Evidence for shifting genetic structure among Caribbean giant barrel sponges in the Florida Keys

A test of the sponge-loop hypothesis for emergent Caribbean reef sponges

(2018) SE McMurray et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

A test of the sponge-loop hypothesis for emergent Caribbean reef sponges

(2018) SE McMurray et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

A review of bottom-up vs. top-down control of sponges on Caribbean fore-reefs: what’s old, what’s new, and future directions

(2018) Joseph R. Pawlik et al.   PeerJ

Demography alters carbon flux for a dominant benthic suspension feeder, the giant barrel sponge, on Conch Reef, Florida Keys

(2017) Steven E. McMurray et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Patterns of reproduction in two co-occurring Great Barrier Reef sponges

(2017) Muhammad Azmi Abdul Wahab et al.   MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

A Vicious Circle? Altered Carbon and Nutrient Cycling May Explain the Low Resilience of Caribbean Coral Reefs

(2016) Joseph R. Pawlik et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Patterns of population structure and dispersal in the long-lived “redwood” of the coral reef, the giant barrel sponge (Xestospongia muta)

(2016) Vincent P. Richards et al.   CORAL REEFS

Population structure and connectivity in the Mediterranean sponge Ircinia fasciculata are affected by mass mortalities and hybridization

(2016) A Riesgo et al.   HEREDITY

Bottomless barrel-sponge species in the Indo-Pacific?

(2016) EDWIN SETIAWAN et al.   ZOOTAXA

Population dynamics of giant barrel sponges on Florida coral reefs

(2015) Steven E. McMurray et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

MtDNA diversity of the Indonesian giant barrel sponge Xestospongia testudinaria (Porifera: Haplosclerida) – implications from partial cytochrome oxidase 1 sequences

(2015) Edwin Setiawan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Population structure and dispersal of the coral-excavating spongeCliona delitrix

(2015) Andia Chaves-Fonnegra et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Development of 10 microsatellite markers for the Atlanto-Mediterranean sponge Petrosia ficiformis

(2015) Sergi Taboada et al.   Conservation Genetics Resources

Exploring seascape genetics and kinship in the reef spongeStylissa carteriin the Red Sea

(2015) Emily C. Giles et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Perilous proximity: Does the Janzen–Connell hypothesis explain the distribution of giant barrel sponges on a Florida coral reef?

(2014) Lindsey K. Deignan et al.   CORAL REEFS

Geographic differences in vertical connectivity in the Caribbean coralMontastraea cavernosadespite high levels of horizontal connectivity at shallow depths

(2014) X. Serrano et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Resilience to Disturbance Despite Limited Dispersal and Self-Recruitment in Tropical Barrel Sponges: Implications for Conservation and Management

(2014) James J. Bell et al.   PLoS One

Chemical defenses and resource trade-offs structure sponge communities on Caribbean coral reefs

(2014) T.-L. Loh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Optimization of 14 microsatellite loci in a Mediterranean demosponge subjected to population decimation, Ircinia fasciculata

(2014) Ana Riesgo et al.   Conservation Genetics Resources

Regional synchrony of temperature variation and internal wave forcing along the Florida Keys reef tract

(2014) James J. Leichter et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS

Lock, Stock and Two Different Barrels: Comparing the Genetic Composition of Morphotypes of the Indo-Pacific Sponge Xestospongia testudinaria

(2013) Thomas Swierts et al.   PLoS One

Surviving in a Marine Desert: The Sponge Loop Retains Resources Within Coral Reefs

(2013) Jasper M. de Goeij et al.   SCIENCE

Isolation and characterisation of twelve polymorphic microsatellite markers for Xestospongia spp. and their use for confirming species identity

(2013) James J. Bell et al.   Conservation Genetics Resources

STRUCTURE HARVESTER: a website and program for visualizing STRUCTURE output and implementing the Evanno method

(2011) Dent A. Earl et al.   Conservation Genetics Resources

pegas: an R package for population genetics with an integrated-modular approach

(2010) E. Paradis   BIOINFORMATICS

Demographics of increasing populations of the giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta in the Florida Keys

(2010) Steven E. McMurray et al.   ECOLOGY

In situ fluxes of dissolved inorganic nitrogen from the sponge community on Conch Reef, Key Largo, Florida

(2010) Melissa W. Southwell et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Effects of Sponge Bleaching on Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea: Distribution and Relative Expression of Ammonia Monooxygenase Genes Associated with the Barrel Sponge Xestospongia muta

(2010) Susanna López-Legentil et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Arlequin suite ver 3.5: a new series of programs to perform population genetics analyses under Linux and Windows

(2010) LAURENT EXCOFFIER et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Small-scale spatial genetic structure in Scopalina lophyropoda, an encrusting sponge with philopatric larval dispersal and frequent fission and fusion events

(2009) A Blanquer et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Strategies, patterns and environmental cues for reproduction in two temperate haliclonid sponges

(2008) DA Abdo et al.   Aquatic Biology

Genetic structure of the Caribbean giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta using the I3-M11 partition of COI

(2008) S. López-Legentil et al.   CORAL REEFS

Redwood of the reef: growth and age of the giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta in the Florida Keys

(2008) S. E. McMurray et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Alternative states on coral reefs: beyond coral–macroalgal phase shifts

(2008) AV Norström et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Bleaching and stress in coral reef ecosystems:hsp70expression by the giant barrel spongeXestospongia muta

(2008) SUSANNA LÓPEZ-LEGENTIL et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

genepop’007: a complete re-implementation of the genepop software for Windows and Linux

(2007) FRANÇOIS ROUSSET   Molecular Ecology Resources