Ryan P. Walter

Publications

Hermann NT, Hammer LJ, Hussey NE, Marcoux M, Hedges KJ, Walter RP, Furey NB (2023) Year-round monitoring of Arctic species of sculpin to identify residency and seasonality of movement behavior. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 80: 1798-1812. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2023-0042

Timm LE, Tribuzio C, Walter RP, Larson WA, Murray BM, Hussey NE, Wildes S (2023) Molecular ecology of the sleeper shark subgenus Somniosus (Somniosus) reveals genetic homogeneity within species and lack of support for S. antarcticus. Journal of Heredity, 114: 152-164. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esac064

Walter RP, Venney CJ, Mandrak NE, Heath DD (2021) Conservation implications of revised genetic structure resulting from new population discovery: the threatened eastern sand darter (Ammocrypta pellucida) in Canada. Journal of Fish Biology, 100: 92-98. doi: 10.1111/jfb.14922.

Taboun Z, Walter RP, Ovenden JR, Heath DD (2021) Spatial and temporal genetic variation in an exploited reef fish: the effects of exploitation on cohort genetic structure. Evolutionary Applications, 14: 1286-1300. 

Swintek MA, Walter RP (2021) Development and characterization of thirteen novel microsatellite markers for use in Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus), with cross-amplification in Pacific sleeper sharks (Somniosus pacificus). BMC Research Notes, 14:28. 

Carrillo Munoz N, Dickson KA, Walter RP (2020) The mitogenome of the California grunion (Leuresthes tenuis). Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 5:1138–1140 doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1730254

Balasingham KD, Walter RP, Mandrak NE Heath DD (2018) Environmental DNA detection of rare and invasive fish species in two Great Lakes tributaries. Molecular Ecology 27:112-127. 

Walter RP, Roy D, Hussey NE, Stelbrink B, Kovacs KM, Lydersen C, McMeans BC, Svavarsson J, Kessel ST, Porsmoguer SB, Wildes S, Tribuzio CA, Campana SE, Petersen SD, Grubbs RD, Heath DD, Hedges KJ, Fisk AT (2017) Origins of the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus): impacts of ice-olation and introgression. Ecology and Evolution 7:8113–8125. 

Hinojosa-Alvarez S, Walter RP, Diaz-Jaimes P, Galván-Magaña F, Paig-Tran EM (2016) A potential third Manta Ray species near the Yucatán Peninsula? Evidence for a recently diverged and novel genetic Manta group from the Gulf of Mexico. PeerJ 4:e2586 

Balasingham KD, Walter RP, Heath DD (2016) Residual eDNA detection sensitivity assessed by quantitative real-time PCR in a river ecosystem. Molecular Ecology Resources. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12598

Roy D, Lucek K, Walter RP, Seehausen O (2015) Hybrid ‘superswarm’ leads to rapid divergence and establishment of populations during a biological invasion. Molecular Ecology 24:5394-5411.

Ginson R, Walter RP, Mandrak NE, Beneteau CL, Heath DD (2015) Hierarchical analysis of genetic structure in the habitat-specialist Eastern Sand Darter (Ammocrypta pellucida). Ecology and Evolution 5:695-708.

Walter RP, Kessel ST, Alhasan N, Fisk AT, Heath DD, Chekchak T, Klaus R, Younis M, Hill G, Jones B, Braun CD, Berumen ML, DiBattista JD, Priest MA, Hussey NE (2014) First record of living Manta alfredi × Manta birostris hybrid. Marine Biodiversity 44:1-2.

Smit J, Heath DD, Walter RP (2014) A molecular genetic lab to generate inclusive and exclusive forensic evidence: two suspects, a victim and a bloodstained t-shirt. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education 42:230-236.

Herder F, Schliewen UK, Geiger MF, Hadiaty RK, Gray SM, McKinnon JS, Walter RP, Pfaender J (2012) Alien invasion in Wallace's Dreampond: records of the hybridogenic "flowerhorn" cichlid in Lake Matano, with an annotated checklist of fish species introduced to the Malili Lakes system in Sulawesi. Aquatic Invasions 7:521-535.

Walter RP, Hogan JD, Blum MJ, Gagne RB, Hain EF, Gilliam JF, McIntyre PB (2012) Climate change and conservation of endemic amphidromous fishes in Hawaiian streams. Endangered Species Research 16:261-272. 

Walter RP, Blum MJ, Snider SB, Paterson IG, Benzten P, Lamphere BA, Gilliam JF (2011) Isolation and differentiation of Rivulus hartii across Trinidad and neighboring islands. Molecular Ecology 20:608-618.

Salas E, Molina H, Walter RP, Heath DD (2010) Local and regional genetic connectivity in a Caribbean coral reef fish. Marine Biology 157:437–445.