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Erinn M. Muller is a researcher affiliated with Mote Marine Laboratory in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with notable contributions to the understanding of marine ecosystems, coral health, and disease dynamics.

Their research spans several subfields including ecology, oceanography, immunology, global and planetary change, and biotechnology. Key topics addressed in their publications include coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and coastal plant biology, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, marine and fisheries research, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine sponges and natural products, and ocean acidification effects and responses.

Erinn M. Muller has contributed to a variety of scientific journals and publication venues, frequently publishing in Frontiers in Marine Science, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Coral Reefs, and the Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

Notable recent papers by or involving this researcher include:

  • Spatial Epidemiology of the Stony-Coral-Tissue-Loss Disease in Florida, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Extending the natural adaptive capacity of coral holobionts, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Coral-bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Rhodobacterales and Rhizobiales Are Associated With Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease and Its Suspected Sources of Transmission, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • A roadmap to integrating resilience into the practice of coral reef restoration, 2022, Global Change Biology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Carly D. Kenkel, Abigail S. Clark, Erich Bartels, Marilyn E. Brandt, and Diego Lirman.

Best Publications

  • Caribbean corals in crisis: record thermal stress, bleaching, and mortality in 2005.

    C. Mark Eakin;Jessica A. Morgan;Scott F. Heron;Scott F. Heron;Tyler B. Smith

  • Coral disease following massive bleaching in 2005 causes 60% decline in coral cover on reefs in the US Virgin Islands

    J. Miller;E. Muller;C. Rogers;R. Waara

  • Bleaching increases likelihood of disease on Acropora palmata (Lamarck) in Hawksnest Bay, St John, US Virgin Islands

    E. M. Muller;E. M. Muller;Caroline S. Rogers;Anthony S. Spitzack;R. van Woesik

  • Extending the natural adaptive capacity of coral holobionts

    Christian R. Voolstra;David J. Suggett;Raquel S. Peixoto;Raquel S. Peixoto;John E. Parkinson

  • Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales

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  • Coral bleaching and disease combine to cause extensive mortality on reefs in US Virgin Islands

    J. Miller;R. Waara;E. Muller;C. Rogers

  • Microfragmenting for the successful restoration of slow growing massive corals

    Christopher A. Page;Erinn M. Muller;David E. Vaughan

  • Spatial Epidemiology of the Stony-Coral-Tissue-Loss Disease in Florida

    Erinn M. Muller;Constance Sartor;Nicholas I. Alcaraz;Robert van Woesik

  • Bleaching causes loss of disease resistance within the threatened coral species Acropora cervicornis

    Erinn M Muller;Erich Bartels;Iliana B Baums

  • Rhodobacterales and Rhizobiales Are Associated With Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease and Its Suspected Sources of Transmission

    Stephanie M Rosales;Stephanie M Rosales;Abigail S Clark;Lindsay K Huebner;Rob R Ruzicka

  • A roadmap to integrating resilience into the practice of coral reef restoration

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  • Caribbean coral diseases: primary transmission or secondary infection?

    Erinn M. Muller;Erinn M. Muller;Robert van Woesik

  • Ecology of Coral Reefs in the US Virgin Islands

    Caroline S. Rogers;Jeff Miller;Erinn M. Muller;Peter Edmunds

  • Variable Species Responses to Experimental Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) Exposure

    Sonora S. Meiling;Erinn M. Muller;Danielle Lasseigne;Ashley Rossin

  • A meta-analysis of the stony coral tissue loss disease microbiome finds key bacteria in unaffected and lesion tissue in diseased colonies

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  • Census of heat tolerance among Florida's threatened staghorn corals finds resilient individuals throughout existing nursery populations.

    Ross Cunning;Katherine E. Parker;Kelsey Johnson-Sapp;Richard F. Karp

  • Coral immunology and resistance to disease

    K. C. Reed;E. M. Muller;R. van Woesik

  • Coupled Epidemio-Hydrodynamic Modeling to Understand the Spread of a Deadly Coral Disease in Florida

    Thomas Dobbelaere;Erinn M. Muller;Lewis J. Gramer;Lewis J. Gramer;Daniel M. Holstein

  • Microbial dysbiosis reflects disease resistance in diverse coral species.

    Nicholas J. MacKnight;Kathryn Cobleigh;Danielle Lasseigne;Andia Chaves-Fonnegra;Andia Chaves-Fonnegra

  • Experimental transmission of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease results in differential microbial responses within coral mucus and tissue

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  • 3D Photogrammetry Reveals Dynamics of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) Lesion Progression Across a Thermal Stress Event

    Sonora Meiling;Erinn M. Muller;Tyler B. Smith;Marilyn E. Brandt

  • Genetic Susceptibility, Colony Size, and Water Temperature Drive White-Pox Disease on the Coral Acropora palmata

    Erinn M. Muller;Robert van Woesik

  • Evaluating the small-scale epidemiology of the stony-coral -tissue-loss-disease in the middle Florida Keys.

    William C. Sharp;Colin P. Shea;Kerry E. Maxwell;Erinn M. Muller

  • Eutrophication may compromise the resilience of the Red Sea coral Stylophora pistillata to global change.

    Emily R. Hall;Erinn M. Muller;Tamar Goulet;Jessica Bellworthy

Frequent Co-Authors

Caroline S. Rogers
Caroline S. Rogers United States Geological Survey
R. van Woesik
R. van Woesik Florida Institute of Technology
Robert van Woesik
Robert van Woesik Florida Institute of Technology
Tyler B. Smith
Tyler B. Smith University of the Virgin Islands
Iliana B. Baums
Iliana B. Baums Pennsylvania State University
Diego Lirman
Diego Lirman University of Miami
Rebecca Vega Thurber
Rebecca Vega Thurber Oregon State University
Scott F. Heron
Scott F. Heron James Cook University
David G. Bourne
David G. Bourne James Cook University
Guillermo Diaz-Pulido
Guillermo Diaz-Pulido Griffith University

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