Publications:
Tim Shank

Phone: 508-289-3992

E-mail: tshank@whoi.edu

Research interests:

Combining molecular genetic approaches and ecological field studies to understand the:
  • factors that structure metapopulation dynamics and influence marine community development

  • process of speciation in the evolution and radiation of marine metazoan lineages in relation to the history of contrasting biogeographic regions

Tim was recently promoted to
Assistant Scientist in Biology

Gebruk, A., Chevaldonné, P., Shank, T.M., Lutz, R.A. and R.C. Vrijenhoek (2000) Hydrothermal Vent Communities of the Logatchev area (14°45'N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge): Evidence for High Diversity and Biomass. Marine Ecological Progress Series, in press.

Sheader M, Van Dover, CL and T.M. Shank (2000) Structure and function of Halice hesmonectes (Amphipoda: Pardaliscidae) swarms from hydrothermal vents in the eastern Pacific. Marine Biology, in press.

Humes, A.G., and T.M. Shank (2000) Siphonostomatoid copepods from hydrothermal vents at the Southern East Pacific Rise. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, in press.

Shank, T.M., Black, M.B., Halanych, K., Lutz, R.A., and R.C. Vrijenhoek (1999) Miocene Radiation of Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent Shrimp (Caridea: Bresiliidae): Evidence from Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase subunit I. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution,13:2; 244-254.

Chadwick, W.W., Embley, R.W., and T.M. Shank (1999) The 1996 Gorda Ridge Eruption: Geologic Mapping, Sidescan Sonar, and SeaBeam Comparison Results. Deep-Sea Research, 45: 2547-2569.

Vrijenhoek, R.C., Shank, T.M., R.A. Lutz (1998) Gene Flow and Modes of Dispersal in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Animals. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 39:363-366.

Shank, T.M., Fornari, D.J., Von Damm, K.L., Lilley, M.D., Haymon, R.M., and R.A. Lutz (1998) Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Biological Community Development at Nascent Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents along the East Pacific Rise. Deep-Sea Research, 45:465-515.

Shank, T.M., Lutz, R.A., and R.C. Vrijenhoek (1998) Molecular Systematics of shrimp (Decapoda: Bresiliidae) from Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents: Enigmatic "Small Orange" Shrimp from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge are juvenile Rimicaris exoculata. Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology, 7:2:88-96.

Fornari, D.J., Shank, T.M., Von Damm, K.L., Gregg, T.K.P., Lilley, M.D., Levai, G., Bray, A., Haymon, Perfit, M., and R.A. Lutz (1998) Time-Series Temperature Measurements at High-Temperature Hydrothermal Vents, East Pacific Rise 9 °49'-51'N: Monitoring a Crustal Cracking Event. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 160:419-431.

Cary, S.C., Shank, T.M., and J. Stein (1998) Worms bask in extreme temperatures. Nature, 391:545-546.

Feldman, R.A., Shank, T.M., Baco, A., Vrijenhoek, R.C., and C.R. Smith (1998) Vestimentiferan on a Whalefall. Biological Bulletin, 194:116-119.

Lutz, R.A., Desbruyères, D., Shank, T.M., and R.C. Vrijenhoek. (1998) A Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Community Dominated by Stauromedusae. Deep-Sea Research, 45:329-334.

Lutz, R.A., Shank, T.M., Fornari, D.J., Haymon, R.M., Lilley, M.D., Von Damm, K.L., and D. Desbruyeres (1994) Rapid Growth at Deep-Sea Vents. Nature, 371:663-664.

Fornari, D.J., Van Dover, C.L., Shank, T.M., Lutz, R., and M. Olsson (1994) A Versatile, Low-Cost Temperature-Sensing Device for Time-Series Measurements at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents. Bridge, 13:1-3.

Gallagher, J. George, M., Kohan, M. Thompson, C. and T. Shank (1993) Detection and Comparison of DNA Adducts after invitro and invivo Diesel Emission Exposures. Environmental Health Perspectives, 99:225-228.

Gallagher, J.E., Shank, T.M., Lewtas, J., Lefevre, P.A., and J. Ashby (1991) Relative Sensitivity of 32P-postlabeling of DNA and the Autoradiographic UDS Assay in the Liver of Rats Exposed to 2-Acetylaminofluorene (2AAF). Mutation Research, 252: 247-257.

Ashby, J., Lefevre, P.A., Shank, T.M., Lewtas, J., and J.E. Gallagher (1991) Relative Sensitivity of 32P-postlabeling of DNA and the Autoradiographic UDS Assay in the Liver of Mice Exposed to 2-Acetylaminofluorene (2AAF). Mutation Research, 252:259-268.