List of works - Michael P. Lesser

A member of the Roseobacter clade, Octadecabacter sp., is the dominant symbiont in the brittle star Amphipholis squamata.

scientific article published on 19 February 2018

Allelopathy in the tropical alga Lobophora variegata (Phaeophyceae): mechanistic basis for a phase shift on mesophotic coral reefs?

scientific article published on 25 March 2014

Allelopathy-mediated competition in microbial mats from Antarctic lakes

scientific article published on 18 February 2017

Annual Thermal Stress Increases a Soft Coral's Susceptibility to Bleaching.

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

Are infectious diseases really killing corals? Alternative interpretations of the experimental and ecological data

article

Biological weighting functions for DNA damage in sea urchin embryos exposed to ultraviolet radiation

scientific article published in 2006

Chlorophyll Fluorescence in Reef Building Corals

Comparative Genomics of Color Morphs In the Coral Montastraea cavernosa.

scientific article published on 22 November 2017

Comparative genomics explains the evolutionary success of reef-forming corals

scientific article

Coral reef bleaching and global climate change: can corals survive the next century?

scientific article

Culture-dependent and culture-independent analyses reveal no prokaryotic community shifts or recovery of Serratia marcescens in Acropora palmata with white pox disease

scientific article published on 24 March 2014

DNA photorepair in echinoid embryos: effects of temperature on repair rate in Antarctic and non-Antarctic species

scientific article published on December 2006

Depth-dependent effects of ultraviolet radiation on survivorship, oxidative stress and DNA damage in sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis) embryos from the Gulf of Maine

scientific article published on 7 December 2009

Description of a Novel Symbiotic Bacterium from the Brittle Star, Amphipholis squamata.

scientific article published on August 1990

Diazotroph diversity and nitrogen fixation in the coral Stylophora pistillata from the Great Barrier Reef

scientific article published on 8 December 2017

Diazotrophic diversity in the Caribbean coral, Montastraea cavernosa.

scientific article

Discovery of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria in corals

scientific article

Ecology of Caribbean sponges: are top-down or bottom-up processes more important?

scientific article

Ecology of the hagfish, Myxine glutinosa L. in the Gulf of Maine I. Metabolic rates and energetics

scientific article published in 1997

Effects of solar ultraviolet radiation on coral reef organisms

scientific article

Elevated temperatures and ultraviolet radiation cause oxidative stress and inhibit photosynthesis in ymbiotic dinoflagellates

scholarly article by Michael P. Lesser published March 1996 in Limnology and Oceanography

Environmental drivers of microbial community shifts in the giant barrel sponge, Xestospongia muta, over a shallow to mesophotic depth gradient

scientific article published on 15 January 2016

Evaluating the causal basis of ecological success within the scleractinia: an integral projection model approach

article

Exposure to ultraviolet radiation causes apoptosis in developing sea urchin embryos

scientific article published in November 2003

Genetic structure in the coral, Montastraea cavernosa: assessing genetic differentiation among and within Mesophotic reefs

scientific article

Large-scale invasion of western Atlantic mesophotic reefs by lionfish potentially undermines culling-based management

article by Dominic A. Andradi-Brown et al published 26 December 2016 in Biological Invasions

Long-term changes in the chlorophyll fluorescence of bleached and recovering corals from Hawaii

scientific article published on 01 August 2008

Nitrogen biogeochemistry in the Caribbean sponge, Xestospongia muta: a source or sink of dissolved inorganic nitrogen?

scientific article

Nutritive phagocyte incubation chambers provide a structural and nutritive microenvironment for germ cells of Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis, the green sea urchin

scientific article published on August 2005

Oxidative stress in marine environments: biochemistry and physiological ecology

scientific article

Photoacclimatization by the coral Montastraea cavernosa in the mesophotic zone: light, food, and genetics

scientific article

Physiological response of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis to differences in food and temperature in the Gulf of Maine

scientific article published on 25 April 2010

Quenching of superoxide radicals by green fluorescent protein.

scientific article

Sea urchin tube feet are photosensory organs that express a rhabdomeric-like opsin and PAX6.

scientific article published on 30 March 2011

Seasonal temperature compensation in the horse mussel, Modiolus modiolus: metabolic enzymes, oxidative stress and heat shock proteins

scientific article

Solving cryptogenic histories using host and parasite molecular genetics: the resolution of Littorina littorea's North American origin.

scientific article published on 16 July 2008

Symbiotic prokaryotic communities from different populations of the giant barrel sponge, Xestospongia muta

scientific article (publication date: December 2013)

The genome of the softshell clam Mya arenaria and the evolution of apoptosis

scientific article published on 11 July 2020

To what extent do mesophotic coral ecosystems and shallow reefs share species of conservation interest?

article by Jack H. Laverick et al published 1 August 2016 in Environmental Evidence

Trait-Based Comparison of Coral and Sponge Microbiomes

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Transcriptional activity of the giant barrel sponge, Xestospongia muta Holobiont: molecular evidence for metabolic interchange.

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Trophic Ecology of the Tropical Pacific Sponge Mycale grandis Inferred from Amino Acid Compound-Specific Isotopic Analyses

scientific article published on 17 July 2019

Will Coral Reef Sponges be Winners in the Anthropocene?

scientific article published on 12 February 2020

List of works by Michael P. Lesser

A member of the Roseobacter clade, Octadecabacter sp., is the dominant symbiont in the brittle star Amphipholis squamata.

Allelopathy in the tropical alga Lobophora variegata (Phaeophyceae): mechanistic basis for a phase shift on mesophotic coral reefs?

Allelopathy-mediated competition in microbial mats from Antarctic lakes

Annual Thermal Stress Increases a Soft Coral's Susceptibility to Bleaching.

Are infectious diseases really killing corals? Alternative interpretations of the experimental and ecological data

Biological weighting functions for DNA damage in sea urchin embryos exposed to ultraviolet radiation

Chlorophyll Fluorescence in Reef Building Corals

Comparative Genomics of Color Morphs In the Coral Montastraea cavernosa.

Comparative genomics explains the evolutionary success of reef-forming corals

Coral reef bleaching and global climate change: can corals survive the next century?

Culture-dependent and culture-independent analyses reveal no prokaryotic community shifts or recovery of Serratia marcescens in Acropora palmata with white pox disease

DNA photorepair in echinoid embryos: effects of temperature on repair rate in Antarctic and non-Antarctic species

Depth-dependent effects of ultraviolet radiation on survivorship, oxidative stress and DNA damage in sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis) embryos from the Gulf of Maine

Description of a Novel Symbiotic Bacterium from the Brittle Star, Amphipholis squamata.

Diazotroph diversity and nitrogen fixation in the coral Stylophora pistillata from the Great Barrier Reef

Diazotrophic diversity in the Caribbean coral, Montastraea cavernosa.

Discovery of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria in corals

Ecology of Caribbean sponges: are top-down or bottom-up processes more important?

Ecology of the hagfish, Myxine glutinosa L. in the Gulf of Maine I. Metabolic rates and energetics

Effects of solar ultraviolet radiation on coral reef organisms

Elevated temperatures and ultraviolet radiation cause oxidative stress and inhibit photosynthesis in ymbiotic dinoflagellates

Environmental drivers of microbial community shifts in the giant barrel sponge, Xestospongia muta, over a shallow to mesophotic depth gradient

Evaluating the causal basis of ecological success within the scleractinia: an integral projection model approach

Exposure to ultraviolet radiation causes apoptosis in developing sea urchin embryos

Genetic structure in the coral, Montastraea cavernosa: assessing genetic differentiation among and within Mesophotic reefs

Large-scale invasion of western Atlantic mesophotic reefs by lionfish potentially undermines culling-based management

Long-term changes in the chlorophyll fluorescence of bleached and recovering corals from Hawaii

Nitrogen biogeochemistry in the Caribbean sponge, Xestospongia muta: a source or sink of dissolved inorganic nitrogen?

Nutritive phagocyte incubation chambers provide a structural and nutritive microenvironment for germ cells of Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis, the green sea urchin

Oxidative stress in marine environments: biochemistry and physiological ecology

Photoacclimatization by the coral Montastraea cavernosa in the mesophotic zone: light, food, and genetics

Physiological response of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis to differences in food and temperature in the Gulf of Maine

Quenching of superoxide radicals by green fluorescent protein.

Sea urchin tube feet are photosensory organs that express a rhabdomeric-like opsin and PAX6.

Seasonal temperature compensation in the horse mussel, Modiolus modiolus: metabolic enzymes, oxidative stress and heat shock proteins

Solving cryptogenic histories using host and parasite molecular genetics: the resolution of Littorina littorea's North American origin.

Symbiotic prokaryotic communities from different populations of the giant barrel sponge, Xestospongia muta

The genome of the softshell clam Mya arenaria and the evolution of apoptosis

To what extent do mesophotic coral ecosystems and shallow reefs share species of conservation interest?

Trait-Based Comparison of Coral and Sponge Microbiomes

Transcriptional activity of the giant barrel sponge, Xestospongia muta Holobiont: molecular evidence for metabolic interchange.

Trophic Ecology of the Tropical Pacific Sponge Mycale grandis Inferred from Amino Acid Compound-Specific Isotopic Analyses

Will Coral Reef Sponges be Winners in the Anthropocene?