2022
Loria A, Cristescu ME, Gonzalez A (2022) Genotype diversity promotes the persistence of Daphnia populations exposed to severe copper stress. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 35, 265-277.
Zaiko A, Greenfield P, Abbott C, von Ammon U, Bunce M, Cristescu ME, Chariton A, Dowle E, Geller J, Gutierrez AA, Hajibabaei M, Haggard E, Inglis GJ, Lavery S, Samuiloviene A, Simpson T, Stat M, Stephenson S, Sutherland J, Thakur V, Westfall K, Wood SA, Wright M, Zhang G, Pochon X. (2021) Towards reproducible metabarcoding data - lessons from an international cross-laboratory experiment. Molecular Ecology Resources, 22, 519-538.
2021
Yates MC, Cristescu ME and Derry AM (2021) Integrating physiology and environmental dynamics to operationalize environmental DNA (eDNA) as a means to monitor freshwater macro-organism abundance. Molecular Ecology, 30, 6531-6550
Hleap JS, Littlefair JE, Steinke D, Hebert PDN, Cristescu ME (2021) Assessment of current taxonomic assignment strategies: insights from mock communities. Molecular Ecology Resources, 21, 2190-2203.
Yates MC, Derry AM, Cristescu ME (2021) Environmental RNA: A revolution in ecological resolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 36, 601-609.
Chin TA, Cristescu ME (2021): Speciation in Daphnia. Molecular Ecology, 30, 1398-1418.
Littlefair JE, Hrenchuk LE, Blanchfiled PJ, Rennie MD, Cristescu ME (2021) Thermal stratification and fish thermal preference explain vertical eDNA distribution in lakes. Molecular Ecology, 30, 3083-3096.
Yales MC, Glaser D, Post J, Cristescu ME, Fraser DJ and Derry AM (2021) The relationship between eDNA particle concentration and organism abundance in nature is strengthened by allometric scaling. Molecular Ecology, 30, 3086-3082.
Martin G, Beisner BE, Chain FJJ, Cristescu ME, del Giorgio PA, Derri AM (2021) Freshwater zooplankton metapopulations and metacommunities respond differently to environmental and spatial variation. Ecology, 102, e03224.
McCann KS, McCann, Cazelles K, MacDougall AS, Fussmann GF, Bieg C, Cristescu ME, Fryxell JM, Gellner G, Lapointe B, Gonzalez A. (2021) Landscape modification and nutrient-driven instability at a distance. Ecology Letters, 24, 398-414.
2020
Harvey E, Dale J, Hunter H, Randall C, Cristescu ME, Crease TJ (2020) Metal exposure causes rDNA copy number to fluctuate in mutation accumulation lines of Daphnia pulex. Aquatic Toxicology, 226, 105556.
Millette KL, Gonzalez A, Cristescu ME (2020) Breaking ecological barriers: anthropogenic disturbance leads to continental-scale level of genetic diversity, habitat transitions, and hybridization. Science of the Total Environment. 740, 140046.
Suresh S, Crease TJ, Cristescu ME, Chain FJJ (2020) Alternative splicing is highly variable among Daphnia pulex lineages in response to acute copper exposure. BMC Genomics, 21, 1-14.
Pérez JF, Sutherland WJ, Barrett R, Brown C, Cardille JA, Cooke SJ, Cristescu ME, Fussmann GF, Griffiths K, Hendry AP, Nyboer E, Reid AJ, Ricciardi A, Fortin SN, Sunday J, Winergardner AK, Irene GE (2020). Horizon scan of conservation issues for inland waters in Canada. CJFAS, 77, 869-881.
2019
Wood SA, Biessy L, Latchford JL, Zaiko A, von Ammon U, Audrezet F, Cristescu ME, Pochon X (2020). Release and degradation of environmental DNA and RNA in a marine system. Science of the Total Environment, 704, 135314.
Chin TA, Caceres CE, Cristescu ME (2019) The evolution of reproductive isolation in Daphnia. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19, 216-231.
Sinclair JS, Arnott SE, Millette KL, and Cristescu ME (2019) Benefits of increased colonist quality and genetic diversity for colonization depend on colonist identity. Oikos, 128, 1761-1771.
Cristescu ME (2019) Can environmental RNA revolutionize biodiversity science? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 34, 694-697.
Bell G, Fugere V, Barrett R, Beisner BE, Cristescu ME, Fussmann G, Shapiro J, Gonzalez A (2019) Trophic structure modulates community rescue following acidification. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286, 20190856.
Chain FJJ, Flynn JM, Bull JK, Cristescu ME (2019) Accelerated rates of large-scale mutations in the presence of copper and nickel. Genome Research, 29, 64-73.
Loria A, Cristescu ME, Gonzalez A (2019) Mixed evidence for adaptation to environmental pollution. Evolutionary Applications, 12, 1259-1273.
Chain FJJ, Finlayson S, Crease TJ, Cristescu ME (2019) Variation in transcriptional responses to copper exposure across Daphnia pulex lineages. Aquatic Toxicology, 210, 85-97.
2018
Cristescu ME and Hebert PDN (2018) Uses and misuses of environmental DNA in biodiversity science and conservation. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 49, 209-230.
Bull J, Flynn J, Chain FJJ, Cristescu ME (2018) Fitness and genomic consequences of chronic exposure to low levels of copper and nickel in Daphnia pulex. G3: Genes Genomes Genetics, 9, 61-71.
Zhang GK, Chain FJJ, Abbott CL, Cristescu ME (2018) Metabarcoding using multiplexed markers increases species detection in complex zooplankton communities. Evolutionary Applications, 11, 1901-1914.
Steevensz A, Gombar R, Vergilino R, Cristescu ME, Vacratsis PO (2018) Proteomics profile of Daphnia pulex using data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry and ion mobility separation. Proteomics, 18.
Eckert IMK, Littlefair JE, Zhang GK, Chain FJJ, Crease TJ, Cristescu ME (2018) Bioinformatics for biomonitoring: Species detection and diversity estimates across next-generation sequencing platforms. Advances in Ecological Research, Invited contribution for the special issue: Ecological Biomonitoring, 59, 1-32.
Scott R, Zhan A, Brown EA, Chain FJJ, Cristescu ME, Gras R, MacIsaac HJ (2018) Optimization and performance testing of a sequence processing pipeline applied to detection of nonindigenous species. Evolutionary Applications, 11, 891-905.
2017
Flynn JM, Caldas I, Cristescu ME, Clark AG (2017) Selection constrains high rates of tandem repetitive DNA mutation in Daphnia pulex. Genetics, 207, 697-710.
Flynn JM, Chain FJJ, Schoen DJ, Cristescu ME (2017) Spontaneous mutation accumulation in Daphnia pulex in selection free versus competitive environments. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34, 160-173.
Pour MK, Bandehbahman S, Gras R, Cristescu ME (2017) An individual-based modeling approach to investigate sympatric speciation via specialized resource usage. Open Journal of Ecology 7, 222-269.
2016
Chain FJJ, Brown EA, MacIsaac HJ, Cristescu ME (2016) Metabarcoding reveals strong spatial structure and temporal turnover of zooplankton communities among marine and freshwater ports. Diversity and Distributions, 22, 493-504.
Lacoursiere-Roussel A, Bock DG, Cristescu ME, Guichard F, McKindsey CW (2016) Effect of shipping traffic on biofouling invasion success at population and community levels. Biological Invasions, 18, 3681-3695.
Brown EA, Chain FJJ, Zhan A, MacIsaac HJ, Cristescu ME (2016). Early detection of aquatic invaders using metabarcoding reveals a high number of non-indigenous species in Canadian ports, Diversity and Distributions, 22, 1045-1059.
Clare EL, Chain FJJ, Littlefair JE, Cristescu ME (2016) The effects of parameter choice on defining molecular operational taxonomic units and resulting ecological analyses of metabarcoding data. Genome, 59, 981-990.
Ghabooli S, Zhan A, Paolucci E, Hermandez M, Briski E, Cristescu ME, MacIsaac HJ (2016) Population attenuation in zooplankton communities during transoceanic transfer in ballast water, Ecology and Evolution, 6, 6170-6177.
2015
Cristescu ME (2015) Genetic reconstructions of invasion history. Molecular Ecology, 24, 2212-2225.
Danielopol DL and Cristescu ME (2015) The contribution of Nicolae Botnariuc to evolutionary biology using systems theory. Genome, 58, III-VI.
Gras R, Golesteni A, Hendry A, Cristescu ME (2015). Speciation without pre-defined fitness functions. PLOS ONE, 10, e0137838.
Altshuler I, McLeod AM, Yan ND, Cristescu ME (2015) Synergistic interactions of biotic and abiotic environmental stressors on gene expression. Genome, 58, 99-109.
Flynn JM, Brown EA, Chain FJJ, MacIsaac HJ, Cristescu ME (2015) Towards accurate molecular identification of species in complex environmental samples: testing the performance of sequence filtering and clustering methods. Ecology and Evolution, 5, 2252-2266.
Brown EA, Chain FJJ, Crease TJ, MacIsaac HJ, Cristescu ME (2015) Divergence thresholds and divergent biodiversity estimates: can metabarcoding reliably describe zooplankton communities? Ecology and Evolution, 5, 2234-2251.
2014
Cristescu ME (2014) From barcoding single individuals to metabarcoding biological communities: towards an integrative approach to the study of global biodiversity. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 29, 566-571.
Paolucci EM, Sardina P, Sylvester F, Perepelizini PV, Zhan A, Ghabooli S, Cristescu ME, Oliveira MD, MacIsaac HJ (2014). Morphological and genetic variability in an invasive mussel across an environmental gradient in South America. Limnology and Oceanography, 59, 400-412.
Cristescu ME, Demiri B, Ianina A, Crease TJ (2014) Gene expression variation in duplicate Lactate dehydrogenase genes: Do ecological species show distinct responses? Plos One, 9: e103964.
Zhan A, He S, Brown EA, Chain FJJ, Therriault TW, Abbott CL, Heath D, Cristescu ME, MacIsaac HJ (2014) Reproducibility of pyrosequencing data for biodiversity assessment in complex communities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 5, 881-890.
2013 and earlier
Vaillant JJ, Bock DG, Haffner GD, Cristescu ME (2013) Speciation patterns and processes in the zooplankton of the ancient lakes of Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. Ecology and Evolution, 3, 3083-3094.
Ghabooli S, Shiganova TA, Briski E, Piraino S, Fuentes V, Thibault-Botha D, Angel D, Cristescu ME, MacIsaac HJ (2013) Invasion pathway of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Mediterranean Sea. Plos One, 8, e81067.
Xu S, Innes DJ, Lynch M, Cristescu ME (2013) The role of hybridization in the origin and spread of asexuality in Daphnia. Molecular Ecology, 22, 4549-4561.
Zhan A, Hulak M, Syvester F, Huang X, Abisola AA, Abbott CL, Adamowicz SJ, Heath DD, Cristescu ME, MacIsaac HJ (2013) High sensitivity of 454 pyrosequencing for detection of rare species in aquatic communities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 4, 558-565.
Ghabooli S, Zhan A, Sardina P, Esteban P, Sylvester F, Perepelizin P, Briski E, Cristescu ME, MacIsaac HJ. (2013) Genetic diversity in introduced golden mussel populations corresponds to vector activity. PLoS ONE, 8, e59328.
Altshuler I, Vaillant JJ, Xu S, Cristescu ME (2012) The evolutionary history of Sarco(endo)plasmic Calcium ATPase (SERCA), PLoS ONE 7, e52617.
Lacoursière-Roussel A, Bock DG, Cristescu ME, Guichard F, Girard P, McKindsey CW (2012) Disentangling invasion processes in a dynamic shipping-boating network. Molecular Ecology, 21, 4227-4241.
Bock DG, MacIsaac HJ, Cristescu ME (2012) Multilocus genetic analyses differentiate between widespread and spatially restricted cryptic species in a model ascidian. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279, 2377-2385.
Golestani A, Gras R, Cristescu ME (2012) Speciation with gene flow in a complex virtual world: can physical obstacles accelerate speciation? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279, 3055-3064.
Zhan A, Darling JA, Bock DG, Lacoursière-Roussel A, MacIsaac HJ, Cristescu ME (2012) Complex genetic patterns in closely related colonizing invasive species. Ecology and Evolution, 2, 1331-1346.
Cristescu ME, Constantin A, Bock DG, Cáceres CE, Crease TJ (2012) Speciation with gene flow and the genetics of habitat transitions. Molecular Ecology, 21, 1411-22.
Zhan A, Perepelizin P, Ghabooli S, Paolucci E, Sylvester F, Sardina P, Cristescu ME, MacIsaac HJ (2012) Scale-dependent post-establishment spread and genetic diversity in an invading mollusc in South America, Diversity and Distribution, 18, 1042-1055.
Xu S, Schaack S, Seyfert A, Choi E, Lynch M, Cristescu ME (2012) High mutation rates in the mitochondrial genomes of Daphnia pulex. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 29, 763-769.
Millette KL, Xu S, Witt JDS, Cristescu ME (2011) Pleistocene-driven diversification in freshwater zooplankton: Genetic patterns of refugial isolation and postglacial re-colonization in Leptodora kindtii. Limnology and Oceanography, 56, 1725-1736.
Altshuler I, Demiri B, Xu S, Yan N, Cristescu ME (2011) An integrated multi-disciplinary approach for studying multiple stressors in freshwater ecosystems: Daphnia as a model organism. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 51, 623-633.
Vaillant JJ, Haffner GD, Cristescu ME (2011) The ancient lakes of Indonesia: towards integrated research on speciation. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 51, 634-643.
Crease TJ, Floyd R, Cristescu ME, Innes D (2011) Evolutionary factors affecting Lactate dehydrogenase A and B variation in the Daphnia pulex species complex. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11, 212.
Bock DG, Zhan A, MacIsaac HJ, Cristescu ME (2011) Looking at both sides of the invasion: patterns of colonization in the violet tunicate Botrylloides violaceus. Molecular Ecology, 20, 503-516.
Xu S, Omilian A, Cristescu ME (2011) High rate of large-scale hemizygous deletions in asexually propagating Daphnia: Implications for the evolution of sex. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28, 335-342.
Briski E, Cristescu ME, Bailey SA, MacIsaac HJ (2011) Use of DNA barcoding to detect invertebrate invasive species from diapausing eggs. Biological Invasions, 13, 1325-1340.
Ghabooli S, Shiganova TA, Zhan A, Cristescu ME, MacIsaac HJ (2011) Multiple introductions and invasion pathways for the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in Eurasia. Biological Invasions, 13, 679-690.
Lejeusne C, Bock DG, MacIsaac HJ, Therriault TW, Cristescu ME (2011) Comparative phylogeography of two colonial ascidians reveals contrasting invasion histories in North America. Biological Invasions, 13, 635-650.
Cristescu ME, Adamowicz SJ, Vaillant J, Haffner DG (2010) Ancient lakes revisited: from the ecology to the genetics of speciation. Molecular Ecology, 19, 4837-4851.
Zhan A, MacIsaac HJ, Cristescu ME (2010) Invasion genetics of the Ciona intestinalis species complex: from regional endemism to global homogeneity. Molecular Ecology, 19, 4678-4694.
Briski E, Bailey SA, Cristescu ME, MacIsaac HJ (2010) Efficacy of ‘saltwater flushing’ in protecting the Great Lakes from biological invasions by invertebrate eggs in ships’ ballast sediment. Freshwater Biology, 55, 2414-2424.
Molecular Ecology Resources Primer Development Consortium, Abdoullaye D, Acevedo I et al. (2010) Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 August 2009-30 September 2009. Molecular Ecology Resources, 10, 232-236.
Xu S, Hebert PDN, Kotov AA, Cristescu ME (2009) The non-cosmopolitanism paradigm of freshwater zooplankton: Insights from the global phylogeography of the predatory cladoceran Polyphemus pediculus (Crustacea, Onychopoda). Molecular Ecology, 18, 5161-5179.
Cristescu ME, Egbosimba EE (2009) Evolutionary history of D-lactate dehydrogenases: a phylogenomic perspective on functional diversity in the Fad binding oxidoreductase type 4 family. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 69, 276-287.
Cristescu ME, Innes DJ, Stillman JH, Crease TJ (2008) D- and L-lactate dehydrogenases during invertebrate evolution. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 8, 268.
Durbin A, Hebert PDN, Cristescu ME (2008) Comparative phylogeography of marine cladocerans: evidence for human mediated invasions. Marine Biology, 155, 1-10.
Sayfert AL, Cristescu ME, Thomas KW, Frisse L, Schaack S, Lynch M (2008) The rate and spectrum of microsatellite mutation in Caenorhabditis elegans and Daphnia pulex. Genetics, 178, 2113-2121.
Omilian A, Cristescu ME, Dudycha J, Lynch M (2006) Ameiotic recombination in asexual lineages of Daphnia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 103, 18638-18643.
Cristescu ME, Colbourne JK, Radivojac J, Lynch M (2006) A microsatellite-based genetic linkage map for Daphnia pulex: On the prospect of crustacean genomics. Genomics, 88, 415-430.
deWaard JR, Sacherova V, Cristescu ME, Remigio EA, Crease TJ, Hebert PDN (2006) Probing the origins of the branchiopod crustaceans. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 39, 491-502.
Cristescu ME and PDN Hebert (2005) The “Crustacean Seas” – an evolutionary perspective on the Ponto-Caspian peracarids. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 62, 505-517.
Cristescu ME, Witt JDS, Grigorovich IA, Hebert PDN, MacIsaac HJ (2004) Dispersal patterns for the Ponto-Caspian amphipod Echinogammarus ischnus: Invasion waves from the Pleistocene to the present. Heredity, 92, 197-203.
Cristescu ME, Hebert PDN, Onciu TM (2003) Phylogeography of Ponto-Caspian crustaceans: a benthic-planktonic comparison. Molecular Ecology, 12, 985-996.
Cristescu ME, Hebert PDN (2002) Phylogeny and adaptive radiation in the Onychopoda (Crustacea, Cladocera): evidence from multiple gene sequences. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 15, 838-849.
Hebert PDN and Cristescu ME (2002) Genetic perspectives on invasions: the case of the Cladocera. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 59, 1229-1234.
Therriault TW, Grigorovich IA, Cristescu ME, Ketelaars HAM, Viljanen M, Heath DD, MacIsaac HJ (2002) Taxonomic resolution of the genus Bythotrephes Leydig using molecular markers and re-evaluation of its global distribution. Diversity and Distributions, 8, 67-84.
Cristescu ME, Hebert PDN, Witt JDS, MacIsaac HJ, Grigorovich IA (2001) An invasion history for Cercopagis pengoi based on mitochondrial gene sequences. Limnology and Oceanography, 46, 224-229.
Makarewicz JC, Grigorovich IA, Mills E, Damaske E, Cristescu ME, Pearsall W, LaVoie MJ, Keats R, Rudstam L, Hebert PD, Halbritter H, Kelly T, Matkovich C, MacIsaac HJ (2001) Distribution, fecundity, genetics and dispersal of Cercopagis pengoi (Crustacea, Cladocera) a new exotic zooplankter in the Great Lakes basin. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 27, 19-33.