James P Bernot

James P Bernot
University of Connecticut | UConn · Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

PhD
Invertebrate zoologist specializing in parasitic copepod evolution and crustacean genomics

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Introduction
My research program focuses on parasite evolution, crustacean genomics, and copepod taxonomy and systematics. I use advanced imaging and molecular approaches to study crustacean evolution in a phylogenetic context. I am interested in multiple elements of host-parasite interactions in a variety of parasite groups including barnacles, tapeworms, and nematodes, but my primary focus is on parasitic copepods.
Additional affiliations
August 2016 - December 2020
George Washington University
Position
  • Research Assistant
Description
  • Parasitology BISC 2339 TA each Fall semester
September 2015 - December 2020
George Washington University
Position
  • Research Assistant
Description
  • HealthCare Informatics Administrator and Trainer. Responsibilities include study design and database administration for healthcare tools like REDCap and ResearchMatch. I also teach monthly healthcare informatics training courses on these tools to staff at GWU, GW Hospital, GW MFA, and Children's National Hospital.
September 2015 - December 2020
Smithsonian Institution
Position
  • Research Associate
Description
  • Smithsonian Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History working with Dr. Anna Phillips (Research Zoologist). I am involved in research and public outreach at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC
Education
August 2015 - December 2020
George Washington University
Field of study
  • Genomics and Bioinformatics
August 2012 - August 2015
University of Connecticut
Field of study
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
August 2008 - August 2012
University of Connecticut
Field of study
  • Biology

Publications

Publications (24)
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A 2016 collaborative survey of commercial fish parasites in Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia led to the discovery of two new species of parasitic copepods belonging to the family Bomolochidae. Females of Nothobomolochus johndaveorum n. sp. were found attached to the gill filaments of Gerres subfasciatus and Gerres oyena. The new species most clos...
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Free-living nematodes respond to variable and unpredictable environmental stimuli whereas parasitic nematodes exist in a more stable host environment. A positive correlation between the presence of environmental stages in the nematode life cycle and an increasing number of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) reflects this difference in free-living...
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The Copepoda is a clade of pancrustaceans containing 14,485 species that are extremely varied in their morphology and lifestyle. Not only do copepods dominate marine plankton and sediment communities and make up a sizeable component of the freshwater plankton, but over 6,000 species are symbiotically associated with every major phylum of marine met...
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Background The barnacles are a group of >2,000 species that have fascinated biologists, including Darwin, for centuries. Their lifestyles are extremely diverse, from free-swimming larvae to sessile adults, and even root-like endoparasites. Barnacles also cause hundreds of millions of dollars of losses annually due to biofouling. However, genomic re...
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The clade Pancrustacea, comprising crustaceans and hexapods, is the most diverse group of animals on earth, containing over 80% of animal species and half of animal biomass. It has been the subject of several recent phylogenomic analyses, yet relationships within Pancrustacea show a notable lack of stability. Here, the phylogeny is estimated with e...
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The copepod family Shiinoidae Cressey, 1975 currently comprises nine species of teleost parasites with unusual morphology and a unique attachment mechanism. Female shiinoids possess greatly enlarged antennae that oppose a rostrum, an elongate outgrowth of cuticle that originates between the antennules. The antennae form a moveable clasp against the...
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In total, 13 species of Caligus have been reported from Malaysia. Amongst them, four species are reported from lutjanid fishes. Caligus dussumieri Rangnekar, 1957 is reported from Malabar snapper, Lutjanus malabaricus , purchased from a local wet market in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia. This is the first record of this species in Malaysia and it...
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Supplementary descriptions are provided for six poorly known species of Caligus, based on a study of type and other material carried out by the late Roger F. Cressey but never published. As part of that study new illustrations were produced by Hillary Boyle Cressey who has kindly made these previously unpublished drawings available to this paper. T...
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The clade Pancrustacea, comprising crustaceans and hexapods, is the most diverse group of animals on earth, containing over 80% of animal species. It has been the subject of several recent phylogenomic analyses, but despite analyzing hundreds of genes, relationships within Pancrustacea show a notable lack of stability. Here, the phylogeny is estima...
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Teaching biology laboratories remotely presents unique problems and challenges for instructors. Microscopic examination of specimens, as is common in parasitology labs, is especially difficult given the limited quantity of teaching specimens and the need for each student to have access to a microscope at their remote location. Observing images of p...
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Supporting data for the manuscript "Chromosome-level genome assembly, annotation, and phylogenomics of the gooseneck barnacle Pollicipes pollicipes" https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac021 This includes the genome sequence and annotation (from NCBI) as well as all BUSCO results, alignments, phylogenetic trees, read counts, and differential gen...
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Background Black Americans have a higher incidence and mortality rate from colorectal cancer compared to their non-Hispanic White American counterparts. Even when controlling for sociodemographic differences between these 2 populations, Black Americans remain disproportionately affected by colorectal cancer. The purpose of our study was to determin...
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LgDel mice, which model the heterozygous deletion of genes at human chromosome 22q11.2 associated with DiGeorge/22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS), have cranial nerve and craniofacial dysfunction as well as disrupted suckling, feeding and swallowing, similar to key 22q11DS phenotypes. Divergent trigeminal nerve (CN V) differentiation and altered t...
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The total number of species of Lernanthropidae previously recorded from Australian waters is 15 (i.e., one species each of Aethon Krøyer, 1837, Lernanthropodes Bere, 1936, and Lernanthropsis Do, in Ho & Do, 1985; 10 species of Lernanthropus de Blainville, 1822; and two species of Sagum Wilson, 1913), and all of these records are reviewed. We report...
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LgDel mice, which model the heterozygous deletion of genes at human chromosome 22q11.2 associated with DiGeorge/22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome (22q11DS), have cranial nerve and craniofacial dysfunction as well as disrupted suckling, feeding, and swallowing, similar to key 22q11DS phenotypes. Divergent trigeminal nerve (CN V) differentiation and altered...
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Bronchiolitis is the leading cause of hospitalizations among infants in the U.S. Two major respiratory viruses—respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and rhinovirus (RV)—account for 85% of severe bronchiolitis (bronchiolitis resulting in hospitalization). While bronchiolitis has been considered a single disease entity and currently available management...
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Previous studies suggest that cestodes (i.e., tapeworms) of the sister genera Symcallio and Calliobothrium attach in different specific regions of the spiral intestine of their triakid shark hosts, with species of Symcallio attaching in the anterior region of the spiral intestine and species of Calliobothrium attaching with a broader distribution c...
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Many parasites, including hookworms of the genus Ancylostoma , are specialists and require host‐specific signals to resume development upon infection. Although little is known about the nature of these signaling molecules, evolutionary conservation between hookworms and the model nematode C. elegans suggests that hookworm host‐signal receptors are...
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Salinity gradients are critical habitat determinants for freshwater organisms. Silverside fishes in the genus Odontesthes have recently and repeatedly transitioned from marine to freshwater habitats, overcoming a strong ecological barrier. Genomic and transcrip-tomic changes involved in this kind of transition are only known for a few model species...
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Both sexes of a new species of pandarid copepod are described from sharks of the genus Squalus L. (Squaliformes: Squalidae). Specimens of Pseudopandarus cairae n. sp. were collected from Squalus bucephalus Last, Séret & Pogonoski and S. melanurus Fourmanoir & Rivaton in New Caledonian waters, the first parasitic copepod to be described from either...
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The laciniate, relatively large-bodied tetraphyllidean tapeworm genus Calliobothrium van Beneden, 1850 parasitises triakid sharks with all but one species found parasitising sharks of the genus Mustelus Linck, 1790. Historically, species of this genus were thought to exhibit a relaxed degree of host specificity relative to species of their sister g...
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This paper aims to resolve the dual composition of the triakid shark-hosted tetraphyllidean genus Calliobothrium-an issue that has been recognized for over a decade. As it stands, this genus includes a number of large species with laciniate proglottids, most of which bear 3 suckers at the anterior margin of each bothridium, but it also includes a n...

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