Joan C. Herrera

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Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Florida, 1998

520 CRR
Box 118525
Gainesville, FL
32611-8525
Voice: (352)294-0022
 Fax: (352) 392-3704
herrera@zoology.ufl.edu

Research Interests

Larval ecology and life history evolution of marine invertebrates. Evolutionary history of the echinoids.

Representative Publications

Herrera, J.C., S.K. McWeeney and L.R. McEdward. (1996). Diversity of
energetic strategies among echinoid larvae and the transition from feeding
to nonfeeding development. (Oceanologica Acta, 19(3-4): 313-321).

Lawrence, J.M. and J. Herrera. (2000). Stress and deviant reproduction in
echinoderms. (Zoological Studies, 39(3): 151-176).

Lawrence, J.M., J. Herrera and J. Cobb. (2004). Vertical posture of the
clypeasteroid sand dollar Encope michelinia. (Journal of the Marine
Biological Association, 84: 407-408).

McEdward, L.R. and J.C. Herrera. (1999). Body form and skeletal
morphometrics during larval development of the sea urchin Lytechinus
variegatus. (Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 232(2):
151-176).

Herrera, J.C. and R.W. Portell. (In prep.). A new species of Arbacia
(Echinoidea:Arbaciidae) from the Anastasia Formation in Florida.