* graduate student co-author, ** undergraduate student co-author

*Whittaker KA and TA Rynearson (2017) Evidence for environmental and ecological selection in a microbe with no geographic limits to gene flow. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(10): 2651-2656.

*Canesi, K and T Rynearson (2016; feature article) Temporal variation of Skeletonema community composition from a long-term time series in Narragansett Bay identified using high-throughput sequencing. Marine Ecology Progress Series, V 556:1-16 ; doi: 10.3354/meps11843

Chen, G. and T.A. Rynearson (2016) Genetically distinct populations of a diatom coexist during the North Atlantic spring bloom. Limnology and Oceanography, V 61:2165-2179,doi: 10.1002/lno.10361

*Bailey, J, E. Durbin, T. Rynearson (2016) Pseudocalanus copepods in the Bering Sea: Species identification, intraspecific diversity and biogeography. Deep Sea Research II, V 134:173-180, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.04.017

Rynearson, T. and Menden-Deuer, S. (2016) Drivers that structure biodiversity in the plankton.  P. M. Glibert and T.M. Kana (eds), Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry: A dual perspective.  Springer.

Snelgrove, P., E. Vanden Berghe, P. Miloslavich, P. Archambault, N. Bailly, A. Brandt, A. Bucklin, M. Clark, F. Dahdouh-Guebas, P. Halpin, R. Hopcroft, K. Kaschner, B. Lascelles, L.A. Levin, S. Menden-Deuer, A. Metaxas, D. Obura, R. R. Reeves, T. Rynearson, K. Stocks, M. Tarzia, D. Tittensor, V. Tunnicliffe, B. Wallace, R. Wanless, T. Webb, P. Bernal, J. Rice, A. Rosenberg (2016) Chapter 34: Gradients in Marine Biodiversity. In The United Nations World Ocean Assessment, published by the United Nations as part of the Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment

Scheinin M., U.Riebesell, T.Rynearson, K. Lohbeck, S. Collins (2015) Experimental Evolution Gone Wild. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, V 12, 20150056, 10.1098/rsif.2015.0056

*Harvey, E.L., S. Menden-Deuer, T. Rynearson (2015) Persistent intra-specific variation in genetic and behavioral traits in the raphidophyte, Heterosigma akashiwo.  Frontiers in Aquatic Microbiology doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.01277

Collins, S, B. Rost, T. Rynearson (2014) Evolutionary potential of marine phytoplankton under ocean acidification. Evolutionary Applications Vol 7(1) 140-155.  doi:10.1111/eva.12120

Boyd P.W., T.A. Rynearson, E.A., Armstrong, F-X. Fu, K. Hayashi, Z. Hu, D.A. Hutchins, R.M. Kudela, E. Litchman, M. R. Mulholland, U. Passow, R.F. Strzepek, *K.A. Whittaker, E. Yu and *M.K. Thomas (2013) Marine Phytoplankton Temperature versus Growth Responses from Polar to Tropical Waters – Outcome of a Scientific Community-Wide Study. PLoS One, Vol. 8 (5), e63091. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063091

*Whittaker, KA, **DR Rignanese, RJ Olson, TA Rynearson (2012) Molecular subdivision of the marine diatom Thalassiosira rotula and its relationship to differences in geographic distribution, genome size, and physiology. BMC Evolutionary Biology. V12:209, doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-209

*Piecuch, C and TA Rynearson (2012) Quantifying dispersal and connectivity of surface waters using observational Lagrangian measurements. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 29, 1127–1138. doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00172.1

Rynearson, T.A. and B. Palenik. (2011) Learning to read the oceans: Genomics of marine phytoplankton. Advances in Marine Biology, Vol 60:1-39

Rynearson, T.A., E.O. Lin and E.V. Armbrust. (2009) Metapopulation structure in the planktonic diatom Ditylum brightwellii (Bacillariophyceae). Protist, 160: 111-121

Rynearson, T. A., J.A. Newton and E. V. Armbrust. (2006) Spring bloom development, genetic variation and population succession in the planktonic diatom Ditylum brightwellii. Limnology and Oceanography. 51: 1249-1261 

Rynearson, T. A., and E. V. Armbrust. (2005) Maintenance of clonal diversity during a spring bloom of the centric diatom Ditylum brightwellii. Molecular Ecology 14:1631-1640

Rynearson, T. A., and E. V. Armbrust. (2004) Genetic differentiation among populations of the planktonic marine diatom Ditylum brightwellii. Journal of Phycology 40: 34-43

Smetacek, V., C. Klaas, S. Menden-Deuer, and T. A. Rynearson. (2002) Mesoscale distribution of dominant diatom species relative to the hydrographical field along the Antarctic Polar Front. Deep Sea Research II 49: 3835-3848

Rynearson, T. A., and E. V. Armbrust. (2000) DNA fingerprinting reveals extensive genetic diversity in a field population of the centric diatom Ditylum brightwellii. Limnology and Oceanography 45: 1329-1340

Crawford, R. M., F. Hinz, and T. A. Rynearson. (1997) Spatial and temporal distribution of assemblages of the diatom Corethron criophilum in the Polar Frontal region of the South Atlantic. Deep Sea Research II 44: 479-496