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A diverse host thrombospondin-type-1 repeat protein repertoire promotes symbiont colonization during establishment of cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis.

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Analytical approach for selecting normalizing genes from a cDNA microarray platform to be used in q-RT-PCR assays: a cnidarian case study

scientific article published on 05 September 2007

Apoptosis and autophagy as mechanisms of dinoflagellate symbiont release during cnidarian bleaching: every which way you lose.

scientific article published in December 2007

Apoptosis as a post-phagocytic winnowing mechanism in a coral-dinoflagellate mutualism

scientific article published in January 2009

BIOLOGY OF HYDRACTINIID HYDROIDS. 4. ULTRASTRUCTURE OF THE PLANULA OFHYDRACTINIA ECHINATA

scientific article published in 1985

Biological bulletin virtual symposium: discoveries in animal symbiosis in the “omics” age.

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Building Consensus around the Assessment and Interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae Diversity

scholarly article

Building consensus around the assessment and interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae diversity

scientific article published on 2 May 2023

Carbonic anhydrase expression and synthesis in the sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima are enhanced by the presence of dinoflagellate symbionts

scientific article published on May 1999

Carbonic anhydrases are influenced by the size and symbiont identity of the aggregating sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima

scientific article published on 02 June 2020

Cell Biology of Coral Symbiosis: Foundational Study Can Inform Solutions to the Coral Reef Crisis

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Cell biology in model systems as the key to understanding corals

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Cell biology of cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis.

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

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Characterization of a novel EF-hand homologue, CnidEF, in the sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima

scientific article published on 12 December 2006

Comparative genomics explains the evolutionary success of reef-forming corals

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Comparative proteomics of symbiotic and aposymbiotic juvenile soft corals

scientific article published in January 2006

Coral larvae exhibit few measurable transcriptional changes during the onset of coral-dinoflagellate endosymbiosis

scientific article published on September 15, 2010

Correction: The scavenger receptor repertoire in six cnidarian species and its putative role in cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis

scientific article published on 6 June 2017

De Novo Assembly and Characterization of Four Anthozoan (Phylum Cnidaria) Transcriptomes.

scientific article published on 17 September 2015

Development of symbiosis-specific genes as biomarkers for the early detection of cnidarian–algal symbiosis breakdown

scientific article published on 01 September 2002

Differential accumulation of cadmium and changes in glutathione levels as a function of symbiotic state in the sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima

scientific article published in 2003

Differential accumulation of heavy metals in the sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima as a function of symbiotic state

scientific article published in August 2003

Diversity of dinoflagellate symbionts in Red Sea soft corals: mode of symbiont acquisition matters

scientific article published on 13 August 2007

Effect of elevated temperature on fecundity and reproductive timing in the coral Acropora digitifera

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Effects of morphology and water motion on carbon delivery and productivity in the reef coral, Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus): Diffusion barriers, inorganic carbon limitation, and biochemical plasticity

scientific article published on 07 August 2003

Elevated temperature alters the lunar timing of Planulation in the brooding coral Pocillopora damicornis

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EvoDevo meets ecology: the Ninth Okazaki Biology Conference on Marine Biology

scientific article published on 24 June 2013

First evidence of maternal transmission of algal endosymbionts at an oocyte stage in a triploblastic host, with observations on reproduction in Waminoa brickneri (Acoelomorpha)

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Generation and analysis of transcriptomic resources for a model system on the rise: the sea anemone Aiptasia pallida and its dinoflagellate endosymbiont

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Genetic Variation in Heat Tolerance of the Coral Platygyra Daedalea Indicates Potential for Adaptation to Ocean Warming

scientific article published on 28 July 2022

Highly conserved caspase and Bcl-2 homologues from the sea anemone Aiptasia pallida: lower metazoans as models for the study of apoptosis evolution

scientific article published on 10 June 2006

Host and Symbiont Cell Cycle Coordination Is Mediated by Symbiotic State, Nutrition, and Partner Identity in a Model Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbiosis

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Identification of biomarkers indicative of barotrauma and recovery in black rockfish Sebastes melanops.

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Impacts of temperature and lunar day on gene expression profiles during a monthly reproductive cycle in the brooding coral Pocillopora damicornis.

scientific article published on 03 May 2017

Increasing comparability among coral bleaching experiments

scientific article published on 21 November 2020

Inter-partner specificity limits the acquisition of thermotolerant symbionts in a model cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

Knockdown of actin and caspase gene expression by RNA interference in the symbiotic anemone Aiptasia pallida

scientific article published in June 2007

Late Larval Development and Onset of Symbiosis in the Scleractinian Coral Fungia scutaria.

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Lectin/glycan interactions play a role in recognition in a coral/dinoflagellate symbiosis

scientific article published on 31 July 2006

Len Muscatine (1932–2007) and his contributions to the understanding of algal-invertebrate endosymbiosis

scientific article published on 30 October 2007

Limitations of using cultured algae to study cnidarian-algal symbioses and suggestions for future studies

scientific article published on 15 November 2020

Linking Ecology and Epidemiology to Understand Predictors of Multi-Host Responses to an Emerging Pathogen, the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus

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Menthol-induced bleaching rapidly and effectively provides experimental aposymbiotic sea anemones (Aiptasia sp.) for symbiosis investigations.

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Molecular insights into the Darwin paradox of coral reefs from the sea anemone Aiptasia

scientific article published on 17 March 2023

Motility of zooxanthellae isolated from the Red Sea soft coral Heteroxenia fuscescens (Cnidaria)

scientific article published on 14 October 2003

N-Linked Surface Glycan Biosynthesis, Composition, Inhibition, and Function in Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbiosis

scientific article published on 25 January 2020

Nitric oxide and cnidarian bleaching: an eviction notice mediates breakdown of a symbiosis

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Optimal nutrient exchange and immune responses operate in partner specificity in the cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis

scientific article published on 20 November 2017

Partner switching and metabolic flux in a model cnidarian–dinoflagellate symbiosis

scientific article published on 28 November 2018

Phylogenetic analysis of cell-cycle regulatory proteins within the Symbiodiniaceae

scientific article published on 24 November 2020

Phylogenetic characterization of transporter proteins in the cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis.

scientific article published on 9 December 2017

Physiology. What determines coral health?

scientific article published in May 2009

Proteomic and transcriptional analyses of coral larvae newly engaged in symbiosis with dinoflagellates

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Proteomics quantifies protein expression changes in a model cnidarian colonised by a thermally tolerant but suboptimal symbiont

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Regulation of cnidarian-dinoflagellate mutualisms: Evidence that activation of a host TGFβ innate immune pathway promotes tolerance of the symbiont.

scientific article published on 23 September 2012

Response of the symbiotic cnidarian Anthopleura elegantissima transcriptome to temperature and UV increase

scientific article published on 09 August 2008

Role of the sphingosine rheostat in the regulation of cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbioses

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Ruth D. Gates (1962-2018)

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Six priorities to advance the science and practice of coral reef restoration worldwide

scientific article published on 21 September 2021

Sphingolipid Metabolism of a Sea Anemone Is Altered by the Presence of Dinoflagellate Symbionts.

scientific article published in December 2017

Stress and death of cnidarian host cells play a role in cnidarian bleaching

scientific article published on 25 April 2013

Study of cnidarian-algal symbiosis in the "omics" age.

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Sub-cellular imaging shows reduced photosynthetic carbon and increased nitrogen assimilation by the non-native endosymbiont Durusdinium trenchii in the model cnidarian Aiptasia

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

Subtle Differences in Symbiont Cell Surface Glycan Profiles Do Not Explain Species-Specific Colonization Rates in a Model Cnidarian-Algal Symbiosis.

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Symbiont Identity Impacts the Microbiome and Volatilome of a Model Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbiosis

scientific article published in 2023

Symbiont Identity Influences Patterns of Symbiosis Establishment, Host Growth, and Asexual Reproduction in a Model Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbiosis.

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Symbiosis induces widespread changes in the proteome of the model cnidarian Aiptasia.

scientific article published on 30 December 2015

Symbiosis research, technology, and education: Proceedings of the 6th International Symbiosis Society Congress held in Madison Wisconsin, USA, August 2009

scientific article published on 30 June 2010

TIR-domain-containing protein repertoire of nine anthozoan species reveals coral-specific expansions and uncharacterized proteins

scientific article published on 13 June 2014

Tentacle patterning during <i>Exaiptasia diaphana</i> pedal lacerate development differs between symbiotic and aposymbiotic animals

scientific article published on 10 January 2022

The Influence of Symbiosis on the Proteome of the Endosymbiont

The Molecular Language of the Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbiosis

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

The Role of Complement in Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbiosis and Immune Challenge in the Sea Anemone Aiptasia pallida

scientific article published on 22 April 2016

The diversity of C-type lectins in the genome of a basal metazoan, Nematostella vectensis.

scientific article published on 21 February 2009

The genome of Aiptasia, a sea anemone model for coral symbiosis

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The scavenger receptor repertoire in six cnidarian species and its putative role in cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis

scientific article published on 15 November 2016

The sphingosine rheostat is involved in the cnidarian heat stress response but not necessarily in bleaching.

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The susceptibility and resilience of corals to thermal stress: adaptation, acclimatization or both?

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Thermal Shock Induces Host Proteostasis Disruption and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in the Model Symbiotic Cnidarian Aiptasia.

scientific article published on 5 May 2017

Transcription factor NF-κB is modulated by symbiotic status in a sea anemone model of cnidarian bleaching

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Transcriptome analysis of a cnidarian-dinoflagellate mutualism reveals complex modulation of host gene expression

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Triggers, cascades, and endpoints: connecting the dots of coral bleaching mechanisms

scholarly article published on 12 January 2024

Two atypical carbonic anhydrase homologs from the planula larva of the scleractinian coral Fungia scutaria

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

Uptake and partitioning of copper and cadmium in the coral Pocillopora damicornis

scientific article published on 02 August 2007