Virginia M. Weis

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Best Publications

• Cell Biology of Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbiosis

  Simon K. Davy;Denis Allemand;Virginia M. Weis

  1084
  Citations

• Cellular mechanisms of Cnidarian bleaching: stress causes the collapse of symbiosis

  Virginia M Weis

  983
  Citations

• The genome of Aiptasia, a sea anemone model for coral symbiosis

  Sebastian Baumgarten;Oleg Simakov;Lisl Y. Esherick;Yi Jin Liew

  477
  Citations

• Cell biology in model systems as the key to understanding corals

  Virginia M. Weis;Simon K. Davy;Ove Hoegh-Guldberg;Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty

  405
  Citations

• Effects of morphology and water motion on carbon delivery and productivity in the reef coral, Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus): Diffusion barriers, inorganic carbon limitation, and biochemical plasticity

  Michael P. Lesser;Virginia M. Weis;Mark R. Patterson;Paul L. Jokiel

  295
  Citations

• Lectin/glycan interactions play a role in recognition in a coral/dinoflagellate symbiosis.

  Elisha M. Wood-Charlson;Lea L. Hollingsworth;Dave A. Krupp;Virginia M. Weis

  258
  Citations

• Optimal nutrient exchange and immune responses operate in partner specificity in the cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis.

  Jennifer L. Matthews;Camerron M. Crowder;Clinton A. Oakley;Adrian Lutz

  250
  Citations

• Apoptosis and autophagy as mechanisms of dinoflagellate symbiont release during cnidarian bleaching: every which way you lose

  Simon R Dunn;Christine E Schnitzler;Virginia M Weis

  224
  Citations

• 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

  218
  Citations

• Nitric oxide and cnidarian bleaching: an eviction notice mediates breakdown of a symbiosis.

  Santiago Perez;Virginia Weis

  211
  Citations

• Late Larval Development and Onset of Symbiosis in the Scleractinian Coral Fungia scutaria.

  Jodi A. Schwarz;Dave A. Krupp;Virginia M. Weis

  210
  Citations

• Host-symbiont specificity during onset of symbiosis between the dinoflagellates Symbiodinium spp. and planula larvae of the scleractinian coral Fungia scutaria

  Virginia M. Weis;Wendy S. Reynolds;Melissa D. deBoer;Dave A. Krupp

  202
  Citations

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

  Debashish Bhattacharya;Shobhit Agrawal;Manuel Aranda;Sebastian Baumgarten

  198
  Citations

• Transcriptome analysis of a cnidarian-dinoflagellate mutualism reveals complex modulation of host gene expression.

  Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty;Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty;Wendy S Phillips;Virginia M Weis

  197
  Citations

• A “CO2 supply” mechanism in zooxanthellate cnidarians: role of carbonic anhydrase

  V. M. Weis;G. J. Smith;L. Muscatine

  172
  Citations

• Increasing comparability among coral bleaching experiments

  Andrea G. Grottoli;R. J. Toonen;R. van Woesik;R. Vega Thurber

  145
  Citations

• Apoptosis as a post-phagocytic winnowing mechanism in a coral–dinoflagellate mutualism

  Simon R. Dunn;Virginia M. Weis

  135
  Citations

• Distinct ITS types of Symbiodinium in clade C correlate with cnidarian/dinoflagellate specificity during onset of symbiosis

  Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty;Dave A. Krupp;Virginia M. Weis

  124
  Citations

• Regulation of cnidarian–dinoflagellate mutualisms: Evidence that activation of a host TGFβ innate immune pathway promotes tolerance of the symbiont

  Olivier Detournay;Christine E. Schnitzler;Angela Poole;Virginia M. Weis

  116
  Citations

• Cell Biology of Coral Symbiosis: Foundational Study Can Inform Solutions to the Coral Reef Crisis.

  Virginia M Weis

  109
  Citations