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Publications - David S. Portnoy

  1. Selwyn, J., Hogan, J., Portnoy, D.S., Downey-Wall, A., Gurski, L. Heath, D (2016) Kin-aggregations explain chaotic genetic patchiness, a commonly observed genetic pattern, in a marine fish. PLos-One 11(4): e0153381. PDF

  2. Hollenbeck, C.M., Portnoy, D.S., Gold J.R. (2015) A method for detecting recent changes in contemporary effective population size from linkage disequilibrium at linked and unlinked loci. Heredity. In review.

  3. Portnoy, D.S., Puritz, J.B., Hollenbeck, C.M., Gelsleichter, J. Chapman, D. & Gold J.R. (2015) Selection and sex-biased gene flow: philopatric sorting of adaptive alleles in a coastal shark. Molecular Ecology, 24, 5877-5885. PDF

  4. Giresi, M.M., Grubbs, R.D., Portnoy, D.S., Driggers, W.B. III, Jones, L. & Gold, J.R. (2015) Identification and distribution of morphologically conserved smoothhound sharks (Genus Mustelus) in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 144, 1301-1310. PDF

  5. Hollenbeck, C.M., Portnoy, D.S., Saillant, E. & Gold, J.R. (2015) Population structure of red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) in U.S. waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Fisheries Research, 172, 17-25. PDF

  6. Hollenbeck, C.M, Portnoy, D.S., & Gold, J.R. (2015) A genetic linkage map of red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) and comparison of chromosomal syntenies with four other fish species. Aquaculture, 435, 265-274. PDF

  7. Portnoy, D.S., Hollenbeck, C.M., Belcher, C.N., Driggers, W.B. III, Frazier, B.S., Gelsleichter, J., Grubbs, R.D. & Gold, J.R. (2014) Contemporary population structure and post-glacial genetic demography in a migratory marine species, the blacknose shark, Carcharhinus acronotus.  Molecular Ecology, 23, 5480-5495. PDF

  8. Portnoy, D.S., Hollenbeck, C.M., Vidal, R.R. & Gold, J.R. (2014) A comparison of neutral and immune genetic variation in Atlantic Salmon, Salmo salar L. in Chilean aquaculture facilities.  PLOS-ONE, 9, e99358. PDF

  9. Portnoy, D.S., Hollenbeck, C.M., Johnston, J.S., Casman, H.M. & Gold, J.R. (2014) Parthenogenesis in a reef whitetip shark Triaenodon obesus involves a reduction in ploidy. Journal of Fish Biology, 85, 502-508. PDF

  10. Andersen, J.J., Portnoy, D.S., Hafner, J.C. & Light J.E. (2013) Populations at risk: conservation genetics of kangaroo mice (Microdipodops) of the Great Basin Desert. Ecology and Evolution, 3, 2497-2513. PDF

  11. Portnoy, D.S., Hollenbeck, C.M., Renshaw, M.A., Cummings, N.J. & Gold, J.R. (2013) Does mating behaviour affect connectivity in marine fishes?  Comparative population genetics of two protogynous groupers (Family Serranidae). Molecular Ecology, 22, 301-313. PDF

  12. Portnoy, D. S., & Gold, J. R. (2013) Finding geographic population structure in marine fish species with high gene flow. Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute 65,384-389. PDF

  13. Giresi, M.M., Grubbs, R.D., Portnoy, D.S. & Gold J.R. (2013) A morphological key to distinguish among smoothhound sharks (Genus Mustelus) in the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute 65, 143-146. PDF

  14. Hollenbeck, C.M., Portnoy, D.S. & Gold, J.R. (2012) Use of comparative genomics to develop EST-SSRs for red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus). Marine Biotechnology 14, 672-680. PDF

  15. Portnoy, D.S. & Gold, J.R. (2012) Evidence of multiple vicariance in a marine suture-zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Biogeography 39, 1499-1507. PDF

  16. Portnoy, D.S. & Heist, E.J. (2012) Molecular markers: progress and prospects for understanding reproductive ecology in elasmobranchs. Journal of Fish Biology 80, 1120-1140. PDF

  17. Giresi, M., Renshaw, M.A., Portnoy, D.S. & Gold, J.R. (2012) Development and characterization of microsatellite markers for the finetooth shark, Carcharhinus isodon. Conservation Genetics Resources 4, 637-643.  PDF

  18. Giresi, M., Renshaw, M.A., Portnoy, D.S. & Gold, J.R. (2012) Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers for the blacknose shark, Carcharhinus acronotus. Conservation Genetics Resources 4, 141-145. PDF

  19. Giresi, M., Renshaw, M.A., Portnoy, D.S. & Gold J.R. (2012) Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers for the dusky smoothhound shark, Mustelus canis. Conservation Genetics Resources 4, 101-104. PDF

  20. Portnoy, D.S., Hollenbeck, C.M., Renshaw, M.A. & Gold J.R. (2011) Microsatellite panels for gene localization in red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus. Aquaculture, 319, 505-508. PDF

  21. Verissimo, A., Grubbs, R.D., McDowell, J.R., Musick, J.A. & Portnoy, D.S. (2011) Frequency of multiple paternity in the spiny dogfish Squalus acanthias in the western North Atlantic. Journal of Heredity 102, 88-93. PDF

  22. Renshaw, M.A., Portnoy, D.S., Vidal, R. & Gold, J.R. (2011) Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers in the southern hake, Merluccius australis. Conservation Genetics Resources 3, 91-94. PDF

  23. Portnoy, D.S., Renshaw, M.A., Hollenbeck, C.M. & Gold, J.R. (2010) A microsatellite genetic linkage map of the recreationally exploited red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus. Animal Genetics 41, 630-641. PDF

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

  25. Portnoy, D.S. (2010) Molecular insights into elasmobranch reproductive behavior for conservation and management. In Sharks and Their Relatives II: Biodiversity, Adaptive Physiology and Conservation. (eds. Carrier, J.C., Musick, J.A., Heithaus, M.R.) CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, pp 435-457. PDF

  26. Renshaw, M.A., Portnoy, D.S. & Gold, J.R. (2010) PCR primers for nuclear-encoded microsatellites of the groupers Cephalopholis fulva (coney) and Epinephelus guttatus (red hind). Conservation Genetics Resources 11, 1197-1202. PDF

  27. Portnoy, D.S., McDowell, J.R., McCandless, C.T., Musick, J.A. & Graves, J.E. (2009) Effective size closely approximates the census size in the heavily exploited western Atlantic population of sandbar sharks, Carcharhinus plumbeus. Conservation Genetics 10, 1697-1705. PDF

  28. Portnoy, D.S., Piercy, A.N., Musick, J.A., Burgess, G.H. & Graves, J.E. (2007) Genetic polyandry and sexual conflict in the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, in the western North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Molecular Ecology 16, 187-197. PDF

  29. Portnoy, D.S., McDowell, J.R., Thompson, K., Musick, J.A. & Graves, J.E. (2006) Isolation and characterization of five dinucleotide microsatellite loci in the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus. Molecular Ecology Notes 6, 431-433. PDF

  30. Rice, A.N., Portnoy, D.S., Kaatz, I.M. & Lobel, P.S. (2001). Differentiation of pharyngeal muscles on the basis of enzyme activities in the cichlid Tramitichromis intermedius. Biological Bulletin, 201, 258-260. PDF

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