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Overview

David G. Bourne is affiliated with James Cook University in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Immunology, and Biotechnology.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, including Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine and Coastal Plant Biology, Marine and Fisheries Research, Aquaculture Disease Management and Microbiota, Marine Sponges and Natural Products, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Ichthyology and Marine Biology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by David G. Bourne include:

  • Extending the natural adaptive capacity of coral holobionts, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Coral Probiotics: Premise, Promise, Prospects, 2020, Annual Review of Animal Biosciences
  • Coral restoration and adaptation in Australia: The first five years, 2022, PLoS ONE
  • The coral microbiome in sickness, in health and in a changing world, 2024, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Insights into the Cultured Bacterial Fraction of Corals, 2021, mSystems

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David G. Bourne include:

  • Nicole S. Webster
  • Hillary A. Smith
  • David J. Miller
  • Pedro R. Frade
  • Craig Humphrey

The main publication venues where the scientist has frequently published are:

  • Coral Reefs
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Insights into the Coral Microbiome: Underpinning the Health and Resilience of Reef Ecosystems

    David G. Bourne;Kathleen M. Morrow;Nicole S. Webster

  • Enzymatic pathway for the bacterial degradation of the cyanobacterial cyclic peptide toxin microcystin LR.

    David G. Bourne;Gary J. Jones;Robert L. Blakeley;Alun Jones

  • Changes in coral-associated microbial communities during a bleaching event

    David Bourne;Yuki Iida;Sven Uthicke;Carolyn Smith-Keune;Carolyn Smith-Keune

  • The coral core microbiome identifies rare bacterial taxa as ubiquitous endosymbionts

    Tracy D Ainsworth;Lutz Krause;Thomas Bridge;Gergely Torda

  • Beneficial Microorganisms for Corals (BMC): Proposed Mechanisms for Coral Health and Resilience

    Raquel S. Peixoto;Phillipe M. Rosado;Deborah Catharine de Assis Leite;Alexandre S. Rosado

  • Microbial disease and the coral holobiont

    David G. Bourne;Melissa Garren;Thierry M. Work;Eugene Rosenberg

  • Coral-Associated Bacteria and Their Role in the Biogeochemical Cycling of Sulfur

    Jean-Baptiste Raina;Jean-Baptiste Raina;Dianne Tapiolas;Bette L. Willis;David G. Bourne

  • Seagrass ecosystems reduce exposure to bacterial pathogens of humans, fishes, and invertebrates

    Joleah B. Lamb;Jeroen A. J. M. van de Water;David G. Bourne;David G. Bourne;Craig Altier

  • Diversity of bacteria associated with the coral Pocillopora damicornis from the Great Barrier Reef

    David G. Bourne;Colin B. Munn

  • Marine probiotics: increasing coral resistance to bleaching through microbiome manipulation.

    Phillipe M. Rosado;Deborah C. A. Leite;Gustavo A. S. Duarte;Ricardo M. Chaloub

  • Rapid adaptive responses to climate change in corals

    Gergely Torda;Jennifer M. Donelson;Manuel Aranda;Daniel J. Barshis

  • Degradation of the cyanobacterial hepatotoxin microcystin by aquatic bacteria

    Gary J. Jones;David G. Bourne;Robert L. Blakeley;Hörst Doelle

  • Coral-associated bacteria demonstrate phylosymbiosis and cophylogeny.

    F. Joseph Pollock;Ryan McMinds;Styles Smith;David G. Bourne;David G. Bourne

  • Characterisation of a gene cluster involved in bacterial degradation of the cyanobacterial toxin microcystin LR

    David G. Bourne;Peter Riddles;Gary J. Jones;Wendy Smith

  • Coral pathogens identified for white syndrome (WS) epizootics in the Indo-Pacific

    Meir Sussman;Meir Sussman;Bette L. Willis;Steven Victor;David G. Bourne

  • DMSP biosynthesis by an animal and its role in coral thermal stress response

    Jean Baptiste Raina;Jean Baptiste Raina;Dianne M. Tapiolas;Sylvain Forêt;Sylvain Forêt;Adrian Lutz;Adrian Lutz

  • The microbiome in threatened species conservation

    Annie G. West;David W. Waite;Peter Deines;David G. Bourne

  • Nutrient Availability and Metabolism Affect the Stability of Coral–Symbiodiniaceae Symbioses

    Luke A. Morris;Luke A. Morris;Christian R. Voolstra;Kate M. Quigley;David G. Bourne;David G. Bourne

  • Vibrio infections triggering mass mortality events in a warming Mediterranean Sea

    Luigi Vezzulli;Monica Previati;Carla Pruzzo;Anna Marchese

  • Natural volcanic CO2 seeps reveal future trajectories for host-microbial associations in corals and sponges.

    Kathleen M Morrow;David G Bourne;Craig Humphrey;Emmanuelle S Botté

  • Comparison of pmoA PCR Primer Sets as Tools for Investigating Methanotroph Diversity in Three Danish Soils

    David G. Bourne;Ian R. McDonald;J. Colin Murrell

  • Do the organic sulfur compounds DMSP and DMS drive coral microbial associations

    Jean Baptiste Raina;Jean Baptiste Raina;Elizabeth A. Dinsdale;Bette L. Willis;David G. Bourne

Frequent Co-Authors

Bette L. Willis
Bette L. Willis James Cook University
Nicole S. Webster
Nicole S. Webster University of Queensland
Sylvain Forêt
Sylvain Forêt Australian National University
Madeleine J. H. van Oppen
Madeleine J. H. van Oppen University of Melbourne
Christian R. Voolstra
Christian R. Voolstra University of Konstanz
Jean-Baptiste Raina
Jean-Baptiste Raina University of Technology Sydney
Mark A. Ragan
Mark A. Ragan University of Queensland
Pim Bongaerts
Pim Bongaerts California Academy of Sciences
Eldon E. Ball
Eldon E. Ball James Cook University
Gene W. Tyson
Gene W. Tyson Queensland University of Technology

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