Paulyn Cartwright

Paulyn Cartwright
Alma materYale University
Scientific career
ThesisCharacterization of a Hox gene, Cnox-2, and the evolution of coloniality in the hydrozoa (Phylum Cnidaria) (1998)

Paulyn Cartwright is the Baumgartner Professor of Biology at the University of Kansas. She is known for her research on the evolution and development of jellyfish.

Education and career

Cartwright received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1990. She earned a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1997.[1]

Research

Cartwright is known for her research on the evolution of jellyfish, particularly cnidarians. Her early work examined Hox genes in the horseshoe crab[2] and in hydroids.[3] Her subsequent research examined myxozoa, or aquatic parasites related to cnidarians,[4][5] and the evolution of cnidarians.[6][7] In 2007, Cartwright led a research project that found fossils of jellyfish that date to the Middle Cambrian period.[8]

Photograph of a Middle Cambrian cnidarian jellyfish from Cartwright et al. (2007) published manuscript.

Selected publications

  • Cartwright, Paulyn; Bowsher, Julia; Buss, Leo W. (2 March 1999). "Expression of a Hox gene, Cnox-2, and the division of labor in a colonial hydroid". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96 (5): 2183–2186. Bibcode:1999PNAS...96.2183C. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.5.2183. PMC 26757. PMID 10051615.
  • Cartwright, Paulyn; Halgedahl, Susan L.; Hendricks, Jonathan R.; Jarrard, Richard D.; Marques, Antonio C.; Collins, Allen G.; Lieberman, Bruce S. (31 October 2007). "Exceptionally Preserved Jellyfishes from the Middle Cambrian". PLOS ONE. 2 (10) e1121. Bibcode:2007PLoSO...2.1121C. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001121. PMC 2040521. PMID 17971881.
  • Daly, Marymegan; Brugler, Mercer R.; Cartwright, Paulyn; Collins, Allen G.; Dawson, Michael N.; Fautin, Daphne G.; France, Scott C.; Mcfadden, Catherine S.; Opresko, Dennis M.; Rodriguez, Estefania; Romano, Sandra L.; Stake, Joel L. (21 December 2007). "The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus". Zootaxa. 1668 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1668.1.11.
  • Cartwright, Paulyn; Evans, Nathaniel M.; Dunn, Casey W.; Marques, Antonio C.; Miglietta, Maria Pia; Schuchert, Peter; Collins, Allen G. (December 2008). "Phylogenetics of Hydroidolina (Hydrozoa: Cnidaria)". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 88 (8): 1663–1672. Bibcode:2008JMBUK..88.1663C. doi:10.1017/S0025315408002257. hdl:1808/15806.
  • Cartwright, Paulyn; Nawrocki, Annalise M. (September 2010). "Character Evolution in Hydrozoa (phylum Cnidaria)". Integrative and Comparative Biology. 50 (3): 456–472. doi:10.1093/icb/icq089. PMID 21558215.

Honors and awards

In 2025 Cartwright was named a Whitman Fellow by the Marine Biological Laboratory.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Paulyn Cartwright". University of Kansas. Retrieved 2026-08-23.
  2. ↑ Cartwright, Paulyn; Dick, Matthew; Buss, Leo W. (September 1993). "HOM/Hox Type Homeoboxes in the Chelicerate Limulus polyphemus". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 2 (3): 185–192. Bibcode:1993MolPE...2..185C. doi:10.1006/mpev.1993.1019. PMID 7907917.
  3. ↑ Cartwright, Paulyn; Bowsher, Julia; Buss, Leo W. (2 March 1999). "Expression of a Hox gene, Cnox-2, and the division of labor in a colonial hydroid". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96 (5): 2183–2186. Bibcode:1999PNAS...96.2183C. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.5.2183. PMC 26757. PMID 10051615.
  4. ↑ "Parasite may have been a jellyfish". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. 2015-11-18. p. 44. Retrieved 2026-08-23.
  5. ↑ Chang, E. Sally; Neuhof, Moran; Rubinstein, Nimrod D.; Diamant, Arik; Philippe, Hervé; Huchon, Dorothée; Cartwright, Paulyn (December 2015). "Genomic insights into the evolutionary origin of Myxozoa within Cnidaria". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (48): 14912–14917. Bibcode:2015PNAS..11214912C. doi:10.1073/pnas.1511468112. PMC 4672818. PMID 26627241.
  6. ↑ Cartwright, Paulyn; Evans, Nathaniel M.; Dunn, Casey W.; Marques, Antonio C.; Miglietta, Maria Pia; Schuchert, Peter; Collins, Allen G. (December 2008). "Phylogenetics of Hydroidolina (Hydrozoa: Cnidaria)". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 88 (8): 1663–1672. Bibcode:2008JMBUK..88.1663C. doi:10.1017/S0025315408002257. hdl:1808/15806.
  7. ↑ Bentlage, Bastian; Cartwright, Paulyn; Yanagihara, Angel A.; Lewis, Cheryl; Richards, Gemma S.; Collins, Allen G. (7 February 2010). "Evolution of box jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa), a group of highly toxic invertebrates". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 277 (1680): 493–501. Bibcode:2010PBioS.277..493B. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.1707. PMC 2842657. PMID 19923131.
  8. ↑ Fountain, Henry (6 November 2007). "500 Million Years Ago, Jellyfish Left Their Mark in Fine Sea Sediments". The New York Times. ProQuest 2222892611.
  9. ↑ "MBL Awards Whitman Center Fellowships to 24 Outstanding Investigators". Marine Biological Laboratory. Retrieved 2026-08-23.
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