Zoology

For more information on my research program, please see my lab webpage.

Recent Publications

Portnoy, D. S. and E. J. Heist. (in press). Molecular Markers: Progress and Prospects for Understanding Reproductive Ecology in Elasmobranchs. Journal of Fish Biology.

Heist, E. J., J. C. Carrier, H. L. Pratt and T. Pratt. 2011. Exact Enumeration of Sires in the Polyandrous Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum). Copeia. 2011(4):539-544

Schrey, A. W., R. Boley, and E. J. Heist. 2011. Hybridization between pallid and shovelnose sturgeon. Journal of Fish Biology. 79:1828-1850.

Boley, R. M. and E. J. Heist. 2011. Larval surveys indicate low levels of endangered pallid sturgeon reproduction in the middle Mississippi River. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 140(6):1604-1612.

Heist, E. J. 2011. Genetics of sharks, skates and rays. in Biology of Sharks and their Relatives. 2nd edition. (Carrier, J., J. Musick, and M. Heithaus, eds.) CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL.

Schrey, N. M. A. W. Schrey, E. J. Heist and J. D. Reeve. 2011. Genetic differentiation of a cyclical forest pest, the southern pine beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis) is differentiated into east and west groups in the southeastern United States. Journal of Insect Science. 11:110.

Ohta, Y., T. Shiina, R.L. Lohr, K. Hosomichi, T.I. Pollin, E.J. Heist, S. Suzuki, H. Inoko & M.F. Flajnik. 2011. Primordial Linkage of beta 2-Microglobulin to the MHC. Journal of Immunology 186: 3563-3571.

Croteau, E. K., E. J. Heist and C. K. Nielsen. 2010. Fine-scale population structure, relatedness, and sex-biased dispersal in southern Illinois bobcats (Lynx rufus). Canadian Journal of Zoology 88:536-545.

Portnoy, D. S., J. R. McDowell, E. J. Heist, J. A. Musick, and J. E. Graves. 2010. World phylogeography and male mediated gene flow in the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus. Molecular Ecology 19:1994-2010.

Berkman, L. K., M. J. Saltzgiver, E. J. Heist, C. K. Nielsen, C. L. Roy, and P. D. Scharine. 2009. Hybridization and polymorphic microsatellite markers for two lagomorph species (Genus Sylvilagus). Conservation Genetics Resources 1:419-424.

Sloss, B., R. Klumb, and E. J. Heist 2009. Genetic conservation and paddlefish propagation. pp. 307-327 in: Paddlefish Management, Propagation, & Conservation. (G. Scholten ed.). American Fisheries Society Symposium 66.

Schrey, A., R. Colombo, J. Garvey, and E. Heist. 2009. Stock structure of shovelnose sturgeon analyzed with microsatellite DNA and morphological characters. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 25:625-631.

Moghim, M, E. J. Heist, M. Pourkazemi, S. S. Siraj, and J. M. Panadam. 2009. Amplification of microsatellites in the Persian sturgeon (Acipenser persicus). Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences 8:97-101.

Bettoli, P. W., M. Castro-Yerty, G. D. Scholtenm and E. J. Heist. 2009. Bycatch of the endangered pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) in a commercial fishery for shovelnose sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus). Journal of Applied Ichthyology. 25:1-4.

Heist, E. J., J. Sipiorski and T. C. Tricas. 2008. Development of DNA Microsatellite Markers in the Multiband Butterflyfish (Chaetodon multicinctus). Molecular Ecology Resources 8:1518-1519.

Heist, E. J. and A. Mustapha. 2008. Rangewide genetic structure in paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) inferred from DNA microsatellite loci. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 137:909-915.

Heist, E. J. 2008. Molecular markers and genetic population structure of pelagic sharks. in: Sharks of the Open Ocean (E. Pikitch and M. Camhi, eds.). Blackwell Science Ltd.

Herrington, S. J., Hettiger, S., E. Heist, and D. Keeney. 2008. Hybridization between longnose gar and alligator gar in captivity, with comments on possible gar hybridization in nature. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 137:158-164

Schrey, N. M., A. W. Schrey, E. J. Heist and J. D. Reeve. 2008. Fine-scale genetic population structure of southern pine beetle in Mississippi. Environmental Entomology. 37:271-276.

Robertson, J. M., K. R. Lips and E. J. Heist. 2008. Fine scale gene flow and individual movements among subpopulations of Centrolene prosoblepon (Anura: Centrolenidae). Revista de Biologia Tropical56:13-26.

Schrey, N. M., A. W. Schrey, E. J. Heist and J. D. Reeve. 2007. Microsatellite loci for the Southern pine beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis) and cross-species Amplification in Dendroctonus. Molecular Ecology Notes. 7:857-859.