2008 Brugler, M.R. and 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 in press [ABSTRACT] (Available as "Online first" article 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. and 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 and 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, and 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, and 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., and 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., and 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, and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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:
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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