Welcome to the Dunn Lab
Evolution/ Zoology
About

About

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The Dunn Lab is in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University.

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We study how evolution has produced a diversity of life. We are interested in learning about the actual history of life on Earth as well as the general properties of evolution that have contributed to these historical patterns. The type of questions we ask require field (marine), laboratory, and computational work. Our research falls into several domains.

CreatureCast - How Siphonophores Grow. A CreatureCast animation by Riley Thompson that explains some of what we have learned about how siphonophores grow. See our medium post for more.

  • Siphonophores

    Siphonophores are unique marine animals found throughout the oceans of the world. They are colonial - each siphonophore starts as a single embryo that asexually produces many genetically identical, physiologically integrated bodies. The many bodies in a siphonophore are each specialized for particular functions, such as feeding or swimming. We study the morphology, evolution, and development of siphonophores to understand this unique functional specialization.

  • Animal phylogenetics

    Phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relationships. We develop new methods and tools for understanding phylogenetic relationships, and apply these tools to animals to understand the evolution of complex traits. We are particularly interested in deep animal phylogeny, but also work on subgroups of animals including cnidarians and molluscs.

  • Methods and tools

    Many of the questions we are work on require new computational methods and tools. We develop and implement new methods, connect existing analysis tools in new ways, and are particularly interested in engineering analyses so that they are open, transparent, reproducible, and easy to extend. Our data analysis tools are available at bitbucket.

  • Evolution of gene expression

    We sequence transcriptomes to build phylogenies and to identify genes that are differentially expressed between tissues and developmental stages. We have integrated these two approaches to now study the evolution of differential gene expression. This work provides new ways to understand the relationships between genome and phenotype evolution.

  • Zoology

    In addition to the specific domains highlighted above, we are very interested in the basic biology of animals. Since many of the animals we work on are so poorly known, these studies include descriptions of lifecycles, natural history, development, alpha taxonomy, functional biology, and morphology.

People

Lab members

Osborn Memorial Labs, Yale, June 2024.

Casey Dunn

Principal Investigator

My CV is available here.

Sam Church

Associate Research Scientist

Evo-devo, phylogenetics, high-dimensional data, population genomics in the open ocean.

Namrata Ahuja

Graduate Student

Evo-devo of siphonophores. Embryology, gene expression, morphology.

Dalila Destanovic

Graduate Student

Evolution of marine invertebrates, comparative genomics, and 3D genome organization.

Dennis Pilarczyk

Lab Associate

Life, evolution, and everything

Jasmine Mah (alum 2024)

Graduate Student

Cell type evolution, origin and evolution of complex characters, gene-phenotype relationships.

Lauren Mellenthin (alum 2024)

Graduate Student

Evolutionary origins of mesoglea and functional morphology of siphonophore nectophores.

Natasha Picciani (alum 2022)

Postdoc

Evolution of complex traits, including vision and life stages. Phylogenetics, gene expression, morphology. My site.

Kirstin Dion (alum 2022)

Research Assistant

Genomes, animals, and populations

Alex Damian Serrano (alum 2021)

Graduate Student

Evolution and diversification of trophic niches and predatory strategies in siphonophores.

Reza Bergmann (alum 2021)

Undergraduate Student

Robotics for marine natural history observations

Cat Munro (alum 2018)

Graduate Student

Evolution and development of functional specialization in siphonophores.

August Guang (alum)

Graduate Student

Evolutionary processes, applied math. Phylogenetic algorithms and ßaccuracy of their results.

Mark Howison (alum)

Application Scientist

As an application scientist, I help researchers better utilize high performance computing resources.

Cat Luria (alum, 2016)

Graduate Student

Bacterial community structure in Antarctica.

Zack Lewis (alum, 2020)

Postdoc

The evolution of development, organogenesis, and gene-phenotype relationships. My site.

Yuanning Li (alum, 2019)

Postdoc

Using HIV phylogenetics to better understand transmission networks.

Felipe Zapata (alum, 2016)

Postdoc

Phylogenetics, diversity, and computational biology. I am a botanist, but enjoy animals too. My site.

Stefan Siebert (alum, 2015)

Postdoc

The developmental biology and diversity of hydrozoans (Cnidaria).

Rebecca Helm (alum, 2015)

Graduate Student

Evolution of development in cnidarians, as well as their systematics and natural history. My site, my contributions to Deep Sea News.

Tarek Ziad (alum, 2020)

Undergraduate Student

Body plan development and axial patterning in Hydractinia

Sam Church (alum, 2015)

Undergrad Student

Comparative biology, phylogenetics, and developmental biology.

Nicola Malakooti (alum, 2016)

Undergraduate Student

Comparative biology with additional interests in conservation. Inspired by the diversity of life.

Links

Some projects and resources

Practical Computing

A book about computing skills

CreatureCast

Cartoons about science

Open Content

Images, code, teaching resources

Siphonophores.org

A site about siphonophores

Agalma

A phylogenetics tool

Yale EEB

Our home department

Publications

Kantor R, Steingrimsson J, Fulton J, Novitsky V, Howison M, Gillani F, Bhattarai L, MacAskill M, Hague J, Guang A, Khanna A, Dunn C, Hogan J, Bertrand T, Bandy U (2024) Prospective evaluation of routine statewide integration of molecular epidemiology and contact tracing to disrupt HIV transmission. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. doi:10.1093/ofid/ofae599.

Oguchi K, Yamamoto G, Kohtsuka H, Dunn CW (2024) Physalia gonodendra are not yet sexually mature when released. Scientific Reports 14:23011. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-73611-5.

Fulton J, Novitsky V, Gillani F, Guang A, Steingrimsson J, Khanna A, Hague J, Dunn C, Hogan J, Howe K, MacAskill M, Bhattarai L, Bertrand T, Bandy U, Kantor R (2024) Integrating HIV Cluster Analysis in Everyday Public Health Practice: Lessons Learned From a Public Health–Academic Partnership. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 97(1):48-54. doi:10.1097/QAI.0000000000003469.

Church SH, Mah JL, Dunn CW (2024) Integrating phylogenies into single-cell RNA sequencing analysis allows comparisons across species, genes, and cells. PLOS Biology 22(5): e3002633. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002633.

N Ahuja, X Cao, DT Schultz, N Picciani, A Lord, S Shao, K Jia, DR Burdick, SH D Haddock, Y Li, CW Dunn (2024) Giants among Cnidaria: Large Nuclear Genomes and Rearranged Mitochondrial Genomes in Siphonophores. Genome Biology and Evolution, 16(3). doi:10.1093/gbe/evae048.

ED Hetherington, HG Close, SH Haddock, AD Damian-Serrano, CW Dunn, NJ Wallsgrove, SC Doherty, CA Choy (2024) Vertical trophic structure and niche partitioning of gelatinous predators in a pelagic food web: Insights from stable isotopes of siphonophores. Limnology and Oceanography. doi:10.1002/lno.12536.

JL Mah, CW Dunn (2024) Cell type evolution reconstruction across species through cell phylogenies of single-cell RNA sequencing data. Nature Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1038/s41559-023-02281-9.

A Khanna, V Novitsky, A Guang, M Howison, FS Gillani, J Steingrimsson, C Dunn, J Fulton, T Bertrand, K Howe, L Bhattarai, G Ronquillo, M MacAskill, U Bandy, R Kantor (2023) Integrating HIV Partner Services and Molecular Epidemiology Data to Enhance HIV Transmission Disruption in Rhode Island: Findings from a Public Health-Academic Partnership. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 10(2). doi:10.1093/ofid/ofad500.170.

SH Church, JL May, G Wagner, CW Dunn (2023) Normalizing need not be the norm: count‑based math for analyzing single‑cell data. Theory in Biosciences. doi:10.1007/s12064-023-00408-x.

A Monroe-Wise, JA Steingrimsson, J Fulton, M Howison, V Novitsky, FS Gillani, T Bertrand, A Civitarese, K Howe, G Ronquillo, B Lafazia, Z Parillo, T Marak, PA Chan, L Bhattarai, CW Dunn, U Bandy, NA Scott, JW Hogan, R Kantor (2022) Beyond HIV outbreaks: protocol, rationale and implementation of a prospective study quantifying the benefit of incorporating viral sequence clustering analysis into routine public health interventions. BMJ Open, 12(4). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2022-e060184.

CW Dunn (2023) Neurons that connect without synapses. Science, Vol 380, Issue 6642, pp. 241-242. doi:10.1126/science.adh0542.

Samuel H. Church, Catriona Munro, Casey W. Dunn, Cassandra G. Extavour (2023) The evolution of ovary-biased gene expression in Hawaiian Drosophila. PLoS Genet 19(1): e1010607. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1010607.

V Novitsky, J Steingrimsson, M Howison, CW Dunn, FS Gillani, J Fulton, T Bertrand, K Howe, L Bhattarai, G Ronquillo, M MacAskill, U Bandy, J Hogan, R Kantor (2023) Not all clusters are equal: dynamics of molecular HIV-1 clusters in a statewide Rhode Island epidemic. AIDS. doi:10.1097/QAD.0000000000003426.

M Howison, FS Gillani, V Novitsky, JA Steingrimsson, J Fulton, T Bertrand, K Howe, A Civitarese, L Bhattarai, M MacAskill, G Ronquillo, J Hague, CW Dunn, U Bandy, JW Hogan, R Kantor (2023) An Automated Bioinformatics Pipeline Informing Near-Real-Time Public Health Responses to New HIV Diagnoses in a Statewide HIV Epidemic. Viruses, 15(3), 737. doi:10.3390/v15030737.

A Guang, M Howison, L Ledingham, M D’Antuono, PA Chan, C Lawrence, CW Dunn, R Kantor (2022) Incorporating Within-Host Diversity in Phylogenetic Analyses for Detecting Clusters of New HIV Diagnoses. Frontiers in Microbiology. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.803190.

JA Steingrimsson, J Fulton, MH Howison, V Novitsky, FS Gillani, T Bertrand, A Civitarese, K Howe, G Ronquillo, B Lafazia, Z Parillo, T Marak, PA Chan, L Bhattarai, CW Dunn, U Bandy, NA Scott, JW Hogan, R Kantor (2022) Beyond HIV outbreaks: protocol, rationale, and implementation of a prospective study quantifying the benefit of incorporating viral sequence clustering analysis into routine public health interventions. BMJ Open. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-060184.

Damian-Serrano A, Hetherington ED, Choy A, Haddock SHD, Lepides A, Dunn CW (2022) Characterizing the secret diets of siphonophores (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) using DNA metabarcoding. PLoS One. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0267761. GitHub repository.

Hetherington ED, Damian-Serrano A, Haddock SHD, Dunn CW, Choy A (2022) Integrating siphonophores into marine food-web ecology. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. doi:10.1002/lol2.10235.

Munro C, Zapata F, Howison M, Siebert S, Dunn CW (2022) Evolution of gene expression across species and specialized zooids in Siphonophora. MBE. doi:10.1093/molbev/msac027.

Li, Y, Shen XX, Evans B, Dunn CW, Rokas A. (2021) Rooting the animal tree of life. MBE. doi:10.1093/molbev/msab170.

Novitsky, V, Steingrimsson J, Howison M, Dunn CW, Gillani FS, Manne A, Li Y, Spence M, Parillo Z, Fulton J, Marak T, Chan P, Bertrand T, Bandy U, Alexander-Scott N, Hogan J, Kantor R. (2021) Longitudinal typing of molecular HIV clusters in a statewide epidemic. AIDS. doi:10.1097/QAD.0000000000002953.

Damian-Serrano, A, SHD Haddock, CW Dunn (2021) The evolutionary history of siphonophore tentilla: Novelties, convergence, and integration. Integrative Organismal Biology. doi:10.1093/iob/obab019.

Damian-Serrano, A, SHD Haddock, CW Dunn (2021) The evolution of siphonophore tentilla for specialized prey capture in the open ocean. PNAS 118 (8) e2005063118. doi:10.1073/pnas.2005063118. (Cover article)

Li Y, Steenwyk JL, Chang Y, Wang Y, James TY, Stajich JE, Spatafora JW, Groenewald M, Dunn CW, Hittinger CT, Shen XX, Rokas A (2021) A genome-scale phylogeny of the kingdom Fungi. Current Biology 31:8 1653-1665. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.074. (Cover article)

Guang, A, M Howison, F Zapata, C Lawrence, CW Dunn (2021) Revising transcriptome assemblies with phylogenetic information. PLoS ONE 16(1): e0244202. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0244202. Git code repository: https://github.com/caseywdunn/ms_treeinform.

Kantor, R, JP Fulton, J Steingrimsson, V Novitsky, M Howison, F Gillani, Y Li, A Manne, Z Parillo , M Spence, T Marak, P Chan, CW Dunn, T Bertrand, U Bandy, N Alexander-Scott, JW Hogan (2020) Challenges in evaluating the use of viral sequence data to identify HIV transmission networks for public health. Statistical Communications in Infectious Diseases 12:s1. doi:10.1515/scid-2019-0019.

AG Collins, M Daly, and CW Dunn. 2020. Cnidaria. Pp. 457-460 in Phylonyms: A Companion to the PhyloCode (K. de Queiroz, P. D. Cantino, and J. A. Gauthier, eds.). CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. doi:10.1201/9780429446276.

AG Collins and CW Dunn. 2020. Medusozoa. Pp. 473-475 in Phylonyms: A Companion to the PhyloCode (K. de Queiroz, P. D. Cantino, and J. A. Gauthier, eds.). CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. doi:10.1201/9780429446276.

Dunn, CW and AG Collins. 2020. Hydrozoa. Pp. 473-475 in Phylonyms: A Companion to the PhyloCode (K. de Queiroz, P. D. Cantino, and J. A. Gauthier, eds.). CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. doi:10.1201/9780429446276.

Dunn, CW and AG Collins. 2020. Trachylina. Pp. 485-487 in Phylonyms: A Companion to the PhyloCode (K. de Queiroz, P. D. Cantino, and J. A. Gauthier, eds.). CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. doi:10.1201/9780429446276.

Dunn, CW and AG Collins. 2020. Hydroidolina. Pp. 489-490 in Phylonyms: A Companion to the PhyloCode (K. de Queiroz, P. D. Cantino, and J. A. Gauthier, eds.). CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. doi:10.1201/9780429446276.

Dunn, CW 2020. Siphonophora. Pp. 491-492 in Phylonyms: A Companion to the PhyloCode (K. de Queiroz, P. D. Cantino, and J. A. Gauthier, eds.). CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. doi:10.1201/9780429446276.

Novitsky, V, JA Steingrimsson, M Howison, FS Gillani, Y Li, A Manne, J Fulton, M Spence, Z Parillo, T Marak, PA Chan, T Bertrand, U Bandy, N Alexander-Scott, CW Dunn, J Hogan, R Kantor. (2020) Empirical comparison of analytical approaches for identifying molecular HIV-1 clusters. Scientific Reports 10, Article number: 18547. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-75560-1.

Smith, SD, MW Pennell, CW Dunn, SV Edwards (2020) Phylogenetics is the New Genetics (for Most of Biodiversity). Trends in Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2020.01.005.

Li-Gen Wang, Tommy Tsan-Yuk Lam, Shuangbin Xu, Zehan Dai, Lang Zhou, Tingze Feng, Pingfan Guo, Casey W Dunn, Bradley R Jones, Tyler Bradley, Huachen Zhu, Yi Guan, Yong Jiang, Guangchuang Yu. (2019) treeio: an R package for phylogenetic tree input and output with richly annotated and associated data. Molecular Biology and Evolution. doi:10.1093/molbev/msz240. Git code repository: https://guangchuangyu.github.io/software/treeio/.

Munro, C, Z Vue, RR Behringer, CW Dunn. (2019) Morphology and development of the Portuguese man of war, Physalia physalis. Scientific Reports 9:15522. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-51842-1. bioRxiv preprint: doi:10.1101/645465.

Lewis, ZR and CW Dunn. (2018) Genome evolution: We are not so special. eLife. doi:10.7554/eLife.38726. Git code repository: https://github.com/dunnlab/gene_inventory_2018.

Pugh, PR, CW Dunn, SHD Haddock (2018) Description of Tottonophyes enigmatica gen. nov., sp. nov. (Hydrozoa, Siphonophora, Calycophorae), with a reappraisal of the function and homology of nectophoral canals. Zootaxa 4415(3):452–472. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4415.3.3.

Haddock, SHD, Christianson LM, Francis WR, Martini S, Dunn CW, Pugh PR, Mills CE, Osborn KJ, Seibel BA, Choy CA, Schnitzler CE, Matsumoto GI, Messié M, Schultz DT, Winnikoff JR, Powers ML, Gasca R, Browne WE, Johnsen S, Schlining KL, von Thun S, Erwin BE, Ryan JF, Thuesen EV (2018) Insights into the Biodiversity, Behavior, and Bioluminescence of Deep-Sea Organisms Using Molecular and Maritime Technology. Oceanography 30:38-47. doi:10.5670/oceanog.2017.422.

Munro, C, S Siebert, F Zapata, M Howison, A Damian-Serrano, SH Church, FE Goetz, PR Pugh, SHD Haddock, CW Dunn (2018) Improved phylogenetic resolution within Siphonophora (Cnidaria) with implications for trait evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.030. bioRxiv preprint: doi:10.1101/251116. Git code repository: https://github.com/caseywdunn/siphonophore_phylogeny_2017.

Dunn, CW, F Zapata, C Munro, S Siebert, A Hejnol (2018) Pairwise comparisons across species are problematic when analyzing functional genomic data. PNAS. doi:10.1073/pnas.1707515115. bioRxiv preprint: doi:10.1101/107177. Git code repository: https://github.com/caseywdunn/comparative_expression_2017. (pdf)

Helm, RR, CW Dunn (2017) Indoles induce metamorphosis in a broad diversity of jellyfish, but not in a crown jelly (Coronatae). PLoS One. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188601. (pdf)

Dunn, CW (2017) Ctenophore trees. Nature Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0359-4.

Dunn, CW, C Munro (2016) Comparative genomics and the diversity of life. Zoologica Scripta 45:5-13. doi:10.1111/zsc.12211. (pdf)

Hejnol, A, CW Dunn (2016) Animal Evolution: Are Phyla Real? Current Biology 26:R424–R426. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.058. (pdf)

Guang, A, F Zapata, M Howison, CE Lawrence, CW Dunn (2016) An Integrated Perspective on Phylogenetic Workflows. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31:116-126. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2015.12.007. (pdf)

Dunn, CW (2015) Acorn worms in a nutshell. Nature 527:448-449. doi:10.1038/nature16315. (pdf)

Zapata, F, FE Goetz, SA Smith, M Howison, S Siebert, S Church, SM Sanders, CL Ames, CS McFadden, SC France, M Daly, AG Collins, SHD Haddock, CW Dunn, P Cartwright (2015) Phylogenomic analyses support traditional relationships within Cnidaria. PLoS One 10(10): e0139068. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0139068. bioRxiv preprint: doi:10.1101/017632. Git code repository: https://bitbucket.org/caseywdunn/cnidaria2014. (pdf)

Dunn, CW, JT Ryan (2015) The evolution of animal genomes. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development 35:25-32. doi:10.1016/j.gde.2015.08.006. (pdf)

Haddock, SH, CW Dunn (2015) Fluorescent proteins function as a prey attractant: experimental evidence from the hydromedusa Olindias formosus and other marine organisms. Biology Open 4:1094-1104. doi:10.1242/​bio.012138. (pdf)

Church, SH, JF Ryan, CW Dunn (2015) Automation and Evaluation of the SOWH Test of Phylogenetic Topologies with SOWHAT. Systematic Biology 64(6): 1048-1058. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syv055. bioRxiv preprint: doi:10.1101/005264. Git code repository: https://github.com/josephryan/sowhat. (pdf)

Laumer, CE, N Bekkouche, A Kerbl, F Goetz, RC Neves, MV Sørensen, RM Kristensen, A Hejnol, CW Dunn, G Giribet, K Worsaae (2015) Spiralian Phylogeny Informs the Evolution of Microscopic Lineages. Current Biology 25(15):2000-2006. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.068. (pdf)

Church, SH, S Siebert, P Bhattacharyya, CW Dunn (2015) The Histology of Nanomia bijuga (Hydrozoa: Siphonophora). J. Exp. Zool. (Mol. Dev. Evol.) 324(5):435-449. doi:10.1002/jez.b.22629. bioRxiv preprint: doi:10.1101/010868. (pdf)

Siebert, S, FE Goetz, SH Church, P Bhattacharyya, F Zapata, SHD Haddock, and CW Dunn. (2015) Stem Cells in a Colonial Animal with Localized Growth Zones. EvoDevo 6:22. doi:10.1186/s13227-015-0018-2. bioRxiv preprint: doi:10.1101/001685. Git code repository: https://bitbucket.org/caseywdunn/siebert_etal. (pdf)

Salinas-Saavedra, M, TQ Stephenson, CW Dunn, MQ Martindale (2015) Par system components are asymmetrically localized in ectodermal epithelia, but not during early development in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. EvoDevo 6:20. doi:10.1186/s13227-015-0014-6. (pdf)

Helm, RR, S Tiozzo, MKS Lilley, F Lombard, CW Dunn (2015) Comparative muscle development of scyphozoan jellyfish with simple and complex life cycles. EvoDevo 6:11. doi:10.1186/s13227-015-0005-7. (pdf)

Dunn, CW, SP Leys, SHD Haddock (2015) The hidden biology of sponges and ctenophores. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30:282-291. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2015.03.003 (pdf)

Reich, A, CW Dunn, K Akasaka, G Wessel (2015) Phylogenomic Analyses of Echinodermata Support the Sister Groups of Asterozoa and Echinozoa. PLoS One 10:e0119627. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119627 (pdf)

Gonzalez, VL, SCS Andrade, R Bieler, TM Collins, CW Dunn, PM Mikkelsen, JD Taylor, G Giribet (2015) A phylogenetic backbone for Bivalvia: an RNA-seq approach. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282:20142332. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.2332 (pdf).

Dunn, CW, G Giribet, GD Edgecombe, A Hejnol (2014) Animal Phylogeny and its Evolutionary Implications. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 45:371–395. doi:10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-120213-091627. Supplemental summary figure. (pdf)

Dunn, CW (2014) Reconsidering the phylogenetic utility of miRNA in animals. PNAS 111:12576–12577. doi:10.1073/pnas.1413545111 (pdf)

Zapata, F, NG Wilson, M Howison, SCS Andrade, KM Jörger, Michael Schrödl, Freya E Goetz, Gonzalo Giribet, Casey W Dunn (2014) Phylogenomic analyses of deep gastropod relationships reject Orthogastropoda. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281:1471-2954. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.1739 (pdf). bioRxiv preprint: doi:10.1101/007039. Git code repository: https://bitbucket.org/caseywdunn/gastropoda.

Howison, M, F Zapata, EJ Edwards, and CW Dunn (2014) Bayesian genome assembly and assessment by Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling. PLoS One 9:e99497. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099497. arXiv preprint: 1308.1388. Git code repository: https://bitbucket.org/mhowison/gabi. Example analysis report: https://web3.ccv.brown.edu/mhowison/gabi-report/ (pdf)

Lopez, J, H Bracken-Grissom, A Collins, T Collins, K Crandall, D Distel, C Dunn, et al. (2014) Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): Developing Community Resources to Study Diverse Invertebrate Genomes. Journal of Heredity 105:1-18. doi:10.1093/jhered/est084 (pdf)

Ryan, JF, K Pang, CE Schnitzler, A Nguyen, RT Moreland, DK Simmons, BJ Koch, WR Francis, P Havlak, NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, SA Smith, NH Putnam, SHD Haddock, CW Dunn, TG Wolfsberg, JC Mullikin, MQ Martindale, AD Baxevanis (2013) The genome of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi and its implications for cell type evolution. Science 432:1242592. doi:10.1126/science.1242592, PMC3920664 (pdf)

CW Dunn, M Howison, and F Zapata (2013) Agalma: an automated phylogenomics workflow. BMC Bioinformatics 14:330. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-14-330. arXiv preprint: 1307.6432. Git code repository: https://bitbucket.org/caseywdunn/agalma (software), https://bitbucket.org/caseywdunn/dunnhowisonzapata2013 (analyses). (pdf)

Howison, M, F Zapata, CW Dunn (2013) Toward a statistically explicit understanding of de novo sequence assembly. Bioinformatics 29:2959-2963. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btt525 (pdf)

Siebert, S, PR Pugh, SHD Haddock, CW Dunn (2013) Re-evaluation of characters in Apolemiidae (Siphonophora), with description of two new species from Monterey Bay, California. Zootaxa 3702: 201–232. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3702.3.1 (pdf)

Dunn, CW, X Luo, Z Wu (2013) Phylogenetic analysis of gene expression. Integrative and Comparative Biology 53:847-856. doi:10.1093/icb/ict068 (pdf). arXiv preprint: 1302.2978. Git code repository: https://bitbucket.org/caseywdunn/sicb2013. (pdf)

Helm, RR, S Siebert, S Tulin, J Smith, CW Dunn (2013) Characterization of differential transcript abundance through time during Nematostella vectensis development. BMC Genomics 14:266. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-14-266. Git code repository: https://bitbucket.org/caseywdunn/helm_etal_2013. (pdf)

Dunn, CW (2013) Evolution: Out of the Ocean. Current Biology 23:R242-R243. doi:10.1038/10.1016/j.cub.2013.01.06 (pdf)

Howison, M, N Sinnott-Armstrong, CW Dunn (2012) BioLite, a lightweight bioinformatics framework with automated tracking of diagnostics and provenance. 4th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP12). video, pdf. Git code repository: https://bitbucket.org/caseywdunn/biolite.

Smith, SA, NG Wilson, F Goetz, C Feehery, SCS Andrade, GW Rouse, G Giribet, CW Dunn (2011) Resolving the evolutionary relationships of molluscs with phylogenomic tools. Nature 480:364-367. doi:10.1038/nature10526 (pdf)

Siebert, S, MD Robinson, SC Tintori, F Goetz, RR Helm, SA Smith, N Shaner, SHD Haddock, CW Dunn (2011) Differential Gene Expression in the Siphonophore Nanomia bijuga (Cnidaria) Assessed with Multiple Next-Generation Sequencing Workflows. PLoS One 6(7): e22953. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022953 (pdf)

Edgecombe, GD, G Giribet, CW Dunn, A Hejnol, RM Kristensen, RC Neves, GW Rouse, K Worsaae, and MV Sørensen (2011) Higher-level metazoan relationships: recent progress and remaining questions. Organisms, Diversity, and Evolution 11:151-172. doi:10.1007/s13127-011-0044-4 (pdf)

Haddock, SHD and CW Dunn (2011) Practical Computing for Biologists. Sinauer Associates (Sunderland, MA). Book Site, Read more at the publisher's site

Hejnol, A, M Obst, A Stamatakis, M Ott, G Rouse, G Edgecombe, P Martinez, J Baguñà, X Bailly, U Jondelius, M Wiens, WEG Müller, Elaine Seaver, WC Wheeler, MQ Martindale, G Giribet, and CW Dunn (2009) Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods. Proc. R. Soc. B. 276:4261-4270 doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0896 (pdf). Git repository: https://bitbucket.org/caseywdunn/hejnol_etal_2009.

Dunn, CW (2009) Siphonophores. Current Biology 19:R233-R234. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.02.009 (pdf)

Giribet, G, CW Dunn, GD Edgecombe, A Hejnol, MQ Martindale, and GW Rouse (2009) Assembling the spiralian tree of life (p 52-64) In: Animal Evolution. MJ Telford and DTJ Littlewood (eds). Oxford University Press.

Cartwright, P, NM Evans, CW Dunn, AC Marques, MP Miglietta, P Schuchert, and AG Collins (2008) Phylogenetics of Hydroidolina (Hydrozoa: Cnidaria). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 88:1663-1672. doi:10.1017/S0025315408002257 (pdf)

Dunn, CW, A Hejnol, DQ Matus, K Pang, WE Browne, SA Smith, E Seaver, GW Rouse, M Obst, GD Edgecombe, MV Sorensen, SHD Haddock, A Schmidt-Rhaesa, A Okusu, RM Kristensen, WC Wheeler, MQ Martindale, and G Giribet (2008) Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the Animal Tree of Life. Nature. 452:745-749. doi:10.1038/nature06614 (pdf)

Smith, SA and CW Dunn (2008) Phyutility: a phyloinformatics tool for trees, alignments, and molecular data. Bioinformatics. 24:715-716. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm619 (pdf). Code repository: https://code.google.com/p/phyutility

Giribet, G, CW Dunn, GD Edgecombe, and GW Rouse (2007) A modern look at the Animal Tree of Life. Zootaxa 1668:61-79. (pdf)

Oota, H, CW Dunn, WC Speed, AJ Pakstis, MA Palmatier, JR Kidd and KK Kidd (2007) Conservative evolution in duplicated genes of the primate Class I ADH cluster. Gene. 392:64-76. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2006.11.008 (pdf)

Mills, CE, AC Marques, AE Migotto, DR Calder, C Hand, JT Rees, SHD Haddock, CW Dunn, and PR Pugh. (2007) Hydrozoa: Polyps, Hydromedusae, and Siphonophora. In: The Light & Smith manual: intertidal invertebrates from central California to Oregon, 4th edition. JT Carlton (ed). University of California Press.

Dunn, CW and GP Wagner (2006) The evolution of colony-level development in the Siphonophora (Cnidaria:Hydrozoa). Development, Genes, and Evolution. 216:743-754. doi:10.1007/s00427-006-0101-8 (pdf)

Matus, DQ, K Pang, H Marlow, CW Dunn, GH Thomsen, and MQ Martindale (2006) Deep evolutionary roots for bilaterality in the metazoa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103:11195-11200. doi:10.1073/pnas.0601257103 (pdf)

Matus, DQ, RR Copley, CW Dunn, A Hejnol, H Eccleston, KM Halanych, MQ Martindale, and MJ Telford (2006) Broad Taxon and Gene Sampling Indicate that Chaetognaths Are Protostomes. Current Biology 16:R575-R576 doi:10.1016/j.cub.2006.07.017 (pdf)

Dunn, CW, PR Pugh, and SHD Haddock (2005) Molecular phylogenetics of the Siphonophora (Cnidaria), with implications for the evolution of functional specialization. Systematic Biology 54:916-935. doi:10.1080/10635150500354837 (pdf). Git repository: https://bitbucket.org/caseywdunn/siphonophores_2005.

Dunn, CW (2005) The complex colony-level organization of the deep-sea siphonophore Bargmannia elongata (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) is directionally asymmetric and arises by the subdivision of pro-buds. Developmental Dynamics. 234:835-834. doi:10.1002/dvdy.20483 (pdf)

Dunn, CW, PR Pugh, and SHD Haddock (2005) Marrus claudanielis, a new species of deep-sea physonect siphonophore (Siphonophora, Physonectae). Bull. Mar. Sci. 76:699-714. (pdf)

Haddock, SHD, CW Dunn, PR Pugh. and C.E. Schnitzler. (2005) Bioluminescent and red-fluorescent lures in a deep-sea siphonophore. Science. 309:263. doi:10.1126/science.1110441 (pdf)

Haddock, SHD, CW Dunn, and PR Pugh (2005) A reexamination of siphonophore terminology and morphology, applied to the description of two new prayine species with remarkable bio-optical properties. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 85:695-707. doi:10.1017/S0025315405011616 (pdf)

Haddock, SHD and CW Dunn (2005) The complex world of siphonophores. JMBA Global Marine Environment 2005(2):24-25. (pdf)

Lynch, VJ, JJ Roth, K Takahashi, CW Dunn, DF Nonaka, G Stopper and GP Wagner (2004) Adaptive evolution of HoxA-11 and HoxA-13 at the origin of the uterus in mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 271:2201-2207. doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.2848 (pdf)