La vida moderna es un reto - Documentamos las condiciones físicas en los trópicos y estudiamos cómo los organismos, las comunidades y los sistemas socio-ecológicos responden a las adversidades ambientales como las olas de calor y la hipoxia en nuestro mundo cambiante
2002 Ph.D., University of Chicago, Committee on Evolutionary Biology
1996 M.Sc. University of Washington Department of Zoology
1993 Sc.B. Aquatic Biology, Brown University; Magna cum Laude and departmental honors.
Collin, R., M. Madrid, D.E. Venera-Pontón, K. S. Macdonald, A. de Leon, D. Vrdoljak, M. J. Boyle, P. Bryant, T. Arehart, and A. C. Driskell. 2023. Diversity and Genetic
Connectivity of Atlantid Gastropods in the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Invertebrate Biology. 142: e12395
Maslakova S. C.I. Ellison, T. C. Hiebert, F. Conable, M.C. Heaphy, D. E. Venera-Pontón, J. L. Norenburg, M. L. Schwartz, N. D. Moss, M. J. Boyle, A. C. Driskell, K. S. Macdonald III, E.E. Zattara, R. Collin. 2022. Sampling multiple life stages significantly increases estimates of biodiversity. Royal Society Letters. 18 (4), 20210596.
Collin, R., Rebolledo A., Smith, E. and K.Y.K. Chan. 2021. Thermal tolerance of early development predicts the realized thermal niche of marine ecotherms. Functional Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13850
Collin, R., S. Fredericq, D. W. Freshwater, E. Gilbert, M. Madrid, S. Maslakova, M. P. Miglietta, R. Rocha, E. Rodriguez, R. W. Thacker. 2016. TaxaGloss - A glossary and translation tool for biodiversity studies. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e10732. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e10732
Collin, R and K.Y.K. Chan. 2016. The sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus lives close to the upper thermal limit for early development in a tropical lagoon. Ecology and Evolution. 6: 5623-5634. doi:10.1002/ece3.2317
Carrillo-Baltodano A. and R. Collin. 2015. Crepidula slipper limpets alter sex change in response to physical contact with conspecifics. Biological Bulletin. 229:232-242.
Collin, R. 2013. Phylogenetic patterns and phenotypic plasticity of molluscan sexual systems. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 53: 723-735. doi: 10.1093/icb/ict076
Collin, R. 2012. Temperature-mediated trade-offs in the life histories of two slipper limpets (Gastropoda: Calyptraeidae) with planktotrophic development. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 106: 763-775.
Collin, R. and M. Miglietta. 2008. Reversing opinions on Dollo's Law. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 23: 602-609.
Collin, R. 2004. The loss of complex characters, phylogenetic effects, and the evolution of development in a family of marine gastropods. Evolution. 58 (7): 1488-1502.
Collin, R. 2001. The effects of mode of development on phylogeography and population structure of North Atlantic Crepidula (Gastropoda: Calyptraeidae). Molecular Ecology. 10: 2249-2262.
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