Erik Sperling Graduate Email Me Office: KGL 229 Phone: (203) 927-3754 A More Detailed Webpage Research Interests: The origin and early evolution of metazoans Students and Postdocs: Jakob Vinther Selected Publication(s): Rosengarten, R.D., Sperling, E.A., Moreno, M.A., Leys, S.P., and Dellaporta, S.L., 2008. The mitochondrial genome of the hexactinellid sponge Aphrocallistes vastus: Evidence for programmed translational frameshifting: BMC Genomics, vol. 9, 33. Sperling, E.A., Pisani, D., and Peterson, K.J., 2007. Poriferan paraphyly and its implications for Precambrian palaeobiology: Geological Society of London, Special Publications, vol. 286, 355-368. Peterson, K.J. and Sperling, E.A., 2007. Poriferan ANTP genes--primitively simply or secondarily reduced?: Evolution and Development, vol. 9, 405-408. Sperling, E.A., Ingle, J.C., Jr., 2006. A Permian-Triassic boundary section at Quinn River Crossing, northwestern Nevada, and implications for the cause of the Early Triassic chert gap on the western Pangean margin: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, 733-746