Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Liguori, A., S. Korm, A. Profetto, E. Richters, & K.E. Gribble. Transgenerational and intergenerational maternal age effects exhibit genotype-specific, complex patterns of inheritance. In press The American Naturalist.

Stevens, B.L.F., S.F. van Daalen, T.J. Blomquist, K.E. Gribble, & M.G. Neubert. 2026. Timing the initiation of sex: Delay mechanisms alter fitness outcomes in a rotifer population model. Journal of Theoretical Biology 620, 112333.

Luviano Aparicio, N., M. Dryburgh, C.M. McMaken, A. Liguori, & K.E. Gribble. 2025. Impact of histone post-translational modification inhibitors on lifespan, reproduction, and stress response in the rotifer Brachionus manjavacas. PLOS ONE 20(10): e0324769. 

Hernández, C.M., S.F. van Daalen, A. Liguori, M.G. Neubert, H. Caswell, & K.E. Gribble. 2025. Maternal effect senescence and caloric restriction interact to affect fitness through changes in life history timingJournal of Animal Ecology 94, 99–111.

Liguori A., S. Korm, A. Profetto, E. Richters, & K.E. Gribble. 2024. Maternal age effects on offspring lifespan and reproduction vary within a species. Ecology and Evolution 14, e11287.

McMaken, C.M. & K.E. Gribble. 2024. A user-friendly, free, and open-source software protocol to quantify swimming speed and behavior of microfaunaBioTechniques 76(5), 175–183.

Feng, H., G. Bavister, K.E. Gribble, & D.B. Mark Welch. 2023. Development of highly efficient CRISPR-mediated gene editing in the rotifer Brachionus manjavacas. PLOS Biology 21(7): e3001888.

Bronikowski, A.M., R.P. Meisel, P.R. Biga, J.R. Walters, J.E. Mank, E. Larschan, G.S. Wilkinson, N. Valenzuela, A.M. Conard, J.P. de Magalhães, J. Duan, A.E. Elias, T. Gamble, R.M. Graze, K.E. Gribble, J.A. Kreiling, & N.C. Riddle. 2022. Sex-specific aging in animals: Perspective and future directionsAging Cell 21, e13542.

van Daalen, S.F., C.M. Hérnandez, H. Caswell, M.G. Neubert, & K.E. Gribble. 2022The contribution of maternal age heterogeneity to variance in lifetime reproductive outputThe American Naturalist 199(5):603-616.

Gribble, K.E. 2021. Brachionus rotifers as a model for investigating dietary and metabolic regulators of agingNutrition and Healthy Aging 6:1-15.

Hérnandez, C.M., S.F. van Daalen, H. Caswell, M.G. Neubert, & K.E. Gribble. 2020. A demographic and evolutionary analysis of maternal effect senescenceProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 117(28):16431-16437.

Ivashkin, E., V. Melnikova, A. Kurtova, N. Brun, A. Obukhova, M.Y. Khabarova, A. Yakusheff, I. Adameyko, K.E. Gribble, & E.E. Voronezhskaya. 2019. Transglutaminase activity determines nuclear localization of serotonin immunoreactivity in the early embryos of invertebrates and vertebrates. ACS Chemical Neuroscience 10(8): 3888-3899.

Bock, M.J., G.C. Jarvis, E.L. Corey, E.E. Stone, & K.E. Gribble. 2019. Maternal age alters offspring lifespan, fitness, and lifespan extension under caloric restrictionScientific Reports 9:3138 

Gurdebeke, P.R., K.N. Mertens, V. Pospelova, K. Matsuoka, Z. Li, K.E. Gribble, H. Gu, K. Bogus, H. Gu, H. Vrielinck, & S. Louwye. 2019. Taxonomic revision, phylogeny, and cyst wall composition of the dinoflagellate cyst genus Votadinium Reid (Dinophyceae, Peridiniales, Protoperidiniaceae). Palynology 44(2), 310–335.

Gribble, K.E., B.M. Moran, S. Jones, E.L. Corey, & D.B. Mark Welch. 2018. Congeneric variability in lifespan extension and onset of senescence suggest active regulation of aging in response to low temperatureExperimental Gerontology 114:99-106.

Gribble, K.E. & D.B. Mark Welch. 2017. Genome-wide transcriptomics of aging in the rotifer Brachionus manjavacas, an emerging model system. BMC Genomics 18:217.

Kaneko, G., T. Yoshinaga, K.E. Gribble, D.B. Mark Welch, & H. Ushio. 2016. Measurement of survival time in Brachionus rotifers: Synchronization of maternal conditions. Journal of Visualized Experiments e54126.

Snell, T.W., R.K. Johnston, K.E. Gribble, & D.B. Mark Welch. 2015. Rotifers as experimental tools to investigate aging. Invertebrate Reproduction and Development 59, No. S1:5-10.

Gribble, K.E., G. Jarvis, M.J. Bock, & D.B. Mark Welch. 2014. Maternal caloric restriction partially rescues the deleterious effects of advanced maternal age on offspring. Aging Cell 13(4):623-630. Best Paper Runner Up, Aging Cell, 2014

Gribble, K.E., O. Kaido, G. Jarvis, & D.B. Mark Welch. 2014. Patterns of intraspecific variability in the response to caloric restriction. Experimental Gerontology 51:28-37.

Gribble, K.E. & D.B. Mark Welch. 2013. Lifespan extension by caloric restriction is determined by type and level of food reduction and by reproductive mode in Brachionus manjavacas (Rotifera). The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 68(4):349-358. Selected as an “Editor’s Choice”

Gribble, K.E. & D.B. Mark Welch. 2012. The mate recognition protein gene mediates reproductive isolation and speciation in the Brachionus plicatilis cryptic species complex. BMC Evolutionary Biology 12:134.

Gribble, K.E., T.W. Snell, & D.B. Mark Welch. 2011. Gene and protein structure of the mate recognition protein gene family in Brachionus manjavacas (Rotifera). Hydrobiologia 662:35-42.

Snell, T.W., T.L. Shearer, H.A. Smith, J. Kubanek, K.E. Gribble, & D.B. Mark Welch. 2009. Genetic determinants of mate recognition in Brachionus manjavacas (Rotifera), BMC Biology 7:60.

Gribble, K.E., D.W. Coats, & D.M. Anderson. 2009. Sexual and asexual reproduction in Protoperidinium steidingerae Balech (Dinophyceae), with observations on life-history stages of Protoperidinium depressum (Bailey) Balech (Dinophyceae). Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 56(1): 88-103.

Gribble, K.E., G. Nolan, & D.M. Anderson. 2007. Biodiversity, biogeography and potential trophic impact of Protoperidinium spp. (Dinophyceae) off the southwestern coast of Ireland. Journal of Plankton Research 29 (11), 931-947.

Gribble, K.E. & D.M. Anderson. 2007. High intragenomic variability in LSU rDNA genes in the heterotrophic dinoflagellates Protoperidinium, Diplopsalis, and Preperidinium (Dinophyceae). Phycologia 46 (3), 315-324.

Gribble, K.E. & D.M. Anderson. 2006. Molecular phylogeny of the heterotrophic dinoflagellates, Protoperidinium, Diplopsalis, and Preperidinium (Dinophyceae), inferred from LSU rDNA. Journal of Phycology 42, 1081-1095.

Gribble, K.E., B.A. Keafer, M. Quilliam, A.D. Cembella, D.M. Kulis, A. Dietz, & D.M. Anderson. 2005. Distribution and toxicity of Alexandrium ostenfeldii (Dinophyceae) in the Gulf of Maine, USA. Deep-Sea Research II 52, 2745-2763.

Anderson, D.M., D.M. Kulis, B.A. Keafer, K.E. Gribble, R. Marin, & C.A. Scholin. 2005. Identification and enumeration of Alexandrium spp. from the Gulf of Maine using molecular probes. Deep-Sea Research II 52, 2467-2490.

Orlova, T.Y., T.V. Morozova, K.E. Gribble, D.M. Kulis, & D.M. Anderson. 2004. Dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments from the East Coast of Russia. Botanica Marina 47, 184-201.  

Other publications

Gribble, K.E. & T.W. Snell. 2018Chapter 38: Rotifers as a Model for the Biology of Aging; In: Handbook of Models on Human Aging, 2nd ed, P. Michael Conn, Ed., Elsevier.