Melania E. Cristescu - Publications

Affiliations: 
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (GLIER) University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada 
Area:
Evolution and Development Biology, Animal Culture and Nutrition Agriculture

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2021 Chin TA, Cristescu ME. Speciation in Daphnia. Molecular Ecology. PMID 33522056 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15824  0.326
2020 Littlefair JE, Hrenchuk LE, Blanchfield PJ, Rennie MD, Cristescu ME. Thermal stratification and fish thermal preference explain vertical eDNA distributions in lakes. Molecular Ecology. PMID 32888228 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.15623  0.376
2020 Harvey EF, Cristescu ME, Dale J, Hunter H, Randall C, Crease TJ. Metal exposure causes rDNA copy number to fluctuate in mutation accumulation lines of Daphnia pulex. Aquatic Toxicology (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 226: 105556. PMID 32652413 DOI: 10.1016/J.Aquatox.2020.105556  0.336
2020 Yates MC, Glaser DM, Post JR, Cristescu ME, Fraser DJ, Derry AM. The relationship between eDNA particle concentration and organism abundance in nature is strengthened by allometric scaling. Molecular Ecology. PMID 32638451 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.15543  0.318
2020 Suresh S, Crease TJ, Cristescu ME, Chain FJJ. Alternative splicing is highly variable among Daphnia pulex lineages in response to acute copper exposure Bmc Genomics. 21: 1-14. PMID 32586292 DOI: 10.1186/S12864-020-06831-4  0.352
2020 Millette KL, Gonzalez A, Cristescu ME. Breaking ecological barriers: Anthropogenic disturbance leads to habitat transitions, hybridization, and high genetic diversity. The Science of the Total Environment. 740: 140046. PMID 32563876 DOI: 10.1016/J.Scitotenv.2020.140046  0.464
2019 Wood SA, Biessy L, Latchford JL, Zaiko A, von Ammon U, Audrezet F, Cristescu ME, Pochon X. Release and degradation of environmental DNA and RNA in a marine system. The Science of the Total Environment. 135314. PMID 31780169 DOI: 10.1016/J.Scitotenv.2019.135314  0.332
2019 Chin TA, Cáceres CE, Cristescu ME. The evolution of reproductive isolation in Daphnia. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 19: 216. PMID 31775606 DOI: 10.1186/S12862-019-1542-9  0.439
2019 Loria A, Cristescu ME, Gonzalez A. Mixed evidence for adaptation to environmental pollution. Evolutionary Applications. 12: 1259-1273. PMID 31417613 DOI: 10.1111/Eva.12782  0.369
2019 Chain FJJ, Finlayson S, Crease T, Cristescu M. Variation in transcriptional responses to copper exposure across Daphnia pulex lineages. Aquatic Toxicology. 210: 85-97. PMID 30836324 DOI: 10.1016/J.Aquatox.2019.02.016  0.323
2019 Chain FJJ, Flynn JM, Bull JK, Cristescu ME. Accelerated rates of large-scale mutations in the presence of copper and nickel. Genome Research. 29: 64-73. PMID 30487211 DOI: 10.1101/Gr.234724.118  0.33
2019 Sinclair JS, Arnott SE, Millette KL, Cristescu ME. Benefits of increased colonist quantity and genetic diversity for colonization depend on colonist identity Oikos. 128: 1761-1771. DOI: 10.1111/Oik.06308  0.401
2018 Zhang GK, Chain FJJ, Abbott CL, Cristescu ME. Metabarcoding using multiplexed markers increases species detection in complex zooplankton communities. Evolutionary Applications. 11: 1901-1914. PMID 30459837 DOI: 10.1111/Eva.12694  0.437
2018 Bull JK, Flynn JM, Chain FJJ, Cristescu ME. Fitness and Genomic Consequences of Chronic Exposure to Low Levels of Copper and Nickel in Mutation Accumulation Lines. G3 (Bethesda, Md.). PMID 30389796 DOI: 10.1534/G3.118.200797  0.321
2018 Steevensz A, Gombar R, Vergilino R, Cristescu ME, Vacratsis PO. Proteomic Profile of Daphnia pulex using Data-Independent Acquisition Mass Spectrometry and Ion Mobility Separation. Proteomics. e1700460. PMID 29972280 DOI: 10.1002/Pmic.201700460  0.311
2018 Scott R, Zhan A, Brown EA, Chain FJJ, Cristescu ME, Gras R, MacIsaac HJ. Optimization and performance testing of a sequence processing pipeline applied to detection of nonindigenous species. Evolutionary Applications. 11: 891-905. PMID 29928298 DOI: 10.1111/Eva.12604  0.346
2018 Cristescu ME, Hebert PDN. Uses and Misuses of Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Science and Conservation Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 49: 209-230. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Ecolsys-110617-062306  0.335
2017 Flynn JM, Caldas I, Cristescu ME, Clark AG. Selection Constrains High Rates of Tandem Repetitive DNA Mutation in Daphnia pulex. Genetics. PMID 28811387 DOI: 10.1534/Genetics.117.300146  0.41
2016 Flynn JM, Chain FJ, Schoen DJ, Cristescu ME. Spontaneous mutation accumulation in Daphnia pulex in selection-free versus competitive environments. Molecular Biology and Evolution. PMID 27777284 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msw234  0.337
2016 Ghabooli S, Zhan A, Paolucci E, Hernandez MR, Briski E, Cristescu ME, MacIsaac HJ. Population attenuation in zooplankton communities during transoceanic transfer in ballast water. Ecology and Evolution. 6: 6170-7. PMID 27648234 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.2349  0.443
2016 Clare EL, Chain FJ, Littlefair JE, Cristescu ME. The effects of parameter choice on defining molecular operational taxonomic units and resulting ecological analyses of metabarcoding data. Genome / National Research Council Canada = Genome / Conseil National De Recherches Canada. 1-10. PMID 27336462 DOI: 10.1139/Gen-2015-0184  0.336
2016 Brown EA, Chain FJJ, Zhan A, MacIsaac HJ, Cristescu ME, Lowe A. Early detection of aquatic invaders using metabarcoding reveals a high number of non-indigenous species in Canadian ports Diversity and Distributions. 22: 1045-1059. DOI: 10.1111/Ddi.12465  0.444
2016 Chain FJJ, Brown EA, Macisaac HJ, Cristescu ME. Metabarcoding reveals strong spatial structure and temporal turnover of zooplankton communities among marine and freshwater ports Diversity and Distributions. DOI: 10.1111/Ddi.12427  0.449
2016 Lacoursière-Roussel A, Bock DG, Cristescu ME, Guichard F, McKindsey CW. Effect of shipping traffic on biofouling invasion success at population and community levels Biological Invasions. 1-15. DOI: 10.1007/S10530-016-1258-3  0.457
2015 Gras R, Golestani A, Hendry AP, Cristescu ME. Speciation without Pre-Defined Fitness Functions. Plos One. 10: e0137838. PMID 26372462 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0137838  0.305
2015 Flynn JM, Brown EA, Chain FJ, MacIsaac HJ, Cristescu ME. Toward accurate molecular identification of species in complex environmental samples: testing the performance of sequence filtering and clustering methods. Ecology and Evolution. 5: 2252-66. PMID 26078860 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.1497  0.405
2015 Brown EA, Chain FJ, Crease TJ, MacIsaac HJ, Cristescu ME. Divergence thresholds and divergent biodiversity estimates: can metabarcoding reliably describe zooplankton communities? Ecology and Evolution. 5: 2234-51. PMID 26078859 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.1485  0.43
2015 Cristescu ME. Genetic reconstructions of invasion history. Molecular Ecology. 24: 2212-25. PMID 25703061 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.13117  0.444
2014 Cristescu ME. From barcoding single individuals to metabarcoding biological communities: towards an integrative approach to the study of global biodiversity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 29: 566-71. PMID 25175416 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tree.2014.08.001  0.359
2014 Cristescu ME, Demiri B, Altshuler I, Crease TJ. Gene expression variation in duplicate lactate dehydrogenase genes: do ecological species show distinct responses? Plos One. 9: e103964. PMID 25080082 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0103964  0.377
2014 Paolucci EM, Sardiña P, Sylvester F, Perepelizin PV, Zhan A, Ghabooli S, Cristescu ME, Oliveira MD, MacIsaac HJ. Morphological and genetic variability in an alien invasive mussel across an environmental gradient in South America Limnology and Oceanography. 59: 400-412. DOI: 10.4319/Lo.2014.59.2.0400  0.492
2014 Zhan A, He S, Brown EA, Chain FJ, Therriault TW, Abbott CL, Heath DD, Cristescu ME, MacIsaac HJ. Reproducibility of pyrosequencing data for biodiversity assessment in complex communities Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 5: 881-890. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12230  0.391
2013 Ghabooli S, Shiganova TA, Briski E, Piraino S, Fuentes V, Thibault-Botha D, Angel DL, Cristescu ME, Macisaac HJ. Invasion pathway of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Mediterranean Sea. Plos One. 8: e81067. PMID 24303030 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0081067  0.429
2013 Vaillant JJ, Bock DG, Haffner GD, Cristescu ME. Speciation patterns and processes in the zooplankton of the ancient lakes of Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. Ecology and Evolution. 3: 3083-94. PMID 24101996 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.697  0.449
2013 Xu S, Innes DJ, Lynch M, Cristescu ME. The role of hybridization in the origin and spread of asexuality in Daphnia. Molecular Ecology. 22: 4549-61. PMID 23879327 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.12407  0.339
2013 Ghabooli S, Zhan A, Sardiña P, Paolucci E, Sylvester F, Perepelizin PV, Briski E, Cristescu ME, MacIsaac HJ. Genetic diversity in introduced golden mussel populations corresponds to vector activity. Plos One. 8: e59328. PMID 23533614 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0059328  0.37
2013 Zhan A, Hulák M, Sylvester F, Huang X, Adebayo AA, Abbott CL, Adamowicz SJ, Heath DD, Cristescu ME, Macisaac HJ. High sensitivity of 454 pyrosequencing for detection of rare species in aquatic communities Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 4: 558-565. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12037  0.43
2012 Altshuler I, Vaillant JJ, Xu S, Cristescu ME. The evolutionary history of sarco(endo)plasmic calcium ATPase (SERCA). Plos One. 7: e52617. PMID 23285113 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0052617  0.301
2012 Zhan A, Darling JA, Bock DG, Lacoursière-Roussel A, Macisaac HJ, Cristescu ME. Complex genetic patterns in closely related colonizing invasive species. Ecology and Evolution. 2: 1331-46. PMID 22957143 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.258  0.451
2012 Lacoursière-Roussel A, Bock DG, Cristescu ME, Guichard F, Girard P, Legendre P, McKindsey CW. Disentangling invasion processes in a dynamic shipping-boating network. Molecular Ecology. 21: 4227-41. PMID 22804778 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2012.05702.X  0.409
2012 Golestani A, Gras R, Cristescu M. Speciation with gene flow in a heterogeneous virtual world: can physical obstacles accelerate speciation? Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 279: 3055-64. PMID 22513856 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2012.0466  0.43
2012 Bock DG, MacIsaac HJ, Cristescu ME. Multilocus genetic analyses differentiate between widespread and spatially restricted cryptic species in a model ascidian. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 279: 2377-85. PMID 22319123 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2011.2610  0.481
2012 Cristescu ME, Constantin A, Bock DG, Cáceres CE, Crease TJ. Speciation with gene flow and the genetics of habitat transitions. Molecular Ecology. 21: 1411-22. PMID 22269101 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2011.05465.X  0.459
2012 Xu S, Schaack S, Seyfert A, Choi E, Lynch M, Cristescu ME. High mutation rates in the mitochondrial genomes of Daphnia pulex. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29: 763-9. PMID 21998274 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msr243  0.325
2012 Zhan A, Perepelizin PV, Ghabooli S, Paolucci E, Sylvester F, Sardiña P, Cristescu ME, Macisaac HJ. Scale-dependent post-establishment spread and genetic diversity in an invading mollusc in South America Diversity and Distributions. 18: 1042-1055. DOI: 10.1111/J.1472-4642.2012.00894.X  0.432
2011 Altshuler I, Demiri B, Xu S, Constantin A, Yan ND, Cristescu ME. An integrated multi-disciplinary approach for studying multiple stressors in freshwater ecosystems: Daphnia as a model organism. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 51: 623-33. PMID 21873644 DOI: 10.1093/Icb/Icr103  0.442
2011 Vaillant JJ, Haffner GD, Cristescu ME. The ancient lakes of Indonesia: towards integrated research on speciation. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 51: 634-43. PMID 21856735 DOI: 10.1093/Icb/Icr101  0.433
2011 Crease TJ, Floyd R, Cristescu ME, Innes D. Evolutionary factors affecting Lactate dehydrogenase A and B variation in the Daphnia pulex species complex. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 11: 212. PMID 21767386 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-212  0.449
2011 Bock DG, Zhan A, Lejeusne C, MacIsaac HJ, Cristescu ME. Looking at both sides of the invasion: patterns of colonization in the violet tunicate Botrylloides violaceus. Molecular Ecology. 20: 503-16. PMID 21199029 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2010.04971.X  0.45
2011 Xu S, Omilian AR, Cristescu ME. High rate of large-scale hemizygous deletions in asexually propagating Daphnia: implications for the evolution of sex. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 28: 335-42. PMID 20675410 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msq199  0.33
2011 Millette KL, Xu S, Witt JDS, Cristescu ME. Pleistocene-driven diversification in freshwater zooplankton: Genetic patterns of refugial isolation and postglacial recolonization in Leptodora kindtii (Crustacea, Cladocera) Limnology and Oceanography. 56: 1725-1736. DOI: 10.4319/Lo.2011.56.5.1725  0.428
2011 Briski E, Cristescu ME, Bailey SA, MacIsaac HJ. Use of DNA barcoding to detect invertebrate invasive species from diapausing eggs Biological Invasions. 13: 1325-1340. DOI: 10.1007/S10530-010-9892-7  0.387
2011 Ghabooli S, Shiganova TA, Zhan A, Cristescu ME, Eghtesadi-Araghi P, MacIsaac HJ. Multiple introductions and invasion pathways for the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in Eurasia Biological Invasions. 13: 679-690. DOI: 10.1007/S10530-010-9859-8  0.438
2011 Lejeusne C, Bock DG, Therriault TW, MacIsaac HJ, Cristescu ME. Comparative phylogeography of two colonial ascidians reveals contrasting invasion histories in North America Biological Invasions. 13: 635-650. DOI: 10.1007/S10530-010-9854-0  0.423
2010 Abdoullaye D, Acevedo I, Adebayo AA, Behrmann-Godel J, Benjamin RC, Bock DG, Born C, Brouat C, Caccone A, Cao LZ, Casado-Amezúa P, Catanéo J, Correa-Ramirez MM, Cristescu ME, et al. Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 August 2009-30 September 2009. Molecular Ecology Resources. 10: 232-6. PMID 21565018 DOI: 10.1111/J.1755-0998.2009.02796.X  0.404
2010 Zhan A, Macisaac HJ, Cristescu ME. Invasion genetics of the Ciona intestinalis species complex: from regional endemism to global homogeneity. Molecular Ecology. 19: 4678-94. PMID 20875067 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2010.04837.X  0.499
2010 Cristescu ME, Adamowicz SJ, Vaillant JJ, Haffner DG. Ancient lakes revisited: from the ecology to the genetics of speciation. Molecular Ecology. 19: 4837-51. PMID 20874762 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2010.04832.X  0.43
2010 Briski E, Bailey SA, Cristescu ME, Macisaac HJ. Efficacy of 'saltwater flushing' in protecting the Great Lakes from biological invasions by invertebrate eggs in ships' ballast sediment Freshwater Biology. 55: 2414-2424. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2427.2010.02449.X  0.334
2009 Xu S, Hebert PD, Kotov AA, Cristescu ME. The noncosmopolitanism paradigm of freshwater zooplankton: insights from the global phylogeography of the predatory cladoceran Polyphemus pediculus (Linnaeus, 1761) (Crustacea, Onychopoda). Molecular Ecology. 18: 5161-79. PMID 19912535 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2009.04422.X  0.432
2009 Cristescu ME, Egbosimba EE. Evolutionary history of D-lactate dehydrogenases: a phylogenomic perspective on functional diversity in the FAD binding oxidoreductase/transferase type 4 family. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 69: 276-87. PMID 19727923 DOI: 10.1007/S00239-009-9274-X  0.314
2003 Cristescu ME, Hebert PD, Onciu TM. Phylogeography of Ponto-Caspian crustaceans: a benthic-planktonic comparison. Molecular Ecology. 12: 985-96. PMID 12753217 DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-294X.2003.01801.X  0.326
2002 Therriault TW, Grigorovich IA, Cristescu ME, Ketelaars HAM, Viljanen M, Heath DD, Macisaac HJ. Taxonomic resolution of the genus Bythotrephes Leydig using molecular markers and re-evaluation of its global distribution Diversity and Distributions. 8: 67-84. DOI: 10.1046/J.1472-4642.2002.00129.X  0.435
2001 Makarewicz JC, Grigorovich IA, Mills E, Damaske E, Cristescu ME, Pearsall W, LaVoie MJ, Keats R, Rudstam L, Hebert P, Halbritter H, Kelly T, Matkovich C, MacIsaac HJ. Distribution, fecundity, and genetics of Cercopagis pengoi (Ostroumov) (Crustacea, Cladocera) in Lake Ontario Journal of Great Lakes Research. 27: 19-32. DOI: 10.1016/S0380-1330(01)70620-X  0.347
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