24
October 9, 2023
Replacing mechanical protection with colorful faces–twice: parallel evolution of the non-operculate marine worm-snail genera Thylacodes (Guettard, 1770) and Cayo n. gen. (Gastropoda: Vermetidae)
Rüdiger Bieler, Timothy M. Collins, Rosemary Golding, Camila Granados-Cifuentes, John M. Healy, Timothy A. Rawlings, Petra Sierwald
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15854 PubMed 37842057
February 28, 2019
A novel and enigmatic two-holed shell aperture in a new species of suspension-feeding worm-snail (Vermetidae)
Rüdiger Bieler, Timothy M. Collins, Rosemary Golding, Timothy A. Rawlings
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6569
April 5, 2017
Non-native molluscan colonizers on deliberately placed shipwrecks in the Florida Keys, with description of a new species of potentially invasive worm-snail (Gastropoda: Vermetidae)
Rüdiger Bieler, Camila Granados-Cifuentes, Timothy A. Rawlings, Petra Sierwald, Timothy M. Collins
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3158 PubMed 28392984

Academic Editor on

November 15, 2024
The complete mitochondrial DNA of the carnivorous sponge Lycopodina hypogea is putatively complemented by microDNAs
Thiago Silva de Paula, Dora de Moura Barbosa Leite, Gisele Lobo-Hajdu, Jean Vacelet, Fabiano Thompson, Eduardo Hajdu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18255 PubMed 39559335
October 6, 2023
Species catalogue of Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) Alberts, 1850 (Gastropoda: Bulimulidae) from Brazil and new data on morphology and distribution of Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) interpunctus (Martens, 1887)
Maria Isabel Pinto Ferreira Macedo, Ximena Maria Constanza Ovando, Sthefane D’ávila
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16037 PubMed 37818325
September 18, 2023
Description of a common stauromedusa on the Pacific Coast of the United States and Canada, Haliclystus sanjuanensis new species (Cnidaria: Staurozoa)
Claudia E. Mills, Hannah Westlake, Yayoi M. Hirano, Lucília S. Miranda
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15944 PubMed 37744232
November 2, 2022
Molecular phylogeny of Columbellidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda)
Marta deMaintenon, Ellen E. Strong
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13996 PubMed 36345482
September 26, 2022
Comparative mitogenomic analyses and gene rearrangements reject the alleged polyphyly of a bivalve genus
Regina L. Cunha, Katy R. Nicastro, Gerardo I. Zardi, Celine Madeira, Christopher D. McQuaid, Cymon J. Cox, Rita Castilho
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13953 PubMed 36187748
June 22, 2021
Increasing 28 mitogenomes of Ephemeroptera, Odonata and Plecoptera support the Chiastomyaria hypothesis with three different outgroup combinations
Dan-Na Yu, Pan-Pan Yu, Le-Ping Zhang, Kenneth B. Storey, Xin-Yan Gao, Jia-Yong Zhang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11402 PubMed 34221707
April 6, 2021
Identification problems of travelling snail species—new exotic introductions to tropical greenhouses in Gothenburg, Sweden (Gastropoda: Achatinellidae, Strobilopsidae, Helicarionidae)
Ira Richling, Ted von Proschwitz
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11185 PubMed 33868824
October 28, 2020
Genetic variability in Ruditapes decussatus clam combined with Perkinsus infection level to support founder population selection for a breeding program
Andreia Cruz, Fiz da Costa, Jenyfer Fernández-Pérez, Ana Nantón, Sergio Fernández-Boo, Ana Insua, Josefina Méndez
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9728 PubMed 33194343
July 28, 2020
Ancient globetrotters—connectivity and putative native ranges of two cosmopolitan biofouling amphipods
Jan Beermann, Allison K. Hall-Mullen, Charlotte Havermans, Joop WP Coolen, Richard PMA Crooijmans, Bert Dibbits, Christoph Held, Andrea Desiderato
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9613 PubMed 33194336
August 22, 2019
Phylogenomic analyses confirm a novel invasive North American Corbicula (Bivalvia: Cyrenidae) lineage
Amanda E. Haponski, Diarmaid Ó Foighil
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7484 PubMed 31497390
September 26, 2018
Population history of deep-sea vent and seep Provanna snails (Mollusca: Abyssochrysoidea) in the northwestern Pacific
Tomomi Ogura, Hiromi Kayama Watanabe, Chong Chen, Takenori Sasaki, Shigeaki Kojima, Jun-ichiro Ishibashi, Katsunori Fujikura
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5673 PubMed 30280041
June 13, 2018
Tackling critical parameters in metazoan meta-barcoding experiments: a preliminary study based on coxI DNA barcode
Bachir Balech, Anna Sandionigi, Caterina Manzari, Emiliano Trucchi, Apollonia Tullo, Flavio Licciulli, Giorgio Grillo, Elisabetta Sbisà, Stefano De Felici, Cecilia Saccone, Anna Maria D’Erchia, Donatella Cesaroni, Maurizio Casiraghi, Saverio Vicario
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4845 PubMed 29915686
June 8, 2018
Actively transcribed and expressed atp8 gene in Mytilus edulis mussels
Marek Lubośny, Aleksandra Przyłucka, Beata Śmietanka, Sophie Breton, Artur Burzyński
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4897 PubMed 29900071
November 21, 2017
Genome-wide survey of single-nucleotide polymorphisms reveals fine-scale population structure and signs of selection in the threatened Caribbean elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata
Meghann K. Devlin-Durante, Iliana B. Baums
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4077 PubMed 29181279
October 27, 2017
Inferring microevolution from museum collections and resampling: lessons learned from Cepaea
Małgorzata Ożgo, Thor-Seng Liew, Nicole B. Webster, Menno Schilthuizen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3938 PubMed 29093997
October 19, 2017
Range expansion of a fouling species indirectly impacts local species interactions
Cori J. Speights, Michael W. McCoy
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3911 PubMed 29062602
September 8, 2017
Early-branching euteleost relationships: areas of congruence between concatenation and coalescent model inferences
Matthew A. Campbell, Michael E. Alfaro, Max Belasco, J. Andrés López
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3548 PubMed 28929008
August 22, 2017
The complete mitochondrial genome of the grooved carpet shell, Ruditapes decussatus (Bivalvia, Veneridae)
Fabrizio Ghiselli, Liliana Milani, Mariangela Iannello, Emanuele Procopio, Peter L. Chang, Sergey V. Nuzhdin, Marco Passamonti
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3692 PubMed 28848689
May 30, 2017
Calculating site-specific evolutionary rates at the amino-acid or codon level yields similar rate estimates
Dariya K. Sydykova, Claus O. Wilke
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3391 PubMed 28584717
December 8, 2016
Shallow water sea slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from the northwestern coast of the Sea of Japan, north of Peter the Great Bay, Russia
Anton Chichvarkhin
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2774 PubMed 27957399
November 15, 2016
Zebra mussel beds: an effective feeding ground for Ponto-Caspian gobies or suitable shelter for their prey?
Jarosław Kobak, Małgorzata Poznańska, Łukasz Jermacz, Tomasz Kakareko, Daniel Prądzynski, Małgorzata Łodygowska, Karolina Montowska, Karolina Bącela-Spychalska
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2672 PubMed 27896025
October 6, 2016
Histology and gametogenesis in Heleobia piscium (Cochliopidae) from the Multiple Use Reserve “Isla Martín García,” Buenos Aires, Argentina
Stella Maris Martin, Ana C. Díaz
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2548 PubMed 27761336
October 5, 2016
Mitochondrial DNA hyperdiversity and its potential causes in the marine periwinkle Melarhaphe neritoides (Mollusca: Gastropoda)
Séverine Fourdrilis, Patrick Mardulyn, Olivier J. Hardy, Kurt Jordaens, António Manuel de Frias Martins, Thierry Backeljau
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2549 PubMed 27761337
May 5, 2016
Systematics of stalked jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Staurozoa)
Lucília S. Miranda, Yayoi M. Hirano, Claudia E. Mills, Audrey Falconer, David Fenwick, Antonio C. Marques, Allen G. Collins
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1951 PubMed 27168970