Staff Member
Robert T Paine

Post Doc
Email: rtpaine@tntech.edu
Education
- Ph D Tennessee Technological University 2019
- BS University of West Florida 2013
Biography
I am a molecular ecologist interested in using next-generation sequencing to answer questions related to fish community ecology.. Molecular ecology, Fishes, Community ecology, Next-generation sequencing, Rare species
Research Publications | Publication Date |
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Wells, W. G., Johnson, T. C., Gebhard, A. E., Paine, R. T. R., Hix, L. A., Ferrell, H. N, Engle, A. N., and Perkin, J. S. (2017). March of the sculpin: measuring and prediciting short-term movement of banded sculpin Cottus carolinae. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 26(2), 280 - 291. https://doi.org/10.1111/eff.12274. | February 2016 |
Paine, R. T. R., Hurt, C. R., & Mattingly, H. T. (2021). Monitoring a minuscule madtom: Environmental DNA surveillance of the endangered pygmy madtom (Noturus stanauli Etnier & Jenkins 1980) in the Duck and Clinch rivers, Tennessee. Environmental DNA, 3(4), 745-759. DOI: 10.1002/edn3.179 | Abstract | Download | Publisher Website | February 2021 |
Hurt, C. R, Thoma, R. G., Withers, D. L., Williams, C. E., & Paine, R. T. R. (2019). Extensive regional endemism and cryptic diversity in the Tennessee and Kentucky, USA populations of burrowing crayfish Cambarus deweesae (Bouchard & Etnier, 1979) (Decapoda: Astacidae: Cambaridae) as revealed by molecular genetics. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 1 - 10. doi:10.1093/jcbiol/ruz027 | April 2019 |
Hirohara, T., Tsuri, K., Miyagawa, K., Paine, R. T. R, & Yamanaka, H. (2021). The application of PMA (Propidium Monoazide) to different target sequence lengths of Zebrafish eDNA: A new approach aimed toward improving environmental DNA ecology and biological surveillance. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 277. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.632973 | Abstract | Download | June 2021 |
Gebhard, A. E., Paine, R. T. R., Hix, L. A., Johnson, T. C., Wells, W. G., Ferrell, H. N., and Perkin, J. S., (2017). Testing cross-system transferability of fish habitat associations using Cottus carolinae (band Sculpin). Southeastern Naturalist, 16(1), 70 - 87. | March 2017 |
Presentations | Presentation Date |
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Paine, R. T. R. (2019). Can metabarcoding characterized and describe the structure of diverse fish commmunities? Southeastern Population Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics Conference. Lightning Talk. | November 2019 |