Population genetics of reef coral endosymbionts (Symbiodinium , Dinophyceae)

Biogeography and molecular diversity of coral symbionts in the genus Symbiodinium around the Arabian Peninsula

(2017) Maren Ziegler et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Host adaptation and unexpected symbiont partners enable reef-building corals to tolerate extreme temperatures

(2016) Emily J. Howells et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Exploring the Symbiodinium rare biosphere provides evidence for symbiont switching in reef-building corals

(2016) Nadine M Boulotte et al.   ISME Journal

Sex, Scavengers, and Chaperones: Transcriptome Secrets of Divergent Symbiodinium Thermal Tolerances

(2016) Rachel A. Levin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

On the difficulty of recognizing distinctSymbiodiniumspecies in mixed communities of algal symbionts

(2016) Herman H. Wirshing et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Microsatellite allele sizes alone are insufficient to delineate species boundaries inSymbiodinium

(2016) E. J. Howells et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Symbiodinium population genetics: testing for species boundaries and analysing samples with mixed genotypes

(2016) Drew C. Wham et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ancestral genetic diversity associated with the rapid spread of stress-tolerant coral symbionts in response to Holocene climate change

(2016) Benjamin C. C. Hume et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Study of Cnidarian-Algal Symbiosis in the “Omics” Age

(2016) Eli Meyer et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Genomes of coral dinoflagellate symbionts highlight evolutionary adaptations conducive to a symbiotic lifestyle

(2016) M. Aranda et al.   Scientific Reports

Intra-genomic variation in symbiotic dinoflagellates: recent divergence or recombination between lineages?

(2015) Shaun P Wilkinson et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Dynamic regulation of partner abundance mediates response of reef coral symbioses to environmental change

(2015) R. Cunning et al.   ECOLOGY

The symbiotic life of Symbiodinium in the open ocean within a new species of calcifying ciliate (Tiarina sp.)

(2015) Solenn Mordret et al.   ISME Journal

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

Building coral reef resilience through assisted evolution

(2015) Madeleine J. H. van Oppen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Symbiodinium thermophilum sp. nov., a thermotolerant symbiotic alga prevalent in corals of the world's hottest sea, the Persian/Arabian Gulf

(2015) B. C. C. Hume et al.   Scientific Reports

Change in algal symbiont communities after bleaching, not prior heat exposure, increases heat tolerance of reef corals

(2014) Rachel N. Silverstein et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Cryptic Sex inSymbiodinium(Alveolata, Dinoflagellata) is Supported by an Inventory of Meiotic Genes

(2014) Jingyun Chi et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

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

Cryptic diversity hides host and habitat specialization in a gorgonian-algal symbiosis

(2014) Carlos Prada 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

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

(2014) Todd C. LaJeunesse et al.   PHYCOLOGIA

A Snapshot of a Coral “Holobiont”: A Transcriptome Assembly of the Scleractinian Coral, Porites, Captures a Wide Variety of Genes from Both the Host and Symbiotic Zooxanthellae

(2014) Chuya Shinzato et al.   PLoS One

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

Morphological revision of the genus Aiptasia and the family Aiptasiidae (Cnidaria, Actiniaria, Metridioidea)

(2014) ALEJANDRO GRAJALES et al.   ZOOTAXA

The endosymbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium sp.) of corals are parasites and mutualists

(2013) M. P. Lesser 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

Draft Assembly of the Symbiodinium minutum Nuclear Genome Reveals Dinoflagellate Gene Structure

(2013) Eiichi Shoguchi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

HOST-SPECIALIST LINEAGES DOMINATE THE ADAPTIVE RADIATION OF REEF CORAL ENDOSYMBIONTS

(2013) Daniel J. Thornhill et al.   EVOLUTION

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

The symbiosis between the gastropod Strombus gigas and the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium: An ontogenic journey from mutualism to parasitism

(2013) Anastazia T. Banaszak et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Spatial and temporal genetic structure ofSymbiodiniumpopulations within a common reef-building coral on the Great Barrier Reef

(2013) Emily J. Howells 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

Vectored dispersal ofSymbiodiniumby larvae of a Caribbean gorgonian octocoral

(2013) Herman H. Wirshing et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Sex and Eimeria: a molecular perspective

(2013) ROBERT A. WALKER et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Multiple Symbiont Acquisition Strategies as an Adaptive Mechanism in the Coral Stylophora pistillata

(2013) Kristen A. Byler et al.   PLoS One

Long-Range Dispersal and High-Latitude Environments Influence the Population Structure of a “Stress-Tolerant” Dinoflagellate Endosymbiont

(2013) D. Tye Pettay et al.   PLoS One

Malaria life cycle intensifies both natural selection and random genetic drift

(2013) H.-H. Chang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microsatellite loci for Symbiodinium goreaui and other Clade C Symbiodinium

(2013) Drew C. Wham et al.   Conservation Genetics Resources

The magnesium inhibition and arrested phagosome hypotheses: new perspectives on the evolution and ecology ofSymbiodiniumsymbioses

(2012) Hill Malcolm et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

A simple temperature-based model predicts the upper latitudinal limit of the temperate coral Astrangia poculata

(2012) J. L. Dimond et al.   CORAL REEFS

The promiscuous larvae: flexibility in the establishment of symbiosis in corals

(2012) V. R. Cumbo et al.   CORAL REEFS

SPECIES DELIMITATION WITH ABC AND OTHER COALESCENT-BASED METHODS: A TEST OF ACCURACY WITH SIMULATIONS AND AN EMPIRICAL EXAMPLE WITH LIZARDS OF THE LIOLAEMUS DARWINII COMPLEX (SQUAMATA: LIOLAEMIDAE)

(2012) Arley Camargo et al.   EVOLUTION

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

Connectivity of Caribbean coral populations: complementary insights from empirical and modelled gene flow

(2012) NICOLA L. FOSTER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Impact of Light and Temperature on the Uptake of Algal Symbionts by Coral Juveniles

(2012) David Abrego et al.   PLoS One

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

Dispersal of Symbiodinium by the stoplight parrotfish Sparisoma viride

(2011) C. Castro-Sanguino et al.   Biology Letters

Range-wide population genetic structure of Symbiodinium associated with the Caribbean Sea fan coral, Gorgonia ventalina

(2011) JASON P. ANDRAS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

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

Using the Acropora digitifera genome to understand coral responses to environmental change

(2011) Chuya Shinzato et al.   NATURE

New Perspectives on the Ecology and Evolution of Siboglinid Tubeworms

(2011) Ana Hilário et al.   PLoS One

Improved Resolution of Reef-Coral Endosymbiont (Symbiodinium) Species Diversity, Ecology, and Evolution through psbA Non-Coding Region Genotyping

(2011) Todd C. LaJeunesse et al.   PLoS One

A Connection between Colony Biomass and Death in Caribbean Reef-Building Corals

(2011) Daniel J. Thornhill et al.   PLoS One

Projecting Coral Reef Futures Under Global Warming and Ocean Acidification

(2011) J. M. Pandolfi et al.   SCIENCE

Global Invasion History of the Fire Ant Solenopsis invicta

(2011) M. S. Ascunce et al.   SCIENCE

Coral thermal tolerance shaped by local adaptation of photosymbionts

(2011) E. J. Howells et al.   Nature Climate Change

Is the coral-algae symbiosis really ‘mutually beneficial’ for the partners?

(2010) Scott A. Wooldridge   BIOESSAYS

Disaster taxa in microbially mediated metazoans: how endosymbionts and environmental catastrophes influence the adaptive capacity of reef corals

(2010) ADRIENNE M. S. CORREA et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

COMPARISON OF ENDOSYMBIOTIC AND FREE-LIVING SYMBIODINIUM (DINOPHYCEAE) DIVERSITY IN A HAWAIIAN REEF ENVIRONMENT1

(2010) Xavier Pochon et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Diversity in populations of free-living Symbiodinium from a Caribbean and Pacific reef

(2010) Mackenzie M. Manning et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Host hybridization alters specificity of cnidarian–dinoflagellate associations

(2010) DJ Thornhill et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

In defence of model-based inference in phylogeography

(2010) MARK A. BEAUMONT et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A new Symbiodinium clade (Dinophyceae) from soritid foraminifera in Hawai’i

(2010) Xavier Pochon et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Bridgehead Effect in the Worldwide Invasion of the Biocontrol Harlequin Ladybird

(2010) Eric Lombaert et al.   PLoS One

Environmental Symbiont Acquisition May Not Be the Solution to Warming Seas for Reef-Building Corals

(2010) Mary Alice Coffroth et al.   PLoS One

Systematic and Biogeographical Patterns in the Reproductive Biology of Scleractinian Corals

(2009) Andrew H. Baird et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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

Population structure of Symbiodinium sp. associated with the common sea fan, Gorgonia ventalina, in the Florida Keys across distance, depth, and time

(2009) Nathan L. Kirk et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

The host transcriptome remains unaltered during the establishment of coral-algal symbioses

(2009) CHRISTIAN R. VOOLSTRA et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Cohesive molecular genetic data delineate species diversity in the dinoflagellate genusSymbiodinium

(2009) E. M. SAMPAYO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Onset of algal endosymbiont specificity varies among closely related species ofAcroporacorals during early ontogeny

(2009) DAVID ABREGO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Phylogeography’s past, present, and future: 10 years after Avise, 2000

(2009) M.J. Hickerson et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

Stability Predicts Genetic Diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Hotspot

(2009) A. C. Carnaval et al.   SCIENCE

High genetic differentiation and cross-shelf patterns of genetic diversity among Great Barrier Reef populations of Symbiodinium

(2008) E. J. Howells et al.   CORAL REEFS

Coalescence Times and FST Under a Skewed Offspring Distribution Among Individuals in a Population

(2008) B. Eldon et al.   GENETICS

Cellular mechanisms of Cnidarian bleaching: stress causes the collapse of symbiosis

(2008) V. M. Weis   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

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

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN COLD TOLERANCE AND TEMPERATE BIOGEOGRAPHY IN A WESTERN ATLANTICSYMBIODINIUM(DINOPHYTA) LINEAGE1

(2008) Daniel J. Thornhill et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

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

Exposure to sediment enhances primary acquisition of Symbiodinium by asymbiotic coral larvae

(2008) LM Adams et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Symbiotic diversity in marine animals: the art of harnessing chemosynthesis

(2008) Nicole Dubilier et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Metabolic interactions between algal symbionts and invertebrate hosts

(2008) DAVID YELLOWLEES et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

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

(2008) Isabel Porto et al.   PLoS One

Bleaching susceptibility and mortality of corals are determined by fine-scale differences in symbiont type

(2008) E. M. Sampayo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Cell biology in model systems as the key to understanding corals

(2008) Virginia M. Weis et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Factors Affecting the Evolution of Bleaching Resistance in Corals

(2007) Troy Day et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST