Anthony Rossi (MS, May, 2013, Biology) presented a paper with Prof. D. Shain entitled “Polychaete tubes and oligochaete cocoons: an evolutionary link?” to the International Polychaete Conference, Sydney, Australia on August 6, 2013.

He also published some of this study as Rossi, AM, Saidel WM, Marotta R, Saglam N, and Shain, DH  (2013) Operculum Ultrastructure in Leech Cocoons, Journal of  Morphology. 274: 940-6.