The MUSSELp Publications

This web site is not the only mechanism for distribution of our research results and conclusions. We also published through traditional journals as well as give presentations and show posters at professional meetings.

The links below provide access to abstracts, data matrices and bits that may not have been published.

Literature

• Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2007. Preliminary review of the freshwater mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida) of northern Africa, with an emphasis on the Nile. Journal of the Egyptian German Society of Zoology 53D: 89-118.
• Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2007. Review of the systematics and global diversity of freshwater mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionoida). Journal of Molluscan Studies 73: 291-314.
• Graf, D.L. 2007. Palearctic freshwater mussel (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida) diversity and the Comparatory Method as a species concept. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 156: 71-88.
• Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2006. Palaeoheterodont Diversity (Mollusca: Trigonioida + Unionoida): what we know and what we wish we knew about freshwater mussel evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148: 343-394.
• Sturm, C.F., R. Petit, T.A. Pearce, K. Cummings, E. Schwabe & A. Wanniger. 2006. The Molluscan Literature: Geographic and Taxonomic Works.[in] C.F. Sturm, T.A. Pearce & A. Valdés. The Mollusks: A Guide to their Study, Collection, and Preservation. American Malacological Society, Universal Publishers. pp. 111-146.
• Cummings, K.S. & A.E. Bogan. 2006. Unionoida: Freshwater Mussels. [in] C.F. Sturm, T.A. Pearce & A. Valdés. The Mollusks: A Guide to their Study, Collection, and Preservation. American Malacological Society, Universal Publishers. pp. 313-325.
• Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2006. Freshwater mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida) of Angola, with description of a new species, Mutela wistarmorrisi. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 155: 163-194.
• Lydeard, C., R.H. Cowie, W.F. Ponder, A.E. Bogan, P. Bouchet, S.A. Clark, K.S. Cummings, T.J. Frest, O. Gargominy, D.G. Herbert, R. Hershler, K.E. Perez, B. Roth, M. Seddon, E.E. Strong & F.G. Thompson. 2004. The global decline of nonmarine mollusks. Bioscience 54(4): 321-330.
• Graf, D.L. 2002. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of two problematic freshwater mussel genera (Unio and Gonidea) and a re-evaluation of the classification of Nearctic Unionidae (Bivalvia: Palaeoheterodonta: Unionoida). Journal of Molluscan Studies 68: 65-71.
• Hoeh, W.R., A.E. Bogan, K.S. Cummings & S.I. Guttman. 2006. Evolutionary relationships among the higher taxa of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida): inferences on phylogeny and character evolution from analyses of DNA sequence data. Malacological Review 31/32(2): 123-141.
• Graf, D.L. 2001. A Phylogenetic Perspective on the Evolution of the Unionoida (Mollusca Bivalvia Palaeoheterodonta): Using Pattern to Test Hypotheses of Macroevolutionary Process. Ph.D. Dissertation, Biology Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Graf, D.L. & D. Ó Foighil. 2000. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of 28S rDNA supports a Gondwanan origin for Australasian Hyriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia/ Unionoida). Vie Milieu 50: 245-254.
• Graf, D.L. & D. Ó Foighil. 2000. The evolution of brooding characters among the freshwater pearly mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoidea) of North America. Journal of Molluscan Studies 66: 157-170.
• Graf, D.L. 2000. The Etherioidea revisited: a phylogenetic analysis of hyriid relationships (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Paleoheterodonta: Unionoida). Occasional Papers of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (729): 1-21.
• Williams, J.D., M.L. Warren, Jr., K.S. Cummings, J.L. Harris & R.J. Neves. 1993. Conservation status of freshwater mussels of the United States and Canada. Fisheries 18(9): 6-22.

Presentations

• Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2007. Palaeoheterodonta MMVII: A Cosmopolitan Assessment of Freshwater Mussel Diversity. Presented at a special symposium, "Inventorying the Molluscan Fauna of the World: Frontiers and Perspectives" at the World Congress of Malacology, 16-20 July 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.
• Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2007. Preliminary Reevaluation of the Freshwater Mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida) of the Congo Region, Africa. Presented to the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society, 12-15 March 2007, Little Rock, Arkansas.
• Cummings, K.S. & D.L. Graf. 2007. Freshwater Mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida) of the Angola Region. Poster presented to the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society, 12-15 March 2007, Little Rock, Arkansas.
• Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2006. Thinking Globally, but Acting Locally: the MUSSELpdb and the Australasian freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida). Presented to the Malacological Society of Australia, 8 December 2006, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales.
• Graf, D.L. 2006. Freshwater Mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida) of Africa. Invited lecture presented to the Jersey Cape Shell Club, 2 October 2006, Stone Harbor, New Jersey. Also presented to the Philadelphia Shell Club, 18 January 2007, Philadelphia, PA.
• Graf, D.L. 2006. Freshwater Mussel (Mollusca: Unionoida) Diversity in Africa, with an Emphasis on the Nile Fauna. Invited plenary lecture at the 2006 meeting of the Egyptian German Society of Zoology, 5-9 March, Fayid, Egypt.
• Cummings, K.S. & D.L. Graf. 2005. Global Distribution of Freshwater Mussel Diversity. Poster presented at the 2005 Meeting of the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society, 15-18 May, St. Paul, Minnesota.
• Graf, D.L. 2004. Freshwater Mollusks, a Little About the Biology of an Endangered Resource. Invited public lecture during the Philadelphia Shell Show, 3 October 2004, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Cummings, K.S. 2004. Resouces for Freshwater Malacology: Getting in the Game. Lecture presented at a special symposium, "Mussels in America — Shells of their Former Selves," at the annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society, 22-26 August 2004, Madison, Wisconsin.
• Graf, D.L. 2004. Evolution and Systematics of Nearctic Freshwater Mussels. Lecture presented at a special symposium, "Mussels in America — Shells of their Former Selves," at the annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society, 22-26 August 2004, Madison, Wisconsin.
• Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2004. Palaeoheterodont Diversity: What We Know and What We Wish We Knew About Freshwater Mussel Evolution. Lecture presented at a special symposium, "Bivalve Systematics - a look at the branches," at the World Congress of Malacology, 11-16 July 2004, Perth, Westwern Australia. This lecture was also presented as part of the ANSP Seminar Series on 8 October 2004.
• Cummings, K.S. 2003. The Freshwater Mussels (Bivalvia: Etherioidea) of Venezuela. Lecture presented during a lunch-time seminar at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 22 October 2003.
• Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2003. The Evolution of the Etherioidea (Unionoida). Lecture presented at an open Bivalvia meeting honoring Prof. Brian Morton, 15-16 September 2003, Cambridge, UK. This presentation was also given the 2004 Mid-Atlantic Malacologists (MAM) Meeting at the Delaware Museum of Natural History, 13 March 2004.
• Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2003. The MUSSEL Project: Recent Global Diversity of the Freshwater Mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida). Lecture presented at the 2003 Meeting of the American Malacological Society, 26-29 June, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2003. The MUSSEL Database Project. Poster presented at the 2003 Meeting of the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society, 16-19 March, Durham, North Carolina.

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