Publications

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Preprints and in review

Brennan, R.S., deMayo, J.A., Finiguerra, M., Baumann, H., Dam, H.G. and Pespeni, M.H., Epigenetic and evolutionary mechanisms uniquely contribute to rescue from global change. In review. link to preprint.
Han, K.Y., Brennan, R.S., Monk, C.T., Jentoft, S., Helmerson, C., Dierking, J., Huessy, K., Kokubun, É.E., Fuss, J., Krause-Kyora, B, Heredia, B.D., and Reusch, T.B., 2024. Genomic evidence of fisheries induced evolution in Eastern Baltic cod. bioRxiv, pp.2024-06. In review. link to preprint
Nascimento-Schulze, J.C., Vajedsamiei, J., Bean, T.P., Frakholz, L., Brennan, R.S., Melzner, F., Ellis, R.P., Thermal selection shifts genetic diversity and performance in Blue mussel juveniles. In review.

Bentley, B.P., Cheng, B.S., Brennan, R.S., Swenson, J.D., Adkins, J.L., Villeneuve, A.R., Komoroske, L. Adaptation at a snail’s pace: No evidence of rapid adaptation to novel thermal environments in invasive Atlantic oyster drills (Urosalpinx cinerea). Molecular Ecology. link to preprint
Hahn, A. and Brennan, R.S., 2024. Phenotypic plasticity drives seasonal thermal tolerance in a Baltic copepod. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 576, p.152014. pdf
Kazanavičiūtė, E., Dickey, J.W., Soto, I., Haubrock, P.J., Kouba, A., Brennan, R.S., Steffen, G. and Briski, E., 2024. Seasonal changes in biodiversity of native and non-native amphipod taxa under diverse environmental contexts. Marine Biology, 171(8), p.156. pdf

deMayo, J.A., Finiguerra, M., Norton, L.; Park, G., Brennan, R.S., Pespini, M.H., Baumann, H., Dam, H., 2023. Simultaneous warming and acidification limit population fitness and reveal phenotype costs for a marine copepod. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 290(2006), 20231033.pdf
Petak, C., Frati, L., Brennan, R.S., Pespeni, M.H., 2023. Whole genome sequencing reveals regulatory and low pleiotropy variants underlie local adaptation to environmental variability in purple sea urchins. The American Naturalist.
Brennan, R.S. and Whitehead, A., 2023. Evidence of prezygotic isolation, but not assortative mating, between locally adapted populations of Fundulus heteroclitus across a salinity gradient. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 36: 687-397. pdf
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Dickey, J., Jeschke, J.M., Steffen, G, Kazanavičiūtė, E., Brennan, R.S., Briski, E., 2023. Current temperatures limit the potential impact of a commonly traded predatory gastropod. Aquatic Invasions. 18(2): 247-261
Dickey, J.W., Brennan, R.S., Chung, S.S.W., Jeschke, J.M., Steffen, G.T. and Briski, E., 2023. More than we bargained for: Zebra mussels transported amongst European native freshwater snails. NeoBiota, 83: 1-10. pdf

Brennan, R.S., deMayo, J.A., Dam, H.G., Finiguerra, M., Baumann, V. Buffalo, H., Pespeni, M.H., 2022. Experimental evolution reveals the synergistic genomic mechanisms of adaptation to ocean warming and acidification in a marine copepod. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119 (38). pdf
- Commentary in PNAS
Brennan, R.S., DeMayo, J.A., Dam, H.G., Finiguerra, M.B., Baumann, H. and Pespeni, M.H., 2022. Loss of transcriptional plasticity but sustained adaptive capacity after adaptation to global change conditions in a marine copepod. Nature Communications, 13(1): 1-13. pdf

Dam, H.G., DeMayo, J.A., Park, G., Norton, L., Xuejia, H., Finiguerra, M.B., Baumann H., Brennan, R. S., Pespeni, M.H. (2021). Rapid, but limited, zooplankton adaptation to simultaneous warming and acidification. Nature Climate Change. 11: 780–786. pdf
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Garrett, A.D., Brennan, R.S., Steinhart, A.L., Pelletier, A.M., Pespeni, M.H., 2020. Unique genomic and phenotypic responses to extreme and variable pH conditions in purple urchin larvae. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 60(2), 318-331. pdf

Brennan, R.S., Garrett, A.D., Huber, K.E., Hargarten, H. and Pespeni, M.H., 2019. Rare genetic variation and balanced polymorphisms are important for survival in global change conditions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286(1904). pdf
Healy, T.M., Brennan, R.S., Whitehead, A. and Schulte, P.M., 2019. Mitochondria, sex and variation in routine metabolic rate. Molecular Ecology. 28(20), 4608-4619. pdf
McKenzie, J.L., Chung, D.J., Healy, T.M., Brennan, R.S., Bryant, H.J., Whitehead, A. and Schulte, P.M., 2019. Mitochondrial ecophysiology: assessing the evolutionary forces that shape mitochondrial variation. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 59(4), 925-937. pdf

Brennan, R.S., Healy, T.M., Bryant, H.J., La, M.V., Schulte, P.M., and Whitehead, A. 2018. Integrative population and physiological genomics reveals mechanisms of adaptation in killifish. Molecular Biology and Evolution 35(11), 2639-2653. pdf
Healy, T.M., Brennan, R.S., Whitehead, A. and Schulte, P.M., 2018. Tolerance traits related to climate change resilience are independent and polygenic. Global Change Biology, 24(11), 5348-5360. pdf

Brennan, R.S., Hwang, R., Tse, M., Fangue, N.A. and Whitehead, A., 2016. Local adaptation to osmotic environment in killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus, is supported by divergence in swimming performance but not by differences in excess post-exercise oxygen consumption or aerobic scope. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 196, 11-19. pdf
Brennan, R.S., Galvez, F. and Whitehead, A., 2015. Reciprocal osmotic challenges reveal mechanisms of divergence in phenotypic plasticity in the killifish Fundulus heteroclitus. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 218(8), 1212-1222. pdf
Kozak, G.M., Brennan, R.S., Berdan, E.L., Fuller, R.C. and Whitehead, A., 2014. Functional and population genomic divergence within and between two species of killifish adapted to different osmotic niches. Evolution. 68(1), 63-80. pdf
Carstens, B.C., Brennan, R.S., Chua, V., Duffie, C.V., Harvey, M.G., Koch, R.A., McMahan, C.D., Nelson, B.J., Newman, C.E., Satler, J.D. and Seeholzer, G., 2013. Model Selection as a Tool for Phylogeographic Inference: An Example From the Willow Salix melanopsis. Molecular Ecology. 22(15), 4014-4028. pdf