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Heist, E. J. and A. Mustapha. (submitted). Rangewide genetic structure in paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) inferred from DNA microsatellite loci. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.
Hettiger, S., E. Heist, and D. Keeney. (in press). Hybridization between longnose gar and alligator gar in captivity, with comments on possible gar hybridization in nature. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.
Heist, E. J. (in press).Molecular Markers and Genetic Population Structure of Pelagic Sharks. in Sharks of the Open Ocean (E. Pikitch and M. Camhi, eds.). Blackwell Science Ltd.
Schrey, N. M., A. W. Schrey, E. J. Heist and J. D. Reeve. (in press). Fine-Scale Genetic Population Structure of Southern Pine Beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Mississippi Forests. Environmental Entomology.
Robertson, J. M., K. R. Lips and E. J. Heist. (in press). Fine scale gene flow and individual movements among subpopulations of Centrolene prosoblepon (Anura: Centrolenidae). Revista de Biologia Tropical.
Schrey, A. W., B. L. Sloss, R. J. Sheehan, and E. J. Heist. 2007. Genetic Discrimination of Middle Mississippi River Scaphirhynchus Sturgeon into Pallid, Shovelnose, and Intermediate Classes with Multiple Microsatellite Loci. Conservation Genetics 8:683-693.PDF
Schrey, A. W. and E. J. Heist. 2007. Stock Structure of Pallid Sturgeon Analyzed with Microsatellite Loci. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 23:297-303. PDF
Schrey, N. M., A. W. Schrey, E. J. Heist and J. D. Reeve. 2007. Microsatellite loci for the Southern Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis) and Cross-Species Amplification in Dendroctonus. Molecular Ecology Notes 7:857-859. PDF
Keeney, D. B. and E. J. Heist. 2006. Worldwide phylogeography of the blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus) inferred from control region sequences. Molecular Ecology 15:3669-3679. PDF
Yassin, Y., E. Heist, and K. M. Ibrahim. 2006. PCR primers for polymorphic microsatellite loci in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria (Othoptera: Acrididae). Molecular Ecology Notes 6:784-786. PDF
Heist, E. J. 2005. Population and reproductive genetics in Chondrichthyes. Chapter 2 in Reproductive biology and phylogeny of Chondrichthyes: Sharks, Skates, Stingrays, and Chimaeras. (Hamlett, W. C. ed.). Science publishers Inc. Plymouth, UK. PDF
Keeney, D.B. M.R., Heupel, R.E. Hueter, and E.J. Heist. (2005) Microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA analyses of the genetic structure of blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus) nurseries in the northwestern Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea. Molecular Ecology 14:1911-1923. Data PDF
Hueter, R. E., M. R. Huepel, E. J. Heist, and D. B. Keeney. 2005. The implications of philopatry in sharks for the management of shark fisheries. NAFO Journal 35:239-247.
Heist, E. J., and K. A. Feldheim. 2004. Genetics and Collection Management. American Zoological Association Elasmobranch Husbandry Manual.
Heist, E. J. 2004. Genetics of Sharks, Skates and Rays. Chapter 16 in ãBiology of Sharks and their Relativesä. (Carrier, J., J. Musick, and M. Heithaus, eds.) CRC Press.
Keeney, D. B. M. Heupel, R. E. Hueter, and E. J. Heist. 2003. Genetic heterogeneity among blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus, continental nurseries along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Marine Biology. 143:1039-1046. PDF
Keeney, D. B. and E. J. Heist. 2003. Characterization of microsatellite loci isolated from the blacktip shark and their utility in requiem and hammerhead sharks. Molecular Ecology Notes 3:501-504. PDF
Reading, B. J., P. S. Wills, R C. Heidinger, and E. J. Heist. 2003. Development of microsatellite markers for muskellunge (Esox masquinongy) and cross-species amplification in two other Esocids. Molecular Ecology Notes 3:447-449. PDF
Monty, A., E. J. Heist, E. R. Wagle, R. E. Emerson E. H. Nicholson, and G. A. Feldhamer. Genetic variation and population assessment of eastern woodrats in southern Illinois. Southeast Naturalist 2:243-260. Data
Schrey, A., and E. J. Heist. 2003. Microsatellite Analysis of Population Structure in the Shortfin Mako (Isurus oxyrinchus). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 60:670-675 PDF
Heist, E. J.,J. L. Jenkot, D. B. Keeney, R. L. Lane, G. R. Moyer, B. J. Reading, and N. L. Smith. 2002. Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum). Molecular Ecology Notes 3:59-61. PDF
Schrey, A., and E. J. Heist. 2002. Microsatellite markers for the shortfin mako and cross-species amplification in Lamniformes. Conservation Genetics 3:459-461. PDF
Heist, E. J., E. H. Nicholson, J. T. Sipiroski, and D. B. Keeney. 2002. Microsatellite Markers for the American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula). Conservation Genetics 3:205-207. PDF
Heist, E. J., J. R. Bowles and A. Woolf. 2001. Record of a North American cougar (Puma concolor) from southern Illinois. Trans. Ill. Acad. Sci. 94:227-229.
Heist, E. J., and J. R. Gold. 2000. DNA microsatellite loci and genetic structure of red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) in the Gulf of Mexico. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 129:469-475.
Heist, E. J. 1999. A review of population genetics in sharks. American Fisheries Society Symposium 23:139-146.Heist, E. J., and J. R. Gold. 1999. Microsatellite DNA variation in sandbar sharks (Carcharhinus plumbeus) from the Gulf of Mexico and mid-Atlantic Bight. Copeia 1999:182-186.
Heist, E. J., and J. R. Gold. 1999. Genetic identification of sharks in the US Atlantic shark longline fishery. Fishery Bulletin 97:53-61.
Heist, E. J., J. A. Musick, and J. E. Graves. 1996. Genetic population structure of the shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) inferred from restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of mitochondrial DNA. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 53:583-588.
Heist, E. J., J. A. Musick, and J. E. Graves. 1996. Mitochondrial DNA diversity and divergence among sharpnose sharks, Rhizoprionodon terraenovae, from the Gulf of Mexico and Mid-Atlantic Bight. Fishery Bulletin 94:664-668.
Heist, E. J., J. E. Graves, and J. A. Musick. 1995. Population genetics of the sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) in U.S. coastal waters. Copeia 1995:555-562.
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