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Overview

Mark A. Ragan is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a substantial emphasis on ecology, molecular biology, and oceanography. Additional areas of study include nature and landscape conservation as well as global and planetary change.

Their work covers a variety of specialized topics, notably:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Marine and fisheries research

Among their frequent co-authors are Cheong Xin Chan, Debashish Bhattacharya, Ira Cooke, Timothy G. Stephens, and Raúl A. González-Pech.

Mark A. Ragan has published in a variety of scientific venues, including:

  • BMC Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UQ eSpace
  • Science Advances
  • Current Biology

Notable recent publications include:

  • Genomes of the dinoflagellate Polarella glacialis encode tandemly repeated single-exon genes with adaptive functions, 2020, BMC Biology
  • Comparison of 15 dinoflagellate genomes reveals extensive sequence and structural divergence in family Symbiodiniaceae and genus Symbiodinium, 2021, BMC Biology
  • Genomic signatures in the coral holobiont reveal host adaptations driven by Holocene climate change and reef specific symbionts, 2020, Science Advances
  • Morphological stasis masks ecologically divergent coral species on tropical reefs, 2021, Current Biology
  • Genome-powered classification of microbial eukaryotes: focus on coral algal symbionts, 2022, Trends in Microbiology

Best Publications

  • The complete genome of the crenarchaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus P2.

    Qunxin She;Rama K. Singh;Fabrice Confalonieri;Yvan Zivanovic

  • Highways of gene sharing in prokaryotes

    Robert G. Beiko;Timothy J. Harlow;Mark A. Ragan

  • Identification of domoic acid, a neuroexcitatory amino acid, in toxic mussels from eastern Prince Edward Island

    J. L. C. Wright;R. K. Boyd;A. S. W. de Freitas;M. Falk

  • Phylogenetic inference based on matrix representation of trees

    Mark A. Ragan

  • Visualization of image data from cells to organisms

    Thomas Walter;David W Shattuck;Richard Baldock;Mark E Bastin

  • Evolutionary conservation of a core root microbiome across plant phyla along a tropical soil chronosequence.

    Yun Kit Yeoh;Paul G. Dennis;Chanyarat Paungfoo-Lonhienne;Lui Weber

  • Dynamics of Genome Rearrangement in Bacterial Populations

    Aaron E. Darling;István Miklós;István Miklós;István Miklós;Mark A. Ragan

  • A genomic view of the reef-building coral Porites lutea and its microbial symbionts.

    Steven J. Robbins;Caitlin M. Singleton;Cheong Xin Chan;Lauren F. Messer

  • A molecular phylogeny of the marine red algae (Rhodophyta) based on the nuclear small-subunit rRNA gene

    Mark A. Ragan;Carolyn J. Bird;Ellen L. Rice;Robin R. Gutell

  • On surrogate methods for detecting lateral gene transfer.

    Mark A. Ragan

  • Nitrogen fertilizer dose alters fungal communities in sugarcane soil and rhizosphere.

    Chanyarat Paungfoo-Lonhienne;Yun Kit Yeoh;Naga Rup Pinaki Kasinadhuni;Thierry G. A. Lonhienne

  • Evolution of gene function and regulatory control after whole-genome duplication: Comparative analyses in vertebrates

    Karin Sonja Kassahn;Vinh Toan Dang;Simon J. Wilkins;Andrew C. Perkins

  • Detection of lateral gene transfer among microbial genomes

    Mark A. Ragan

  • A novel clade of protistan parasites near the animal-fungal divergence

    MA Ragan;CL Goggin;RJ Cawthorn;Lage Cerenius

  • The mammalian PYHIN gene family: phylogeny, evolution and expression.

    Jasmyn A Cridland;Eva Z Curley;Michelle N Wykes;Kate Schroder

  • Symbiodinium genomes reveal adaptive evolution of functions related to coral-dinoflagellate symbiosis

    Huanle Liu;Timothy G. Stephens;Raúl A. González-Pech;Victor H. Beltran

  • Lateral genetic transfer and the construction of genetic exchange communities.

    Elizabeth Skippington;Mark A. Ragan

  • Supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised inference of gene regulatory networks

    Stefan R. Maetschke;Piyush B. Madhamshettiwar;Melissa J. Davis;Mark A. Ragan

  • Erratum: Visualization of image data from cells to organisms

    Thomas Walter;David W. Shattuck;Richard Baldock;Mark E. Bastin

  • Nitrogen fertilizer dose alters fungal communities in sugarcane soil and

    Thierry G. A. Lonhienne;Nicole Robinson;Philip Hugenholtz;Mark A. Ragan

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert G. Beiko
Robert G. Beiko Dalhousie University
David G. Bourne
David G. Bourne James Cook University
Sylvain Forêt
Sylvain Forêt Australian National University
Pim Bongaerts
Pim Bongaerts California Academy of Sciences
Madeleine J. H. van Oppen
Madeleine J. H. van Oppen University of Melbourne
Eldon E. Ball
Eldon E. Ball James Cook University
Christian R. Voolstra
Christian R. Voolstra University of Konstanz
Christoph Wilhelm Sensen
Christoph Wilhelm Sensen Graz University of Technology
Debashish Bhattacharya
Debashish Bhattacharya Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Terry Gaasterland
Terry Gaasterland University of California, San Diego

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