Petra H. Lenz
Research Professor, PBRC
Contact Info
petra@pbrc.hawaii.edu
(808) 956-8003
1993 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Education
- U. California, San Diego, CA, B.A. in Biology, 1976
- U. California, Santa Barbara, CA, M.A. (1980), Ph.D. (1983) in Biology
Research Interests
Zooplankton ecology and physiology, life-history strategies, diapause and dormancy, predator-prey interactions, behavioral performance, sensory systems, organism-environment interactions, population dynamics, ‘omics, and biological oceanography. With a special interest in high latitude marine environments, recent work has focused on lipid-rich copepods in sub-arctic environments.
Department and Laboratory Webpages
https://nga.lternet.edu/
Selected Publications
Hartline, D. K. and Lenz, P. H. (2025) Adaptations of calanoid copepods for escaping predatory attacks. Journal of Plankton Research, 47(2), p.fbae050. Doi: 10.1093/plankt/fbae050
Lenz, P. H., Block, L. N., Cieslak, M. C., Suitos, J., Roncalli, V., Castelfranco, A. M., and Hartline, D. K. (2025) Genetic divergence in a marine copepod associated with marginal habitats across the subarctic Pacific. Marine Ecology Progress Series, in press
Hartline, D. K., Cieslak, M. C., Castelfranco, A. M., Lieberman, B., Roncalli, V., and Lenz, P. H. (2023) De novo transcriptomes of six calanoid copepods (Crustacea): a resource for the discovery of novel genes. Scientific Data 10(1): 242. Doi: 10.1038/s41597-023-02130-1
Monell, K. M., Roncalli, V., Hopcroft, R. R., Hartline, D. K., and Lenz, P. H. (2023) Post-diapause DNA replication during oogenesis in a capital-breeding copepod. Integrative Organismal Biology, 5(1): obad020. Doi: 10.1093/iob/obad020
Roncalli, V., Niestroy, J., Cieslak, M. C., Castelfranco, A. M., Hopcroft, R. R., and Lenz, P. H. (2022) Physiological acclimatization in high-latitude zooplankton. Molecular Ecology, 31(6): 1753-1765. Doi: 10.1111/mec.16354
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