Mercer R. Brugler
Mercer successfully defended his dissertation in December, 2010. He is now a postdoc at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Education
B.S. in Marine Science/Biology, University of Miami, Florida
M.S. in Marine Biology, College of Charleston
Ph.D. in in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
A deep-sea black coral (Bathypathes sp. ) on the New England Seamounts, western North Atlantic (Photo courtesy of the Deep Atlantic Stepping Stones Science Party, IFE, URI-IAO, and NOAA).
- Publications from graduate work
Wagner, D., M.R. Brugler, D.M. Opresko, S.C. France, A.D. Montgomery and R. Toonen. 2010. Using morphometrics, in situ observations and genetic characters to distinguish amongst commercially valuable Hawaiian black coral species; a redescription of Antipathes grandis Verrill, 1928 (Antipatharia: Antipathidae) Invertebrate Systematics 24: 271-290 (doi:10.1071/IS10004)
van der Ham, J.L., M.R. Brugler and S.C. France. 2009. Exploring the utility of an indel-rich, mitochondrial intergenic region as a molecular barcode for bamboo corals (Octocorallia: Isididae) Marine Genomics 2: 183-192 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margen.2009.10.002)
Thoma, J.N., E. Pante, M.R. Brugler and S.C. France. 2009. Deep-sea octocorals and antipatharians show no evidence of seamount-scale endemism in the NW Atlantic. Marine Ecology Progress Series 397: 25-35 (http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps08318)Brugler, M.R. and S.C. France. 2008. The mitochondrial genome of a deep-sea bamboo coral (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Isididae): genome structure and putative origins of replication are not conserved among octocorals. Journal of Molecular Evolution 67:125-136 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00239-008-9116-2)
Brugler, M.R. and S.C. France. 2007. The complete mitochondrial genome of the black coral Chrysopathes formosa (Cnidaria:Anthozoa:Antipatharia) supports classification of antipatharians within the subclass Hexacorallia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42: 776-788 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2006.08.016)
Daly, M., M.R. Brugler, P. Cartwright, A.G. Collins, M.N. Dawson, S.C. France, C.S. McFadden, D.M. Opresko, E. Rodriguez, S. Romano, J. Stake. 2007. The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. & Shear, W.A. (Eds) (2007) Linnaeus Tercentenary: Progress in Invertebrate Taxonomy. Zootaxa 1668: 127-182 (open access pdf)
