Melania Cristescu

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Melania Cristescu

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#6777

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#9567

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Ecology

#1095

World Rank

#1190

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Biology

Melania Cristescu's Degrees

Masters Ecology McGill University
PhD Conservation Biology University of British Columbia

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According to Wikipedia, Melania Elena Cristescu is a Romanian–Canadian biologist and ecologist. She is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Ecological Genomics at McGill University and the Co-Editor of Genome.

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Melania Cristescu's Published Works

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From barcoding single individuals to metabarcoding biological communities: towards an integrative approach to the study of global biodiversity. (2014) (329)
Genetic reconstructions of invasion history (2015) (199)
High sensitivity of 454 pyrosequencing for detection of rare species in aquatic communities (2013) (191)
Uses and Misuses of Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Science and Conservation (2018) (170)
Invasion genetics of the Ciona intestinalis species complex: from regional endemism to global homogeneity (2010) (157)
An integrated multi-disciplinary approach for studying multiple stressors in freshwater ecosystems: Daphnia as a model organism. (2011) (144)
An invasion history for Cercopagis pengoi based on mitochondrial gene sequences (2001) (140)
Ameiotic recombination in asexual lineages of Daphnia (2006) (133)
Toward accurate molecular identification of species in complex environmental samples: testing the performance of sequence filtering and clustering methods (2015) (127)
Molecular Ecology Resources Primer Development Consortium (2012) (119)
Divergence thresholds and divergent biodiversity estimates: can metabarcoding reliably describe zooplankton communities? (2015) (109)
Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 August 2009–30 September 2009 (2010) (100)
Use of DNA barcoding to detect invertebrate invasive species from diapausing eggs (2011) (94)
Metabarcoding reveals strong spatial structure and temporal turnover of zooplankton communities among marine and freshwater ports (2016) (90)
The noncosmopolitanism paradigm of freshwater zooplankton: insights from the global phylogeography of the predatory cladoceran Polyphemus pediculus (Linnaeus, 1761) (Crustacea, Onychopoda) (2009) (87)
A microsatellite-based genetic linkage map of the waterflea, Daphnia pulex: On the prospect of crustacean genomics. (2006) (85)
Multilocus genetic analyses differentiate between widespread and spatially restricted cryptic species in a model ascidian (2012) (84)
Can Environmental RNA Revolutionize Biodiversity Science? (2019) (84)
The Rate and Spectrum of Microsatellite Mutation in Caenorhabditis elegans and Daphnia pulex (2008) (80)
Ancient lakes revisited: from the ecology to the genetics of speciation (2010) (78)
Metabarcoding using multiplexed markers increases species detection in complex zooplankton communities (2018) (76)
Early detection of aquatic invaders using metabarcoding reveals a high number of non‐indigenous species in Canadian ports (2016) (73)
Multiple introductions and invasion pathways for the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in Eurasia (2011) (73)
The effects of parameter choice on defining molecular operational taxonomic units and resulting ecological analyses of metabarcoding data. (2016) (72)
Dispersal of the Ponto-Caspian amphipod Echinogammarus ischnus: invasion waves from the Pleistocene to the present (2004) (70)
Release and degradation of environmental DNA and RNA in a marine system. (2019) (70)
High mutation rates in the mitochondrial genomes of Daphnia pulex. (2012) (68)
Genetic perspectives on invasions: the case of the Cladocera (2002) (68)
Distribution, Fecundity, and Genetics of Cercopagis pengoi (Ostroumov) (Crustacea, Cladocera) in Lake Ontario (2001) (67)
Phylogeography of Ponto‐Caspian crustaceans: a benthic–planktonic comparison (2003) (65)
Probing the relationships of the branchiopod crustaceans. (2006) (64)
Speciation with gene flow and the genetics of habitat transitions (2012) (63)
Spontaneous Mutation Accumulation in Daphnia pulex in Selection-Free vs. Competitive Environments (2017) (60)
Taxonomic resolution of the genus Bythotrephes Leydig using molecular markers and re‐evaluation of its global distribution (2002) (60)
Comparative phylogeography of two colonial ascidians reveals contrasting invasion histories in North America (2011) (59)
Complex genetic patterns in closely related colonizing invasive species (2012) (58)
The "Crustacean Seas" — an evolutionary perspective on the Ponto-Caspian peracarids (2005) (57)
Invasion Pathway of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Mediterranean Sea (2013) (53)
The relationship between eDNA particle concentration and organism abundance in nature is strengthened by allometric scaling (2020) (49)
D- and L-lactate dehydrogenases during invertebrate evolution (2008) (47)
Phylogeny and adaptive radiation in the Onychopoda (Crustacea, Cladocera): evidence from multiple gene sequences (2002) (46)
Scale‐dependent post‐establishment spread and genetic diversity in an invading mollusc in South America (2012) (45)
The ancient lakes of Indonesia: towards integrated research on speciation. (2011) (45)
The role of hybridization in the origin and spread of asexuality in Daphnia (2013) (44)
Disentangling invasion processes in a dynamic shipping–boating network (2012) (44)
Efficacy of ‘saltwater flushing’ in protecting the Great Lakes from biological invasions by invertebrate eggs in ships’ ballast sediment (2010) (43)
The Evolutionary History of Sarco(endo)plasmic Calcium ATPase (SERCA) (2012) (42)
Thermal stratification and fish thermal preference explain vertical eDNA distributions in lakes (2020) (42)
Reproducibility of pyrosequencing data for biodiversity assessment in complex communities (2014) (40)
Environmental RNA: A Revolution in Ecological Resolution? (2021) (39)
Speciation with gene flow in a heterogeneous virtual world: can physical obstacles accelerate speciation? (2012) (36)
Pleistocene‐driven diversification in freshwater zooplankton: Genetic patterns of refugial isolation and postglacial recolonization in Leptodora kindtii (Crustacea, Cladocera) (2011) (35)
High rate of large-scale hemizygous deletions in asexually propagating Daphnia: implications for the evolution of sex. (2011) (34)
Effect of shipping traffic on biofouling invasion success at population and community levels (2016) (29)
Genetic Diversity in Introduced Golden Mussel Populations Corresponds to Vector Activity (2013) (28)
Speciation without Pre-Defined Fitness Functions (2015) (27)
Morphological and genetic variability in an alien invasive mussel across an environmental gradient in South America (2014) (25)
Selection Constrains High Rates of Tandem Repetitive DNA Mutation in Daphnia pulex (2017) (22)
Evolutionary factors affecting Lactate dehydrogenase A and B variation in the Daphnia pulex species complex (2011) (21)
Evolutionary History of d-Lactate Dehydrogenases: A Phylogenomic Perspective on Functional Diversity in the FAD Binding Oxidoreductase/Transferase Type 4 Family (2009) (20)
Optimization and performance testing of a sequence processing pipeline applied to detection of nonindigenous species (2018) (20)
Comparative phylogeography of marine cladocerans (2008) (19)
Assessment of current taxonomic assignment strategies for metabarcoding eukaryotes (2020) (18)
Synergistic interactions of biotic and abiotic environmental stressors on gene expression. (2015) (18)
Landscape modification and nutrient-driven instability at a distance. (2020) (17)
Mixed evidence for adaptation to environmental pollution (2019) (17)
Variation in transcriptional responses to copper exposure across Daphnia pulex lineages. (2019) (16)
Towards reproducible metabarcoding data: Lessons from an international cross‐laboratory experiment (2021) (16)
Integrating physiology and environmental dynamics to operationalize environmental DNA (eDNA) as a means to monitor freshwater macro‐organism abundance (2021) (15)
Trophic structure modulates community rescue following acidification (2019) (15)
Assessment of current taxonomic assignment strategies for metabarcoding eukaryotes. (2021) (14)
Speciation patterns and processes in the zooplankton of the ancient lakes of Sulawesi Island, Indonesia (2013) (13)
Accelerated rates of large-scale mutations in the presence of copper and nickel (2018) (12)
The evolution of reproductive isolation in Daphnia (2019) (11)
Fitness and Genomic Consequences of Chronic Exposure to Low Levels of Copper and Nickel in Daphnia pulex Mutation Accumulation Lines (2018) (10)
Population attenuation in zooplankton communities during transoceanic transfer in ballast water (2016) (9)
Horizon scan of conservation issues for inland waters in Canada (2020) (9)
Breaking ecological barriers: Anthropogenic disturbance leads to habitat transitions, hybridization, and high genetic diversity. (2020) (9)
Alternative splicing is highly variable among Daphnia pulex lineages in response to acute copper exposure (2020) (7)
Speciation in Daphnia (2020) (7)
Proteomic Profile of Daphnia pulex using Data‐Independent Acquisition Mass Spectrometry and Ion Mobility Separation (2018) (6)
Bioinformatics for Biomonitoring: Species Detection and Diversity Estimates Across Next-Generation Sequencing Platforms (2018) (4)
Environmental RNA degrades more rapidly than environmental DNA across a broad range of pH conditions (2022) (4)
Benefits of increased colonist quantity and genetic diversity for colonization depend on colonist identity (2019) (4)
Gene Expression Variation in Duplicate Lactate dehydrogenase Genes: Do Ecological Species Show Distinct Responses? (2014) (3)
Metal exposure causes rDNA copy number to fluctuate in mutation accumulation lines of Daphnia pulex. (2020) (3)
Freshwater zooplankton metapopulations and metacommunities respond differently to environmental and spatial variation. (2020) (3)
An Individual-Based Modeling Approach to Investigate Sympatric Speciation via Specialized Resource Usage (2017) (3)
15. GENETIC RECONSTRUCTIONS OF INVASION HISTORY (2016) (3)
A2G2: A Python wrapper to perform very large alignments in semi-conserved regions (2020) (3)
Environmental transcriptomics under heat stress: Can environmental RNA reveal changes in gene expression of aquatic organisms? (2022) (2)
Environmental DNA(eDNA) as a next-generation biomonitoring tool (2017) (2)
The contribution of Nicolae Botnariuc to evolutionary biology using systems theory. (2015) (2)
Genotype diversity promotes the persistence of Daphnia populations exposed to severe copper stress (2021) (2)
Allometric scaling strengthens the relationship between eDNA particle concentration and organism abundance in nature (2020) (2)
The concept of genome after one century of usage. (2019) (2)
Erratum: Ameiotic recombination in asexual lineages of Daphnia (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (December 5, 2006) 103, 49 (18638-18643) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0606435103) (2007) (1)
Highly accelerated rates of heritable large-scale mutations under prolonged exposure to a metal mixture of copper and nickel (2018) (1)
Environmental nucleic acids: A field‐based comparison for monitoring freshwater habitats using eDNA and eRNA (2021) (1)
Ecosystem Entanglement and the Propagation of Nutrient-Driven Instability (2020) (1)
Comparative analysis of zooplankton diversity in freshwaters: What can we gain from metagenomic analysis? (2021) (1)
Invertebrates and resting stages in ships' ballast tanks (2008) (0)
Selection constrains high rates of satellite DNA mutation in Daphnia pulex (2017) (0)
Study of leaves structures that determine the resistance to dryness at succulent plants. (2010) (0)
Genome's 60th anniversary. (2019) (0)
Study of anatomical particularities of leaves and water stress resistance of succulent plants. (2010) (0)
Freshwater connectivity transforms spatially integrated signals of biodiversity (2022) (0)
Ecosystem connectivity and configuration can mediate instability at a distance in metaecosystems (2023) (0)
Researches concerning the propagation through seeds of some Lewisia species. (2010) (0)
Study concerning the behaviour to water stress of some succulent flower plants. (2010) (0)
Study of the structural particularities of leaves in succulent flower plants. (2009) (0)
Genetic variation of the invasive golden mussel Limnoperna fortunei in Asia and South America: parallels and contrasts (2012) (0)
Invertebrates and resting stages in ships entering Canadian freshwater and marine ports (2009) (0)
Prioritizing taxa for genetic reference database development to advance inland water conservation (2023) (0)
A mysterious world underwater: Plankton biodiversity in major Canadian ports as revealed by next generation sequencing (2012) (0)
The evolution of reproductive isolation in Daphnia (2019) (0)
Historical perspectives on reconstructing invasion histories (2015) (0)
Research on the influence of the sampling periods on the propagation to cuttings at some succulent plants. (2011) (0)
CORRECTIONS (2014) (0)
Issue Highlights (2018) (0)
Researches on the influence of the period of prelevation on the propagation through cuttings of succulent plants. (2010) (0)
Effect of shipping traffic on biofouling invasion success at population and community levels (2016) (0)
Study of anatomical particularities of foliar limb at succulent flower plants. (2009) (0)
Values for user-specified parameters. (2015) (0)
Research regarding the influence of the period of cuttings prelevation and biostimulators on the rooting of succulent flower plants. (2009) (0)
SPECIAL ISSUE: INVASION GENETICS: THE BAKER AND STEBBINS LEGACY INVITED REVIEWS AND SYNTHESES Genetic reconstructions of invasion history (2015) (0)
Comparative assessment of invertebrates and resting stages in sediment of ballasted ships entering Canadian Great Lakes and marine ports (2008) (0)
Encouraging data sharing in Genome. (2020) (0)
Phylogeography of the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in Eurasia (2013) (0)

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