Allen Collins
Allen Collins
I lead the National Systematics Lab of NOAA Fisheries, a lab embedded within the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), where I am the curator of the US National collections of Medusozoa, Ctenophora and Porifera. After receiving a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Amherst College in 1987, I worked for four years as a research economist, before turning towards biology and eventually completing a PhD at the University of California Berkeley in 1999.
I study the biodiversity and systematics of Medusozoa (jellyfishes, hydroids, siphonophores, etc.), Ctenophora (comb jellies) and Porifera (sponges). I started my position with NOAA and Smithsonian NMNH in 2004 and began my affiliation with the UMD BEES program in 2005, with which I have co-advised several graduate students.
Latest Papers
Accounting for Intra‐ and Intergenomic Sequence Variation in Reference Barcodes Improves eDNA Metabarcoding Biodiversity Assessment
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Molecular Ecology Resources
Author(s): Luke J. McCartin, Samuel A. Vohsen, Annemarie L. Wood, et. al
UMD Author(s): Allen Collins
First observations of Depastrum cyathiforme (M. Sars, 1846) (Cnidaria, Staurozoa) after nearly five decades
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Zootaxa
Author(s): LUCÍLIA SOUZA MIRANDA, GUY FREEMAN, ALLEN GILBERT COLLINS
UMD Author(s): Allen Collins
Deep-sea siliceous sponges harbor distinct and functionally diverse microbiomes
Author(s): Katherine R. Lane, Kirstin S. Meyer-Kaiser, Adena B. Collens, et. al
UMD Author(s): Allen Collins
Phylogenomics-guided revision of the genus Rhytisma Alderslade, 2000 (Octocorallia: Malacalcyonacea: Lemnaliidae), with descriptions of six new species
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Invertebrate Systematics
UMD Author(s): Allen Collins
Species-specific primer development for identifying the major jellyfish contributors to DNA in the sediments
Author(s): Dhugal Lindsay, Javier Montenegro, Jennifer Questel, et. al
UMD Author(s): Allen Collins
Taxon‐specific BLAST percent identity thresholds for identification of unknown sequences using metabarcoding
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution
UMD Author(s): Allen Collins, Karen Osborn
Investigating faunal diversity and abundance in the Marianas midwater
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Frontiers in Marine Science
UMD Author(s): Allen Collins
Molecular signatures reveal intra-species divergence, undetectable by traditional morphology, in the deadly box jellyfish, Chironex yamaguchii (Cubozoa; Chirodropidae) of Western Pacific
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Regional Studies in Marine Science
UMD Author(s): Allen Collins
Orchistoma integrale sp. nov. (Hydrozoa, Orchistomatidae), a new species of hydromedusa with the first record of the genus from the Northwest Pacific
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Plankton and Benthos Research
UMD Author(s): Allen Collins
The tables have turned: taxonomy, systematics and biogeography of the Acropora hyacinthus (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) complex
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Invertebrate Systematics
UMD Author(s): Allen Collins