Representative Published Work
Fast, K.M., P.M. Hundt, Z.D. Alley, M.W. Sandel. Phylogenomic Species Delimitation of Studfishes (Fundulidae: Fundulus): Evidence for Cryptic Species in Agreement with the Central Highlands Vicariance Hypothesis. 2025. Zootaxa. 5604 (3): 309–328. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5604.3.5
Alley, Z.D., K.M. Fast, M.W. Sandel. The Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of Notropis chlorocephalus and Notropis chiliticus. 2025. Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 10: 139-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2025.2457449
Guegan, J.F., K.M. Fast, A.W. Rakestraw, M.E. Scott, M.W. Sandel, et al. Land use and land-cover changes and emerging non-tuberculous and tuberculous infectious diseases in human and animals: a mixed-methods review of research findings from global and spatio-temporal perspectives. 2025. Environmental Health Research. 3: 012003. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5309/ada790
Buser, T.J., O. Larouche, A. Aguilar, M.P. Neves, M.W. Sandel, B.L. Sidlauskas, A.P. Summers, K.M. Evans. Freshwater habitats promote rapid rates of phenotypic evolution in sculpin fishes (Perciformes: Cottoidea). 2024. American Naturalist. 204(4): 345-360. https://doi.org/10.1086/731784
Sylla, A., K.M. Fast, A.W. Rakestraw, M.E. Scott, M.W. Sandel, et al. Understanding the transmission of bacterial agents of sapronotic diseases in aquatic ecosystems: A first spatially realistic metacommunity model. 2024. PLOS Computational Biology. Sep 10;20(9):e1012435. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012435
Chevillon, C., A.W. Rakestraw, K.M. Fast, M.W. Sandel, et al. Ecological and evolutionary perspectives advance understanding of mycobacterial diseases. 2024. The Lancet Microbe. 5(11): 11100906. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(24)00138-1
Hilburn, B.G., Z.D. Alley, D. Pounders, J.E. Wood, C. Mullins, J.E. Dattilo, M.W. Sandel. Goldstripe Darters (Etheostoma parvipinne) Spawn in Isolated Vernal Pools and Seepages in Alabama. 2024. Southeastern Naturalist. 23(2): N13-N23. https://doi.org/10.1656/058.023.0207
Fast, K.M., J.D. Larrimore, Z.D. Alley, M.W. Sandel. Complete mitochondrial genome of the Starhead topminnow Topminnow Fundulus dispar (Cyprinodontiformes: Fundulidae). 2024. Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 9: 342-346. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2024.2327564
Fast, K.M., B.L. Fluker, B.R. Kuhajda, P.E. O’Neil, S.W. McGregor, M.S. Piteo, M.W. Sandel. Conservation genomics of the threatened Trispot Darter (Etheostoma trisella). 2023. Conservation Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-023-01572-9
Sandel, M.W., E.G. Torija, E.M. Sandel. Geographic Distribution Note: Squamata (Lizards). Anolis sagrei. 2023. Herpetological Review 54(1).
Guichard, J.L., M.W. Sandel, et al. Mitochondrial haplotype modulates genome expression and mitochondrial structure/function in cardiomyocytes following volume overload. 2023. American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology 324(4): H484-H493. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.00371.2022
Fast, K.M., A.W. Rakestraw, M.W. Sandel. Complete mitochondrial genome of a livebearing freshwater fish (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae): Poecilia parae. 2023. Mitochondrial DNA Part B 8: 215-219. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2023.2171246
Alley, Z.A., K.M. Fast, J. Delolme, M.W. Sandel. First Report of Xiphophorus maculatus (Günther) (Southern Platyfish) and Confirmation of Poecilia reticulata (Peters) (Guppy) from Guadeloupe-France. 2023. Caribbean Naturalist 90: 1-12. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368400760_First_Report_of_Xiphophorus_maculatus_Gunther_Southern_Platyfish_and_Confirmation_of_Poecilia_reticulata_Peters_Guppy_from_Guadeloupe-France
Hanauer, D.I., K.M. Fast, et al. Instructional models for course-based research experience (CRE) teaching. 2022. CBE-Life Sciences Education 21: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.21-03-0057
Chusyd, D.E., M.W. Sandel, et al. Randomization, design and analysis for interdependency in aging research: no person or mouse is an island. 2022. Nature Aging 2: 1101–1111. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-022-00333-6
Olivares‐Zambrano, D., J. Daane, J. Hyde, M.W. Sandel, A. Aguilar. Speciation genomics and the role of depth in the divergence of rockfishes (Sebastes) revealed through Pool‐seq analysis of enriched sequences. 2022. Ecology and Evolution 12(9): e9341. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9341
St. John, C.A., M.W. Sandel, et al. Diversification along a benthic to pelagic gradient contributes to fish diversity in the world's largest lake (Lake Baikal, Russia). 2022. Molecular Ecology 31(1): 238-251. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16209
Wood, J.E., K.M. Fast, M.W. Sandel. The complete mitochondrial genome of the Tennessee Dace (Chrosomus tennesseensis). 2021. Mitochondrial DNA Part B 7: 101-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2021.2005480
Receveur, J., A. Bauer, J. Pechal, S. Picq, M. Dogbe, H. Jordan, A. Rakestraw, K. Fast, M.Sandel, C. Chevillon, J.F. Guegan, J. Wallace, M. Benbow. A Need for Null Models in Understanding Disease Transmission: The Example of Mycobacterium ulcerans (Buruli Ulcer Disease). 2021. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuab045
Eastis, A.N., K.M. Fast, M.W. Sandel. The complete mitochondrial genome of the Variable Platyfish (Xiphophorus variatus). 2021. Mitochondrial DNA Part B 6: 2640-2642. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2021.1963339
Wood, J.E., M.W. Pugh, P.M. Harris, S.W. McGregor, M.W. Sandel. Range extension of Blackfin Darter and Tennessee Dace, and first collection of Western Blacknose Dace from Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River in 80 years. 2021. Southeastern Naturalist 20(1): 30-36. https://doi.org/10.1656/058.020.0117
Kolora, S.R.R., M.W. Sandel, et al. Origins and evolution of extreme life span in Pacific Ocean rockfishes. 2021. Science 374: 842-847. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abg5332
Fast, K.M., K.G. Johnson, K.N. Mayfield, L.A. Stephens, T.H. Reid, E.D. Ryan, T.W. Keener, M.W. Sandel. 2020. Complete Genome Sequences of Mycobacteriophages OKaNui and DroogsArmy. Microbiology Resource Announcements 9: e00791-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00791-20
Sandel, M.W., K.M. Fast, B. Albanese, A. Popp, P. Nensteil, P.H. Sudmant. 2020. Complete mitochondrial genome of the imperiled Trispot Darter (Etheostoma trisella). Mitochondrial DNA Part B 5: 1523-1524. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2020.1741459
Fast, K.M., B.E. Forrest, G.R. Granec, J.D. Larrimore, A.E. Morse, E.D. Ryan, P.K. Schellhammer, T.W. Keener, M.W. Sandel. 2019. Complete Genome Sequences of Mycobacteriophages Candle, Schatzie, Sumter, and Waleliano. Microbiology Resource Announcements 8: e00643-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00643-19
Jones, K.D., B.R. Kuhajda, M.W. Sandel. Complete mitochondrial genome for the Mobile River Basin endemic Coal Darter, Percina brevicauda (Perciformes, Percidae). 2019. Mitochondrial DNA Part B 4(1): 2031-2032. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2019.1617066
Fast, K.M., T.W. Keener, S. Castleberry, K.D. Jones II, J.D. Larrimore, C.A. Long, J.T. Newburn, N.C. Pritchett, P.K. Schellhammer, and M.W. Sandel. 2018. Complete genome sequences of mycobacteriophages Kwksand96 and Cane17. Microbiology Resource Announcements 7: e01182-18. https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.01182-18
Fast, K.M., T. Keener, R. Ali, B.M. Butcher, J.D. Millwood, T. Odom, P.K. Schellhammer, E. Ufomadu, and M.W. Sandel. 2018. Genome sequence of a newly isolated F2 subcluster mycobacteriophage from the Black Belt geological region of western Alabama. Genome Announcements 6: e01555-17. https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.01555-17
Dunham-Snary, K.J., M.W. Sandel, et al. Mitochondrial–nuclear genetic interaction modulates whole body metabolism, adiposity and gene expression in vivo. 2018. EBioMedicine 36: 316-328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2018.08.036
Sandel, M.W., A. Aguilar, V.P. Buonaccorsi, J. Herstein, O. Evgrafov. Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of five rockfishes (Perciformes: Sebastes). 2018. Mitochondrial DNA Part B 3(2): 825-826. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2018.1495130
Hanauer, D.I., M.J. Graham, SEA-PHAGES, L. Betancur, A. Bobrownicki, S.G. Cresawn, R.A. Garlena, D. Jacobs-Sera, N. Kaufmann, W.H. Pope, D.A. Russell, W.R. Jacobs Jr., V. Sivanathan, D.J. Asai, and G.F. Hatfull. 2017. An inclusive Research Education Community (iREC): Impact of the SEA-PHAGES program on research outcomes and student learning. PNAS 114: 13531-13536. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.171818811
Sandel, M.W., A. Aguilar, K. Fast, S. O’Brien, A. Lapidus, D.B. Allison, V. Teterina, and S. Kirilchik. 2017. Complete mitochondrial genomes of Baikal oilfishes (Perciformes: Cottoidei), earth’s deepest swimming freshwater fishes. Mitochondrial DNA Part B 2: 773-775. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2017.1398603
Fast, K., A. Aguilar, A.W. Nolte, and M.W. Sandel. 2017. Complete mitochondrial genomes for Cottus asper, Cottus perifretum, and Cottus rhenanus (Perciformes, Cottidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part B 2: 666-668. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2017.1375870
Fleischacker, C.L., M. Segura-Totten, SEA-PHAGES 2016 Bioinformatics Workshop, R.A. Garlena, D. Jacobs-Sera, W.H. Pope, D.A. Russell, and G.F. Hatfull. 2017. Genome sequence of Mycobacterium phage CrystalP. Genome Announcements 5: e00542-17. https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.00542-17