Publications

Belgrad, B.A., D.L. Smee, K.M. Correia**, K.M. Darnell, M.Z. Darnell, C.T. Hayes**, M.O. Hall, B.T. Furman, C.W. Martin. 2021. Environmental drivers of seagrass-associated nekton abundance groups across the northern Gulf of Mexico. Estuaries and Coasts. DOI: 10.1007/s12237-021-00927-0. Link

Darnell, M.Z., T.G. Yeghissian**, Z.M. Lane**. 2020. Balancing risk and reward: mating opportunity influences thermal refuge use in fiddler crabs. Animal Behaviour 169:21-56. Link

Kemberling**, A.A., M.Z. Darnell. 2020. Distribution, relative abundance, and reproductive output of spawning female blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus, in offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Fishery Bulletin 118:346-358. PDF

Shakeri**, L.M., K.M. Darnell, T.J.B. Carruthers, M.Z. Darnell. 2020. Blue crab abundance, biomass, and survival in a fragmenting coastal marsh system. Estuaries and Coasts 43:1545-1555. Link

Darnell, M.Z., P.R.Y. Backwell, P. Munguia. 2020. Frequency and latency of autotomy of a sexually selected fiddler crab appendage. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 523:151255. Link

Darnell, M.Z., M.L. Dyson, J. Stockbridge*, P.R.Y. Backwell, P. Munguia. 2019. Thermal and desiccation constraints drive territory preference in fiddler crabs. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 518:151173. Link

Kuhn, A.A., M.Z. Darnell. 2019. Elevated temperature induces a decrease in intermolt period and growth per molt in the lesser blue crab, Callinectes similis Williams, 1966 (Brachyura: Portunidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology. 39:22-27. Link

Darnell, M.Z., C.C. Rittschof, J. Rittschof, C. Beach*, D. Rittschof. 2018. Autotomy of the major claw stimulates molting and suppresses feeding in fiddler crabs. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 209:66-70. Link

Darnell, M.Z., A.A. Kemberling**. 2018. Large-scale movements of postcopulatory female blue crabs Callinectes sapidus in tidal and non-tidal estuaries of North Carolina. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 147:716-728. Link

Darnell, M.Z., K.M. Darnell. 2018. Geographic variation in thermal tolerance and morphology in a fiddler crab sister-species pair. Marine Biology 165:26. Link

Munguia, P., P.R.Y. Backwell, M.Z. Darnell. 2017. Thermal constraints on microhabitat selection and mating opportunities. Animal Behaviour 123:259-265. Link

Cunningham, S.R.*, M.Z. Darnell. 2015. Temperature-dependent growth and molting in early juvenile blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus. Journal of Shellfish Research 34:505-510. PDF

Darnell, M.Z., H.S. Nicholson*, P. Munguia. 2015. Thermal ecology of the fiddler crab Uca panacea: Thermal constraints and organismal responses. Journal of Thermal Biology 52: 157–165. PDF

Darnell, M.Z., K.K. Fowler*, P. Munguia. 2013. Sex-specific thermal constraints on fiddler crab behavior. Behavioral Ecology 24: 991-1003. PDF

Kronstadt, S.M.*, M.Z. Darnell, P. Munguia. 2013. Background and temperature effects on Uca panacea color change. Marine Biology 160: 1373-1381. PDF

Darnell, M.Z. 2012. Ecological physiology of the circadian pigmentation rhythm in the fiddler crab Uca panacea. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 426-427: 39-47. PDF

Darnell, M.Z., T.G. Wolcott, D. Rittschof. 2012. Environmental and endogenous control of selective tidal-stream transport behavior during blue crab Callinectes sapidus spawning migrations. Marine Biology 159: 621-631. PDF

Darnell, M.Z., P. Munguia. 2011. Thermoregulation as an alternate function of the sexually dimorphic fiddler crab claw. The American Naturalist 178: 419-428. PDF

Hines, A.H., E.G. Johnson, M.Z. Darnell, D. Rittschof, T.J. Miller, L.J. Bauer, P. Rodgers, R. Aguilar. 2010. Predicting effects of climate change on blue crabs in Chesapeake Bay. In: Kruse, G.H., G.L. Eckert, R.J. For, R.N. Lipcius, B. Sainte-Marie, D.L. Stram, D. Woodby (eds) Biology and Management of Exploited Crab Populations Under Climate Change. Alaska Sea Grant College Program, Fairbanks. PDF

Rittschof, D., M.Z. Darnell, K.M. Darnell, M. Goldman, M.B. Ogburn, R.E. McDowell. 2010. Estimating relative abundance of the female blue crab spawning stock in North Carolina. In: Kruse, G.H., G.L. Eckert, R.J. For, R.N. Lipcius, B. Sainte-Marie, D.L. Stram, D. Woodby (eds) Biology and Management of Exploited Crab Populations Under Climate Change. Alaska Sea Grant College Program, Fairbanks. PDF

Darnell, M.Z., K.M. Darnell, R.E. McDowell, D. Rittschof. 2010. Postcapture survival and future reproductive potential of ovigerous blue crabs Callinectes sapidus caught in the central North Carolina pot fishery. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 139: 1677-1687. PDF

Darnell, M.Z., D. Rittschof, R.B. Forward Jr. 2010. Endogenous swimming rhythms underlying the spawning migration of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus: ontogeny and variation with ambient tidal regime. Marine Biology 157: 2415-2425. PDF

Darnell, M.Z., D. Rittschof. 2010. Role of larval release pheromones and peptide mimics in abdominal pumping and swimming behavior of ovigerous blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 391: 112-117. PDF

Darnell, M.Z., D. Rittschof, K.M. Darnell, R.E. McDowell. 2009. Lifetime repoductive potential of female blue crabs Callinectes sapidus in North Carolina, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series 394: 153-163. PDF

Forward Jr, R.B., M.H. Bourla*, M.Z. Darnell, J.H. Cohen. 2009. Entrainment of the circadian rhythm of the supratidal amphipod Talorchestia longicornis by light and temperature: mechanisms of detection and hierarchical organization. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology 42: 233-247. PDF

Ramach, S.M., M.Z. Darnell, N.G. Avissar, D. Rittschof. 2009. Habitat use and population dynamics of blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus, in a high-salinity embayment. Journal of Shellfish Research 28: 635-640. PDF

Darnell, M.Z., M.B. Ogburn, H. Diaz. 2008. A novel running wheel apparatus to monitor locomotor rhythms in land crabs. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology 41: 205-210. PDF

Welch, M.E., M.Z. Darnell, D.E. McCauley. 2006. Variable populations within variable populations: quantifying mitochondrial heteroplasmy in natural populations of the gynodioecious plant Silene vulgaris. Genetics 174: 829-837. PDF

Forward Jr, R.B., J.H. Cohen, M.Z. Darnell, A. Saal. 2005. The circatidal rhythm in vertical swimming of female blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus, during their spawning migration: A reconsideration. Journal of Shellfish Research 24: 587-590. PDF

McCauley, D.E., M.F. Bailey, N.A. Sherman, M.Z. Darnell. 2005. Evidence for paternal transmission and heteroplasmy in the mitochondrial genome of Silene vulgaris, a gynodioecious plant. Heredity 95: 50-58. PDF