Publications
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* denotes undergraduate coauthor; # denotes graduate student coauthor)

Donovan, D.A., and H.H. Taylor.  (2008) Metabolic consequences of living in a wave-swept environment: effects of simulated wave forces on oxygen consumption, heart rate, and activity of the shell adductor muscle of the abalone Haliotis iris.  J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 354: 231-240.  full text pdf

Farren#, H.M. and D.A. Donovan.  (2007) Effects of sponge and barnacle encrustation on survival of the scallop Chlamys hastata.  Hydrobiologia. 592: 225-234. full text pdf

Baldwin, J., J.P. Elias, R.M.G. Wells, and D.A. Donovan. (2007)  Energy metabolism in the tropical abalone Haliotis asinina Linne: comparisons with temperate abalone species.  J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 342: 213-225.  full text pdf

Donovan, D.A., S.C. Pennings, and T.H. Carefoot.  (2006) Swimming in the sea hare Aplysia brasiliana: cost of transport, parapodial morphometry, and swimming behavior.  J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 328:76-86. full text pdf

Donovan, D.A., J.P. Elias, and J. Baldwin.  (2004) Swimming behavior and morphometry of the file shell Limaria fragilis. Mar. Fresh. Beh. Phys. 37:7-16. full text pdf

Caldwell#, S.L. and D.A. Donovan.  (2003) Energetics of swimming and crawling in the hooded nudibranch Melibe leonina. Veliger. 46:355-361.

Donovan, D.A., B.L. Bingham, M. From, A.F. Fleisch*, and E.S. Loomis*.  (2003) Effects of barnacle encrustation on the swimming behaviour, energetics, morphometry and drag of the scallop Chlamys hastata. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 83:813-819. full text pdf

Donovan, D.A., B.L. Bingham, H.L. Farren#, R. Gallardo*, and V. Vigilant*. (2002) Effects of sponge encrustation on the swimming behavior, energetics and morphometry of the scallop Chlamys hastata. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 82:469-476. full text pdf

Donovan, D.A. and J. Baldwin. (1999) Cost of transport in the swimming bivalve Limaria fragilis. Mar. Fresh. Beh. Phys. 33:51-58.

Donovan, D.A., J.P. Danko*, and T.H. Carefoot.  (1999)  Functional significance of shell sculpture in gastropod molluscs: test of a predator-deterrent hypothesis in Ceratostoma foliatum (Gmelin).  J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 236:235-251.  full text pdf

Donovan, D.A., J. Baldwin, and T.H. Carefoot. (1999)  The contribution of anaerobic energy to gastropod crawling and a re-estimation of minimum cost of transport in the abalone, Haliotis kamtschatkana. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 235:267-278.  full text pdf

Donovan, D.A. and T.H. Carefoot. (1998) Effects of activity on summer and winter energy allocations in the Northern abalone, Haliotis kamtschatkana.  J. Shell. Res. 17:729-736.

Carefoot, T.H., B.E. Taylor, and D.A. Donovan. (1998) Seasonality in digestive-gland size and metabolism in relation to reproduction in Haliotis kamtschatkana.  J. Shell. Res. 17:713-716.

Carefoot, T.H., M. Harris, B.E. Taylor, D.A. Donovan, and D. Karentz.  (1998)  Mycosporine-like amino acids: possible UV-protection in eggs of the sea hare Aplysia dactylomela. Mar. Biol. 130:389-396.  full text pdf

Donovan, D.A. and T.H Carefoot.  (1997)  Locomotion in the abalone Haliotis kamtschatkana: pedal morphology and cost of transport.  J. Exp. Biol. 200: 1145-1153.  full text pdf

Taylor, B.E., D.A. Donovan, E. McLean, E. Donaldson, and T.H. Carefoot.  (1996)  Effect of recombinant vertebrate growth hormones on growth of adult abalone, Haliotis  kamtschatkana.  Aquaculture.  140:153-158.  full text pdf

Carefoot, T.H. and D.A. Donovan.  (1995)  Functional significance of varices in the muricid gastropod Ceratostoma foliatum.  Biol. Bull. 189:59-68.  full text pdf

Donovan, D.A. and J.G. Zinkl.  (1994)  Modifications of a cholinesterase method for determination of erythrocyte cholinesterase in wild mammals.  J. Wild. Dis. 30:234-240.

in preparation
Purce#, D.N.S., D.A. Donovan, A.N. Maeda-Martinez, and V. Koch.  Energetic physiology of two geographically isolated populations of the scallop Nodipecten subnodosus from Baja California Sur, Mexico.

Donovan, D.A., C. Landel, and D. Hanley.  Impact of a multi-institutional curriculum development project on disciplinary science faculty.