Douglas J. Eernisse
Professor
Degrees
PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz,
BA, University of Washington
Research Areas
Animal phylogeny, evolution of Mollusca, marine zoology, systematics, population genetics, bioinformatics
Courses Regularly Taught
Evolution, Field Marine Biology, Molecular Systematics
Publications
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.
Speiser, D. I., D. J. Eernisse, and S. Johnsen. 2011. A chiton uses aragonite lenses to form images. Current Biology 21: 665-670.
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.
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.
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.