Cheryl L Morrison

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Dr. Morrison is a research geneticist at the US Geological Survey, Leetown Science Center, National Fish Health Research Laboratory in Leetown, WV. Her research involves conservation genetics, genomics and the application of molecular tools to species at risk. The incumbent is a principal investigator for multiple studies that aim to: describe biodiversity; assess taxonomic status; define units of conservation management; and determine dispersal pathways of marine invertebrates, invasive species and marine viruses.

Biodiversity Conservation Biology Ecotoxicology Evolutionary Studies Genetics Genomics Marine Biology Natural Resource Management Zoology

Work details

Research Geneticist

US Geological Survey

March 2011

Leetown Science Center

Dr. Morrison serves as a Research Geneticist in the Fish Health Branch at the Leetown Science Center. Her research involves conservation genetics and the application of molecular tools to species at risk. Dr. Morrison is a principal investigator for multiple studies that aim to describe biodiversity, assess taxonomic status, define units of conservation, and determine pathways of both invasive species and marine viruses. During her tenure at USGS, A focus of Dr. Morrison's research has been the description of biodiversity and connectivity in vulnerable offshore ecosystems on the U.S. continental slope.

February 20, 2018

Genomic evolution, recombination, and inter-strain diversity of chelonid alphaherpesvirus 5 from Florida and Hawaii green sea turtles with fibropapillomatosis

Cheryl L. Morrison, Luke Iwanowicz, Thierry M. Work, Elizabeth Fahsbender, Mya Breitbart, Cynthia Adams, Deb Iwanowicz, Lakyn Sanders, Mathias Ackermann, Robert S. Cornman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4386 PubMed 29479497

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August 5, 2022

Skimming for barcodes: rapid production of mitochondrial genome and nuclear ribosomal repeat reference markers through shallow shotgun sequencing

Mykle L. Hoban, Jonathan Whitney, Allen G. Collins, Christopher Meyer, Katherine R. Murphy, Abigail J. Reft, Katherine E. Bemis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13790 PubMed 35959477

March 24, 2016

Development and characterization of 26 novel microsatellite loci for the trochid gastropod Gibbula divaricata (Linnaeus, 1758), using Illumina MiSeq next generation sequencing technology

Violeta López-Márquez, Ricardo García-Jiménez, José Templado, Annie Machordom

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1789 PubMed 27042392