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Overview

Scott R. Santos is affiliated with the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, in the United States. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields primarily within environmental science and medicine, with a focus on ecological and molecular biological aspects.

The main fields of study associated with Scott R. Santos include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Medicine

Their subfields of study include:

  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Molecular Biology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Insect Science

Scott R. Santos's research covers several main topics:

  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Insect Resistance and Genetics

Frequent venues for Santos's publications include:

  • Integrative and Comparative Biology
  • Viruses
  • PeerJ
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Zoologica Scripta

Recent papers by Scott R. Santos include:

  • "Building consensus around the assessment and interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae diversity" (2023), PeerJ
  • "Phylogenomic analyses reveal a Palaeozoic radiation and support a freshwater origin for clitellate annelids" (2020), Zoologica Scripta
  • "Discovery of Novel Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Diversity From a Soil Metagenomic Library" (2020), Frontiers in Microbiology
  • "Red Coloration in an Anchialine Shrimp: Carotenoids, Genetic Variation, and Candidate Genes" (2020), Biological Bulletin
  • "Phylogeography of two marine predators, giant trevally (Caranx ignobilis) and bluefin trevally (Caranx melampygus), across the Indo-Pacific" (2021), Bulletin of Marine Science

Frequent collaborators working with Scott R. Santos are:

  • Justin C. Havird
  • Rollie J. Clem
  • Pamela M. Brannock
  • Alexis Carpenter
  • Alan E. Wilson

Best Publications

  • Systematic Revision of Symbiodiniaceae Highlights the Antiquity and Diversity of Coral Endosymbionts.

    Todd C. LaJeunesse;John Everett Parkinson;Paul W. Gabrielson;Hae Jin Jeong

  • Phylogenomics reveals deep molluscan relationships

    Kevin M. Kocot;Johanna T. Cannon;Christiane Todt;Mathew R. Citarella

  • Genetic diversity of symbiotic dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium.

    Mary Alice Coffroth;Scott R. Santos

  • The players in a mutualistic symbiosis: Insects, bacteria, viruses, and virulence genes

    Nancy A. Moran;Patrick H. Degnan;Scott R. Santos;Scott R. Santos;Helen E. Dunbar

  • Illuminating the Base of the Annelid Tree Using Transcriptomics

    Anne Weigert;Conrad Helm;Matthias Meyer;Birgit Nickel

  • Measuring rDNA Diversity in Eukaryotic Microbial Systems: How Intragenomic Variation, Pseudogenes, and PCR Artifacts Confound Biodiversity Estimates

    Daniel J. Thornhill;Todd C. Lajeunesse;Scott R. Santos

  • Identification and phylogenetic sorting of bacterial lineages with universally conserved genes and proteins.

    Scott R. Santos;Howard Ochman

  • 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

  • The Adaptive Bleaching Hypothesis: Experimental Tests of Critical Assumptions

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Reef endemism, host specificity and temporal stability in populations of symbiotic dinoflagellates from two ecologically dominant Caribbean corals

    Daniel J. Thornhill;Daniel J. Thornhill;Yu Xiang;William K. Fitt;Scott R. Santos

  • Phylogenomic Resolution of the Hemichordate and Echinoderm Clade

    Johanna T. Cannon;Johanna T. Cannon;Kevin M. Kocot;Kevin M. Kocot;Kevin M. Kocot;Damien S. Waits;David A. Weese;David A. Weese

  • Population genetic data of a model symbiotic cnidarian system reveal remarkable symbiotic specificity and vectored introductions across ocean basins

    Daniel J. Thornhill;Daniel J. Thornhill;Yu Xiang;D. Tye Pettay;Min Zhong

  • Nodulation of Sesbania species by Rhizobium (Agrobacterium) strain IRBG74 and other rhizobia

    Stephen P. Cummings;Prasad Gyaneshwar;Pablo Vinuesa;Frank T. Farruggia

  • Phylogenetic Identification of Symbiotic Dinoflagellates via Length Heteroplasmy in Domain V of Chloroplast Large Subunit (cp23S)—Ribosomal DNA Sequences

    Scott R. Santos;Carla Gutierrez-Rodriguez;Mary Alice Coffroth

  • Symbiodinium sp. associations in the gorgonian Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae in the Bahamas: high levels of genetic variability and population structure in symbiotic dinoflagellates

    S. R. Santos;S. R. Santos;C. Gutiérrez-Rodríguez;C. Gutiérrez-Rodríguez;H. R. Lasker;M. A. Coffroth

  • Population genetics of reef coral endosymbionts (Symbiodinium, Dinophyceae)

    D. J. Thornhill;E. J. Howells;D. C. Wham;T. D. Steury

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth M. Halanych
Kenneth M. Halanych University of North Carolina Wilmington
Mary Alice Coffroth
Mary Alice Coffroth University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Howard Ochman
Howard Ochman The University of Texas at Austin
Raymond P. Henry
Raymond P. Henry Auburn University
Euan K. James
Euan K. James James Hutton Institute
Mitchell Andrews
Mitchell Andrews Lincoln University
Derek J. Taylor
Derek J. Taylor University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Christer Erséus
Christer Erséus University of Gothenburg
Todd C. LaJeunesse
Todd C. LaJeunesse Pennsylvania State University
Mark R. Liles
Mark R. Liles Auburn University

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