2011 Watling, L., & S.C. France. A New Genus and Species of Bamboo Coral (Octocorallia: Isididae: Keratoisidinae) from the New England Seamounts. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 52:209-220 [ABSTRACT](doi: dx.doi.org/10.3374/014.052.0202)
2011 Watling, L., S.C. France, E. Pante & A. Simpson. Biology of Deep-Water Octocorals. Advances in Marine Biology 60:41-122 [ABSTRACT](doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385529-9.00002-0)
2011 de Buron, I., S.C. France, V.A. Connors, W.A. Roumillat, & L.C. Tsoi. Philometrids of the southern flounder Paralichthys lethostigma: a multidimensional approach to determine their diversity. Journal of Parasitology 97: 466-475 [ABSTRACT] (http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1645/GE-2564.1)
2011 McFadden, C.S., Y. Benayahu, E. Pante, J.N. Thoma, P.A. Nevarez & S.C. France. Limitations of Mitochondrial Gene Barcoding in Octocorallia. Molecular Ecology Resources 11: 19-31 [ABSTRACT](http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2010.02875.x)
2010 Pante E & France SC. Pseudochrysogorgia bellona n. gen., n. sp.: a new genus and species of chrysogorgiid octocoral (Coelenterata, Anthozoa) from the Coral Sea. Zoosystema 32: 595-612 [ABSTRACT][PDF]
2010 France, S.C., E. Pante, M. R. Brugler & J.L. van der Ham. On the evolution of deep-sea octocorals and antipatharians: Patterns revealed from molecular phylogenies. Integrative and Comparative Biology 50(Suppl. 1): E56-E56 [Conference abstract]
2010 McFadden, C.S., J.A. Sanchez & S.C. France. Molecular Phylogenetic Insights into the Evolution of Octocorallia: A Review. Integrative and Comparative Biology 50(3): 389-410 [ABSTRACT](doi: 10.1093/icb/icq056)
2010 Wagner D, Brugler MR, Opresko DM, France SC, Montgomery AD & Toonen R. 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 [ABSTRACT](doi:10.1071/IS10004)
2009 Thoma, J.N., E. Pante, M.R. Brugler & S.C. France. Deep-sea octocorals and antipatharians show no evidence of seamount-scale endemism in the NW Atlantic. Marine Ecology Progress Series 397: 25-35 [ABSTRACT] (Open Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps08318)
2009 van der Ham, J.L., M.R. Brugler & S.C. France. Exploring the utility of an indel-rich, mitochondrial intergenic region as a molecular barcode for bamboo corals (Octocorallia: Isididae). Marine Genomics 2: 183-192 [ABSTRACT] (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margen.2009.10.002)
2008 Brugler, M.R. & S.C. France. 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 [ABSTRACT] (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00239-008-9116-2)
2007 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. 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)
2007 France, S.C. Genetic analysis of bamboo corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Isididae): does lack of colony branching distinguish Lepidisis from Keratoisis? Bulletin of Marine Science 81: 323-333 [ABSTRACT] (low res pdf 600K) (high res pdf 7.8 MB)
2007 Brugler, M.R. & S.C. France. 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 [ABSTRACT] (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2006.08.016)
2006 McFadden, C.S., S.C. France, J.A. Sánchez & P. Alderslade. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) based on mitochondrial protein-coding sequences (ND2, msh1). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 41: 513-527 [ABSTRACT] (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2006.06.010)
2004 Smith, P. J. , S. M. McVeagh, J. T. Mingoia & S. C. France. Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation in deep-sea bamboo coral (Keratoisidinae) species in the southwest and northwest Pacific Ocean. Marine Biology 144: 253-261 [ABSTRACT] (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-003-1206-5)
2003 Sánchez, J. A., C. S. McFadden, S. C. France & H. R. Lasker. Molecular phylogenetic analyses of shallow-water Caribbean octocorals. Marine Biology 142: 975-987 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-003-1018-7)
2002 France, S. C. & L. L. Hoover. DNA sequences of the mitochondrial COI gene have low levels of divergence among deep-sea octocorals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Hydrobiologia 471: 149-155 [ABSTRACT] (http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1016517724749)
2001 France, S. C. & L. L. Hoover. Analysis of variation in mitochondrial DNA sequences (ND3, ND4L, MSH) among Octocorallia (=Alcyonaria) (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 10:110-118 [ABSTRACT]
2001 Berntson, E. A. & S. C. France. Generating DNA sequence information from museum collections of octocoral specimens (Phylum Cnidaria: Class Anthozoa). Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 10:119-129
2001 Berntson, E. A., F. M. Bayer, A. G. Mcarthur & S. C. France. Phylogenetic relationships within the Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) based on nuclear 18S rRNA sequences. Marine Biology 138:235-246. [ABSTRACT] (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002270000457)
1999 Rosel, P.E.., S. C. France, J.Y. Wang & T. D. Kocher. Genetic structure of harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena populations in the Northwest Atlantic based on mitochondrial and nuclear markers. Molecular Ecology 8: S41-S54 [ABSTRACT] (http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-294X.1999.00758.x)
1999 Berntson, E. A., S. C. France & L. S. Mullineaux. Phylogenetic Relationships within the Class Anthozoa (Phylum Cnidaria) Based on Nuclear 18S rDNA Sequence Information. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 13(2): 417-433 [ABSTRACT] (http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/mpev.1999.0649)
1999 France, S.C., N. Tachino, T.F. Duda, Jr., R.A. Shleser & S.R. Palumbi. Intraspecific genetic diversity in the marine shrimp Penaeus vannamei: multiple polymorphic elongation factor-1alpha loci revealed by intron sequencing. Marine Biotechnology 1: 261-268 [ABSTRACT] (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/PL00011775)
1996 France, S. C. & T. D. Kocher. DNA sequencing of formalin-fixed crustaceans from archival research collections. Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology 5 (4): 304-313[ABSTRACT]
1996 France, S. C. & T. D. Kocher. Geographic and bathymetric patterns of mitochondrial 16S rRNA sequence divergence among deep-sea amphipods, Eurythenes gryllus.Marine Biology 126(4): 633-644 [ABSTRACT] (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00351330)
1996 France, S. C., P. E. Rosel, J. E. Agenbroad, L.S. Mullineaux, & T. D. Kocher. DNA sequence variation of mitochondrial large-subunit rRNA provides support for a two subclass organization of the Anthozoa (Cnidaria). Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology 5 (1): 15-28 [ABSTRACT]
Mullineaux, L. S. & S. C. France. Dispersal mechanisms of deep-sea hydrothermal vent fauna. In: Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems: Physical, Chemical, Biological and Geological Interactions, S. E. Humphris, R. A. Zierenberg, L. S. Mullineaux, and R. E. Thomson, eds. Geophysical Monograph 91, American Geophysical Union, pp. 408 - 424
Brusca, R. C., R. Wetzer & S. C. France. 1995. Cirolanidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Flabellifera) of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History No. 30: 1 - 96
France, S. C. 1994. Genetic population structure and gene flow among deep-sea amphipods, Abyssorchomene spp., from six California Continental Borderland basins. Marine Biology 118: 67-77 [ABSTRACT] (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00699220)
Martin, J. W., S. C. France & C. L. Van Dover. 1993. Halice hesmonectes, a new species of pardaliscid amphipod (Crustacea, Peracarida) from hydrothermal vents in the eastern Pacific. Canadian Journal of Zoology 71: 1724-1732
France, S. C. 1993. Geographic variation among three isolated populations of the hadal amphipod Hirondellea gigas (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea). Marine Ecology Progress Series 92:277-287 [ABSTRACT]
Van Dover, C.L., S. Kaartvedt, S.M. Bollens, P.H. Wiebe, J.W. Martin, & S.C. France. 1992. Deep-sea amphipod swarms. Nature, 358: 25-26 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/358025a0)
France, S. C., R. C. Vrijenhoek & R. R. Hessler. 1992. Genetic differentiation between spatially-disjunct populations of the deep-sea, hydrothermal vent-endemic amphipod Ventiella sulfuris. Marine Biology 114: 551-559[ABSTRACT] (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00357252)
Brusca, R. C. & S. C. France. 1992. The genus Rocinela (Crustacea: Isopoda: Aegidae) in the tropical eastern Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 106: 231-275
Hessler, R. R., S. C. France, M. A. Boudrias. 1987. Hydrothermal Vent Communities of the Marianas Back-Arc Basin. Eos 68(44): 1531 (Abstract)
Popular literature:
Pante, E. & S.C. France. 2009. Randonnée au fond des océans: l'exploration des monts sous-marins. Le Courrier de la Nature 247: 34-41
France, S.C. 2004. "Anthozoa." In: Schlager, N., ed., Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, Vol. 1: Lower Metazoans and Lesser Deuterostomes, Schlager Group Inc., Chicago.
Hessler, R. R., S. C. France & M. A. Boudrias. 1991. "The Ocean Depths." In: Encyclopedia of the Earth: Oceans and Islands, F. H. Talbot and R. E. Stevenson, eds., Smithmark, New York.
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