| Year | Publication | 
|---|---|
| 1982 | "Seasonality and vertical zonation of benthic marine algae on a North Carolina jetty" in Bulletin of Marine Science | 
| 1985 | "The distribution of seaweed propagules in estuarine, coastal and offshore waters of New Hampshire, U.S.A." in Botanica Marina | 
| 1990 | "Phylogeny of the Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta): Cladistic analysis of nuclear-encoded rRNA sequence data" in Journal of Phycology | 
| 1994 | "Use of ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacers for phylogenetic studies in diatoms" in Journal of Phycology | 
| 1994 | "Phylogenetic relationships of the 'green algae' and 'bryophytes'" in Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden | 
| 2000 | "Invasive alga reaches California" in Nature | 
| 2003 | "Phylogenetic Analysis of the Dasycladales (Chlorophyta, Ulvophyceae) based on Analyses of Ribulose 1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase Large Subunit (rbcL) Gene Sequences" in Journal of Phycology | 
| 2006 | "Phylogenetic analysis of the Caulerpales (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta) based on RUBISCO Large Subunit gene sequences" in Journal of Phycology | 
| 2009 | "Gain and loss of elongation factor genes in green algae" in BMC Evolutionary Biology | 
| 2009 | "A multi-locus time-calibrated phylogeny of the siphonous green algae" in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 
| 2010 | "The phylogeographic architecture of the fucoid seaweed Ascophyllum nodosum: an intertidal marine tree and survivor of more than one glacial-interglacial cycle" in Journal of Biogeography | 
| 2010 | "An unrecognized ancient lineage of green plants persists in deep marine waters" in Journal of Phycology | 
| 2011 | "Into the deep: New discoveries at the base of the green plant phylogeny" in Bioessays | 
| 2011 | "Green Algae" in Encyclopedia of Life Sciences | 
| 2016 | "Chloroplast phylogenomic analyses reveal the deepest-branching lineage of the Chlorophyta, Palmophyllophyceae class. nov." in Scientific Reports |