Most Low-Abundance “Background” Symbiodinium spp. Are Transitory and Have Minimal Functional Significance for Symbiotic Corals

Symbiodinium spp. associated with high-latitude scleractinian corals from Jeju Island, South Korea

(2015) S. De Palmas et al.   CORAL REEFS

Widespread prevalence of cryptic Symbiodinium D in the key Caribbean reef builder, Orbicella annularis

(2015) Emma V. Kennedy et al.   CORAL REEFS

Symbiodinium tridacnidorumsp. nov., a dinoflagellate common to Indo-Pacific giant clams, and a revised morphological description ofSymbiodinium microadriaticumFreudenthal, emended Trench & Blank

(2015) Sung Yeon Lee et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Symbiodinium necroappetenssp. nov. (Dinophyceae): an opportunist ‘zooxanthella’ found in bleached and diseased tissues of Caribbean reef corals

(2015) Todd C. LaJeunesse et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

New species of Clade BSymbiodinium(Dinophyceae) from the greater Caribbean belong to different functional guilds:S. aenigmaticumsp. nov.,S. antillogorgiumsp. nov.,S. endomadracissp. nov., andS. pseudominutumsp. nov.

(2015) John Everett Parkinson et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Microplastic ingestion by scleractinian corals

(2015) N. M. Hall et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Microbial invasion of the Caribbean by an Indo-Pacific coral zooxanthella

(2015) D. Tye Pettay et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The cumulative impact of annual coral bleaching can turn some coral species winners into losers

(2014) Andréa G. Grottoli et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Symbiodinium(Dinophyceae) diversity in reef-invertebrates along an offshore to inshore reef gradient near Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef

(2014) Linda Tonk et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Community dynamics and physiology ofSymbiodiniumspp. before, during, and after a coral bleaching event

(2014) Dustin W. Kemp et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

AssessingSymbiodiniumdiversity in scleractinian corals via next-generation sequencing-based genotyping of the ITS2 rDNA region

(2014) Chatchanit Arif et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

New insights into the dynamics between reef corals and their associated dinoflagellate endosymbionts from population genetic studies

(2014) Iliana B. Baums et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

ExploringSymbiodiniumdiversity and host specificity inAcroporacorals from geographical extremes of Western Australia with 454 amplicon pyrosequencing

(2014) L. Thomas et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ecologically differentiated stress-tolerant endosymbionts in the dinoflagellate genusSymbiodinium(Dinophyceae) Clade D are different species

(2014) Todd C. LaJeunesse et al.   PHYCOLOGIA

Deep-Sequencing Method for Quantifying Background Abundances of Symbiodinium Types: Exploring the Rare Symbiodinium Biosphere in Reef-Building Corals

(2014) Kate M. Quigley et al.   PLoS One

The Human Microbiome: From Symbiosis to Pathogenesis

(2013) Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh et al.   Annual Review of Medicine

Alveopora japonica beds thriving under kelp

(2013) V. Denis et al.   CORAL REEFS

Ubiquitous associations and a peak fall prevalence between apicomplexan symbionts and reef corals in Florida and the Bahamas

(2013) N. L. Kirk et al.   CORAL REEFS

Cobgene pyrosequencing enables characterization of benthic dinoflagellate diversity and biogeography

(2013) Gurjeet S. Kohli et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genetics and Morphology Characterize the DinoflagellateSymbiodinium voratum, n. sp., (Dinophyceae) as the Sole Representative ofSymbiodiniumClade E

(2013) Hae Jin Jeong et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Symbiodiniumdiversity withinAcropora muricataand the surrounding environment

(2013) Michael J. Sweet   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

Coral feeding on microalgae assessed with molecular trophic markers

(2013) Miguel C. Leal et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Population genetic data of a model symbiotic cnidarian system reveal remarkable symbiotic specificity and vectored introductions across ocean basins

(2013) Daniel J. Thornhill et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

(2013) Margaret McFall-Ngai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A genetics-based description ofSymbiodinium minutumsp. nov. andS. psygmophilumsp. nov. (Dinophyceae), two dinoflagellates symbiotic with cnidaria

(2012) Todd C. Lajeunesse et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Symbiodinium spp. in colonies of eastern Pacific Pocillopora spp. are highly stable despite the prevalence of low-abundance background populations

(2012) MP McGinley et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Heterotrophic feeding as a newly identified survival strategy of the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium

(2012) H. J. Jeong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Specificity is rarely absolute in coral-algal symbiosis: implications for coral response to climate change

(2012) R. N. Silverstein et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Symbiodinium Clade C Dominates Zooxanthellate Corals (Scleractinia) in the Temperate Region of Japan

(2012) Yi-Ting Lien et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Two anthozoans,Entacmaea quadricolor(order Actiniaria) andAlveopora japonica(order Scleractinia), host consistent genotypes ofSymbiodiniumspp. across geographic ranges in the northwestern Pacific Ocean

(2011) Soo-Jung Chang et al.   Animal Cells and Systems

Genetic diversity of free-living Symbiodinium in surface water and sediment of Hawai‘i and Florida

(2011) M. Takabayashi et al.   CORAL REEFS

Coral-associated marine fungi form novel lineages and heterogeneous assemblages

(2011) Anthony S Amend et al.   ISME Journal

Gyrodiniellum shiwhaense n. gen., n. sp., A New Planktonic Heterotrophic Dinoflagellate from the Coastal Waters of Western Korea: Morphology and Ribosomal DNA Gene Sequence

(2011) NAM SEON KANG et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Genotypic diversity and spatial-temporal distribution of Symbiodinium clones in an abundant reef coral

(2011) DANIEL T. PETTAY et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Long-standing environmental conditions, geographic isolation and host-symbiont specificity influence the relative ecological dominance and genetic diversification of coral endosymbionts in the genusSymbiodinium

(2010) Todd C. LaJeunesse et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Specificity and stability in high latitude eastern Pacific coral-algal symbioses

(2010) T. C. LaJeunesse et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Novel algal symbiont (Symbiodinium spp.) diversity in reef corals of Western Australia

(2010) RN Silverstein et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

The Relative Significance of Host–Habitat, Depth, and Geography on the Ecology, Endemism, and Speciation of Coral Endosymbionts in the Genus Symbiodinium

(2010) J. Christine Finney et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Host-symbiont recombination versus natural selection in the response of coral-dinoflagellate symbioses to environmental disturbance

(2010) T. C. LaJeunesse et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Stability of coral–endosymbiont associations during and after a thermal stress event in the southern Great Barrier Reef

(2009) M. Stat et al.   CORAL REEFS

Reef Endemism, Host Specificity and Temporal Stability in Populations of Symbiotic Dinoflagellates from Two Ecologically Dominant Caribbean Corals

(2009) Daniel J. Thornhill et al.   PLoS One

Outbreak and persistence of opportunistic symbiotic dinoflagellates during the 2005 Caribbean mass coral 'bleaching' event

(2009) T. C. LaJeunesse et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Do introduced endosymbiotic dinoflagellates ‘take’ to new hosts?

(2008) Todd C. LaJeunesse et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Heterotrophy in Tropical Scleractinian Corals

(2008) Fanny Houlbrèque et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Methods for sampling free-living Symbiodinium (zooxanthellae) and their distribution and abundance at Lizard Island (Great Barrier Reef)

(2008) Raechel A. Littman et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic analyses of potentially free-living Symbiodinium spp. isolated from coral reef sand in Okinawa, Japan

(2008) Mamiko Hirose et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Symbiont specificity and bleaching susceptibility among soft corals in the 1998 Great Barrier Reef mass coral bleaching event

(2008) Tamar L. Goulet et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Seasonal fluctuation in zooxanthellar genotype composition and photophysiology in the corals Pavona divaricata and P. decussata

(2008) R Suwa et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Conflict, cheats and the persistence of symbioses

(2008) Angela E. Douglas   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Macroalgal-Associated Dinoflagellates Belonging to the Genus Symbiodinium in Caribbean Reefs

(2008) Isabel Porto et al.   PLoS One

A community change in the algal endosymbionts of a scleractinian coral following a natural bleaching event: field evidence of acclimatization

(2008) A.M Jones et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES