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McAlister JS, Moran AL. In Prep. A comparative analysis of the energetics of larval morphogenesis in tropical American Echinometra sea urchins.

Ianiello CF, McAlister JS, Rotjan RD. In Prep. Nutrient or pollutant? Disentangling the effects of nitrogen on urbanized corals in a changing ocean.

Ianiello CF, McAlister JS, Ferrier-Pages C, Rotjan RD. In Review. Examining energy flow in Scleractinian corals: efforts to trace energetic pathways in symbiotic, mixotrophic systems.

Carrier TJ, McAlister JS. 2022. Microbiota associated with echinoid eggs and the implications for maternal provisioning. Marine Ecology Progress Series 683:67-79. GET PDF.

Hernández JC, Clemente S, García E, McAlister JS. 2020. Egg composition and larval development of an oceanic drifter, the sea urchin Diadema africanum. Journal of Plankton Research. DOI:10.1093/plankt/fbaa016 

Hodin J., Heyland A, Mercier A, Pernet B, Cohen DL, Hamel J-F, Allen JD, McAlister JS, Byrne M, Cisternas P, George SB. 2019. Culturing echinoderm larvae through metamorphosis. Chapter 6 in Foltz K, Hamdoun A (eds.). Methods in Cell Biology 150 - Echinoderms. Part A: Procurement, experimental embryology and classroom approaches. Elsevier: Oxford, UK.   

McAlister JS, Miner BG. 2018. Phenotypic plasticity of feeding structures in marine invertebrate larvae. In: Evolutionary Ecology of Marine Invertebrate Larvae, Eds. T. Carrier, A. Reitzel, A. Heyland. Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198786962.003.0008 GET PDF

Marshall D, McAlister JS, Reitzel AM. 2018. Evolutionary ecology of parental investment and larval diversity. In: Evolutionary Ecology of Marine Invertebrate Larvae, Eds. T. Carrier, A. Reitzel, A. Heyland. Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198786962.003.0003 GET PDF

García E, Clemente S, López C, McAlister JS, Hernández JC.  2015. Ocean warming modulates the effects of limited food availability on Paracentrotus lividus larval development.  Marine Biology 162:1463–1472. GET PDF 

McAlister JS, Moran AL. 2013. Effects of variation in egg energy and exogenous food on larval development in congeneric sea urchins. Marine Ecology Progress Series 490: 155-167.  http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v490/p155-167/

Moran AL, McAlister JS, Whitehill EAG. 2013. Eggs as energy: revisiting the scaling of egg size and energetic content among Echinoderms. Biological Bulletin 224: 184-191. GET PDF

McAlister JS, Moran AL. 2012. Relationships among egg size, composition, and energy: A comparative study of geminate sea urchins. PLoSONE 7(7): e41599. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041599. GET PDF

Moran AL, McAlister JS. 2009. Egg size as a life history character of marine invertebrates: Is it all it’s cracked up to be? Biological Bulletin 216: 226-242.  GET PDF

McAlister JS. 2008. Evolutionary responses to environmental heterogeneity in Central American echinoid larvae: plastic versus constant phenotypes. Evolution 62(6): 1358-1372.   GET PDF 

McAlister JS. 2007. Egg size and the evolution of plasticity in larvae of the echinoid genus Strongylocentrotus. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 352: 306-316.   GET PDF

Allen JD, McAlister JS. 2007. Testing rates of planktonic versus benthic predation of larvae in the field. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 347: 77-87.  GET PDF

Podolsky RD, McAlister JS. 2005. Developmental plasticity in Macrophiothrix brittlestars: are morphologically convergent larvae also convergently plastic? Biological Bulletin 209(2): 127-138.   GET PDF

Marko PB, Lee SC, Rice AM, Gramling JM, Fitzhenry TM, McAlister JS, Harper GR, Moran AL. 2004. Mislabelling of a depleted reef fish. Nature 430: 309-310.   GET PDF

McAlister JS, Stancyk SE. 2003. Effects of variable water motion on regeneration of Hemipholis elongata (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Invertebrate Biology 122(2): 166-176.  GET PDF

Book Reviews

McAlister JS. 2018. Book Review of Australian Echinoderms: Biology, Ecology and Evolution by Marine Byrne and Timothy O'Hara. Integrative and Comparative Biology, A blog affiliated with the Journal Integrative and Comparative Biology: wp.me/p9gKnb-5j (mini-URL) 

Dissertations/Theses

McAlister JS. 2007. The long arm of the larva: Evolutionary responses to resource availability. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  125pp.

McAlister JS. 1998. Effects of variable water motion on regeneration of the infaunal brittlestar, Hemipholis elongata (Say: 1825) (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea).  M.S. Thesis.  University of South Carolina. 146 pp.