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Mónica Medina publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mónica Medina sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 144 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Mónica Medina D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mónica Medina sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Mónica Medina is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research predominantly falls within the field of Environmental Science, focusing on multiple subfields including Ecology, Oceanography, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, and Immunology.

Their work spans several main topics, reflecting a broad investigation into marine and environmental biological systems. These topics include:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine Sponges and Natural Products
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology

Mónica Medina has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed publications, with a notable presence in several journals and platforms:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Coral Reefs
  • Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • PeerJ

Some of their recent publications cover diverse aspects of virome expansion, metagenomics, coral microbiology, and marine holobionts, including:

  • "Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages" (2022), published in Cell
  • "Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics" (2023), published in Nature
  • "Insights into the Cultured Bacterial Fraction of Corals" (2021), published in mSystems
  • "A community perspective on the concept of marine holobionts: current status, challenges, and future directions" (2021), published in PeerJ
  • "Coral evolutionary responses to microbial symbioses" (2020), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent co-authors in their research network include Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, F. Joseph Pollock, Viridiana Avila-Magaña, Francesco Ricci, and Heroen Verbruggen.

An award associated with Mónica Medina is the Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, received in 2011.

Best Publications

  • The Genome of the Diatom Thalassiosira Pseudonana: Ecology, Evolution, and Metabolism

    E. Virginia Armbrust;John A. Berges;Chris Bowler;Beverley R. Green

  • The draft genome of Ciona intestinalis : insights into chordate and vertebrate origins

    Paramvir Dehal;Yutaka Satou;Robert K. Campbell;Jarrod Chapman

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

    Eiichi Shoguchi;Chuya Shinzato;Takeshi Kawashima;Fuki Gyoja

  • Animal Behavior and the Microbiome

    Vanessa O. Ezenwa;Nicole M. Gerardo;David W. Inouye;David W. Inouye;Mónica Medina

  • 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

  • Bacterial diversity and White Plague Disease-associated community changes in the Caribbean coral Montastraea faveolata.

    Shinichi Sunagawa;Todd Z DeSantis;Yvette M Piceno;Eoin L Brodie

  • Evaluating hypotheses of basal animal phylogeny using complete sequences of large and small subunit rRNA.

    Monica Medina;Allen Gilbert Collins;Jeffrey D. Silberman;Mitchell L. Sogin

  • Medusozoan Phylogeny and Character Evolution Clarified by New Large and Small Subunit rDNA Data and an Assessment of the Utility of Phylogenetic Mixture Models

    Allen Gilbert Collins;Peter Schuchert;Antonio Carlos Marques;Thomas Jankowski

  • Coral-associated bacteria demonstrate phylosymbiosis and cophylogeny.

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

  • Threatened corals provide underexplored microbial habitats.

    Shinichi Sunagawa;Cheryl M. Woodley;Mónica Medina

  • Whole genome analysis of a schistosomiasis-transmitting freshwater snail.

    Coen M Adema;Ladeana W Hillier;Catherine S Jones;Eric S Loker

  • Sequencing and Comparing Whole Mitochondrial Genomes of Animals

    Jeffrey L. Boore;J. Robert Macey;Monica Medina

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

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

  • Naked corals: Skeleton loss in Scleractinia

    Mónica Medina;Allen G. Collins;Tori L. Takaoka;Jennifer V. Kuehl

  • Transcriptomic responses to heat stress and bleaching in the elkhorn coral Acropora palmata

    Michael K. DeSalvo;Shinichi Sunagawa;Christian R. Voolstra;Christian R. Voolstra;Mónica Medina

  • Phylogenomics provides a robust topology of the major cnidarian lineages and insights on the origins of key organismal traits

    Ehsan Kayal;Ehsan Kayal;Bastian Bentlage;Bastian Bentlage;M. Sabrina Pankey;Aki H. Ohdera

  • Whole transcriptome analysis reveals changes in expression of immune-related genes during and after bleaching in a reef-building coral

    Jorge H. Pinzón;Bishoy Kamel;Colleen A. Burge;C. Drew Harvell

  • Generation and analysis of transcriptomic resources for a model system on the rise: the sea anemone Aiptasia pallida and its dinoflagellate endosymbiont

    Shinichi Sunagawa;Emily C Wilson;Michael Thaler;Marc L Smith

  • Comparative genomics explains the evolutionary success of reef-forming corals.

    Debashish Bhattacharya;Shobhit Agrawal;Manuel Aranda;Sebastian Baumgarten

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian R. Voolstra
Christian R. Voolstra University of Konstanz
Shinichi Sunagawa
Shinichi Sunagawa Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Roberto Iglesias-Prieto
Roberto Iglesias-Prieto Pennsylvania State University
Jeffrey L. Boore
Jeffrey L. Boore University of California, Berkeley
Allen Gilbert Collins
Allen Gilbert Collins National Museum of Natural History
Mary Alice Coffroth
Mary Alice Coffroth University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Alina M. Szmant
Alina M. Szmant University of North Carolina Wilmington
Daniel S. Rokhsar
Daniel S. Rokhsar University of California, Berkeley
Mikhail V. Matz
Mikhail V. Matz The University of Texas at Austin
Igor V. Grigoriev
Igor V. Grigoriev Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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