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Puritz, J. B., and Lotterhos, K. E.  Expressed Exome Capture Sequencing (EecSeq): a method for cost-effective exome sequencing for all organisms with or without genomic resources.  Molecular Ecology Resources.    Preprint at bioRxiv. 223735.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/223735

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Puritz, J. B., Keever, C. C., Addison, J. A., Barbosa, S. S., Byrne, M., Hart, M. W., Grosberg, R. K., Toonen, R. J. Life history predicts past and present population connectivity in two sympatric sea stars. Ecology and Evolution.  DOI:10.1002/ece3.2938

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Willis, S. C., Hollenbeck, C. M. Puritz, J.B., Gold, J. R., Portnoy, D. S.  Haplotyping RAD loci as an efficient method to characterize and filter paralogs and manage linkage disequilibrium.  Molecular Ecology Resources. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12647 

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Puritz, J. B., Portnoy, D. S., Gold, J. R.  Fine-scale partitioning of genomic variation among recruits in an exploited fishery: causes and consequences. Scientific Reports 6, 36095; DOI: 10.1038/srep36095

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Selkoe, K.A., D’Aloia, C. C., Crandall, E. D., Iacchei, M. I., Liggins, L., Puritz, J. B., von der Heyden, S., Toonen, R. J.  A decade of seascape genetics: contributions to basic and applied marine connectivity. Marine Ecology Progress Series 554: 1-19. DOI:10.3354/meps11792

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Portnoy, D. S., Puritz, J. B., Hollenbeck, C. M., Gelsleichter, J., Chapman, D., Gold, J. R.  Selection and sex-biased dispersal in a coastal shark: the influence of philopatry on adaptive variation. Molecular Ecology 24: 5877–5885. doi: 10.1111/mec.13441

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Gold, J. R., Willis, S. C., Renshaw, M. A., Buentello, A., Walker, Jr., H. J., Puritz, J. B., Hollenbeck, C. M., Voelker G.  Phylogenetic relationships of tropical eastern Pacific snappers (Lutjanidae) inferred from mtDNA sequences.  Systematics and Biodiversity DOI:10.1080/14772000.2015.1078857

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Puritz, J.B., Matz, M. V., Toonen, R. J., Weber, J. N., Bolnick, D. I., Bird, C. E. Comment: Demystifying the RAD fad.  Molecular Ecology 23: 5937–5942. doi: 10.1111/mec.12965

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Puritz, J. B., Hollenbeck, C. M., Gold, J. R.  dDocent: a RADseq, variant-calling pipeline designed for population genomics of non-model organisms. PeerJ 2:e431 

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Puritz, J. B., Renshaw, M. A., Abrego, D., Vega, R. R., Gold, J. R. Reproductive variance of brood dams and sires used in restoration enhancement of spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus) in Texas bays and estuaries.  North American Journal of Aquaculture 76:407–414

Toonen, R. J., Puritz, J. B., Forsman, Z.H., Whitney, J. L., Fernandez-Silva, I., Andrews, K. A., Bird, C. E.  ezRAD: A Simplified Method for Genomic Genotyping in Non-Model Organisms.  PeerJ 1:e203 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.203

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Keever, C., Puritz, J. B., Addison, J. A., Byrne, M., Grosberg, R. K., Toonen R. J., Hart, M.W.  Shallow gene pools in the high intertidal: Extreme loss of genetic diversity in viviparous sea stars (Parvulastra).  Biology Letters 9:20130551 doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.0551

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Andrews, K. R., Perrin, W. F., Oremus, M. Karczmarski, L., Bowen, B. W., Puritz, J. B., Toonen, R. J.  The evolving male: spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) ecotypes are divergent at Y chromosome but not mtDNA or autosomal markers.  Molecular Ecology 22: 2408-2423

Barbosa, S., Klaten, S., Puritz, J. B., Toonen, R. J., Byrne, M.  Very fine scale population genetic structure of sympatric asterinid sea stars with benthic and pelagic larvae: influence of mating system and dispersal potential.  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 108: 821-833

Puritz, J. B. and Toonen, R. J.  Next-generation sequencing for high-throughput molecular ecology: a step-by-step protocol for targeted multilocus genotyping by pyrosequencing.  Chapter in Methods in Molecular Biology: Microsatellites.  Volume Editor: Kantartzi, S. K. Pages 89-99

Puritz, J. B., Keever, C. C., Addison, J. A., Byrne, M. Hart, M. W, Grosberg, R. K., Toonen, R. J. Extraordinarily rapid life history divergence between Cryptasterina sea star species.  Proc. R. Soc. B. 279: 3914-3922

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Puritz, J. B., Addison, J. A., Toonen, R. J. Next-Generation Phylogeography: the application of targeted next-generation sequencing of non-model organisms. PLoS One 7(3): e34241. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034241                                 

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Puritz, J. B. and Toonen, R. J.  Coastal Pollution Limits Pelagic Larval Dispersal.  Nature Communications 2:228     

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Toonen, R. J., Andrews, K. R., Baums, I. B., Bird, C. E., Concepcion, G. T., Daly-Engel, T. S., J. Eble, A. Faucci, M. Gaither, M. Iacchei, J. Puritz, J. Schultz, D. Skillings, M. Timmers & B. Bowen. Defining boundaries for ecosystem-based management: A multispecies case study of marine connectivity across the Hawaiian Archipelago.  Journal of Marine Biology DOI: 10.1155/2011/460173

Keever, C. C., Sunday, J., Puritz, J. B., Addison, J. A., Toonen, R. J., Grosberg, R. K., Hart, M. W.   Discordant Distributions of Populations and Genetic Variation in a Sea Star with High Dispersal Potential.  Evolution 63: 3214-3227

Haney, R. A., Dionne, M., Puritz, J. B., Rand, D. M.  The Comparative Phylogeography of East Coast Estuarine Fishes in Formerly Glaciated Sites:  Persistence versus Recolonization in Cyprinodon variegatus ovinus and Fundulus heteroclitus macrolepidotus.  Journal of Heredity 100: 284-296

Walker, A. N., Bush, P., Puritz, J., Wilson, T., Chang, E. S., Miller, T., Holloway, K., Horst, M. N. Bioaccumulation and Metabolic Effects of the Endocrine Disruptor Methoprene in the Lobster, Homarus americanus.  Integrative and Comparative Biology 45: 118-126