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John Wares
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
1,445 Points

Contributions by role

Author 945
Preprint Author 420
Reviewer 80
Preprint Feedback 15

Contributions by subject area

Biodiversity
Biogeography
Marine Biology
Climate Change Biology
Evolutionary Studies
Genetics
Zoology
Ecology
Genomics
Molecular Biology
Infectious Diseases
Parasitology
Conservation Biology

John P Wares

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Though I've worked on many phyla in many habitats, marine invertebrates, crustaceans, and barnacles in particular are my forté. I studied invertebrate zoology with Alan Kohn and George Shinn at Friday Harbor Labs in 1996, graduated with my Ph.D. from Duke Zoology in 2000 (advised by Cliff Cunningham), and had outstanding and enjoyable postdocs with Tom Turner (University of New Mexico) and Rick Grosberg (University of California at Davis). I've been at the University of Georgia since 2005.

Biodiversity Ecology Evolutionary Studies

Editing Journals

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Georgia
University of Georgia

Work details

Associate Professor

University of Georgia
January 2005
Department of Genetics; Odum School of Ecology
I study the distribution of diversity at all levels of organization.

Websites

  • Google Scholar
  • Wares Lab

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 7
  • Preprints 5
  • Reviewed 1
  • Feedback 2
August 15, 2017
RNA expression and disease tolerance are associated with a “keystone mutation” in the ochre sea star Pisaster ochraceus
V. Katelyn Chandler, John P. Wares
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3696 PubMed 28828278
April 18, 2017
Mitochondrial diversity in Gonionemus (Trachylina:Hydrozoa) and its implications for understanding the origins of clinging jellyfish in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean
Annette F. Govindarajan, Mary R. Carman, Marat R. Khaidarov, Alexander Semenchenko, John P. Wares
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3205 PubMed 28439470
February 7, 2017
Large-scale gene flow in the barnacle Jehlius cirratus and contrasts with other broadly-distributed taxa along the Chilean coast
Baoying Guo, John P. Wares
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2971 PubMed 28194316
May 17, 2016
Microsatellite loci discovery from next-generation sequencing data and loci characterization in the epizoic barnacle Chelonibia testudinaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Christine Ewers-Saucedo, John D. Zardus, John P. Wares
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2019 PubMed 27231653
March 29, 2016
What doesn’t kill them makes them stronger: an association between elongation factor 1-α overdominance in the sea star Pisaster ochraceus and “sea star wasting disease”
John P. Wares, Lauren M. Schiebelhut
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1876 PubMed 27069810
April 30, 2015
Phylogeographic structure and northward range expansion in the barnacle Chthamalus fragilis
Annette F. Govindarajan, Filip Bukša, Katherine Bockrath, John P. Wares, Jesús Pineda
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.926 PubMed 25945315
September 9, 2014
Mitochondrial cytochrome b sequence data are not an improvement for species identification in scleractinian corals
John P. Wares
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.564 PubMed 25250216
May 24, 2017 - Version: 1
RNA expression and disease tolerance are associated with a “keystone mutation” in the ochre sea star Pisaster ochraceus
John Wares, Virginia K Chandler
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2990v1
September 12, 2016 - Version: 4
Large-scale gene flow in the barnacle Jehlius cirratus and contrasts with other broadly-distributed taxa along the Chilean coast
Baoying Guo, John P Wares
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.596v4
March 2, 2016 - Version: 3
Microsatellite loci discovery from next-generation sequencing data and marker characterization in the epizoic barnacle Chelonibia testudinaria (Linnaeus, 1798)
Christine Ewers-Saucedo, John D Zardus, John P Wares
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1715v3
January 13, 2016 - Version: 2
What doesn’t kill them makes them stronger: An association between elongation factor 1-α overdominance in the sea star Pisaster ochraceus and "sea star wasting disease”
John P. Wares, Lauren M Schiebelhut
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1464v2
July 11, 2014 - Version: 2
Mitochondrial cytochrome b sequence data are not an improvement for species identification in Scleractinian corals
John Wares
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.429v2

Signed reviews submitted for articles published in PeerJ Note that some articles may not have the review itself made public unless authors have made them open as well.

July 23, 2015
A population genetic assessment of coral recovery on highly disturbed reefs of the Keppel Island archipelago in the southern Great Barrier Reef
Madeleine J.H. van Oppen, Vimoksalehi Lukoschek, Ray Berkelmans, Lesa M. Peplow, Alison M. Jones
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1092 PubMed 26244109

Provided feedback on

07 Jul 2014

What’s for dinner?: Undescribed species in commercial porcini from China

1. You refer to porcini, but only provide some confusing details about the taxonomy in the final paragraph of the introduction, at which point we are now not talking about porcini...

14 Nov 2014

Why not do phylogeography on every chthamalid barnacle? The case of Jehlius cirratus

Interested in this paper? There will be an updated version posted in the next week or so. Following feedback from a colleague in my lab, I have improved the analytical code and als...