Publications

Nikolai Maximenko, Artur Palacz, Lauren Biermann, James Carlton, Luca Centurioni, Mary Crowley, Jan Hafner, Linsey Haram, Rebecca Helm, Verena Hormann, Cathryn Murray, Gregory Ruiz, Andrey Shcherbina, Justin Stopa, Davida Streett, Toste Tanhua, Cynthia Wright, and Chela Zabin (2021). An integrated observing system for monitoring marine debris and biodiversity. In Frontiers in Ocean Observing: Documenting Ecosystems, Understanding Environmental Changes, Forecasting Hazards. Edited by: E.S. Kappel, S.K. Juniper, S. Seeyave, E. Smith, and M. Visbeck, eds, A Supplement to Oceanography, 34(4), 52–59.

Rebecca R. Helm (2021) Natural history of neustonic animals in the Sargasso Sea: reproduction, predation, and behavior of Glaucus atlanticus, Velella velella, and Janthina spp. Marine Biodiversity, 51(99), 1-10.

Sumaila, U. R., Skerritt, D. J., Schuhbauer, A., Villasante, S., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Sinan, H., …Rebecca R. Helm… & Jin, X. (2021). WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies. Science, 374(6567), 544-544.

Rebecca R. Helm, Nichola Clark, Harriet Harden-Davies, Diva Amon, Peter Girguis, Cesar Bordehore, Sylvia Earle, Mark J Gibbons, Yimnang Golbuu, Steven H. D. Haddock, Jonathan D. R. Houghton, Jamileh Javidpour, Douglas McCauley14, Lance Morgan, David Obura, Evgeny A. Pakhomov, Kylie A. Pitt, Jorge Jimenez Ramon, U. Rashid Sumaila, Jean-Baptiste Thiebot. (2021). Protect biodiversity in the high seas. Science, 372(6546) pp. 1048-1049

Rebecca R. Helm (2021) The Mysterious Ecosystem at the Ocean’s Surface. PLOS Biology, 19(4), e3001046. 

Ann M. Tarrant, Rebecca R. Helm, Oren Levy, Hanny E. Rivera (2019). Environmental induction of behavioral and transcriptional cycles demonstrates natural circadian rhythmicity in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis. Journal of Experimental Biology, 222: jeb205393 doi: 10.1242/jeb.205393

Rebecca R.Helm, Maria LauraMartín-Díaz & Ann M.Tarrant (2018).  Phylogenetic analysis of cnidarian peroxiredoxins and stress-responsive expression in the estuarine sea anemone Nematostella vectensis​. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology (early view). doi:10.1016/j.cbpa.2018.03.009

Rebecca R. Helm (2018).  Evolution and development of scyphozoan jellyfish. Biological Reviews, 93:1228–1250. doi: 10.1111/brv.12393

Rebecca R. Helm & Casey W. Dunn (2017). Indoles induce metamorphosis in a broad diversity of jellyfish, but not in a crown jelly (Coronatae). PLOS ONE 12(12): e0188601. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188601

Lorenzo Ricci, Ankita Chaurasia, Pascal Lapébie, Philippe Dru, Rebecca R. Helm, Richard R. Copley, Stefano Tiozzo (2016).  Identification of differentially expressed genes from multipotent epithelia at the onset of an asexual development. Scientific Reports. doi:10.1038/srep27357

Rebecca R. Helm, Stefano Tiozzo, Martin K. S. Lilley, Fabien Lombard & Casey W. Dunn (2015). Comparative muscle development of scyphozoan jellyfish with simple and complex life cycles. EvoDevo. doi:10.1186/s13227-015-0005-7
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Holly M. Bik, Alistair D. M. Dove, Miriam C. Goldstein, Rebecca R. Helm, Rick MacPherson, Kim Martini, Alexandria Warneke, Craig R. McClain (2015). Ten simple rules for effective online outreach. PLOS Computational Biology. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003906

Craig R. McClain, Meghan Balk, Mark C. Benfield, Trevor A. Branch, Catherin Chen, James A. Cosgrove, Alistair Dove, Rebecca R. Helm, Eric Hochberg, Lindsay Gaskin, Frank Lee, Andrea Marshall, Steven McMurray, Caroline Schanche, Shane N. Stone, Andrew D. Thaler (2015). Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna. PeerJ 2:e715 doi:10.7717/peerj.715

Rebecca R. Helm, Stefan Siebert, Sarah Tulin, Joel Smith, Casey W. Dunn (2013). Characterization of differential transcript abundance through time during Nematostella vectensis development. BMC Genomics 14:266 doi:10.1186/1471­2164­14­266

Stefan Siebert, Mark D. Robinson, Sophia C. Tintori, Freya Goetz, Rebecca R. Helm, Stephen A. Smith, Nathan Shaner, Steven H. D. Haddock & Casey W. Dunn (2011). Differential gene expression in the siphonophore Nanomia bijuga (Cnidaria) assessed with multiple next­generation sequencing workflows. PLoS ONE 6(7): e22953. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022953

Mark J. Gibbons, Emmanuel Buecher, Delphine Thibault­Botha & Rebecca R. Helm (2010). Patterns in marine hydrozoan richness and biogeography around southern Africa: implications of life cycle strategy. Journal of Biogeography, 37: 606–616. doi:10.1111/j.1365­2699.2009.02237.x