Publications 2010 – 2024

Selected Publications from Bucklin Lab Group Members 2010 – 2025

For a full reference list for Ann Bucklin, see profiles on ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3750-9348, GoogleScholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MVxh-a4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao, and ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ann-Bucklin 

2025

Batta-Lona, P.G., M.L. Wojcicki, M.D. Zavell, A. Bucklin, and H. Baumann (2025) Using DNA metabarcoding to reveal prey diversity in diets of juvenile black sea bass (Centropristis striata) in Long Island Sound in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Fish. Bull. 123:22–33. https://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/content/using-dna-metabarcoding-reveal-prey-diversity-diets-juvenile-black-sea-bass-centropristis

Peters, J., A, Albaina, L. Blanco-Bercial, A. Bucklin, I. Di Capua, A. Dos Santos, T. Falkenhaug, M. Fernandez de Puelles, E. Fileman, R. Garić, S. Holst, A. Hosia, S. Laakmann, S. Majaneva, M.K. Mańko, M.G. Mazzocchi, T.D. O’Brien, K. Peijnenburg, J. Renz, S. Rossel, A. Weydmann-Zwolicka, G. Winkler, L. Yebra, A. Cornils (2025) Taxonomic uncertainty in North Atlantic and Mediterranean zooplankton limits species-level monitoring accuracy. ICES J Marine Sci. 82. https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/82/6/fsaf077/8166648

2024

Batta-Lona, P.G., M.L. Wojcicki, M.D. Zavell, A. Bucklin, and H. Baumann (2024) Using DNA metabarcoding to reveal prey diversity in diets of juvenile black sea bass (Centropristis striata) in Long Island Sound in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Fish. Bull. 123:22–33. https://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/content/using-dna-metabarcoding-reveal-prey-diversity-diets-juvenile-black-sea-bass-centropristis

Batta-Lona, P.G., K. Gardner, J.M. Questel, S.R. Thorrold, J.K. Llopiz, P.H. Wiebe, and A. Bucklin (2024) Salps in the NW Atlantic Slope Water: Metabarcoding and compound-specific stable isotope analysis of diet diversity and trophic interactions. Marine Biology 171 (233), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-024-04535-xBucklin, A., P.G. Batta-Lona, J.M. Questel, H. McMonagle, M. Wojcicki, J.K. Llopiz, S. Glancy, P.E. Caiger, R. Francolini, A. Govindarajan, S.R. Thorrold, M. Jech, and P.H. Wiebe (2024) Metabarcoding and morphological analysis of diets of mesopelagic Fishes in the NW Atlantic Slope Water. Front. Mar. Sci. 11:1411996. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1411996

O’Brien, T.D., L. Blanco-Bercial, P.G. Batta-Lona, J.M. Questel, and A. Bucklin (2024) DNA barcode reference databases: MetaZooGene Atlas and Database. DNA Barcoding. Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 2744. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3581-0_28

2023

Bucklin, A., J.M. Questel, P.G. Batta-Lona, M. Reid, P.H. Wiebe, R.G. Campbell and C.J. Ashjian (2023) Population genetic diversity and structure of the euphausiids Thysanoessa inermis and T. raschii in the Arctic Ocean: Inferences from COI barcodes. Marine Biodiversity 53:70. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-023-01371-y

Bernhard, J.M., L. Fisher, Q. Murphy, L. Sen, H. Yeh, A. Louyakis, F. Gomaa, M. Reilly, P. Batta-Lona, A. Bucklin, V. Le Roux, and P.T. Visscher (2023) Transition from stromatolite to thrombolite fabric: Role for reticulopodial protists in lake microbialites of a Proterozoic ecosystem analog? Frontiers in Microbiology 14:1210781. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1210781

Castellano, K.R., P.G. Batta-Lona, A. Bucklin, and R.J. O’Neill (2023) Salpa genome and developmental transcriptome analyses reveal molecular flexibility enabling reproductive success in a rapidly changing environment. Scientific Reports 13: 21056. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-47429-6

2022

Bucklin, A., P.G. Batta-Lona, J.M. Questel, P.H. Wiebe, D.E. Richardson, N.J. Copley, T.D. O’Brien (2022) COI metabarcoding of zooplankton species diversity for time-series monitoring of the NW Atlantic continental shelf. Frontiers in Marine Science 9:867893. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.867893

2021

Bucklin, A., K.T.C.A. Peijnenburg, K.N. Kosobokova, T.D. O’Brien, L. Blanco-Bercial, A. Cornils, T. Falkenhaug, R.R. Hopcroft, A. Hosia, S. Laakmann, C. Li, L. Martell, J.M. Questel, D. Wall-Palmer, M. Wang, P.H. Wiebe, A. Weydmann-Zwolicka (2021) Toward a global reference database of COI barcodes for marine zooplankton. Marine Biology 168 (78). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-021-03887-

Bucklin, A., K.T.C.A. Peijnenburg, K.N. Kosobokova, and R. Machida (2021) New insights into biodiversity, biogeography, ecology, and evolution of marine zooplankton based on molecular approaches. ICES Journal of Marine Science, https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsab198

Bucklin, A., J.M. Questel, L. Blanco-Bercial, S.B. Smolenack, A. Frenzel, and P.H. Wiebe (2021) Population connectivity of the euphausiid, Stylocheiron elongatum, in the Gulf Stream (NW Atlantic Ocean) in relation to COI barcode diversity of Stylocheiron species. ICES Journal of Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsab158

Questel, J.M., R.R. Hopcroft, H.M. DeHart, K. Kosobokova, C. Smoot, and A. Bucklin (2021) Metabarcoding analysis of zooplankton biodiversity of the Pacific-Arctic Chukchi Borderlands region.  Marine Biodiversity 51: 4.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-020-01136-x

Thorrold, S.R.; A. Adams; A. Bucklin; K. Buesseler; G. Fischer; A. Govindarajan; P. Hoagland; D. Jin; A. Lavery; J. Llopez; L. Madin; M. Omand; P.G. Renaud; H.M. Sosik; P. Wiebe; D.R. Yoerger; W. Zhang (2021) Twilight Zone Observation Network: A Distributed Observation Network for Sustained, Real-Time Interrogation of the Ocean’s Twilight Zone, Marine Technology Society Journal, 55: 92-93. https://doi.org/10.4031/MTSJ.55.3.46

2020

Crouch, K.E., L. Blanco-Bercial, D.E. Richardson, N.J. Copley, P.H. Wiebe, and A. Bucklin (2020) Species-specific patterns of distribution and abundance of the cryptic copepods Pseudocalanus moultoni and P. newmani on Georges Bank (NW Atlantic Ocean) 1995-2012. Cont. Shelf Research 208: 104242.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2020.104242

DeHart, H.M., L. Blanco-Bercial, M. Passacantando, J.M. Questel, and A. Bucklin (2020) Pathways of pelagic connectivity: Eukrohnia hamata (Chaetognatha) in Arctic Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00396

Yeh, H.D., J.M. Questel, K. Maas, and A. Bucklin (2020) Metabarcoding analysis of prey and microbiota composition of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus in the North Atlantic Ocean. Deep-Sea Research II. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2020.104738

2019

Bucklin A., H.D. Yeh, J.M. Questel, D.E. Richardson, B. Reese, N.J. Copley, and P.H. Wiebe (2019) Time-series metabarcoding analysis of zooplankton diversity of the NW Atlantic continental shelf. ICES Journal of Marine Research https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsz021

2018

Bucklin, A. K. DiVito, I. Smolina, M. Choquet, J.M. Questel, G. Hoarau and R.J. O’Neill (2018) Population Genomics of Marine Zooplankton. In: Population Genomics: Marine Organisms, O.P. Rajora and M. Oleksiak (Eds.), Springer Publ.  https://doi.org/10.1007/13836_2017_9.  Manuscript as submitted available at: https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/handle/1912/9562

Bucklin, A. (2018) Scientists are using DNA to study ocean life and reveal the hidden diversity of zooplankton. The Conversation. Published online June 7, 2018; https://theconversation.com/scientists-are-using-dna-to-study-ocean-life-and-reveal-the-hidden-diversity-of-zooplankton-97815

Nilsson, B., P.M. Jepsen, A. Bucklin and B.W. Hansen (2018) Environmental stress responses of marine copepods: Evidence of experimental handling artifacts for Acartia tonsa (Dana). Frontiers Mar. Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00156

2017

Batta-Lona, P.G., A. Maas, R. O’Neill, P.H. Wiebe, and A. Bucklin. 2017. Transcriptomic profiles of spring and summer populations of the Southern Ocean salp, Salpa thompsoni, in the Western Antarctic Peninsula region. Polar Biol. 40: 1261–1276. doi:10.1007/s00300-016-2051-6

Choquet, M., M. Hatlebakk, A.K.S. Dhanasiri, K. Kosobokova, I. Smolina, J.E. Søreide, C. Svensen, W. Melle, S. Kwasniewski, K. Eiane, M. Daase,V. Tverberg, S. Skreslet, A. Bucklin and G. Hoarau. 2017. Genetics redraws pelagic biogeography of Calanus. Biol.  Lett. 13: 20170588. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0588

Snelgrove, P., E. Vanden Berghe, P. Miloslavich, N. Bailly, A. Brandt, A. Bucklin, and 23 others. 2017. Global patterns in marine biodiversity (Chapter 34). In The First Global Integrated Marine Assessment: World Ocean Assessment I.  Cambridge University Press. Pp. 501-524. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108186148.037

Wiebe, P.H., M.C. Benfield, and A. Bucklin. 2017. Sampling, preservation, and counting of samples: ii) Zooplankton, Chapter 10: In: Marine Plankton: A Practical Guide to Ecology, Methodology, and Taxonomy. Claudia Castellani and Martin Edwards [Eds.] Oxford University Press.

2016

Blanco-Bercial, L. and A. Bucklin. 2016. New view of population genetics of zooplankton: RAD-seq analysis reveals population structure of the North Atlantic planktonic copepod Centropages typicus. Molec. Ecol. 25: 1566-1580  doi: 10.1111/mec.13581
Bucklin, A., P.K. Lindeque, N. Rodriguez-Ezpeleta, A. Albaina, and M. Lehtiniemi. 2016. Metabarcoding of marine zooplankton: Progress, prospects and pitfalls.  J. Plankton Res. Horizons  doi:10.1093/plankt/fbw023
Jue, N., P.G. Batta-Lona, S. Trusiak, C. Obergfell, A. Bucklin, M. O’Neill, and R.J. O’Neill. 2016. Rapid evolutionary rates and unique genomic signatures discovered in the first reference genome for the Southern Ocean salp, Salpa thompsoni (Urochordata, Thaliacea). Genome Biol. Evol. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evw215
Nigro, L.M., M.V. Angel, K. Blachowiak-Samolyk, R.R. Hopcroft, and A. Bucklin. 2016. Identification, discrimination, and discovery of species of marine planktonic ostracods using DNA barcodes. PLoS-One 11(1): e0146327.  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0146327
Questel, J.M., L. Blanco-Bercial, R.R. Hopcroft, and A. Bucklin. 2016. Phylogeography and connectivity of four sibling species of Pseudocalanus (Copepoda: Calanoida) in the North Pacific and Arctic Ocean. J. Plankton Res. doi:10.1093/plankt/fbw025
Snelgrove, P., E. Vanden Berghe, P. Miloslavich, N. Bailly, A. Brandt, A. Bucklin, and 23 others. 2016. Chapter 34. Global patterns in marine biodiversity. In: United Nations World Ocean Assessment I. See http://www.un.org/depts/los/global_reporting/WOA_RegProcess.htm
Wiebe, P.H., A. Bucklin, S. Kaartvedt, A. Røstad, and L. Blanco-Bercial. 2016. Vertical distribution and migration of euphausiid species in the Red Sea. J. Plankton Res.  doi:10.1093/plankt/fbw038

2015

Bucklin, A., D.J. McGillicuddy, P.H. Wiebe and C.S. Davis. 2015. Habitat usage by the cryptic copepods Pseudocalanus moultoni and P. newmani on Georges Bank (Northwest Atlantic). Cont. Shelf Res. 111: 83-94. doi:10.1016/j.csr.2015.11.001
Nair, V.R., F.X. Kidangan, R.G. Prabhu, A. Bucklin and S. Nair. 2015. DNA barcode of Chaetognatha from Indian Waters. Indian J. Geo-Marine Sci. 44: 1366-1376. http://nopr.niscair.res.in/jspui/handle/123456789/34924
Viñas, M.D., L. Blanco-Bercial, A. Bucklin, H. Verheye, J. Guilherme, F. Bersano, and S. Ceballos. 2015. Phylogeography of the copepod Calanoides carinatus s.l. (Krøyer) reveals cryptic species and delimits C. carinatus s.s. distribution in SW Atlantic Ocean. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 468: 97-104. doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2015.03.012

2014

Aarbakke, O.N., A. Bucklin, C. Halsband, and F. Norrbin. 2014. Comparative phylogeography and demographic history of five sibling species of Pseudocalanus (Copepoda: Calanoida) in the North Atlantic Ocean. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 461: 479-488 (doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2014.10.006)
Blanco-Bercial, L., A. Cornils, N.J. Copley, and A. Bucklin. 2014. DNA barcoding of marine copepods: assessment of analytical approaches to species identification. PLOS-Currents Tree of Life [2014 June 23] (doi:10.1371/currents.tol.cdf8b74881f87e3b01d56b43791626d2)
Bradford-Grieve, J. M., G. A. Boxshall, Blanco-Bercial, L. 2014. Revision of basal calanoid copepod families, with a description of a new species and genus of Pseudocyclopidae. Zool J Linn Soc 171: 507-533 (doi:10.1111/zoj.12141)
Smolina, I., S. Kollias, M. Poortvliet, T.G. Nielsen, P.K. Lindeque, C. Castellani, E.F. Møller, L. Blanco-Bercial, G. Hoarau. 2014. Genome- and transcriptome-assisted development of nuclear insertion/deletion markers for Calanus species (Copepoda: Calanoida) identification. Mol. Ecol. Res. (doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12241)

2013

Christie, A.E., V. Roncalli, P. Batta-Lona, M.D. McCoole, B.L. King, A. Bucklin, D.K. Hartline, and P.H. Lenz. 2013. In silico characterization of the insect diapause-associated protein couch potato (CPO) in Calanus finmarchicus (Crustacea: Copepoda). Comp. Biochem. Physiol. D: Genomics Proteomics 8: 45-57 (doi:10.1016/j.cbd.2012.11.002)
Cornils, A., Blanco-Bercial, L. 2013. Phylogeny of the Paracalanidae Giesbrecht, 1888 (Crustacea: Copepoda: Calanoida. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 69: 861-872 (doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.06.018)
Maas, A.E., Blanco-Bercial, L., Lawson, G.L. 2013. Reexamination of the species assignment of Diacavolinia pteropods using DNA barcoding. PLoS ONE 8: e53889 (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053889)
Unal, E., Bucklin, A., Lenz, P. H. and Towle, D. W. 2013. Gene expression of the marine copepod Calanus finmarchicus: Responses to small-scale environmental variation in the Gulf of Maine (NW Atlantic Ocean). J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 446: 76-85. (doi: 10.1016/j.jembe.2013.04.020)

2012

Cepeda, G.D., Blanco-Bercial, L., Bucklin, A., Berón, C.M., Viñas, M.D. 2012. Molecular systematic of three species of Oithona (Copepoda, Cyclopoida) from the Atlantic Ocean: comparative analysis using 28S rDNA. PLoS ONE 7: e35861 (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035861)
Kozol, R., Blanco-Bercial, L., Bucklin, A. 2012. Multi-Gene analysis reveals a lack of genetic divergence between Calanus agulhensis and C. sinicus (Copepoda; Calanoida). PLoS ONE 7: e45710 (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045710)
Lenz, P.H., E. Unal, R.P. Hassett, C.M. Smith, A. Bucklin, A.E. Christie, and D.W. Towle. 2012. Functional genomics resources for the North Atlantic copepod, Calanus finmarchicus: EST database and physiological microarray. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. D: Genomics Proteomics 7: 110-123 (doi: 10.1016/j.cbd.2011.12.001)

2011

Aarbakke, O.N.S., Bucklin, A., Halsband, C., Norrbin, F. 2011. Discovery of Pseudocalanus moultoni (Frost, 1989) in Northeast Atlantic waters based on mitochondrial COI sequence variation.  J. Plankton Res. 33: 1487-1495 (doi: 10.1093/plankt/fbr057)
Batta-Lona, P.G., Bucklin, A., Wiebe, P.H., Patarnello, T., Copley, N.J. 2011. Population genetic variation of the Southern Ocean krill, Euphausia superba, in the Western Antarctic Peninsula region based on mitochondrial single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Deep-Sea Res. II 58: 1652–1661 (doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.11.017)
Blanco-Bercial, L., Álvarez-Marqués, F., Bucklin, A. 2011. Comparative phylogeography and connectivity of sibling species of the marine copepod Clausocalanus (Calanoida). J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 404: 108-115. (doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2011.05.011)
Blanco-Bercial, L., Bradford-Grieve, J., Bucklin, A., 2011. Molecular phylogeny of the Calanoida (Crustacea: Copepoda). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 59: 103-113 (doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.01.008)
Bortolotto, E., Bucklin, A., Mezzavilla, M., Zane, L., Patarnello, T., 2011. Gone with the currents: lack of genetic differentiation at the circum-continental scale in the Antarctic krill Euphausia superba. BMC Genet. 12: 32.(doi:10.1186/1471-2156-12-32)
Bucklin, A., Steinke, D., Blanco-Bercial, L., 2011. DNA Barcoding of Marine Metazoa. Annu. Rev. Mar. Sci. 3: 471-508.(doi:10.1146/annurev-marine-120308-080950)
Govindarajan, A.F., Bucklin, A., Madin, L.P., 2011. A molecular phylogeny of the Thaliacea. J. Plankton Res. 33: 843-853. (doi:10.1093/plankt/fbq157)

2010

Bucklin, A., Hopcroft, R.R., Kosobokova, K.N., Nigro, L.M., Ortman, B.D., Jennings, R.M., Sweetman, C.J., 2010. DNA barcoding of Arctic Ocean holozooplankton for species identification and recognition. Deep-Sea Res. II 57: 40-48.(doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.08.005)
Bucklin, A., Ortman, B.D., Jennings, R.M., Nigro, L.M., Sweetman, C.J., Copley, N.J., Sutton, T., Wiebe, P.H., 2010. A “Rosetta Stone” for metazoan zooplankton: DNA barcode analysis of species diversity of the Sargasso Sea (Northwest Atlantic Ocean). Deep-Sea Res. II 57: 2234-2247.(doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.09.025)
Grabbert, S., Renz, J., Hirche, H.-J., Bucklin, A., 2010. Species-specific PCR discrimination of species of the calanoid copepod Pseudocalanus, P. acuspes and P. elongatus, in the Baltic and North Seas. Hydrobiologia 652: 289-297.(doi:10.1007/s10750-010-0360-2)
Jennings, R.M., Bucklin, A., Ossenbrügger, H., Hopcroft, R.R., 2010. Species diversity of planktonic gastropods (Pteropoda and Heteropoda) from six ocean regions based on DNA barcode analysis. Deep-Sea Res. II 57: 2199-2210.(doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.09.022)
Jennings, R.M., Bucklin, A., Pierrot-Bults, A., 2010. Barcoding of arrow worms (Phylum Chaetognatha) from three Oceans: genetic diversity and evolution within an enigmatic phylum. PLoS ONE 5: e9949.(doi:10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0009949)
Ortman, B.D., Bucklin, A., Pagès, F., Youngbluth, M., 2010. DNA Barcoding the Medusozoa using mtCOI. Deep-Sea Res. II 57: 2148-2156.(doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.09.017)
Sutton, T.T., Wiebe, P.H., Madin, L., Bucklin, A., 2010. Diversity and community structure of pelagic fishes to 5000 m depth in the Sargasso Sea. Deep-Sea Res. II 57: 2220-2233.(doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.09.024)
Unal, E., Bucklin, A., 2010. Basin-scale population genetic structure of the planktonic copepod Calanus finmarchicus in the North Atlantic Ocean. Prog. Oceanogr. 87: 175-185.(doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2010.09.017)
Wiebe, P.H., Bucklin, A., Madin, L., Angel, M.V., Sutton, T., Pagés, F., Hopcroft, R.R., Lindsay, D., 2010. Deep-sea sampling on CMarZ cruises in the Atlantic Ocean – an Introduction. Deep-Sea Res. II 57:, 2157-2166.(doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.09.018)