Publications

2023

Hurt, C., Roger Thoma, 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 https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruac066


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. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260178

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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-022-01438-6


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. 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107080.

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). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01836-3


2019

Hurt, C.R., 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.

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.

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. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.179


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.


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.

Hurt C., Kuhajda B, Harman A and M.  Nalan. 2017. Genetic variation in the imperiled Barrens Topminnow (Fundulus julisia). Conservation Genetics 18: 1347-1358.

Hurt C. and A. Harman. 2017. Development and assessment of polymorphic microsatellite markers in the endangered Barrens Topminnow. Applied Ichthyology 33:797-800. 0018000000.


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.


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.

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.


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.

Hedrick P. and C. Hurt. 2012. Conservation genetics and evolution in an endangered species: research in Sonoran topminnow. Evolutionary Applications 5: 809-819.


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.

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.


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.

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.

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.

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.


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.

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.


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.

Hedrick P. W., Hurt C. R., and R. Lee. 2006. Species and ESUs in the Endangered Sonoran Topminnow. Conservation Genetics 7: 483–492.


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.


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.

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.

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.


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.

Hurt C. R., Meredith S., and P. Hamilton.2003. Evolutionary Ecology: Integrating theory, Technology and Ecology. Conservation Biology 17: 342–343.

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.

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.


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.