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Mary Alice Coffroth is affiliated with the University at Buffalo, State University of New York in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a specialized concentration in coral and marine ecosystems studies.

The main fields of study associated with their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Their research covers several subfields within these areas, such as:

  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Key topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and Coastal Plant Biology
  • Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics
  • Marine and Fisheries Research
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions

Their recent papers reflect active contribution to the scientific community, with titles and publication years as follows:

  • Increasing comparability among coral bleaching experiments, 2020, Ecological Applications
  • Building consensus around the assessment and interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae diversity, 2023, PeerJ
  • Thermally tolerant symbionts may explain Caribbean octocoral resilience to heat stress, 2021, Coral Reefs
  • Building Consensus around the Assessment and Interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae Diversity, 2022, Preprints.org
  • Nutrient dynamics in coral symbiosis depend on both the relative and absolute abundance of Symbiodiniaceae species, 2022, Microbiome

Mary Alice Coffroth frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Coral Reefs
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Ecological Applications
  • PeerJ
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist has worked alongside various co-authors, including:

  • Casey P. terHorst
  • Christian R. Voolstra
  • Virginia M. Weis
  • Shelby E. McIlroy
  • Mark E. Warner

Best Publications

  • Draft Assembly of the Symbiodinium minutum Nuclear Genome Reveals Dinoflagellate Gene Structure

    Eiichi Shoguchi;Chuya Shinzato;Takeshi Kawashima;Fuki Gyoja

  • Differential gene expression during thermal stress and bleaching in the Caribbean coral Montastraea faveolata.

    M. K. Desalvo;C. R. Voolstra;S. Sunagawa;J. A. Schwarz

  • Genetic diversity of symbiotic dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium.

    Mary Alice Coffroth;Scott R. Santos

  • Connectivity and resilience of coral reef metapopulations in marine protected areas: matching empirical efforts to predictive needs.

    L. W. Botsford;J. W. White;M. A. Coffroth;C. B. Paris

  • Molecular phylogeny of symbiotic dinoflagellates inferred from partial chloroplast large subunit (23S)-rDNA sequences.

    Scott R Santos;Derek J Taylor;Robert A Kinzie;Michio Hidaka

  • SYMBIODINIUM (PYRRHOPHYTA) GENOME SIZES (DNA CONTENT) ARE SMALLEST AMONG DINOFLAGELLATES

    Todd C. LaJeunesse;Georgina Lambert;Robert A. Andersen;Mary Alice Coffroth

  • Symbiodinium transcriptomes: genome insights into the dinoflagellate symbionts of reef-building corals.

    Till Bayer;Manuel Aranda;Shinichi Sunagawa;Lauren K. Yum

  • The Adaptive Bleaching Hypothesis: Experimental Tests of Critical Assumptions

    Robert A. Kinzie;Michelle Takayama;Scott R. Santos;Mary Alice Coffroth

  • DNA fingerprints of a gorgonian coral: a method for detecting clonal structure in a vegetative species

    Mary Alice Coffroth;Howard R. Lasker;Margaret E. Diamond;Jeremy A. Bruenn

  • DNA BARCODING: Barcoding corals: limited by interspecific divergence, not intraspecific variation

    T. L. Shearer;M. A. Coffroth

  • GENETIC COMPARISONS OF FRESHLY ISOLATED VERSUS CULTURED SYMBIOTIC DINOFLAGELLATES: IMPLICATIONS FOR EXTRAPOLATING TO THE INTACT SYMBIOSIS

    Scott R. Santos;Derek J. Taylor;Mary Alice Coffroth

  • Early ontogenetic expression of specificity in a cnidarian-algal symbiosis

    Mary Alice Coffroth;Scott R. Santos;Tamar L. Goulet

  • The Acquisition of Exogenous Algal Symbionts by an Octocoral After Bleaching

    Cynthia L. Lewis;Mary Alice Coffroth

  • Coral life history and symbiosis: Functional genomic resources for two reef building Caribbean corals, Acropora palmata and Montastraea faveolata

    Jodi A Schwarz;Peter B Brokstein;Christian Voolstra;Astrid Y Terry

  • The host transcriptome remains unaltered during the establishment of coral-algal symbioses

    Christian R. Voolstra;Jodi A. Schwarz;Julia Schnetzer;Shinichi Sunagawa

  • Environmental populations of symbiotic dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium can initiate symbioses with reef cnidarians

    Mary Alice Coffroth;Cynthia F. Lewis;Scott R. Santos;Jessica L. Weaver

  • Bleaching of reef coelenterates in the San Blas Islands, Panama

    Howard R. Lasker;Esther C. Peters;Mary Alice Coffroth

  • Fine‐scale diversity and specificity in the most prevalent lineage of symbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium, Dinophyceae) of the Caribbean

    S. R. Santos;T. L. Shearer;A. R. Hannes;M. A. Coffroth

  • Molecular genetic evidence that dinoflagellates belonging to the genus Symbiodinium freudenthal are haploid.

    Scott R. Santos;Mary Alice Coffroth

  • Environmental barcoding reveals massive dinoflagellate diversity in marine environments.

    Rowena F. Stern;Ales Horak;Rose L. Andrew;Mary Alice Coffroth

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott R. Santos
Scott R. Santos University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Howard R. Lasker
Howard R. Lasker University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Mónica Medina
Mónica Medina Pennsylvania State University
Christian R. Voolstra
Christian R. Voolstra University of Konstanz
Alina M. Szmant
Alina M. Szmant University of North Carolina Wilmington
Shinichi Sunagawa
Shinichi Sunagawa Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Kazuhiko Sakai
Kazuhiko Sakai University of the Ryukyus
Derek J. Taylor
Derek J. Taylor University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Andrew C. Baker
Andrew C. Baker University of Miami
Eldredge Bermingham
Eldredge Bermingham Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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