List of works by Michael N. Dawson

A Biodiversity Composition Map of California Derived from Environmental DNA Metabarcoding and Earth Observation

preprint

A New Species of Epibulus (Perciformes: Labridae) from the West Pacific

A biophysical perspective on dispersal and the geography of evolution in marine and terrestrial systems

scientific article

A character-based analysis of the evolution of jellyfish blooms: adaptation and exaptation

article

A comparison of DNA extraction methods for high-throughput DNA analyses

scientific article

A review and synthesis on the systematics and evolution of jellyfish blooms: advantageous aggregations and adaptive assemblages

article

An initial comparative genomic autopsy of wasting disease in sea stars

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

Comparative phylogeography in the genomic age: Opportunities and challenges

scientific article published on 5 October 2022

Comparative phylogeography of sympatric sister species, Clevelandia ios and Eucyclogobius newberryi (Teleostei, Gobiidae), across the California Transition Zone

scientific article published in June 2002

Coupled biophysical global ocean model and molecular genetic analyses identify multiple introductions of cryptogenic species

scientific article

Cyanea capillata is not a cosmopolitan jellyfish: morphological and molecular evidence for C. annaskala and C. rosea (Scyphozoa : Semaeostomeae : Cyaneidae) in south-eastern Australia

article

Decimation by sea star wasting disease and rapid genetic change in a keystone species,

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Dispersal potential and population genetic structure in the marine intertidal of the eastern North Pacific

scientific article published in 2014

Ecological and evolutionary insights from species invasions

scientific article

Evolutionary relationships among scyphozoan jellyfish families based on complete taxon sampling and phylogenetic analyses of 18S and 28S ribosomal DNA.

scientific article published on 23 June 2010

Five new subspecies of Mastigias (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Mastigiidae) from marine lakes, Palau, Micronesia

article

Geogenomics: Toward synthesis

scientific article published in 2022

Geographic variation and behavioral evolution in marine plankton: the case of Mastigias (Scyphozoa, Rhizostomeae)

article

Global phylogeography of Cassiopea (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae): molecular evidence for cryptic species and multiple invasions of the Hawaiian Islands

article

Incipient speciation of Catostylus mosaicus (Scyphozoa, Rhizostomeae, Catostylidae), comparative phylogeography and biogeography in south-east Australia

article

Jellyfish blooms: Crambionella orsini (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae) in the Gulf of Oman, Iran, 2002–2003

scholarly article in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 88 no. 3, May 2008

Macro-morphological variation among cryptic species of the moon jellyfish, Aurelia (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa)

scientific article

Marine lake ecosystem dynamics illustrate ENSO variation in the tropical western Pacific

scientific article

Morphologic and molecular redescription of Catostylus mosaicus conservativus (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Catostylidae) from south-east Australia

article

Morphological variation and systematics in the Scyphozoa: Mastigias (Rhizostomeae, Mastigiidae) – a golden unstandard?

Natural experiments and meta-analyses in comparative phylogeography

Parallel phylogeographic structure in ecologically similar sympatric sister taxa

scientific article published on 9 January 2012

Patterns of Mass Mortality among Rocky Shore Invertebrates across 100 km of Northeastern Pacific Coastline

scientific article published on 3 June 2015

Phylogeography in coastal marine animals: a solution from California?

Phylogeography of Emerita analoga (Crustacea, Decapoda, Hippidae), an eastern Pacific Ocean sand crab with long-lived pelagic larvae

article

Population genetic analysis of a recent range expansion: mechanisms regulating the poleward range limit in the volcano barnacle Tetraclita rubescens

scientific article

Population-level perspectives on global change: genetic and demographic analyses indicate various scales, timing, and causes of scyphozoan jellyfish blooms

Questioning the Rise of Gelatinous Zooplankton in the World's Oceans

article

Rapid evolutionary radiation of marine zooplankton in peripheral environments

scientific article (publication date: 28 June 2005)

Renaissance taxonomy: integrative evolutionary analyses in the classification of Scyphozoa

article by Michael Dawson published 21 June 2005 in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Reshaping biogeography: Perspectives on the past, present and future

scientific article published on 8 July 2023

The Global Biogeography Initiative

scientific article published in 2023

The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity

scientific article

The role of molecular genetics in sculpting the future of integrative biogeography

article

Women in biogeography

scientific article published in 2021