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28. De Santiago A, Barnes SJ, Pereira TJ, Marcelino-Barros, M, Bik HM, Thrash, JC. 2025. Complete genome sequences of two Pseudoalteromonas undina strains isolated from a marine nematode (Oncholaimidae) collected at Tybee Island. Microbiology Resource Announcements. https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mra.00419-25
27. De Santiago A, Pereira TJ, Ferrero TJ, Barnes N, Lallias D, Creer S, Bik HM. 2025. Persistent gaps and errors in reference databases impede ecologically meaningful taxonomy assignments in 18s rRNA studies: A case study of terrestrial and marine nematodes. Environmental eDNA. 7(2), e70080. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.70080.
26. Pereira TJ, De Santiago A, Bik HM. 2024. Soil properties predict below‐ground community structure, but not nematode microbiome patterns in semi‐arid habitats. Molecular Ecology. 33(18), e17501. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17501.
25. Pereira TJ, Walters TL, El-Shaffey HM, Bik HM, Frischer M. 2023. The microbiome of the pelagic tunicate Dolioletta gegenbauri: a potential link between the grazing and microbial food web. Molecular Ecology. 32(23), 6564–6579. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16668.
24. Pereira, TJ, Castellões PV, Netto SA. 2022. Amazon River discharge impacts deep-sea benthic meiofauna. Limnology and Oceanography. 67(10), 2190–2203. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12197.
23. De Santiago A*, Pereira TJ*, Mincks SL, Bik HM. 2021. Dataset complexity impacts both MOTU delimitation and biodiversity estimates in eukaryotic 18S rRNA metabarcoding studies. Environmental DNA. 4(2), 363–384. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.255. (*Joint first authorship).
22. Leray M, Wilkins LGE, Apprill A, Bik HM, Clever FK, De León ME, Connolly SR, Duffy JE, Ezzat L, Gignoux-Wolfsohn S, Herre EA, Kaye JZ, Kline DI, Kueneman JG, McCormick M K, McMillan WO, O’Dea A, Pereira TJ, Petersen JM, Petticord DF, Torchin ME, Thurber RV, Videvall E, Wcislo WT, Yuen B, Eisen JA. 2021. Natural experiments in the sea as observatories of host-microbe ecology and evolution. PLoS biology. 19(8), e3001322. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001322.
21. Mincks SL, Pereira TJ, Sharma J, Blanchard AL, Bik HM. 2021. Composition of marine nematode communities across broad longitudinal and bathymetric gradients in the Northeast Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. Polar Biology. 44(1), 85–103.
20. Pereira TJ, De Santiago A, Schuelke T, Hardy SM, Bik HM. 2020. The impact of intragenomic rRNA variation on metabarcoding‐derived diversity estimates: A case study from marine nematodes. Environmental DNA. 2(4), 519–34. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.77.
19. Ghaderi R, Hesar AM, Karegar A, Pereira TJ. 2020. Molecular phylogeny of Diphtherophora de Man, 1880 (Nematoda: Diphtherophoridae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa. 4851(2), zootaxa-4851. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4851.2.10.
18. Nascimento FJ, Dahl M, Deyanova D, Lyimo LD, Bik HM, Schuelke T, Pereira TJ, Björk M, Creer S, Gullström M. 2019. Above-below surface interactions mediate effects of seagrass disturbance on meiobenthic diversity, nematode and polychaete trophic structure. Communications biology. 2(1), 362. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0610-4.
17. Wilkins LGE, Leray M, Yuen B; Peixoto R, Pereira TJ, Bik HM, Coil DA, Duffy JE, Herre EA, Lessios H, Lucey NM, Mejia LC, O’Dea A, Rasher DB, Sharp K, Sogin, EM, Thacker RW, Thurber RV, Wcislo W T, Wilbanks EG, Eisen JA. 2019. Host-associated microbiomes drive structure and function of marine ecosystems. PLoS biology. 17(11):e3000533. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000533.
16. Feng Y, Wang D, Xiao D, Pereira TJ, Xuan Y, Wang Y, Liu X, Chen L, Duan Y, Zhu X. Cactodera chenopodiae (Nematoda: Heteroderidae), a new species of cyst nematode parasitizing common lambsquarter (Chenopodium album) in Liaoning, China. 2018. Zootaxa. 4407(3), 361–75. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4407.3.4.
15. Vitória AP, Ávila-Lovera E, de Oliveira Vieira T, do Couto-Santos AP, Pereira TJ, Funch LS, Freitas L, de Miranda LD, Rodrigues PJ, Rezende CE, Santiago LS. 2018. Isotopic composition of leaf carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) of deciduous and evergreen understory trees in two tropical Brazilian Atlantic forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 34(2), 145–56. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467418000093.
14. Qing X, Pereira TJ, Slos D, Couvreur M, Bert W. 2018. A new species of Malenchus (Nematoda: Tylenchomorpha) with an updated phylogeny of the Tylenchidae. Nematology. 20(9), 815–836.
13. Schuelke T*, Pereira TJ*, Hardy SM, Bik HM. 2018. Nematode‐associated microbial taxa do not correlate with host phylogeny, geographic region or feeding morphology in marine sediment habitats. Molecular Ecology. 27(8), 1930–51. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14539. (*Joint first authorship; Invited submission for “Host-Associated Microbiome” Special Issue)
12. Pereira TJ, Gingold R, Villegas AD, Rocha-Olivares A. 2018. Patterns of spatial variation of meiofauna in sandy beaches of northwestern Mexico with contrasting levels of disturbance. Thalassas: An International Journal of Marine Sciences. 34(1), 53–63.
11. Mundo-Ocampo M, Baldwin JG, Pereira TJ, Camacho-Baez JR, Armenta-Bojorquez AD, Camacho-Haro M, Becker JO. 2017. Occurrence of Belonolaimus in Sinaloa, Northwestern Mexico: A new report on distribution and host range. Journal of Nematology. 49(1), 103.
10. Pereira TJ, Qing X, Chang KF$, Mundo‐Ocampo M, Cares JE, Ragsdale EJ, Nguyen CN, Baldwin JG. 2017. Phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Cephalenchus (Tylenchomorpha, Nematoda). Zoologica Scripta. 46(4), 506–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12225. ($Supervised undergraduate student)
9. Pereira TJ, Baldwin JG. 2016. Contrasting evolutionary patterns of 28S and ITS rRNA genes reveal high intragenomic variation in Cephalenchus (Nematoda): implications for species delimitation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 98, 244–60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.02.016.
8. Caixeta LB, Pereira TJ, Castañeda NE, Cares JE. 2016. Nematode communities as indicators of the status of a soil ecosystem influenced by mining practices in Brazil. Nematology. 18(3), 265–76.
7. Mundo-Ocampo M, Holovachov O, Pereira TJ. 2015. Malenchus herrerai n. sp. (Nematoda: Tylenchidae) from the rainforest of Peru with additional insights on the morphology of the genus. Nematropica. 45(2), 158–69.
6. Atighi MR, Pourjam E, Pereira TJ, Okhovvat SM, Alizada BA$, Mundo-Ocampo M, Baldwin JG. 2013. Redescription of Filenchus annulatus (Siddiqui & Khan, 1983) Siddiqi, 1986 based on specimens from Iran with contributions to the molecular phylogeny of the Tylenchidae. Nematology. 15(2), 129–41.
5. Pereira TJ, Fonseca G, Mundo-Ocampo M, Guilherme BC, Rocha-Olivares A. 2010. Diversity of free-living marine nematodes (Enoplida) from Baja California assessed by integrative taxonomy. Marine Biology. 157(8), 1665–78.
4. Pereira TJ, Martínez-Arce A, Gingold R, Rocha-Olivares A. 2009. Direct nematode predation in the marine nematode Synonchiella spiculora (Selachinematidae: Nematoda). Marine Biodiversity Records. May; 2.
3. Pereira TJ, Arce-Martínez A, Gingold R, Mundo-Ocampo M, Rocha-Olivares A. 2009. Cryptic marine biodiversity: the nematofauna from the Gulf of California. Ciencia y Desarrollo. April, 52 (in Spanish).
2. Netto SA, Pereira TJ. 2009. Benthic community response to a passive fishing gear in a coastal lagoon (South Brazil). Aquatic Ecology. 43(2), 521–538.
1. Pereira TJ, Netto SA. 2007. Occurrence of the exotic shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei Boone, 1931 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Penaeidae) in the Estuarine System of Laguna, SC. Biociências. 15, 157–159 (in Portuguese).
BOOK CHAPTERS
Sunye PS, Pereira TJ, Russo A, Netto SA. 2014. Pink shrimp fishery in the Estuarine System of Laguna, SC: history and hazards of management policies. In: Haimovici M, Andriguetto-Filho JM, Sunye PS (Eds). Marine and estuarine fishery in Brazil: a multidisciplinary approach applied to case studies. Rio Grande, RS, Brasil, Editora da FURG, pp.77-87 (book chapter, in Portuguese).
TECHNICAL REPORTS
Rocha-Olivares A, Pereira TJ, Sandoval J, Gingold R. Study of the intertidal meiofauna on the sand beaches of Todos Santos Bay, Ensenada, Mexico. 2007 (in Spanish).
Netto SA, Pereira TJ, Vicente MMR. Benthic community response to a chronic oil discharge in a sublittoral site in the Estuarine System of Laguna, SC. 2003 (in Portuguese).
