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List of works by Carol Stepien

A new StaRT-PCR approach to detect and quantify fish Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia virus (VHSv): Enhanced quality control with internal standards

scientific article (publication date: April 2013)

A population genetic window into the past and future of the walleye Sander vitreus: relation to historic walleye and the extinct "blue pike" S. v. "glaucus"

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Accurate detection and quantification of the fish viral hemorrhagic Septicemia virus (VHSv) with a two-color fluorometric real-time PCR assay.

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Addressing the "Paradox of the Plankton": Using Metabarcoding to Explore Zooplankton Diversity Patterns Across Chemical Conditions in the Salish Sea

scientific article published in 2021

Ancient divisions, recent expansions: phylogeography and population genetics of the round goby Apollonia melanostoma.

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Diagnostic genetic markers and evolutionary relationships among invasive dreissenoid and corbiculoid bivalves in North America: phylogenetic signal from mitochondrial 16S rDNA.

scientific article published in October 1999

Early detection monitoring for aquatic non-indigenous species: Optimizing surveillance, incorporating advanced technologies, and identifying research needs.

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Effects of cortisol and lipopolysaccharide on expression of select growth-, stress- and immune-related genes in rainbow trout liver.

scientific article published on 8 January 2018

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding assays to detect invasive invertebrate species in the Great Lakes.

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Escape from the Ponto-Caspian: evolution and biogeography of an endemic goby species flock (Benthophilinae: Gobiidae: Teleostei).

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Evaluating Metabarcoding Markers for Identifying Zooplankton and Ichthyoplankton Communities to Species in the Salish Sea: Morphological Comparisons and Rare, Threatened or Invasive Species

scientific article published in 2023

Evolution and biogeography of an emerging quasispecies: diversity patterns of the fish Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia virus (VHSv).

scientific article published on 11 January 2012

Evolution and phylogeography of the tubenose goby genus Proterorhinus (Gobiidae: Teleostei): evidence for new cryptic species

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Evolutionary trajectory of fish Piscine novirhabdovirus (=Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus) across its Laurentian Great Lakes history: Spatial and temporal diversification

scientific article published on 02 September 2020

Gene Diversification of an Emerging Pathogen: A Decade of Mutation in a Novel Fish Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS) Substrain since Its First Appearance in the Laurentian Great Lakes

scientific article published on 27 August 2015

Genetic and morphometric differences demonstrate fine-scale population substructure of the yellow perch Perca flavescens: need for redefined management units.

scientific article published on 7 May 2013

Genetic diversity of invasive species in the Great Lakes versus their Eurasian source populations: insights for risk analysis

scientific article published in August 2005

Genetic patterns across an invasion's history: a test of change versus stasis for the Eurasian round goby in North America

scientific article published on 28 December 2016

Genomic and immunogenic changes of Piscine novirhabdovirus (Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus) over its evolutionary history in the Laurentian Great Lakes

scientific article published on 28 May 2021

Historic speciation and recent colonization of Eurasian monkey gobies (Neogobius fluviatilis and N. pallasi) revealed by DNA sequences, microsatellites, and morphology

scientific article published in 2011

Increasing confidence for discerning species and population compositions from metabarcoding assays of environmental samples: case studies of fishes in the Laurentian Great Lakes and Wabash River

scientific article published on 26 August 2020

Invasion genetics from eDNA and thousands of larvae: A targeted metabarcoding assay that distinguishes species and population variation of zebra and quagga mussels

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Invasion genetics of the Eurasian round goby in North America: tracing sources and spread patterns.

scientific article published in January 2009

Invasion genetics of the silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) across North America: Differentiation of fronts, introgression, and eDNA detection

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Invasion genetics of the silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix across North America: Differentiation of fronts, introgression, and eDNA metabarcode detection

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Landscape genetic patterns of the rainbow darter Etheostoma caeruleum: a catchment analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences and nuclear microsatellites.

scientific article published in December 2009

Macroinvertebrate community diversity and habitat quality relationships along a large river from targeted eDNA metabarcode assays

scientific article published on 22 May 2020

Metazoan Parasites of Introduced Round and Tubenose Gobies in the Great Lakes: Support for the “Enemy Release Hypothesis”

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Microsatellite loci for Ponto-Caspian gobies: markers for assessing exotic invasions

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Microsatellite loci for dreissenid mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Dreissenidae) and relatives: markers for assessing exotic and native populations.

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Molecular, morphological, and biogeographic resolution of cryptic taxa in the Greenside Darter Etheostoma blennioides complex.

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Neocosmopolitan distributions of invertebrate aquatic invasive species due to euryhaline geographic history and human-mediated dispersal: Ponto-Caspian versus other geographic origins

scientific article published in 2023

Phylogeographical structure of the Dover sole Microstomus pacificus: the larval retention hypothesis and genetic divergence along the deep continental slope of the northeastern Pacific Ocean

scientific article published on 01 June 1999

Phylogeography of the spotted sand bass, Paralabrax maculatofasciatus: divergence of Gulf of California and Pacific Coast populations

scientific article published on September 1, 2001

Population genetic structure and comparative diversity of smallmouth bass Micropterus dolomieu: congruent patterns from two genomes.

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Role of Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus Matrix (M) Protein in Suppressing Host Transcription.

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Role of the invasive Chinese sleeper Perccottus glenii (Actinopterygii: Odontobutidae) in the distribution of fish parasites in Europe: New data and a review

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Signatures of vicariance, postglacial dispersal and spawning philopatry: population genetics of the walleye Sander vitreus.

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Systematics of the greenside darter Etheostoma blennioides complex: consensus from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences.

scientific article published in July 2010

Tandemly repeated sequences in the mitochondrial DNA control region and phylogeography of the Pike-Perches Stizostedion.

scientific article published in December 1998

The Government <scp>eDNA</scp> Working Group 6th Annual <scp>eDNA</scp> Technical Exchange Workshop

scientific article published in 2023

The parasite community of gobiid fishes (Actinopterygii: Gobiidae) from the Lower Volga River region

Waterscape genetics of the yellow perch (Perca flavescens): patterns across large connected ecosystems and isolated relict populations

scientific article published on October 18, 2012

What's in a name? Taxonomy and nomenclature of invasive gobies in the Great Lakes and beyond

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