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Dr. Gary Martin is interested in the mechanisms by which
crustaceans fight infections and disease. Past work focused on the classification of
crustacean blood cells using assays based on morphology, cytochemistry and function. More recently he has been studying ways that blood cells respond to bacteria, fungi and other
foreign particles and facilitate their removal from the body. The goals of this basic research is to understand the evolutionary development of immune systems and to facilitate
the culture of crustaceans in aquaculture settings.
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Dr. Gary Martin (left) and Dr. Dan Pondella take a break from activities last summer during an excursion aboard the Vantuna.
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Recent articles (* indicates Oxy student) include:
- Gary G. Martin and Jo Ellen Hose 1992. Vascular elements and blood (hemolymph). In "Microscopic Anatomy of
Invertebrates" Vol. 10, "Decapod Crustaceans" (F.W. Harrison and A.G. Humes, eds.), pp. 117-146. Wiley-Liss, New York.
- Gary G. Martin and Jo Ellen Hose. 1995. Circulation, the blood and disease. In: Biology of the Lobster, Homarus
americanus, Chapter 17, pp. 465‑495. Jan Factor, ed. Academic Press, San Diego.
- Gary G. Martin, Johnson Kay*, Donna Poole and Cynthia Poole* 1997. In vitro nodule formation in the ridgeback
prawn, Sicyonia ingentis and the American lobster, Homarus americanus. Invertebrate Biology 117: 155-168.
- Gary G. Martin, Michael Quintero*, Michael Quigley*, and Hovach Khrovassian*. 1999. Elimination of foreign materials
from the gills of decapod crustaceans. Journal of Crustacean Biology 20(2): 209-217
- Gary B. Martin and Alice Chiu* 2003. Morphology of the midgut trunk in the penaeid shrimp, Sicyonia ingentis,
highlighting novelnuclear pore particles and fixed hemocytes. Journal of Morphology 258: 239-248.
- Gary. G. Martin, Catherine Castro*, Nicholas Moy*, and Nicole Rubin*, N-acetyl-D-glucosamine in crustacean hemocytes;
possible functions and usefulness in hemocyte classification. Invertebrate Biology 122(3): 265-270.
- Gary G. Martin, Nicole Rubin* and Erica Swanson.* 2004. Vibrio parahaemolyticus and V. harveyi cause
detachment of the epithelium from the midgut of the penaeid shrimp, Sicyonia ingentis. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms (in press).
Dr. Dan Pondella’s studies focus on the ecology and evolution of nearshore marine fishes. His is primarily conducted on the California coast,
including the offshore islands, and in the Gulf of California. His ecological work concerns the temporal and spatial variation of these marine fish communities. He also use molecular techniques to research the phylogeography of the temperate and tropical eastern
Pacific.
Recent articles (*indicates Oxy student) include:
- Pondella, Daniel J., II, Matthew T. Craig* and Jens Franck. The phylogeny of Paralabrax
(Perciformes: Serranidae) and allied taxa inferred from 16S and 12S mitochondrial sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Systematics 29(1): 176-184.
- Craig, Matthew T*, Philip A. Hastings, and Daniel J. Pondella, II. Speciation in the Central American Seaway:
The importance of taxon sampling in the identification of transisthmian geminate pairs. In press, Journal of Biogeography.
- Craig, Matthew T*., Philip A. Hastings, and Daniel J. Pondella, II. Notes on the Systematics of the crestfish genus Lophotus (Lampridiformes: Lophotidae),
with a new record from California. In press, Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.
- Pondella, Daniel J., II, L. G. Allen, J. R. Cobb*, M. T. Craig* and B. Gintert*. Evaluation of eelgrass mitigation and fishery enhancement structures in San Diego
Bay. Bull. So. Cal. Acad. Sci. 102(2 Supplement):39.
- Pondella, Daniel J., II, John S. Stephens, Jr. and Matthew T. Craig*. Fish production of a temperate
artificial reef based upon the density of embiotocids (Teleostei: Perciformes).
- Stephens, Jr., John S. and Daniel J. Pondella, II. 2002. Larval productivity of a mature artificial reef: the ichthyoplankton of King Harbor, California,
1974-1997. ICES Journal of Marine Science 59: S51-58.
- Pondella, Daniel J., II and Matthew T. Craig*. 2001. First record of the saber tooth blenny, Plagiotremus azaleus, in
California with notes on its distribution along the Pacific coast of Baja California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences
100(3): 144-148.
- Proceedings of Special Symposium: New and Rare Fish and Invertebrate Species to California During the 1997-98 El Niño,
sponsored by The Southern California Academy of Sciences, May 20, 2000. 2001. Daniel J. Pondella, II and M. James Allen, editors. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 100(3):
129-251.
- Pondella, Daniel J., II, Larry G. Allen, Jorge A. Rosales Casian, and Tim E. Hovey. 2001.
Demographic parameters of golden spotted rock bass Paralabrax auroguttatus from the
northern Gulf of California. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 130:686-691.
- Craig, Matthew T.*, Daniel J. Pondella, II, Jens P. C. Franck, and John C. Hafner.
On the status of the serranid fish genus Epinephelus: evidence for paraphyly based on 16s rDNA sequences.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Systematics 19(1): 121-130.
- Pondella, Daniel J., II, and Larry G. Allen. 2000. The near shore fish assemblage of Santa Catalina Island.
In The Proceedings of the Fifth California Islands Symposium, David R. Browne, Kathryn L. Mitchell and Henry W.
Chaney editors. U.S. Department of the Interior, Mineral Management Service, Pacific OCS Region, MMS 99-0038: 394-400.
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