Publications

2024

Waters, C., Hurt, C., Krosnick, K.  Looking to the past to inform the future: what eDNA from herbarium specimens can tell us about plant-animal interactions. (2024). Applications in Plant Science, in press.

Douglas, F. Elias M., Almeida A., Martinez P., Hultgren K., Hurt, C. Climatic niche evolution and speciation modes in the transisthmian Alpheus shrimps (2024). Journal of Biogeography,
https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14864

Walker, A., Wheeler K., Hurt, C. (2024). eDNA Illuminates Broader-Than-Expected Distribution of an Imperiled Freshwater Darter Species (Percidae: Etheostoma striatulum) in the Duck River, Tennessee. Southeastern Naturalist. 23: 259-281. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/eDNA-illuminates.pdf

Rouze, H., Knowlton N., Anker A., Hurt C., Wirshing H., Wormhoudt A. V., Leray M. (2024). An integrative phylogeographic approach for inferring cryptic speciation in the Alpheus lottini
species complex, an important coral mutualist. iScience, In Press. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/integrative-phylogeography.pdf

2023

Casaubon A., Hultgren K., Murray C., Hurt, C. (2023). Application of integrative taxonomy
combining phylogenetic and geometric morphometric techniques in a snapping shrimp
(Alpheus) species complex (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology. 43
(4), Ruad078 http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/application-of-integrative-taxonomy.pdf

Hildreth, P., Hurt C.R., Simmons, J.W., Williams, C.E. and Leckie B.(2023) Species Delimitation Reveals Fine-Scale Endemism in the Cryptic Species Complex Faxonius placidus (Hagen 1870) (Decapoda: Astacidea: Cambaridae). Journal of Crustacean Biology, 43(30), p.ruad040. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/Molecular-species-delimination.pdf

Roger Thoma, Hurt, C. Carl Williams and David Withers. Insights on the evolution and conservation of Appalachian burrowing crayfishes, with the description of a new species of Cambarus Erichson, 1846 (Decapoda: Astacidea: Cambaridae) Journal of Crustacean Biology, 2023, 43, 1–12 http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/insights-on-the-evolution.pdf


2022

Hurt, C., Hubbs NW, Niedzwiecki J, Leckie B, Withers D (2022) Conservation genomics of urban populations of Streamside Salamander (Ambystoma barbouri). PLoS ONE 17(6): e0260178. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/journal.pone_.0260178-1.pdf

Hurt, C., Hildreth, P. & Williams, C. A genomic perspective on the conservation status of the endangered Nashville crayfish (Faxonius shoupi). Conserv Genet (2022) Conserv Genet 23, 589–604. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/a-genomic-perspective-on-the-conservation.pdf


2021

Hurt, Carla, & Hultgren, Kristin & Anker, Arthur & Lemmon, Alan & Lemmon, Emily & Bracken Grissom, Heather. (2021). First Worldwide Molecular Phylogeny of the Morphologically and Ecologically Hyperdiversified Snapping Shrimp Genus Alpheus (Malacostraca: Decapoda). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 158. 107080.

Silliman, K., Indorf, J.L., Knowlton, N. et al. Base-substitution mutation rate across the nuclear genome of Alpheus snapping shrimp and the timing of isolation by the Isthmus of Panama. BMC Ecol Evo 21, 104 (2021). http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/base-substitution-mutation-rate.pdf


2019

Hurt, C., Thoma, R.F., Withers, D.I., Williams, C.E. and Paine, R.T., 2019. Extensive regional endemism and cryptic diversity in the Tennessee and Kentucky, USA populations of the burrowing crayfish Cambarus deweesae (Bouchard & Etnier, 1979)(Decapoda: Astacidea: Cambaridae) as revealed by molecular genetics. Journal of Crustacean Biology. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/extensive-regional-endemism.pdf

Hurt, C., N. Ellis, A. Harman, C. Savage (2019). Genetic Structure at the Major Histocompatibility Complex in the Endangered Barrens Topminnow (Fundulus julisia).  Southeastern Naturalist. 18, 29-36. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/genetic-structure-at-the-major.pdf

Paine RTR, Hurt CR, Mattingly HT. Monitoring a minuscule madtom: Environmental DNA surveillance of the endangered pygmy madtom (Noturus stanauli Etnier & Jenkins 1980) in the Duck and Clinch rivers, Tennessee. Environmental DNA. 2021;00:1–15. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/Environmental-DNA-2021-Paine-Monitoring-a-minuscule-madtom.pdf


2018

Malone, E., J. Perkin, B. Leckie, M. Kulp, C. Hurt, D. Walker. (2018). Which species, how many, and from where: Integrating habitat suitability, population genomics, and abundance estimates into species reintroduction planning. Global Change Biology 24: 3729-3738. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/which-species-how-many.pdf


2017

Ferrell H., C. Hurt, and P. Bettoli. 2017.  Genetic Stock Assessment and Hatchery Contributions of Sauger Stocked into Old Hickory Lake, Tennessee. Southeastern Naturalist 16: 411-425. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/Ferrell-GeneticStockAssessment-2017.pdf

Hurt C, Kuhajda B, Harman A and M.  Nalan. 2017. Genetic variation in the imperiled Barrens Topminnow (Fundulus julisia). Conservation Genetics 18: 1347-1358. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/genetic-diversity-and-population-structure.pdf

Hurt C. and A. Harman. 2017. Development and assessment of polymorphic microsatellite markers in the endangered Barrens Topminnow. Applied Ichthyology 33:797-800. 0018000000. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/development-of-polymorphic-microsatellite-loci.pdf


2014

Hultgren K.S., Anker A, and C. Hurt. 2014. Phylogenetic relationships within the snapping shrimp genus Synalpheus (Decapoda: Alpheidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 77: 116-125. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/phylogenetic-relationships.pdf


2013

Hurt C., K. Silliman, Anker A. and N. Knowlton. 2013. Ecological Speciation in the Caribbean anemone shrimp (genus Alpheus). Molecular Ecology. 22:4532-4548. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/Ecological-speciation-in-anemone‐associated-snapping-shrimps.pdf

Hurt C. and W. Browne. 2013. Molecular phylogenetic relationships among the hyperiids, a diverse group of pelagic amphipod crustaceans. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 67:28-37. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/molecular-phylogenetic-evidence.pdf


2012

Hedrick P., Lee R., and C. Hurt. 2012. Genetic evaluation of captive populations of endangered species and merging of populations: Gila topminnows as an example. Journal of Heredity 103:651-660. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/ess048-compressed.pdf

Hedrick P. and C. Hurt. 2012. Conservation genetics and evolution in an endangered species: research in Sonoran topminnow. Evolutionary Applications 5: 809-819. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/Conservation-genetics-and-evolution-in-an-endangered-species-research-in.pdf


2009

Hurt C., Anker A. and N. Knowlton. 2009. A multilocus test of simultaneous divergence across the Isthmus of Panama using snapping shrimp in the genus Alpheus. Evolution 63: 514–530. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/Evolution-2009-Hurt-A-MULTILOCUS-TEST-OF-SIMULTANEOUS-DIVERGENCE-ACROSS-THE-ISTHMUS-OF-PANAMA-USING-SNAPPING-SHRIMP.pdf

Anker A., Hurt C. and N. Knowlton. 2009. Description of cryptic taxa within the Alpheus bouvieri A. Milne–Edwards, 1878 and A. hebes Kim and Abele, 1988 species complexes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) Zootaxa  2153: 1–23. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/description-of-cryptic-taxa.pdf


2008

Anker A., Hurt C. and N. Knowlton. 2008. Revision of the Alpheus formosus Gibbes, 1850 complex, with redescription of A. formosus and description of a new species from the tropical western Atlantic (Crustacea : Decapoda : Alpheidae). Zootaxa 1707: 1–22. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/revision-of-the-Alpheus-formosus.pdf

Anker A., Hurt C., Jara J. A. and N. Knowlton. 2008. Revision of the Alpheus cylindricus Kingsley, 1878 species complex (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae), with revalidation of A. vanderbilti Boone, 1930. Zootaxa. 1943: 53–68. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/revision-of-the-Alpheus-cylindricus.pdf

Anker A., Hurt C. and N. Knowlton. 2008. Revision of the Alpheus websteri Kingsley, 1880 species complex (Crustacea : Decapoda : Alpheidae), with revalidation of A. arenensis (Chace, 1937). Zootaxa 1694: 51–68. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/revision-of-Alpheus-websteri.pdf

Anker A., Hurt C. and N. Knowlton. 2008. Revision of the Alpheus cristulifrons species complex (Crustacea : Decapoda : Alpheidae), with description of a new species from the tropical eastern Atlantic. Journal of The Marine Biological Association Of The United Kingdom. 88: 543–562. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/revision-of-the-Alpheus-cristulifrons.pdf


2007

Anker A., Hurt C. and N. Knowlton. 2007. Revision of the Alpheus nuttingi (Schmitt) species complex, with description of a new species from the tropical eastern Pacific (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae).  Zootaxa  1577: 41–60. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/revision-of-the-Alpheus-nuttingi.pdf

Anker A., Hurt C. and N. Knowlton. 2007.  Alpheus christofferseni, n. sp. and A. aequus Kim & Abele, 1988 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae): Three transisthmian snapping shrimps associated with innkeeper worms (Echiura).  Zootaxa 1626: 1–23. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/three-transisthmian-snapping-shrimps.pdf


2006

Olendorf R., Rodd H. F., Punzalan D, Houde A., Hurt C., Reznick D. N. and  K. A. Hughes. 2006. Frequency–dependent Survival in Natural Guppy Populations. Nature 441: 633–636. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/frequency-dependent-survival.pdf

Hedrick P. W., Hurt C. R., and R. Lee. 2006. Species and ESUs in the Endangered Sonoran Topminnow. Conservation Genetics 7: 483–492. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/species-and-ESUs.pdf


2005

Hurt C. R., Farzin M., and P. W. Hedrick.  2005. Examining the process of allopatric speciation in the endangered Sonoran topminnow using cytonuclear genotype frequencies. Genetics 71: 655–672. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/premating-not-postmating.pdf


2004

Hurt C. R. 2004.  Conservation genetics in aquatic species: General approaches and case studies in fishes and springsnails of arid lands. Aquatic Sciences – Research Across Boundaries. 66: 402–413. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/Conservation-genetics-in-aquatic-species.pdf

Hurt, C. R. 2004. Genetic divergence, population structure, and historical demography of endangered springsnails (Pyrgulopsis) in the lower Colorado River basin. Molecular Ecology 13: 1173–1187. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/Molecular-Ecology-2004-Hurt-Genetic-divergence-population-structure-and-historical-demography-of-rare-springsnails-.pdf

Hurt, C. R. Stears-Ellis S., Hughes K. A., and P. W. Hedrick. 2004. Mating Behavior of two allopatric species of the endangered Sonoran topminnow.  Animal Behavior67: 343–351. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/The_endangered_Sonoran_topminnow_Examination_of_sp.pdf


2003

Hurt, C. R. and P. W. Hedrick. 2003. Initial stages of reproductive isolation in two species of the endangered Sonoran topminnow. Genetic Divergence and reproductive isolation in the Sonoran topminnow. Evolution. 57: 2835–2841. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/Evolution-2007-Hurt-INITIAL-STAGES-OF-REPRODUCTIVE-ISOLATION-IN-TWO-SPECIES-OF-THE-ENDANGERED-SONORAN-TOPMINNOW.pdf

Hurt C.R., Meredith S., and P. Hamilton.2003. Evolutionary Ecology: Integrating theory, Technology and Ecology. Conservation Biology 17: 342–343. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/Evolutionary_Ecology_Integrating_Theory.pdf

King K. A., Zaun B. J., Schotborgh H. M. and C. Hurt. 2003. DDE–induced eggshell thinning in white–faced ibis: A continuing problem in the western United States. Southwestern Naturalist 48: 356–364. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/King-DDEInducedEggshellThinning-2003.pdf

Zaun B. J., King K. A., Hurt C. and B. J. Schotborgh. 2003. First record of white–faced ibis, Plegadis chihi, nesting in Arizona. Southwestern Naturalist 48: 130–131. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/First_record_of_white-faced_ibis_Plegadis_chihi_ne.pdf


1999

Rawls J., Hurt C., Parsons S., and A. Rawls. 1999. Differential regulation of epaxial and hypaxial muscle development by Paraxis. Development 126: 5217–5229. http://sites.tntech.edu/hurtlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2025/01/Differential-regulation-of-epaxial-and-hypaxial-muscle-development-by-Paraxis.pdf