Selected Publications

1980-89

Grosberg, R. K. 1981.
Competitive ability influences habitat choice in marine invertebrates. NATURE 290: 700-702.

Grosberg, R. K. 1982.
Intertidal zonation of barnacles: the influence of planktonic zonation of larvae on the vertical distribution of adults.
ECOLOGY 63: 894-899.

Grosberg, R. K., W. R. Rice and S. R. Palumbi. 1985.
Graft compatibility and clonal identity in invertebrates.
SCIENCE 229: 487-489.

Grosberg, R. K. and J. F. Quinn. 1986.
The genetic control and consequences of kin recognition by the larvae of a colonial marine invertebrate.
NATURE 322: 456-459.

Grosberg, R. K. 1987.
Limited dispersal and proximity-dependent mating success in the sessile colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri.
EVOLUTION 41: 372-384.

Grosberg, R. K. 1988.
Life history variation within a population of the colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri. I. The genetic and environmental control of seasonal variation. EVOLUTION 42: 900-920.

Grosberg, R. K. 1988.
The evolution of allorecognition specificity in clonal invertebrates.
QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY 63: 377-412.

Grosberg, R. K. and J. F. Quinn. 1988.
The evolution of allorecognition specificity. Pages 157-167 in Invertebrate Historecognition (R.K. Grosberg, D. Hedgecock and K. Nelson, editors). Plenum Press, New York.

Harvell, C. D. and R. K. Grosberg. 1988.
The timing of sexual maturity in clonal organisms.
ECOLOGY 69: 1855-1864.

Grosberg, R. K. and J. F. Quinn. 1989.
The evolution of aggression based on allorecognition specificity.
EVOLUTION 43: 504-515.

Grosberg, R. K. and M. R. Patterson. 1989.
Iterated ontogenies reiterated.
PALEOBIOLOGY 15: 67-73.

1990-99

Buss, L. W. and R. K. Grosberg. 1990.
Morphogenetic basis for phenotypic differences in hydroid competitive behaviour.
NATURE 343: 60-63.

Grosberg, R. K. 1990.
Out on a limb: arthropod origins.
SCIENCE 250: 632-633.

Grosberg, R. K. 1991.
Sperm-mediated gene flow and the genetic structure of a population of the colonial sea squirt Botryllus schlosseri.
EVOLUTION 45: 130-142.

Grosberg, R. K. and D. R. Levitan. 1992.
For adults only? Supply-side ecology and the history of larval biology.
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 7: 130-133.

Grosberg, R. K. 1992.
To thine ownself be true?
BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN 182: 454-457.

Levitan, D. R. and R. K. Grosberg. 1993.
The analysis of paternity and maternity in the marine hydrozoan Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus using randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers.
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 2: 315-326.

Ayre, D. J. and R. K. Grosberg. 1995.
Intraspecific competition and coexistence in the sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima: Aggression, habituation, and interclonal dominance relationships.
AMERICAN NATURALIST 146: 427-453.

Ayre, D. J. and R. K. Grosberg. 1996.
Effects of social organization on inter-clonal dominance relationships in the sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima.
ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR 51: 1233-1245.

Grosberg, R. K., D. R. Levitan, and B. B. Cameron. 1996.
Characterization of genetic structure and genealogies using RAPD-PCR markers: A random primer for the nervous and novice. Pages 67-100 in (J. D. Ferraris and S. R. Palumbi, eds.) Molecular Zoology: Advances, Strategies and Protocols. John Wiley and Sons, New York.

Grosberg, R. K., D. R. Levitan, and B. B. Cameron. 1996.
The evolutionary genetics of allorecognition in the colonial hydrozoan Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus.
EVOLUTION 50: 2221-2240.

McFadden, C. S. and R. K. Grosberg. 1997.
Genetic relationships within and between solitary and clonal forms of the sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima revisited: Evidence for existence of two species.
MARINE BIOLOGY 128: 127-139.

Grosberg, R. K. and D. J. Ayre. 1997.
Is there a relationship between multilocus homozygosity and dominance rank in sea anemones? A Reply to Zeh and Zeh.
AMERICAN NATURALIST 149: 790-793.

Grosberg, R. K., M. W. Hart and D. R. Levitan. 1997.
Is allorecognition specificity in Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus controlled by a single gene?
GENETICS 145: 857-860.

Grosberg, R. K. and R. R. Strathmann. 1998.
One cell, two cell, red cell, blue cell: the persistence of a unicellular stage in multicellular life histories.
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 13: 112-116.

Eppley, S. M. et. al. 1998.
Intrapopulation sex ratio variation in the salt grass Distichlis spicata.
AMERICAN NATURALIST 152: 659-670.

Hart, M. W. and R. K. Grosberg. 1999.
Kin interactions in a colonial hydrozoan (Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus): population structure on a mobile landscape.
EVOLUTION 53: 793-805.

2000-Present

Grosberg, R. K. and M. W. Hart. 2000.
Mate selection and the evolution of highly polymorphic self/nonself recognition genes.
SCIENCE 289: 2111-2114.

Grosberg, R. K. and C. W. Cunningham. 2001.
Genetic structure in the sea: from populations to communities. Pages 61-84 in Marine Community Ecology (M. D. Bertness, S. Gaines, and M. E. Hay, eds.), Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.

Tsutsui, N. D. & R. K. Grosberg. 2003.
The distribution and evolutionary history of Wolbachia infection in native and introduced populations of the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile). MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 12: 3057-3068 .

Tsutsui, N. D., A. V. Suarez, & R. K. Grosberg. 2003.
Genetic diversity, asymmetrical aggression, and recognition in a widespread invasive species.
PNAS 100: 1078-1083.

Sotka, E. E. et. al. 2004.
Strong genetic clines and geographical variation in gene flow in the rocky intertidal barnacle Balanus glandula.
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 13: 2143-2156.

Wilson, A.C. & R. K. Grosberg. 2004.
Ontogenetic shifts in fusion-rejection thresholds in a colonial marine hydrozoan, Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus .
BEHAV. ECOL. AND SOCIOBIOL. 57:40-49.

Ayre, D. J. & R. K. Grosberg. 2005.
Behind Anemone lines: factors affecting division of labour in the social cnidarian Anthopleura elegantissima.
ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR 70: 97-110.

Wares, J. P., A. R. Hughes, and R. K. Grosberg.  2005.  Mechanisms that drive evolutionary change. Insights from species introductions and invasions. Pages 229-257 in Species Invasions: Insights into Ecology, Evolution, and Biogeography (Dov F. Sax, John J. Stachowicz, and Steven D. Gaines, eds.).  Sinauer Press, Sunderland, MA.

Dawson, M. N., and R. K. Grosberg. 2006 Connectivity in Marine Protected Areas.
SCIENCE 313:43-45.

Harley, D.D.G. et. al. 2006.
Color polymorphism and genetic structure in the sea star Pisaster ochraceus.
BIOL BUL 211:248-262.

Sax, D. F. et. al. 2007.
Ecological and evolutionary insights from species invasions.
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 22:465-471.

Grosberg, R. K., and R. R. Strathmann. 2007.
The evolution of multicellularity: A minor major transition.
ANNU. REV. ECOL. EVOL. SYST. 38:621-654.