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Overview

Eldon E. Ball is affiliated with James Cook University in Australia and has contributed to several areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research work spans multiple subfields including ecology, biotechnology, oceanography, paleontology, and microbiology.

The scientist's research focuses heavily on coral and marine ecosystems studies, with significant contributions to topics such as coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine sponges and natural products, marine invertebrate physiology and ecology, antimicrobial peptides and activities, microbial community ecology and physiology, and aquaculture disease management and microbiota.

Eldon E. Ball has published in a variety of scientific journals, including:

  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Developmental & Comparative Immunology
  • Current Biology
  • Environmental Microbiology Reports

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Dual RNA-sequencing analyses of a coral and its native symbiont during the establishment of symbiosis (2020, Molecular Ecology)
  • The Role of DNA Methylation in Genome Defense in Cnidaria and Other Invertebrates (2022, Molecular Biology and Evolution)
  • AmAMP1 from Acropora millepora and damicornin define a family of coral-specific antimicrobial peptides related to the Shk toxins of sea anemones (2020, Developmental & Comparative Immunology)
  • Microbiome manipulation by corals and other Cnidaria via quorum quenching (2024, Current Biology)
  • Comparative transcriptomic analyses of Chromera and Symbiodiniaceae (2020, Environmental Microbiology Reports)

Frequent collaboration has been observed with multiple co-authors, including:

  • David J. Miller
  • David C. Hayward
  • Aurélie Moya
  • Ira Cooke
  • Hua Ying

Best Publications

  • Conservation of the sequence and temporal expression of let-7 heterochronic regulatory RNA

    Amy E. Pasquinelli;Brenda J. Reinhart;Frank Slack;Mark Q. Martindale

  • The innate immune repertoire in Cnidaria - ancestral complexity and stochastic gene loss

    David James Miller;Georg Hemmrich;Eldon E. Ball;David C. Hayward

  • Maintenance of ancestral complexity and non-metazoan genes in two basal cnidarians

    Ulrich Technau;Stephen Rudd;Peter Maxwell;Paul M. Gordon

  • Whole Transcriptome Analysis of the Coral Acropora millepora Reveals Complex Responses to CO2-driven Acidification during the Initiation of Calcification

    A. Moya;L. Huisman;L. Huisman;Eldon Ball;David Hayward

  • Changing role of even-skipped during the evolution of insect pattern formation

    Nipam H. Patel;Nipam H. Patel;Eldon E. Ball;Corey S. Goodman

  • Molecular evolution of integrins: Genes encoding integrin β subunits from a coral and a sponge

    Danny L. Brower;Sharon M. Brower;David C. Hayward;Eldon E. Ball

  • Localized expression of a dpp/BMP2/4 ortholog in a coral embryo

    David C. Hayward;Gabrielle Samuel;Patricia C. Pontynen;Julian Catmull

  • Nitric oxide-sensitive guanylate cyclase activity is associated with the maturational phase of neuronal development in insects

    J.W. Truman;J. De Vente;E.E. Ball

  • Muscle development in the grasshopper embryo. I. Muscles, nerves, and apodemes in the metathoracic leg.

    Eldon E. Ball;Robert K. Ho;Corey S. Goodman

  • Microarray analysis identifies candidate genes for key roles in coral development

    Lauretta C Grasso;John Maindonald;Stephen Rudd;David C Hayward

  • Muscle pioneers: large mesodermal cells that erect a scaffold for developing muscles and motoneurones in grasshopper embryos

    Robert K. Ho;Eldon E. Ball;Corey S. Goodman

  • Cnidarians and ancestral genetic complexity in the animal kingdom

    David J. Miller;Eldon E. Ball;Ulrich Technau

  • A simple plan--cnidarians and the origins of developmental mechanisms.

    Eldon E. Ball;David C. Hayward;Robert B. Saint;David John Miller

  • Pax gene diversity in the basal cnidarian Acropora millepora (Cnidaria, Anthozoa): Implications for the evolution of the Pax gene family

    David J. Miller;David C. Hayward;John S. Reece-Hoyes;Ingo Scholten

  • A Royal Jelly Protein Is Expressed in a Subset of Kenyon Cells in the Mushroom Bodies of the Honey Bee Brain

    R. Kucharski;R. Maleszka;D. C. Hayward;E. E. Ball

  • The transcriptomic response of the coral Acropora digitifera to a competent Symbiodinium strain: the symbiosome as an arrested early phagosome.

    A. R. Mohamed;V. Cumbo;V. Cumbo;S. Harii;C. Shinzato

  • Patterns of gene expression in a scleractinian coral undergoing natural bleaching.

    Francois O. Seneca;Francois O. Seneca;Sylvain Forêt;Eldon E. Ball;Carolyn Smith-Keune;Carolyn Smith-Keune;Carolyn Smith-Keune

  • The biology of coral metamorphosis: molecular responses of larvae to inducers of settlement and metamorphosis.

    Lauretta Grasso;A.P. Negri;Sylvain Foret;Robert Saint

  • Structure and development of the auditory system in the prothoracic leg of the cricket Teleogryllus commodus (Walker); I. Adult structure.

    David Young;Eldon Ball

  • Rapid acclimation of juvenile corals to CO2-mediated acidification by upregulation of heat shock protein and Bcl-2 genes

    A. Moya;A. Moya;A. Moya;L. Huisman;L. Huisman;Sylvain Foret;Sylvain Foret;Jean-Pierre Gattuso;Jean-Pierre Gattuso

Frequent Co-Authors

Sylvain Forêt
Sylvain Forêt Australian National University
David G. Bourne
David G. Bourne James Cook University
Mark A. Ragan
Mark A. Ragan University of Queensland
Madeleine J. H. van Oppen
Madeleine J. H. van Oppen University of Melbourne
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg University of Queensland
Gene W. Tyson
Gene W. Tyson Queensland University of Technology
Michael L. Berumen
Michael L. Berumen King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Christian R. Voolstra
Christian R. Voolstra University of Konstanz
Corey S. Goodman
Corey S. Goodman University of California, Berkeley
Pim Bongaerts
Pim Bongaerts California Academy of Sciences

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