Research Interests
In the broadest sense, our research focuses on understanding
the ultimate and proximate causes of physiological
diversity in relation to environmental variation and
environmental stresses, and understanding the ecological
consequences of physiological response limits. The
main organisms that we study are coastal marine invertebrates,
especially porcelain crabs in the genus Petrolisthes,
but also other organisms such as corals and snails.
The main research tools that we apply are in vivo
physiological measurements, such as cardiac
activity and metabolic rate, and molecular measurements
at biochemical (e.g., enzymatic properties) and molecular
levels (e.g., transcriptome profiling using cDNA microarrays).
The focal project of the laboratory right now is to
examine correlated changes in thermal phenotype and
gene expression during thermal acclimation, thermal
acclimatization, and responses to thermal stress in
porcelain crabs.
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Selected Papers
Teranishi,
K.S.* and J.H. Stillman. 2007. A
cDNA microarray analysis of the response to heat stress
in hepatopancreas tissue of the porcelain crab Petrolisthes
cinctipes. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology
Part D: Genomics and Proteomics. 2: 53-62.
Stillman,
J.H., K.S. Teranishi*, A. Tagmount, E.A. Lindquist,
P.B Brokstein. 2006. Construction and characterization
of EST libraries from the porcelain crab, Petrolisthes
cinctipes. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 46:
919-930.
Pörtner, H.O., Bennett, A.F.,
Bozinovic, F., Clarke, A., Lardies, M.A., Lenski,
R.E., Lucassen, M., Pelster, B., Schiemer, F., Stillman,
J.H. 2006. Tradeoffs in thermal adaptation: the need
for a molecular to ecological integration. Physiological
and Biochemical Zoology 79(2): 295-313.
Stillman, J.H. 2004. A comparative
analysis of plasticity of thermal limits in porcelain
crabs across latitudinal and intertidal zone clines.
International Congress Series. 1275C: 267-275.
Stillman, J.H. and F.H. Barnwell.
2004. Daily and tidal rhythms of locomotor activity
in the fiddler crab Uca princeps (Smith) (Crustacea,
Brachyura, Decapoda) and their relationship to the
harmonic structure of semidiurnal and mixed tides.
Marine Biology. 144: 473-482.
Stillman, J.H. 2003. Acclimation
Capacity Underlies Climate Change Susceptibility.
Science 301: 65.
Leary, S.C., C.N. Lyons, A.G. Rosenberger, J.S. Ballantyne,
J.H. Stillman, C.D. Moyes. 2003.
Fiber-type differences in muscle mitochondrial profiles.
American Journal of Physiology. 285: R817-826
Stillman, J.H. 2002. Physiological
tolerance limits in intertidal crabs. Integrative
and Comparative Biology (formerly American Zoologist).
42(4): 790-796.
Dahlhoff, E.P., J.H. Stillman and
B.A Menge. 2002. Variation in metabolic activity of
ecologically important rocky intertidal invertebrates
along environmental gradients. Integrative and Comparative
Biology (formerly American Zoologist). 42(4): 862-871.
Stillman, J.H. and C. Reeb. 2001.
Molecular phylogeny of eastern Pacific porcelain crabs,
genera Petrolisthes and Pachycheles, based on the
mtDNA 16s rDNA sequence: Phylogeographic and systematic
implications. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
19: 236-245.
Stillman, J.H. and G.N. Somero. 2001.
A comparative analysis of the evolutionary patterning
and mechanistic bases of lactate dehydrogenase thermal
stability in porcelain crabs, genus Petrolisthes.
Journal of Experimental Biology. 204: 767-776.
Stillman, J.H. 2000. The evolutionary
history and adaptive significance of secondary respiratory
structures in intertidal crabs: relationships with
body size and vertical distribution. Physiological
and Biochemical Zoology. 73(1): 86-96.
Stillman, J.H. and G.N. Somero. 2000.
A Comparative Analysis of the Upper Thermal Tolerance
Limits of Eastern Pacific Porcelain Crabs, Genus Petrolisthes:
Influences of Latitude, Vertical Zonation, Acclimation,
and Phylogeny. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.
73(2): 200-208.
Stillman, J.H. and G.N. Somero. 1996.
Adaptation to temperature stress and aerial exposure
in congeneric species of intertidal porcelain crabs
(Genus Petrolisthes): Correlation of physiology, biochemistry
and morphology with vertical distribution. Journal
of Experimental Biology. 199: 1845-1855.
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