Education

Ph.D. - State University of New York at Buffalo (2002)
B.Sc. (With Distinction) - University of Hawaii at Manoa (1996)

Research & Teaching Interests

Population genetics, resource conservation, genomic evolution and symbiosis biology in aquatic (both freshwater and marine) microbes and multi-cellular organisms. A variety of molecular tools and computational approaches are utilized to address these questions. The Santos Lab is also part of the Molette Biology Laboratory for Environmental and Climate Change Studies at Auburn University.

Selected Publications

Weese, D.A., Y. Fujita, M. Hidaka, S.R. Santos. 2012. The long and short of it: Genetic variation and population structure of the anchialine atyid shrimp Caridina rubella on Miyako-jima, Japan. Journal of Crustacean Biology 32:109-117.

Santos, S.R., D.A. Weese. 2011. Invited Contribution: Rocks and Clocks: Linking geologic history and rates of genetic differentiation in anchialine organisms. Hydrobiologia 677:53-64.

Santos, S.R., Y. Xiang, A.W. Tagawa. 2011. Population structure and comparative phylogeography of jack species (Caranx ignobilis and C. melampygus) in the high Hawaiian Islands. Journal of Heredity 102:47-54.

Thornhill, D.J., K. Doubleday, D.W. Kemp, S.R. Santos. 2010. Host hybridization alters specificity of cnidarian-dinoflagellate associations. Marine Ecology Progress Series 420:113-123.

Betancur-R, R., A. Acero P., H. Duque-Caro, S.R. Santos. 2010. Phylogenetic and morphologic analyses of a coastal fish reveals a marine biogeographic break of terrestrial origin in the southern Caribbean. PLoS One 5:e11566.

Santos, S.R., J. Toyoshima, R.A. Kinzie III. 2009. Invited Contribution: Spatial and temporal dynamics of symbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium:Dinophyta) in the perforate coral Montipora capitata. Galaxea JCRS 11:139-147.

Weese, D.A., S.R. Santos. 2009. Genetic identification of source populations for an aquarium-traded invertebrate. Animal Conservation 12:13-19. (featured cover article)

Craft, J.D., A.D. Russ, M.N. Yamamoto, T.Y. Iwai Jr., S. Hau, J. Kahiapo, C.T. Chong, S. Ziegler-Chong, C. Muir, Y. Fujita, D.A. Polhemus, R.A. Kinzie III, S.R. Santos. 2008. Islands under islands: The phylogeography and evolution of Halocaridina rubra Holthuis, 1963 (Crustacean: Decapoda: Atyidae) in the Hawaiian archipelago. Limnology and Oceanography 53:675-689.

Hunter, R.L., T.C. LaJeunesse, S.R. Santos. 2007. Structure and evolution of the rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region 2 in the symbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium, Dinophyta). Journal of Phycology 43:120-128.

Ivey, J.L., S.R. Santos. 2007. The complete mitochondrial genome of the Hawaiian anchialine shrimp Halocaridina rubra Holthuis, 1963 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae). Gene 394:35-44.

Santos, S.R. 2006. Patterns of genetic connectivity among anchialine habitats: a case study of the endemic Hawaiian shrimp Halocaridina rubra on the Island of Hawaii. Molecular Ecology 15:2699-2718.

Moran, N.A., P.H. Degan, S.R. Santos, H.E. Dunbar, H. Ochman. 2005. The players in a mutualistic symbiosis: Insects, bacteria, viruses and virulence genes. PNAS USA 102:16919-16926.

Santos, S.R., T.L. Shearer, A.R. Hannes, M.A. Coffroth. 2004. Fine-scale diversity and specificity in the most prevalent lineage of symbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium, Dinophyceae) of the Caribbean. Molecular Ecology 13:459-469.

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