2017
Neal, BP, Khen, A, Treibitz, T, Beijbom, O, O’Conner, G, Coffroth, MA, Knowlton, N, Kreigman, D, Mitchell, BG, Kline, DI. Eight-year time series indicates Caribbean massive corals not recovering from repeated thermal stress events. Ecology and Evolution 7: 1339–1353 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2706 | Request |
Poland, DM and Coffroth, MA Trans-generational specificity within a cnidarian-algal symbiosis. Coral Reefs 36:119-129 DOI 10.1007/s00338-016-1514-0 | Request |
McIlroy, SE and Coffroth, MA. Coral ontogeny affects early symbiont acquisition in laboratory reared recruits. Accepted Coral Reefs. | Request |
Grupstra CGB, Coma R, Ribes M, Posbic-Leydet K, Parkinson JE, McDonald K, Catllà M, Vooltra CR, Hellberg ME, Coffroth MA. Evidence for coral range expansion accompanied by reduced symbiont diversity. Accepted Coral Reefs | Request |
Gregoire V, Schmacka F. Coffroth MA, Karsten U. Photophysiological and thermal tolerance of various genotypes of the coral endosymbiont Symbiodinium sp. (Dinophyceae) Journal of Applied Phycology (2017) DOI 10.1007/s10811-017-1127-1 | Request |
2016
McIlroy, SE, Kleuter, Gillette, P, Cunning, R, Capo, T, Baker, A and Coffroth, MA The effects of Symbiodinium identity on growth, survival and photosynthesis of newly settled polyps. J. Phycol. 52:1114-1124 | Request |
2015
Parkinson, JE, Coffroth, MA, LaJeunesse, TC. New species of clade B Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) from the greater Caribbean belong to different functional guilds: S. aenigmatum sp. nov., S. antillogorgium sp. nov., S. endomadracis sp. nov., and S. pseudominutum sp. nov. J. Phycol- 51: 850–858 (2015) | Request |
Klueter, A., Crandall, J.B., Archer, F.I., Teece, M.A., Coffroth, M.A. Taxonomic and environmental variation in metabolite profiles in marine dinoflagellates of the genus Symbiodinium. Metabolites 5:74-99 doi:10.3390/metabo5010074 (2015) | Request |
2014
Porto, I, Zubillada, AL, Shearer, TL, Bastidas, C, Salazar, C, Coffroth MA and Szmant, AM. Population structure of the corals Orbicella faveolata and Acropora palmata in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System with comparisons over the Caribbean basin-wide spatial scale. Mar. Biol. 162:81–98 DOI 10.1007/s00227-014-2560-1 (2014) | Request |
Prada C, McIlroy SE, Beltra DM, Valint DJ, Ford SA, Hellberg ME, Coffroth MA Cryptic diversity hides host and habitat specialization in a gorgonian-algal symbiosis Molec Ecol 23:3330-3340 (2014) | Request |
Mellas RE, McIlroy, S.E., Fitt WK, Coffroth MA. Symbiosis flexibility and the effects of symbiont type in the upside-down jellyfish, Cassiopea spp J. exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol 459: 38-44(2014) | Request |
2013
Kirk, N, Ritson-Willams, R, Coffroth, MA, Miller, MW, Fogarty, ND, Santos, SR. Tracking Transmission of Apicomplexan Symbionts in Diverse Caribbean Corals. PLOS One 8:e80618 (2013) | Request |
Shoguchi, E., Shinzato, C., Kawashima, T. Gyoja, F., Mungpakdee S., Koyanagi R, Takeuchi T, Hisata K, Tanaka M, Fujiwara M, Hamada M, Seidi, A, Fujie M, Usami T, Goto H, Yamasaki S, Arakaki N, Suzuki Y, Sugano S, Toyoda A, Kuroki Y, Fujiyama A, Medina M, Coffroth MA, Bhattacharya D and Satoh N. Draft assembly of the Symbiodinium genome reveals dinoflagellate gene structure. Current Biology 23:1-10 (2013) | Request |
Poland, PM, Mansfield, JM, Lewis, CL, Shearer, TL, Connelly, S, Kirk, NL, Coffroth, MA Inter-annual and habitat variation in Symbiodinium acquisition. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 476:23-37 (2013) | Request |
Evans, MJ, Coffroth, MA, Lasker, HR Effects of predator exclusion on recruit survivorship in an octocoral (Briareum asbestinum) and a scleractinian coral (Porites astreoides). Coral Reefs 32: 597-601 (2013) | Request |
2012
Stern, R. F., Andersen, R.A., Ian Jameson, I., Küpper, F.C., Coffroth, M.A., Vaulot, D., Le Gall, F., Veron, B., Brand, B., Skelton, B., Kasai, F., Lilly, E., Keeling, P.J. The ribosomal internal transcribed spacer is a candidate for a universal dinoflagellate barcode marker. PLoS One10.1371/journal.pone.0042780 (2012) | Request |
Bayer, T., Aranda M., Sunagawa, S., Yum, L.K.,. DeSalvo, M.K., Lindquist, E., Schwarz, J., Coffroth, M.A.,. Voolstra, C.R., Medina, M. Symbiodinium transcriptomes: Genome insights into the dinoflagellate symbionts of reef-building corals. PLoS ONE 7(4): e35269. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035269 (2012) | Request |
2011
Casado-Amezua, P. Garcia-Jimenez, R., Kersting, D.K., Templado, J., Coffroth, M.A., Merino, P., Acevedo, I., Machordom, A. Development of microsatellite markers as a tool for conservation studies of the Mediterranean pillow coral Cladocora caespitosa. Journal of Heredity 102:622-626 (2011) | Request |
Voolstra, C., Sunagawa, S., Matz, M;, Bayer, T., Aranda, M, DeSalvo, M., Lindquist, E., Szmant, A., Coffroth, MA., Medina, M. Rapid evolution of coral proteins responsible for interaction with the environment PLoS ONE 6, 10.1371/journal.pone.002039 (2011) | Request |
2010
Stern, R., Horak, A., Andrew, R., Coffroth, MA, Andersen, RA, Kupper, FC, Jameson, I, Hoppenrath, M, Veron B, Kasai, F, Brand, J, Keeling, PJ Environmental barcoding reveals massive dinoflagellate diversity in marine environments. PLoS One 5 (11): e13991. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013991 (2010) |
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Coffroth MA, Poland DM, Petrou EL, Brazeau DA and Holmberg JC. Environmental symbiont acquisition may not be the solution to warming seas for reef building corals. PLoS One 5(10): e13258. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013258 (2010) | Request |
2009
Hannes AR, Barbeitos M, and Coffroth MA. Temporal stability in symbiotic dinoflagellate diversity in the octocoral Briareum asbestinum Mar Ecol Prog Ser 391: 65-72 (2009) | Request |
Kirk, NL, Andras, JP, Harvell, CD, Santos, SR, Coffroth, MA. Population structure of Symbiodinium associated with the common sea fan, Gorgonia ventalina, in the Florida Keys across distance, depth, and time. Marine Biology 156:1608-1623 DOI 10.1007/s00227-009-1196-z (2009) | Request |
Voolstra, C, Schwarz, J, Schnetzer, J. Sunagawa, S., DeSalvo, M. Szmant, A., Coffroth, M.A., Medina, M. The host transcriptome remains unaltered during the establishment of coral-algal symbiosis Molecular Ecology 18: 1823-1833 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04167.x (2009) | Request |
Botsford L.W , White J.W., Coffroth M.-A., Paris C.B., Planes S., Shearer T.L., Thorrold S.R., Jones, G.P. Connectivity and resilience of coral reef metapopulations in marine protective areas: matching empirical efforts to predictive needs. Coral Reefs 28:327-337 DOI 10.1007/s00338-009-0466-z (2009) | Request |
Andras JP, Kirk NL, Coffroth MA, Harvell CD Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in Symbiodinium B1/B184, the dinoflagellate symbiont of the Caribbean sea fan coral, Gorgonia ventalina Molecular Ecology Resources 9:989-993 (2009) | Request |
Voolstra CR, Sunagawa S, Schwarz JA, Coffroth MA, Yellowless, D, Leggat W, Medina M. Evolutionary analysis of orthologous cDNA sequences from cultured and symbiotic dinoflagellate symbionts of reef-building corals (Dinophyceae: Symbiodinium) Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology part D: Genomics and Proteomics 4:67-74 (2009) | Request |
van Oppen ,M.J.H., Baker, A.C., Coffroth, MA, Willis, B.L. Bleaching resistance and the role of algal endosymbionts . In: Coral Bleaching: Patterns, Processes, Causes and Consequences eds; J. Loudh and M. van Oppen. Springer Ecological Series. (2009) | Request |
2008
DeSalvo MK, Voolstra CR, Sunagawa S, Schwarz JA, Stillman JH, Coffroth MA, Szmant AM, Medina M. Differential gene expression during thermal stress and bleaching in the Caribbean coral Montastraea faveolata Molecular Ecology 17:3952-3971 (2008) | Request |
Schwarz, J.A., Brokstein, P., Voolstra, C., Terry, A.Y., Miller, D.J., Szmant, A.M., Coffroth, M.A., Medina, M. Coral Life History and Symbiosis: functional genomic resources for two reef building Caribbean corals, Acropora palmata and Montastrea faveolata BMC Genomics 9:97 (2008) | Request |
Shearer, T.L. and Coffroth, MA Barcoding corals: limited by interspecific divergence, not intraspecific variation Molecular Ecology Notes 8:247-255 (2008) | Request |
2006
Coffroth, MA, Lewis, CL, Santos, SR, Weaver, JL. Environmental populations of symbiotic dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium (Freudenthal) can initiate symbioses with reef cnidarians Current Biology 16:985-987 (2006) | Request |
Shearer, TL and Coffroth, MA Genetic identification of Caribbean scleractinian coral recruits at the Flower Garden Banks and the Florida Keys. Marine Ecology Progress Series 306: 115-124 (2006) | Request |
2005
Kirk, N., Ward, J. Harvell, D. and Coffroth, M.A. Zooxanthella diversity within diseased and healthy seafans (Gorgonia, Octocorallinacea). Biological Bulletin. 209:227-234 (2005) | Request |
Coffroth, M.A. and Santos, S.R. Genetic diversity in Symbiodinium Protist 156:19-34 (2005) (Invited review) | Request |
LaJeunesse TC, Lambert G, Andersen, RA, Coffroth, MA, Galbraith, DW Symbiodinium genome size is smallest among dinoflagellates J.Phycol. 44:880-886 (2005) | Request |
Shearer, T.L, Gutierrez-Rodriguez, C. and Coffroth, M.A. Generating molecular markers from zooxanthellate cnidarians. Coral Reefs 24:57-66 (2005) | Request |
2004
Kim, E.A. B., Lasker, H.R., Coffroth, M.A. and Kim, K. Morphological and genetic variation across reef habitats in a broadcast-spawning gorgonian coral. Hydrobiologia 530/531:423-432. (2004) | Request |
Goulet, T.L. and Coffroth, MA. The genetic identity of dinoflagellate symbionts in Caribbean octocorals. Coral Reefs 23: 465-472 (2004) | Request |
Lewis, C.L. and Coffroth, M.A. The acquisition of exogenous algal symbionts by an octocoral after bleaching. Science 304: 1490-92 (2004) | Request |
Shearer, T.L. and Coffroth, M.A. Isolation of microsatellite loci from the scleractinian corals, Montastraea cavernosa and Porites astreoides Molecular Ecology Notes 4:435-37. (2004) | Request |
Santos, S.R, Shearer, T.L., Hannes, A.R. and Coffroth, M.A. Fine-scale diversity and specificity in the most prevalent lineage of symbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium, Dinophyceae) of the Caribbean. Molecular Ecology 13, 459-469 (2004) | Request |
2003
Santos, S.R., Kinzie III, R.A., Sakai, K., and Coffroth, M.A. Molecular characterization of nuclear small subunit (18S)-rDNA pseudogenes in a symbiotic dinoflagellate (Symbiodinium, Dinophyta) J. Euk. Microbiology 50:417-421 (2003) | Request |
Santos, S.R., Gutierrez-Rodriguez, C and Coffroth, M.A. Phylogenetic identification of symbiotic dinoflagellates via length heteroplasmy in domain V of chloroplast large subunit (cp23S)-rDNA sequences. Marine Biotechnology 5:130-140 (2003) | Request |
Santos, S.R., Gutierrez-Rodriguez, C Lasker, H.R. and Coffroth, M.A. Patterns of Symbiodinium associations in the Caribbean gorgonian Pseudopterorgia elisabethae: high levels of genetic variability and population structure in symbiotic dinoflagellates of the Bahamas. Marine Biology 143:111-120 (2003) | Request |
Goulet, T.L. and Coffroth, MA. Long term temporal and spatial stability of an octocoral-aglal symbiosis. Marine Ecology Progress Series 250:117-124. (2003) | Request |
Santos, S.R. and Coffroth, M.A. Molecular genetic evidence that dinoflagellates belonging to the genus Symbiodinium Freudenthal are haploid. Biological Bulletin 204:10-20. (2003) | Request |
Goulet, T.L. and Coffroth, M.A. Genetic composition of zooxanthellae between and within colonies of the octocoral Plexaura kuna based on small subunit rDNA and multilocus DNA fingerprinting. Marine Biology 142:233-239. (2003) | Request |
2002
Santos. S.R., Taylor, D.J., Kinzie III, R.A., Sakai, K., Coffroth, M.A. Molecular evolution of length variation and heteroplasmy in the chloroplast rDNA of symbiotic dinoflagellates. Phyocologia 41(4): 311-318 (includes issue cover) (2002) | Request |
Santos. S.R., Taylor, D.J., Kinzie III, R.A. Hidaka, M., Sakai, K., Coffroth, M.A. Molecular phylogeny of symbiotic dinoflagellates inferred from chloroplast large subunit (23S)-rDNA sequences Mole. Phylogen and Evol. 23:97-111. (2002) | Request |
2001
Santos, S.R., Taylor, D.J. and Coffroth, M.A. Genetic comparisons of freshly isolated vs. cultured zooxanthellae: Implications for extrapolating to the intact symbiosis. J. Phycol. 37: 900-912. (2001) | Request |
Coffroth, M.A, Santos, S.R.,and Goulet, T.L Early ontogenic expression of specificity in a cnidarian-algal symbiosis. Mar. Ecol. Prog.Ser. 222:85-96. (2001) | Request |
Kinzie, R.A., Takayama, M., Santos, S.R., and Coffroth, M.A. The adaptive bleaching hypothesis: Experimental tests of critical assumptions. Biol. Bull. 200: 51-58. (2001) | Request |
1999
Lasker, H.R. and Coffroth, M.A. Responses of clonal reef taxa to environmental change. American Zoologist 39:92-103. (1999) | Request |
1998
Coffroth, M.A. and Lasker, H.R. Larval paternity and male reproductive success of a broadcast spawning gorgonian. Marine Biology 131:329-337. (1998) | Request |
Coffroth, M.A. and Lasker, H.R. Population structure of a clonal gorgonian coral: the interplay between clonal reproduction and disturbance. Evolution 52: 379-383. (1998) | Request |
Lasker, H.R., Kim, K. and Coffroth, M.A. Production, settlement and survival of plexaurid gorgonian recruits. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 162:111-123. (1998) | Request |
1996
Lasker, H.R., Brazeau, D.A., Calderon, J., Coffroth, M.A., and Kim, K. In situ rates of fertilization among broadcast spawning gorgonian corals. Biol. Bull. 190:45-55. (1996) | Request |
Lasker, H.R., Kim, K. and Coffroth, M.A. Reproductive and genetic variation among Caribbean gorgonians: the differentiation of Plexaura kuna, new species. Bull. Mar. Sci. 58:277-288. (1996) | Request |
1995
Coffroth, M.A. and Mulawka, J.M. Identification of marine invertebrate larvae by means of PCR-RAPD species specific markers. Limnol. Oceanogr. 40:181-189. (1995) | Request |
1993
Zeh, D.W., May, C.A., Coffroth, M.A., Bermingham, E. Mbo I and Macrohaltica – quality of DNA fingerprints is strongly enzyme-dependent in an insect (Coleoptera). Molecular Ecology 2: 61-63. (1993) | Request |
1992
Zeh, D.W., Zeh, J.A., Coffroth, M.A., Bermingham, E. Population-specific DNA fingerprints in a neotropical pseudoscorpion (Cordylochernes scorpioides). Heredity 69:201-208 (1992) | Request |
Coffroth, M.A., Lasker, H.R., Diamond, M.E., Bruenn, J.A., Bermingham, E. DNA fingerprints of a gorgonian coral: A method for detecting clonal structure in a vegetative species. Marine Biology 114:317-325. (1992) | Request |
1991
Coffroth, M.A. Cyclical mucous sheet formation on poritid corals in the San Blas Islands, Panama. Mar. Biol. 109:35-40. (1991) | Request |
1990
Coffroth, M.A. Mucous sheet formation on poritid corals: An evaluation of coral mucus as a nutrient source on reefs. Mar. Bio. 105: 39-49. (1990) | Request |
Coffroth, M.A., H.R. Lasker and J. Oliver. Coral mortality outside of the Eastern Pacific during 1982-83: Relationship to El Niño. In: P. W. Glynn (ed), Some ecological consequences of the 1982/1983 El Niño event to marine life. pp. 141-182. Elsevier, Amsterdam. (1990) | Request |
1988
Lasker, H.R., M.A. Coffroth, and L.M. FitzGerald. Foraging patterns of Cyphoma gibbosum on octocorals: The role of host choice and feeding preference. Biol. Bull 174:254-266. (1988) | Request |
Lasker, H.R. and M.A. Coffroth. Temporal and spatial variability among grazers: Variability in the distribution of the gastropod Cyphoma gibbosum on octocorals. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 43:285-295. (1988) | Request |
1984
Coffroth, M.A. Ingestion and incorporation of coral mucus aggregates by a gorgonian soft coral. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 17:193-199. (1984) | Request |
Lasker, H.R., Peters, E.C., and Coffroth, M.A. Bleaching of reef coelenterates in the San Blas Islands, Panama. Coral Reefs 3:183-190. (1984) | Request |
1983
Lasker, H.R., Gottfried, M., and Coffroth, M.A. Effects of depth on the feeding capabilities of two octocorals. Mar. Biol:73:73-78. (1983) | Request |
Lasker, H.R. and Coffroth, M.A. Octocoral distributions at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 13:21-28 (1983) | Request |