1984, Ph.D. Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
1977, B.A. Zoology, University of Washington
Teaching
Calif. State Univ. Fullerton, Recent Courses for Majors: Field Marine Biology,
Biogeography, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Principles of Evolution,
Computer Lab in Molecular Systematics, Genes and Genomes.
Courses for non-majors: Honors Seminar on History of Life, Marine
Biology, Elements of Biology.
Grad Seminars: Evolutionary Pathways, Marine Phylogeography, Phylogeography
of Baja California.
Teaching prior to CSUF, at Univ. of Michigan: Biology of Invertebrates,
Biology for Nonscientists, Majors Biology Graduate
courses on topics in Metazoan Phylogeny, and topics in Molluscan Systematics;
at Woods Hole Marine Biological Lab: Instructor, Molecular Evolution Workshop,
1992, 1993, 1995, 1997;
at Univ. of Californa, Santa Cruz, Visiting Lecturer, Intertidal Biology, Spring,
1984, and TA, 1978-1983; at Friday Harbor Laboratories, Univ. of Washington,
Teaching Assistant, Marine Invertebrate Embryology, 1981
Appointments
Professor, California State University, 2005-present
Associate Professor, California State University, 1998-2005
Assistant Professor, California State University, 1994-1998
Visiting Scientist, Lab of Molec. System., Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D.C., 1994
Assist. Prof. and Assist. Curator, Dept. Biol. and Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan, 1986-1993
NSF Postdoctoral Associate, University of Washington, Friday Harbor Labs, 1985-1986
Friday Harbor Labs Postdoctoral Associate, University of Washington, 1984
Visiting Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1984
Professional Service
Member of Council, Society of Systematic Biologists, 1998-2002
Editorial Board, Zoomorphology, 2004-present
Editorial Board, Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2007-2012
Editorial Board, Festivus, 1993-2017
Editorial Board, Diversity, 2020-present
Editor, Western Society of Malacologists Annual Report, 2000-2005
Associate Editor, Malacological Review, 1986-1993 (Vols. 19-26)
Associate Editor,
Prosobranch Phylogeny, Malacological Review, Suppl. 4, 1988
Fellow, Willi Hennig Society, 1992-present
Advisory Panel, National Science Foundation, 1994-1996
Bioinformatics Advisory Board Member, CSU Fullerton, 2001-2010
NCBI GenBank Taxwork consultant, 1994-1995
Research Associate in Malacology, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Research Associate in Malacology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
President, American Malacological Society, 2009-2010
Chair, Nominating Committee, American Malacological Society, 2010-2011
Recent Awards and Honors
Eernisse, D. J. (PI), Oakley, T. H. (Co-PI), and Speiser, D. I. (Co-PI).
Collaborative Research: RUI: Timing and Molecular Origins of Recently Evolved Chiton Shell-Eyes: Phylogenomics of Chitonina.
National Science Foundation grant, 2014-2017 (DEB - 1355230).
Sabbatical Scholar Fellowship, NESCent, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (2006-2007).
Honored in naming of Loricella eernissei Sirenko, 2008 (Recent, New Caledonia) and
Craspedochiton eernissei Dell'Angelo et al. 2011 (Eocene, western Washington).
Selected Publications
(See also Google Scholar Profile for "
Douglas J. Eernisse")
Varney, R. M., D. I. Speiser, J. Cannon, M. Aguilar, D. J. Eernisse, and T. H. Oakley. 2024.
A morphological basis for path-dependent evolution of visual systems. Science 393: 983-987.
doi:10.1126/science.adg2689; see also: Varney et al. 2022. bioRxiv
doi:10.1101/2022.12.20.520810)
Chappell, D. R., D. I. Speiser, D. J. Eernisse, and A. C. N. Kingston. 2023. Distributed light-sensing systems in chitons.
In: (E. Buschbeck and M. Bok, eds.) Distributed Vision: From Simple Sensors to Sophisticated Combination Eyes.
Springer Series in Vision Research, Vol. 6. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
doi:10.1007/978-3-031-23216-9_6
Park, J., Y. Lee, T. Kim, E. Kern, H.-J. Kil, D. J. Eernisse, H. Saito and J.-K. Park. 2022. Molecular survey of Cryptoplax japonica (Polyplacophora: Cryptoplacidae)
reveals cryptic lineages in the northwestern Pacific. Journal of Molluscan Studies,
88(3): eyac016.
doi:10.1093/mollus/eyac016
Castelin, M., R. Collin, R. Harbo, E. Spence, K. Aschenbrenner, B. Merilees, S. R. Gilmore, C. L. Abbott, and D. J. Eernisse. 2022. Size doesn't matter:
Integrative taxonomy shows Crepidula adunca and Crepidula norrisiarum actually have broadly concordant distributions.
Biological Bulletin 242: 222-234.
doi:10.1086/720422
Krug, P. J., S. A. Caplins, K. Algoso, K. Thomas, A. A. Valdés, R. Wade, N. Leena, W. S. Wong, D. J. Eernisse, and K. M. Kocot. 2022.
Phylogenomic resolution of the root of Panpulmonata, a hyperdiverse radiation of gastropods: new insight into the evolution of air breathing.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289: 20211855.
doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.1855
Goto, R., T. Takano, D. J. Eernisse, M. Kato, and Y. Kano. 2021.
Snails riding mantis shrimps: Ectoparasites evolved from ancestors living as
commensals on the host's burrow wall.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution,
163 (2021) 107122.
doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107122
Salvia, D., H. Bertsch, J. Cáceres-Martínez, R. Cruz-Flores, M. A. Del Rio-Portilla, D. J. Eernisse, J. M. Healy,
F. Lafarga-De La Cruz, E. Londoño-Cruz, and P. Mariottini. 2021.
Letter to Editor: Taxonomic discussion on scientific names for Pacific oysters requires evidence-based arguments and pluralism.
Aquaculture
(2022) 737298.
doi:10.1016/j.aquaculture.2021.737298
Scuderi, D., T. Nakano, and D. J. Eernisse. 2021. A limpet (Lottiidae), introduced to Sicily, is traced to its homeland in Sri Lanka and described as a new species.
Malacologia, 64(1): 79-92.
doi:10.4002/040.064.0104
Calatayud, S., M. Garcia-Risco, V. Pedrini-Martha, D. J. Eernisse, R. Dallinger, O. Palacios, M. Capdevila and R. Albalat.
2021. Modularity in protein evolution: modular organization and de novo domain evolution in mollusk metallothioneins.
Molecular Biology and Evolution 38(2): 424-436.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msaa230/5904274
Eernisse, D. J. and D. R. Lindberg. 2020. In memorium: John S. Pearse.
Invertebrate Biology 139:e12309.
doi:10.1111/ivb.12309
Lindberg, D. R., T. M. Gosliner, and D. J. Eernisse. 2020. John Stuart Pearse (1936-2020). American Malacological Society Newsletter Fall 2020: 18-21.
Navarrete, A. H., J. Sellanes, M.C. Pardo-Gandarillas, B. Sirenko, D. J. Eernisse, P. A. Camus, F. P. Ojeda,
and C.M. Ibáñez. 2020. Latitudinal distribution of polyplacophorans along the South-eastern Pacific coast:
unravelling biases in geographical diversity patterns. Marine Biodiversity 50, 45 (2020).
doi:10.1007/s12526-020-01060-0 or
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Irisarri, I., J. E. Uribe, D. J. Eernisse, and R. Zardoya. 2020. A mitogenomic phylogeny of chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora).
BMC Evolutionary Biology 20, 22 (2020).
doi:10.1186/s12862-019-1573-2
Connors, M., T. Yang, A. Hosny, Z. Deng, F. Yazdandoost, H. Massadi, D.J. Eernisse, R. Mirzaeifar, M. N. Dean, J.C. Weaver, C. Ortiz, and L. Li. 2019.
Biologically-inspired lessons from chiton scales for the design of flexible armors.
Nature Communications 10(1), 5413.
doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13215-0
Garcia, E., C. A. Rice, D. J. Eernisse, K. L. Forsgren, J. P. Quimbayo, and G. W. Rouse. 2019.
Systematic relationships of sympatric pipefishes (Syngnathus spp.): A mismatch between morphological and molecular variation.
Journal of Fish Biology 95: 999-1012.
doi:10.1111/jfb.14073
Ibáñez, C., D. J. Eernisse, M. A. Méndez, M. Valladares, J. Sellanes, B. Sirenko, and M. C. Pardo-Gandarillas. 2019.
Phylogeny, divergence times, and species delimitation of Tonicia (Polyplacophora: Chitonidae) from the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186: 915-933.
doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz006
Eernisse, D. J., A. Draeger and E. M. Pilgrim. 2018. Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) rafted on tsunami debris from Japan
to the shores of Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii. Aquatic Invasions 13: 71-86.
doi:10.3391/ai.2018.13.1.06
Scuderi, D. and D. J. Eernisse. 2016. A new alien limpet for the Mediterranean: Lottia sp.(Patellogastropoda: Lottiidae).
Biodiversity Journal 7: 287-293.
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McClain, C. R., J. P. Barry, D. Eernisse, T. Horton, J. Judge, K. Kakui, C. Mah, and A. Warén. 2016. Multiple processes generate productivity-diversity relationships in experimental wood-fall
communities. Ecology 97: 885-898.
doi:10.1890/15-1669.1
Peterson, K. J. and D. J. Eernisse. 2016. The phylogeny, evolutionary developmental biology, and paleobiology of the Deuterostomia:
25 years of new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas.
Organisms Diversity & Evolution 16: 401-418.
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Raith, M., D. C. Zacherl, E. M. Pilgrim, and D. J. Eernisse. 2016.
Phylogeny and species diversity of Gulf of California oysters (Ostreidae) inferred from mitochondrial DNA.
American Malacological Bulletin,
33: 263-283.
doi:10.4003/006.033.0206 -
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Irisarri, I., D. J. Eernisse, and R. Zardoya. 2014. Molecular phylogeny of Acanthochitonina (Mollusca: Polyplacophora: Chitonida):
three new mitochondrial genomes, rearranged gene orders and systematics.
Journal of Natural History
48: 2825-2853.
doi:10.1080/00222933.2014.963721
Smith, J. R., S. C. Vogt, F. Creedon, B. Lucas, and D. J. Eernisse. 2014.
The non-native turf-forming alga Caulacanthus ustulatus displaces space-occupants but increases diversity.
Biological Invasions 16: 2195-2208.
doi:10.1007/s10530-014-0658-5 -
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Gilbertson, L. H., D. J. Eernisse, and J. K. Wallace. 2013. A new dartless species of Cahuillus
(Pulmonata: Helminthoglyptidae) from the Mojave Desert, California with a reassignment of Eremarionta rowelli unifasciata.
American Malacological Bulletin 31: 57-64.
doi:10.4003/006.031.0117 - (PDF -
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Vendrasco, M. J., D. J. Eernisse, C. L. Powell, II, and C. Z. Fernandez. 2012. Polyplacophora (Mollusca) from the San Diego Formation: A remarkable assemblage of fossil chitons from the Pliocene of southern California. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 520: 15-72 (BHL) - or PDF - (Download Acrobat Reader)
Speiser, D. I., D. J. Eernisse, and S. Johnsen. 2011. A chiton uses aragonite lenses to form images.
Current Biology 21: 665-670.
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Eernisse, D.J., M. F. Strathmann, and R. R. Strathmann. 2010. Henricia pumila sp. nov.: A brooding seastar (Asteroidea) from the coastal northeastern Pacific. Zootaxa, 2329: 22-36 (open access).
Stebbins, T. D. and D. J. Eernisse. 2009. Chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) known from benthic monitoring programs in the Southern
California Bight. Festivus (Special Issue)
41(6): 53-100 (BHL).
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Puchalski, S. S., C. C. Johnson, E. G. Kauffman, and D. J. Eernisse. 2009.
A new genus and two new species of multiplacophorans (Mollusca, Polyplacophora, Neoloricata), Mississippian (Chesterian), Indiana.
Journal of Paleontology 83: 423-431.
doi:10.1666/08-108.1 -
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Polson, M. P., W. E. Hewson, D. J. Eernisse, P. K. Baker, and D. C. Zacherl. 2009. You say conchaphila, I say lurida:
Molecular evidence for restricting the Olympia oyster to temperate western North America.
Journal of Shellfish Research 28: 1-11.
doi:10.2983/035.028.0102 -
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Serb, J. M. and D. J. Eernisse. 2008.
Charting evolution’s trajectory: Using molluscan eye diversity to understand parallel and convergent evolution.
Evolution: Education and Outreach 1(4):439-447.
doi:10.1007/s12052-008-0084-1 -
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Eernisse, D. J. 2008. Introduction to the symposium “Advances in Chiton Research”.
American Malacological Bulletin 25: 21-24.
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Puchalski, S. S., D. J. Eernisse, and C. C. Johnson. 2008. The effect of sampling bias on the fossil record of chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora).
American Malacological Bulletin 25: 87-96.
(database here)
doi:10.4003/0740-2783-25.1.87 -
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Kelly, R. P. and D. J. Eernisse. 2008. Reconstructing a radiation: The chiton genus Mopalia in the north Pacific.
Invertebrate Systematics 22:1-12
(request PDF by email).
doi:10.1071/IS06021
Eernisse, D. J. 2007. Chitons. Pp. 127-133, in:
Encyclopedia of Tidepools and Rocky Shores. M. W. Denny and S. D. Gaines (Eds.) University of California Press, Berkeley, California.
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Eernisse, D. J., R. N. Clark, and A. Draeger. 2007. Polyplacophora.
Pp. 701-713, in: Light and Smith Manual:
Intertidal Invertebrates from Central California to Oregon,
4th Ed. J. T. Carlton (Ed.). University of California Press, Berkeley, California
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Kelly, R. P., and D. J. Eernisse. 2007. Southern hospitality: A latitudinal gradient
in gene flow in the marine environment.
Evolution 61: 700-707.
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Kelly. R. P., I. N. Sarkar, D. J. Eernisse, and R. Desalle. 2007.
DNA barcoding using chitons (genus Mopalia).
Molecular Ecology Notes 7: 177-183.
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Crummett, L. T. and D. J. Eernisse. 2007. Genetic evidence
for the cryptic species pair, Lottia digitalis and Lottia austrodigitalis and
microhabitat partitioning in sympatry. Marine Biology
152: 1-13.
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Eernisse, D. J. and K. J. Peterson, 2004. Chapter 13: The history of animals. Pp. 197-208, in (Cracraft, J. and M. J. Donoghue, eds.)
Assembling the Tree of Life. Oxford University Press, New York.
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Eernisse, D. J. 2004. Foreward to Systematics, Phylogeny and Biology of Polyplacophora:
Proceedings to the 4th International Workshop of Malacology held in Menfi, Sicily (14-18 June 2001) Istituzione Culturale Federico II.
Bollettino Malacologico 40: i-iv
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Okusu, A., E. Schwabe, D. J. Eernisse, and G. Giribet. 2003.
Towards a phylogeny of chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) based on combined analysis of five molecular loci.
Organisms Diversity & Evolution
3(4): 281-302.
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Pojeta, J. Jr., D. J. Eernisse, R. D. Hoare, and M. D. Henderson. 2003.
Echinochiton dufoei: A new spiny Ordovician chiton.
Journal of Paleontology 77: 646-654.
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Eernisse, D.J. 2003. A more colorful invertebrates text.
Bioscience
53(8): 774-776
[Book review of Invertebrates 2nd Ed. by Brusca and Brusca]
doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0774:AMCIT]2.0.CO;2 -
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Peterson, K. J. and D. J. Eernisse, 2001. Animal phylogeny and the ancestry
of bilaterians: Inferences from morphology and 18S rDNA gene sequences.
Evolution and Development 3(3): 1-35.
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Eernisse, 2000. DNA Stacks software package for molecular systematics, version 1.3. Available at: http://biology.fullerton.edu/deernisse/dnastacks.html.
Eernisse, D. J. 1998b. A brief guide to phylogenetic software.
Trends in Genetics
14(11), 473-475.
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Eernisse, D. J. 1998a. Class Polyplacophora. Pp. 49-73, in:
Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and the Western Santa Barbara Channel,
Volume 8. The Mollusca, Part 1: Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Bivalvia and Cephalopoda (P. Valentich Scott and J.A. Blake, eds.).
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California [Search for Accession Number: PB97117543].
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Eernisse, D. J. 1997b. Arthropod and annelid relationships re-examined. Pp. 43-56, in: Arthropod Relationships (R.A. Fortey and R.H. Thomas, eds.). The Systematics Association and Chapman and Hall, London.
Eernisse, D. J. 1997a. Review of Origin and Evolutionary Radiation of
the Mollusca (J.D. Taylor, Ed.). Quarterly Review of Biology, 72:79 JSTOR.
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Eernisse, D. J. 1995b. Molecular and classical taxonomy workshop. Cahiers de la Fondation des Treilles, Annee' 1994: 55-73.
Eernisse, D. J. 1995a. Molecular and classical taxonomy workshop at Tourtour, France, November, 1994. Journal of the European Science Foundation 32: 24-25.
Eernisse, D. J., and P. D. Reynolds. 1994. Chapter 3. Polyplacophora. Pp. 56-110 in
Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates, Volume 5, Mollusca 1 (F. W. Harrison and A. J. Kohn, eds.). Wiley-Liss, New York.
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Strathmann, R. R., and D. J. Eernisse. 1994.
What molecular phylogenies tell us about evolution of larval morphology.
American Zoologist 34: 502-512 JSTOR.
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Eernisse, D. J., and A. G. Kluge. 1993.
Taxonomic congruence versus total evidence, and the phylogeny of amniotes inferred from fossils, molecules and morphology.
Molecular Biology and Evolution 10: 1170-1195.
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Buckland-Nicks, J.A., and D. J. Eernisse. 1993.
Ultrastructure of mature sperm and eggs of the brooding hermaphroditic chiton, Lepidochitona fernaldi
Eernisse, 1986, with observations on the mechanism of fertilization.
Journal of Experimental Zoology 265: 567-574.
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Eernisse, D. J., J. S. Albert & F. E. Anderson. 1992.
Annelida and Arthropoda are not sister taxa: A phylogenetic analysis of spiralian metazoan morphology.
Systematic Biology 41(3): 305-330 JSTOR.
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Eernisse, D. J. 1992. DNA Translator and Aligner: HyperCard utilities to aid phylogenetic analysis of molecules.
Bioinformatics 8:177-184.
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Eernisse, D. J. 1990. DNA Translator: a HyperCard stack for molecular systematics. 1991. Aligner: a HyperCard stack for manual sequence alignment. (download v. 1.3.5 - 2008 requires MacOS 9.0).
Eernisse, D. J. 1988.
Reproductive patterns in six species of Lepidochitona (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from the Pacific Coast of North America.
Biological Bulletin 174: 287-302 JSTOR
doi:10.2307/1541955 -
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O'Foighil, D. and D. J. Eernisse. 1988.
Geographically widespread, non-hybridizing, sympatric strains of the hermaphroditic, brooding clam Lasaea
in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. Biological Bulletin 175: 218-229 JSTOR.
doi:10.2307/1541562 -
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Eernisse, D. J. and K. Kerth. 1988. The initial stages of radular formation in chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora).
Malacologia 28: 95-103 (BHL).
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Eernisse, D. J., N. B. Terwilliger, and R. C. Terwilliger. 1988.
The red foot of a lepidopleurid chiton: Evidence for tissue hemoglobins.
Veliger 30: 244-247 (BHL).
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Strathmann, M. and D. J. Eernisse. 1987. Phylum Mollusca, Class Polyplacophora. Pp. 205-219 (JSTOR) in Reproduction and development of marine invertebrates of the northern Pacific coast: data and methods for the study of eggs, embryos, and larvae - (JSTOR). Univ. of Wash. Press, Seattle.
O'Foighil, D. and D. J. Eernisse. 1987.
Phosphoglucomutase allozyme evidence for an outcrossing mode of reproduction in the hermaphroditic brooding bivalve
Mysella tumida (Galeommatacea). Journal of Molluscan Studies 53: 223-228.
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Eernisse, D. J. 1986.
The genus Lepidochitona Gray, 1821 (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) in the northeastern Pacific Ocean (Oregonian and Californian Provinces).
Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 228: 3-52.
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Pearse, J. S., D. J. Eernisse, V. B. Pearse, and K. A. Beauchamp. 1986.
Photoperiodic regulation of gametogenesis in sea stars, with evidence for an annual calendar independent of fixed daylength.
American Zoologist 26: 417-431 JSTOR.
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Eernisse, D. J. 1984. Lepidochitona Gray, 1821 (Mollusca: Polyplacophora), from the Pacific Coast of the United States: Systematics and Reproduction. Ph.D. Dissertation. 358 pp. University of California, Santa Cruz. Available at Harold A. Miller Marine Biology Library at Hopkins Marine Station
J. S. Pearse and D. J. Eernisse. 1982.
Photoperiodic regulation of gametogenesis and gonadal growth in the sea star Pisaster ochraceus.
Marine Biology 67: 121-125.
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