FIU Discovery

Acute dimethyl phthalate exposure impairs tissue integrity in a model cnidarian without disrupting symbiosis.  Marine Pollution Bulletin.  220.

Whole-genome duplication in an algal symbiont bolsters coral heat tolerance.  Science Advances.  10.

Triggers, cascades, and endpoints: connecting the dots of coral bleaching mechanisms.  Biological Reviews.  99:715-752.

Multi-omic characterization of mechanisms contributing to rapid phenotypic plasticity in the coral Acropora cervicornis under divergent environments.  Coral Reefs.  43:53-66.

Massive genome reduction predates the divergence of Symbiodiniaceae dinoflagellates.  The ISME Journal.  18.

Building consensus around the assessment and interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae diversity.  PeerJ.  11.

A meta-analysis of the stony coral tissue loss disease microbiome finds key bacteria in unaffected and lesion tissue in diseased colonies.  ISME Communications.  3.

Acclimation to elevated temperatures in Acropora cervicornis: effects of host genotype and symbiont shuffling.  Marine Ecology Progress Series.  701:41-65.

Coral-bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales.  Global Change Biology.  28:4229-4250.

Higher population genetic diversity within the algal symbiont Durusdinium in Pocillopora verrucosa from Mexican Pacific reefs correlates with higher resistance to bleaching after the El Nino 2015-16 event.  Marine Ecology.  42.

Photophysiological Tolerance and Thermal Plasticity of Genetically Different Symbiodiniaceae Endosymbiont Species of Cnidaria.  Frontiers in Marine Science.  8.

Genomic signatures in the coral holobiont reveal host adaptations driven by Holocene climate change and reef specific symbionts.  Science Advances.  6.

Nutrient Pollution and Predation Differentially Affect Innate Immune Pathways in the Coral Porites porites.  Frontiers in Marine Science.  7.

Genetic differences in thermal tolerance among colonies of threatened coral Acropora cervicornis: potential for adaptation to increasing temperature.  Marine Ecology Progress Series.  646:45-68.

Free-living and symbiotic lifestyles of a thermotolerant coral endosymbiont display profoundly distinct transcriptomes under both stable and heat stress conditions.  Molecular Ecology.  28:5265-5281.

Proteomic Basis of Symbiosis: A Heterologous Partner Fails to Duplicate Homologous Colonization in a Novel Cnidarian-Symbiodiniaceae Mutualism.  Frontiers in Microbiology.  10.

Recurring Episodes of Thermal Stress Shift the Balance From a Dominant Host-Specialist to a Background Host-Generalist Zooxanthella in the Threatened Pillar Coral, Dendrogyra cylindrus.  Frontiers in Marine Science.  6.

Symbiotic immuno-suppression: is disease susceptibility the price of bleaching resistance?.  PeerJ.  6.

Inter-domain microbial diversity within the coral holobiont Siderastrea siderea from two depth habitats.  PeerJ.  6.

Temporal dynamics of black band disease affecting pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) following two consecutive hyperthermal events on the Florida Reef Tract.  Coral Reefs.  36:427-431.

Worldwide exploration of the microbiome harbored by the cnidarian model, Exaiptasia pallida (Agassiz in Verrill 1864) indicates a lack of bacterial association specificity at a lower taxonomic rank.  PeerJ.  5.

Defending against pathogens - immunological priming and its molecular basis in a sea anemone, cnidarian.  Scientific Reports.  5.

Genetic diversity of free-living Symbiodinium in the Caribbean: the importance of habitats and seasons.  Coral Reefs.  34:927-939.

Correction: Coral Thermal Tolerance: Tuning Gene Expression to Resist Thermal Stress.  PLoS ONE.  8:10.1371/annotation/2b623dcd-9413-47b0-990d-c46c8e662ad4.

Ecological Inferences from a deep screening of the Complex Bacterial Consortia associated with the coral, Porites astreoides.  Molecular Ecology.  22:4349-4362.

Transcriptional Activation of c3 and hsp70 as Part of the Immune Response of Acropora millepora to Bacterial Challenges.  PLoS ONE.  8.

High natural gene expression variation in the reef-building coral Acropora millepora: potential for acclimative and adaptive plasticity.  BMC Genomics.  14.

Coral Thermal Tolerance: Tuning Gene Expression to Resist Thermal Stress.  PLoS ONE.  7.

Major Cellular and Physiological Impacts of Ocean Acidification on a Reef Building Coral.  PLoS ONE.  7.

Resistance to thermal stress in corals without changes in symbiont composition.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences.  279:1100-1107.

Two anthozoans, Entacmaea quadricolor (order Actiniaria) and Alveopora japonica (order Scleractinia), host consistent genotypes of Symbiodinium spp. across geographic ranges in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.  Animal Cells and Systems.  15:315-324.

Validation of Housekeeping Genes for Gene Expression Studies in Symbiodinium Exposed to Thermal and Light Stress.  Marine Biotechnology.  13:355-365.

The use of high-resolution melting analysis for genotyping Symbiodinium strains: a sensitive and fast approach.  Molecular Ecology Resources.  11:394-399.

Complex Diel Cycles of Gene Expression in Coral-Algal Symbiosis.  Science.  331:175-175.

Presence of Symbiodinium spp. in macroalgal microhabitats from the southern Great Barrier Reef.  Coral Reefs.  29:1049-1060.

Early molecular responses of coral larvae to hyperthermal stress.  Molecular Ecology.  18:5101-5114.

Onset of symbiosis and distribution patterns of symbiotic dinoflagellates in the larvae of scleractinian corals.  Marine Biology.  156:1203-1212.

Response of the symbiotic cnidarian Anthopleura elegantissima transcriptome to temperature and UV increase.  Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part D: Genomics and Proteomics.  3:283-289.

Isolation of symbiosomes and the symbiosome membrane complex from the zoanthid Zoanthus robustus.  Phycologia.  47:294-306.

Analytical approach for selecting normalizing genes from a cDNA microarray platform to be used in q-RT-PCR assays: A cnidarian case study.  Journal of Proteomics.  70:985-991.

Purification and characterization of transducin from capybara Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris.  Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.  149:22-28.

Temporal and spatial infection dynamics indicate recognition events in the early hours of a dinoflagellate/coral symbiosis.  Marine Biology.  149:713-719.

Transcriptome analysis of a cnidarian-dinoflagellate mutualism reveals complex modulation of host gene expression.  BMC Genomics.  7.

Transport of symbiotic zooxanthellae in mesogleal canals of Zoanthus robustus?.  Coral Reefs.  24:195-196.

Distinct ITS types of Symbiodinium in Clade C correlate with cnidarian/dinoflagellate specificity during onset of symbiosis.  Marine Ecology Progress Series.  275:97-102.

Specificity of two temperate dinoflagellate-anthozoan associations from the north-western Pacific Ocean.  Marine Biology.  143:1193-1199.

Genetic population structure of Littorina brevicula around Korean waters.  Hydrobiologia.  505:41-48.

Symbiont diversity within the widespread scleractinian coral Plesiastrea versipora, across the northwestern Pacific.  Marine Biology.  143:501-509.

Evolving lineages of Symbiodinium-like dinoflagellates based on ITS1 rDNA.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.  28:152-168.

Changes in gorgonian morphology along a depth gradient at Isla Alcatraz, San Esteban National Park, Venezuela.  Bulletin of Marine Science.  72:1019-1023.

Comparative analysis of superfamilies of NBS-encoding disease resistance gene analogs in cultivated and wild apple species.  Molecular Genetics and Genomics.  269:101-108.

Emergent effects of heavy metal pollution at a population level: Littorina brevicula a study case.  Marine Pollution Bulletin.  46:74-80.

The phylogeography and connectivity of the latitudinally widespread scleractinian coral Plesiastrea versipora in the Western Pacific.  Molecular Ecology.  11:1177-1189.

Latitudinal variability in symbiont specificity within the widespread scleractinian coral Plesiastrea versipora.  Marine Biology.  138:1175-1181.

The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): Developing Community Resources to Study Diverse Invertebrate Genomes.  Journal of Heredity.  105:1-18.

Cnidarian chemosensory iGluRs under the clout of circadian rhythm in the sea anemone Exaiptasia pallida.  Integrative and Comparative Biology. E57-E57.

A CNIDARIAN-SPECIFIC IONOTROPIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR LINEAGE FUNCTIONAL IMMUNE RESPONSE.  Integrative and Comparative Biology. E54-E54.

Comparative Transcriptomics Reveals Extensive Diversity of Insulin-like Peptides in Corals.  Integrative and Comparative Biology. E53-E53.

A new ionotropic glutamate receptor lineage and its putative role in cnidarian immunity.  Integrative and Comparative Biology. E56-E56.

Genotype Specific Response to Thermal Stress: Predicting for Efficient Coral Restoration in the Twenty-First Century.  Integrative and Comparative Biology. E303-E303.

Molecular mechanisms underpinning immunological memory in a basal metazoan (Cnidaria)..  Integrative and Comparative Biology. E21-E21.

Bleaching, disease, and mortality on A. cervicornis individuals in Elliot Key, Florida during 2014 and 2015 (EMUCoReS project)

Symbiodinium community composition for individual A. cervicornis from Elliot Key, Florida during 2014 and 2015 (EMUCoReS project)

An inclusive Research Education Community (iREC): Impact of the SEA-PHAGES program on research outcomes and student learning..  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 13531-13536.

Erratum: Early molecular responses of coral larvae to hyperthermal stress (Molecular Ecology (2009) 18 (5101-5114)).  Molecular Ecology. 1071.

Fidelity and flexibility in coral symbioses.  Marine Ecology Progress Series. 307-309.

Massive genome reduction occurred prior to the origin of coral algal symbionts

A meta-analysis of the stony coral tissue loss disease microbiome finds key bacteria in lesions and unaffected tissue of diseased colonies

Whole-genome duplication in an algal symbiont bolsters coral heat tolerance

Signatures of selection in the coral holobiont reveal complex adaptations to inshore environments driven by Holocene climate change

Transcriptome landscape of a thermal-tolerant coral endosymbiont reveals molecular signatures of symbiosis and dysbiosis

Building Consensus around the Assessment and Interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae Diversity

Worldwide exploration of the microbiome harbored by the cnidarian model, Exaiptasia pallida indicates a lack of bacterial association specificity at a lower taxonomic rank

Worldwide exploration of the microbiome harbored by the cnidarian model, Exaiptasia pallida indicates a lack of bacterial association specificity at a lower taxonomic rank

Cell biology in model systems as the key to understanding corals.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 369-376.

Genetic and physiological variability of the widespread holosymbiont : Plesiastrea versipora - Symbiodinium spp.