Publications
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2024
Van Buren, EW, Ponce IE, Beavers KM, Stokes A, Cornelio MN, Emery M, and Mydlarz LD. 2024. Structural and Evolutionary Relationships of Melanin Cascade Proteins in Cnidarian Innate Immunity, Integrative and Comparative Biology, 64: 5, Pp 1320–1337. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icae115
Madison, E, Beavers KM, Van Buren E, Batiste R, Dimos B, Pellegrino M, Mydlarz L. 2024. Trade-off between photo-symbiosis and innate immunity influences cnidarian’s response to pathogenic bacteria. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 291: 2032. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.0428
2023
Mydlarz, LD and Muller, EM. 2023. Perspective. Genetics of coral resilience: Genome-wide study in staghorn coral identifies markers of disease resistance. Science, 381: 6665 Pg. 1414. 10.1126/science.adk3070.
Beavers, KM, Van Buren E, Rossin A, Emery M, Veglia AJ, Karrick CE, MacKnight NJ , Dimos BA, Meiling SS, Smith TB, Apprill A, Muller EM, Holstein DM, Correa AMS, Brandt ME, Mydlarz LD. 2023. Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Induces Transcriptional Signatures of in situ Degradation of Dysfunctional Symbiodiniaceae. Nature Communications. 14:2915 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38612-4
2022
MacKnight NJ, Dimos B, Beavers KM, Muller EM, Brandt M, Mydlarz LD, Disease Resistance in Coral is Mediated by Distinct Adaptive and Plastic Gene Expression Profiles. 2022. Science Advances. 8:39. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo6153
Traylor-Knowles N , Baker AC, Beavers KM, Garg N, Guyon JR , Hawthorn A, MacKnight NJ, Medina M, Mydlarz LD, Peters EC, Stewart JM, Studivan MS, Voss JD. 2022. Advances in Immunity ‘Omics in Response to Coral Disease Outbreaks. Front. Mar. Sci. Volume 9 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.952199
Huntley N, Brandt M, Becker C, Miller CA, Meiling S ,Correa A, Holstein D, Muller E, Mydlarz D, Tyler Smith T, Apprill A. 2022. Experimental transmission of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease results in differential microbial responses within coral mucus and tissue. ISME Communications. Vol. 2, Article number: 46
Dimos B, Emery E, Beavers K, Macknight NJ, Brandt ME, Demuth J, Mydlarz LD. 2022. Adaptive Variation in Homolog Number Within Transcript Families Promotes Expression Divergence in Reef-Building Coral. Molecular Ecology. Vol. 31 Issue 9, pp. 2594–2610, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16414
Veglia, A, Beavers K, Van Buren E, Meiling S, Muller E, Smith T, Holstein D, Apprill A, Brandt M, Mydlarz LD, and Correa A. 2022. Alphaflexivirus Genomes in Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease-Affected, Disease-Exposed and Unexposed Coral Colonies in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Microbiology Resource Announcements. https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mra.01199-21
2021
Emery, MA, Dimos BA, and Mydlarz LD. 2021. Cnidarian pattern recognition receptor repertoires reflect both phylogeny and life history traits, Frontiers in Immunology, Comparative Immunology, 12, 2430. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fimmu.2021.689463
MacKnight NJ, Cobleigh K, Lasseigne D, Chaves-Fonnegra A, Gutting A, Dimos B, Antoine J, Fuess L, Ricci C, Butler C, Muller EM, Mydlarz LD, and Brandt M. 2021. Microbial dysbiosis reflects disease resistance in diverse coral species. Communications Biology, 4,679. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02163-5
Meiling SS, Muller EM, Lasseigne D, Rossin A, Veglia AJ, MacKnight N, Dimos B, Huntley N, Correa AMS, Smith TB, Holstein DM, Mydlarz LD, Apprill A and Brandt ME. 2021. Variable species responses to experimental stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) exposure. Front. Mar. Sci., 8: 464. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.670829
Wall, C, Ricci C, Wen A, Ledbetter B, Klinger D, Mydlarz L, Gates R, Putnam H. 2021. Shifting Baselines: Physiological legacies contribute to the response of reef corals to frequent heatwaves. Functional Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13795
2020
Vega-Thurber RL, Mydlarz LD, Brandt M, Harvell CD, WEil E, Raymundo L, Willis B, Kangvin S, Tracy A, Littman R, Kemp KM, Dawkins P, Prager KC, Garren M, Lamb J. 2020. Deciphering Coral Disease Dynamics: Integrating Host, Microbiome, and the Changing Environment. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution - Coevolution, 8, 402. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2020.575927
Fuess LE, Palacio AC, Butler CC, Baker AC, Mydlarz LD. 2020. Increased algal symbiont density reduces host immunity in a threatened Caribbean coral species, Orbicella faveolata. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution - Coevolution. 8: 369 https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.572942
Shrestha, S, Tung J, Grinshpon RD, Swartz P, Hamilton PT, Dimos B, Mydlarz LD, Clark AC. 2020. Caspases from Scleractinian Coral Show Unique Regulatory Features. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295, 14578-14591. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA120.014345
Ricci, CA, Hena A, Kamal M, Chakrabarty JK, Ledbetter, B, Chowdhury S, Mydlarz LD. 2020. The cell-surface protein composition of a coral symbiont, Breviolum psygmophilum , reveals a mechanism for host specificity and displays dynamic regulation during temperature stress. Marine Biology 167 : 66. doi.org/10.1007/s00227-020-03680-3
Fuess, LE, Butler, CC, Brandt, ME, Mydlarz, LD. 2020. Investigating the roles of transforming growth factor-beta in immune response of Orbicella faveolata, a scleractinian coral. Developmental & Comparative Immunology 107, 103639
2019
Okamura, B, Long P and Mydlarz LD. 2019. Chemical Responses to the Biotic and Abiotic Environment by Early Diverging Metazoans Revealed in the Post-Genomic Age. Integrative and Comparative Biology, Volume 59, Issue 4, October 2019, Pages 731–738, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz125
Ricci, CA, Hena A, Kamal M, Chakrabarty JK, Fuess L, Mann W, Jinks L, Brinkhuis V, Chowdhury S, Mydlarz LD. 2019. Proteomic investigation of a diseased gorgonian coral indicates disruption of essential cell function and investment in inflammatory and immune processes. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icz107, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz107
Dimos, BA, Butler C, Ricci, CA, Macknight N, Mydlarz LD. 2019. Responding to Threats both Foreign and Domestic: NOD-like Receptors in Corals. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icz111, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz111
Dimos, BA, Mahmud SA, Fuess LE, Mydlarz LD, Pellegrino MW. 2019. Uncovering a mitochondrial unfolded proteinresponse in corals and its role in adapting to a changing world. Proc. R. Soc. B286:20190470. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0470
2018
Fuess, LE, Mann W, Jinks L, Brinkhuis V, Mydlarz L. 2018. Transcriptional analyses provide new insight into the late-stage immune response of a diseased Caribbean coral. Royal Society Open Science. 5: 172062. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.172062
Ohdera AH, Abrams MJ, Ames CL, Baker DM, Suescún-Bolívar LP,Collins AG, Freeman CJ,Gamero-Mora E, Goulet TL,Hofmann DK, Jaimes-Becerra A, Long PF, Marques AC, Miller LA, Mydlarz LD, Morandini AC, Newkirk CR, Putri SP, Samson JE, Stampar SN, Steinworth B, Templeman M, Thomé PE, Vlok M,Woodley CM, Wong JC, MartindaleMQ, Fitt WK and Medina M. 2018. Upside-Down but Headed in the Right Direction: Review of the Highly Versatile Cassiopea xamachanaSystem. Front. Ecol. Evol. 6:35.doi: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00035
Wall, C.B., Ricci, C.A., Foulds, G.E. Mydlarz, L.D. Gates, R and Putnam, H. M. 2018. The effects of environmental history and thermal stress on coral physiology and immunity. Mar Biol. 165: 56.
Williams LM, Fuess LE, et al. 2018. Characterization of Toll-like receptor-to-NF-κB signaling pathway components in the endangered coral Orbicella faveolata. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 79: 128-136.
2017
Fuess, L.E., J.C. Pinzón, E Weil, R Grinshpon, LD Mydlarz. 2017. Life or death: Disease tolerant coral species activate autophagy following immune challenge. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 284: 20170771. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0771
2016
Fuess, L.E., J.C. Pinzón, E Weil, LD Mydlarz. 2016. Associations between transcriptional changes and protein phenotypes provide insights into immune regulation in corals. Developmental & Comparative Immunology 62, 17-28. doi:10.1016/j.dci.2016.04.017
Burge, C.A. C.S. Friedman, R. Getchell, M. House, K.D. Lafferty, L.D. Mydlarz, K.C. Prager, K.P. Sutherland, T. Renault, I. Kiryu and R. Vega-Thurber. 2016. Complementary approaches to diagnosing marine diseases: a union of the modern and the classic. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 20150207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0207
Mydlarz, L.D., Fuess, L., Mann, W.T., Pinzon, J.C., and D.J. Gochfeld. 2016. Cnidarian immunity: from genomes to phenomes. In: The Cnidaria, past, present and future. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 441. S. Goffredo, Z. Dubinsky (eds.), The Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31305-4_28
2015
Pinzón J.C., B. Hanna, C. Burge, C. D. Harvell, M. Medina, E. Weil and L.D. Mydlarz. 2015. Whole transcriptome analysis reveals changes in expression of immune related genes during and after bleaching in a reef-building coral. Royal Society Open Science. 2:140214.
2014
Pinzón, J.C., L. Dornberger, J. Beach-Letendre, E. Weil, L.D. Mydlarz. 2014. The link between immunity and life history traits in scleractinian corals. PeerJ 2:e628 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.628
Pinzón C., J. H., J. Beach-Letendre, E. Weil and L.D. Mydlarz. 2014. Relationship between phylogeny and immunity suggests older Caribbean coral lineages are more resistant to disease. PloS ONE 9 (8), e104787
Mann, W.T., J. Beach-Letendre and L.D. Mydlarz. 2014. Interplay between proteases and protease inhibitors in the sea fan—Aspergillus pathosystem. Marine Biology. 10.1007/s00227-014-2499-2, 1-8.
2012
McGinty, E.S., J. Pieczonka and L.D. Mydlarz. 2012. Variations in Reactive Oxygen Release and Antioxidant Activity in Multiple Symbiodinium Types in Response to Elevated Temperature. Microbial Ecology.
Hunt, L.R., S.M. Smith, K.R. Downum and L. D. Mydlarz. 2012. Microbial regulation in gorgonian corals. Marine Drugs. Special Issue, Marine Antibiotics. 10: 1225-1243.
Schug, K.A. E. Wang, S. Shen, S. Rao, S.M. Smith, L. Hunt, and L. D. Mydlarz. 2012. Affinity Screening Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry Assay for Identification of Antibacterial Agents from Natural Product Sources. Analytica Chimica Acta. 71:103-110.
Demuth, J.D. A.N. Bandari, L.D. Mydlarz. 2012. Sex, War, and Disease: The role of parasite infection on weapon development and mating success in a horned beetle (Gnatocerus cornutus). PLoS ONE. 7(1):e28690.
2011
Palmer, C.V., E.S. McGinty, D.J. Cummings, S.M. Crader, E. Bartels, and L.D. Mydlarz. 2011. Patterns of coral ecological immunology: Variation in the responses of Caribbean corals to elevated temperature and a pathogen elicitor. Journal of Experimental Biology. 214: 4240-4249.
Mydlarz, L.D. and C.V. Palmer. 2011. The presence of multiple phenoloxidases in Caribbean reef-building corals. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A. 159: 372-378.
2010
Skingel, T.R., Spencer S.E., Le C.Q., Serrano C.A, Mydlarz L.D., Scarbrough, B.J., Schug, K.A., Brooks B.W., and Grover J.P. 2010. Hemolytic toxicity and nutritional status of Prymnesium parvum during population growth. Aquatic Microbial Ecology. 61:141-148.
Martin, L.B.,Hopkins, W.A., Mydlarz, L.D. and J.R. Rohr. 2010. The effects of anthropogenic global changes on immune functions and disease resistance. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Year in Ecology and Conservation 1195: 129-148.
Mydlarz, L.D., McGinty, E.S. and C.D. Harvell. 2010. What are the physiological and immunological responses of coral to climate warming and disease? Journal of Experimental Biology. 213: 934-945.
Schug K.A., Skingel T.S., Spencer S.E., Serrano C, Le C.Q., Schug C.A., Valenti, Jr. T., Brooks B.W., Mydlarz L.D. and Grover J.P. 2010. Hemolysis, Fish Mortality, and LC-ESI-MS Fingerprinting of Cultured Crude and Fractionated Golden Alga (Prymnesium parvum). Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 46(1):33-44.
Brooks B.W, S.V. James, T.W. Valenti Jr., F. Urena-Boeck, C. Serrano, L. Schwierzke, L.D. Mydlarz, J.P. Grover and D. L. Roelke. 2010. Comparative Toxicity of Prymnesium parvum in Inland Waters. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 46(1):45-62.
2009
Palmer CV, Modi CK, Mydlarz LD. 2009. Coral Fluorescent Proteins as Antioxidants. PLoS ONE 4(10): e7298.
Mydlarz, L.D., Couch, C.S., Weil, E., Smith, G., and C.D. Harvell. 2009. Immune defenses of healthy, bleached and diseased Montastraea faveolata during a natural bleaching event. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. Special Issue 5; The role of environment and microorganisms in diseases of corals. 87: 67-78.
2008
Palmer, C.V., L.D Mydlarz and B. Willis. 2008. Evidence of an inflammatory-like response in non-normally pigmented tissues of two scleractinian corals. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London – B- Biological Sciences.
Couch, C.S., L.D. Mydlarz, C.D. Harvell and N.L. Douglas. 2008. Variation in measures of immunocompetence of sea fan coral, Gorgonia ventalina, in the Florida Keys. Marine Biology, 155:281–292. DOI 10.1007/s00227-008-1024-x.
Mydlarz ,L.D., S.F. Holthouse, E.C. Peters and C.D. Harvell. 2008. Cellular Responses in Sea Fan Corals: Granular Amoebocytes React to Pathogen and Climate Stressors. PLoS ONE 3(3): e1811.
2007
Ellner, S.E., L.E. Jones, L.D. Mydlarz and C.D. Harvell. 2007. Within-host disease ecology in the sea fan Gorgonia ventalina: modeling the spatial immunodynamics of a coral-pathogen interaction. American Naturalist. Vol. 170, no. 6.
Mydlarz, L.D. and C. D. Harvell. 2007. Peroxidase Activity and Inducibility in the Sea Fan Coral Exposed to a Fungal Pathogen. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A Vol. 146, 54-62.
2006 and Prior
Mydlarz, L.D., L.E. Jones and C. D. Harvell. 2006. Innate Immunity, Environmental Drivers and Disease Ecology of Marine and Freshwater Invertebrates. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, Vol 37, pp 251-288.
Mydlarz, L.D. and R.S Jacobs. 2006. An Inducible Release of Reactive Oxygen Radicals in Four Species of Gorgonian Corals. Marine and Freshwater Behavior and Physiology, Vol. 39 (2), pp 143-152.
Busse L.B., E.L. Venrick, R. Antrobus, P.E. Miller, V. Vigilant, M.W. Silver, C. Mengelt, L.D. Mydlarz and B.B. Prezelin. 2006. Domoic acid in phytoplankton and fish in San Diego, CA, USA. Harmful Algae Vol 5 pp. 91-101.
Mydlarz, L.D. and R.S Jacobs. 2004. Comparison of an inducible oxidative burst in free-living and symbiotic dinoflagellates reveals properties of the pseudopterosins. Phytochemistry, Vol, 65 (24) pp. 3231-3241.
Santiago-Vázquez, L., L.D. Mydlarz, R. S. Jacobs and J.G. Pavlovich. 2004. Identification of hydroxy fatty acids by liquid chromatography-atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometry in Euglena gracilis. Journal of Chromatography B, Anl.Tech. in the Biomed. and Life Sci, Vol. 803 (2) pp. 233-236.
Mydlarz, L.D, Jacobs R.S., Bohnlein, J and Kerr, R.G. 2003. Pseudopterosin biosynthesis in Symbiodinium sp., the dinoflagellate symbiont of Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae. Chemistry and Biology. Vol. 10, (11) pp 1051-1056.
Coleman, A.C, Mydlarz, L.D. and Kerr, R.G. 1999. In Vivo and In Vitro investigations into the biosynthetic relatedness of the Pseudopterosins. Organic Letters, Vol. 1 (13) pp 2173-2175.
Van Buren, EW, Ponce IE, Beavers KM, Stokes A, Cornelio MN, Emery M, and Mydlarz LD. 2024. Structural and Evolutionary Relationships of Melanin Cascade Proteins in Cnidarian Innate Immunity, Integrative and Comparative Biology, 64: 5, Pp 1320–1337. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icae115
Madison, E, Beavers KM, Van Buren E, Batiste R, Dimos B, Pellegrino M, Mydlarz L. 2024. Trade-off between photo-symbiosis and innate immunity influences cnidarian’s response to pathogenic bacteria. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 291: 2032. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.0428
2023
Mydlarz, LD and Muller, EM. 2023. Perspective. Genetics of coral resilience: Genome-wide study in staghorn coral identifies markers of disease resistance. Science, 381: 6665 Pg. 1414. 10.1126/science.adk3070.
Beavers, KM, Van Buren E, Rossin A, Emery M, Veglia AJ, Karrick CE, MacKnight NJ , Dimos BA, Meiling SS, Smith TB, Apprill A, Muller EM, Holstein DM, Correa AMS, Brandt ME, Mydlarz LD. 2023. Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Induces Transcriptional Signatures of in situ Degradation of Dysfunctional Symbiodiniaceae. Nature Communications. 14:2915 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38612-4
2022
MacKnight NJ, Dimos B, Beavers KM, Muller EM, Brandt M, Mydlarz LD, Disease Resistance in Coral is Mediated by Distinct Adaptive and Plastic Gene Expression Profiles. 2022. Science Advances. 8:39. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo6153
Traylor-Knowles N , Baker AC, Beavers KM, Garg N, Guyon JR , Hawthorn A, MacKnight NJ, Medina M, Mydlarz LD, Peters EC, Stewart JM, Studivan MS, Voss JD. 2022. Advances in Immunity ‘Omics in Response to Coral Disease Outbreaks. Front. Mar. Sci. Volume 9 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.952199
Huntley N, Brandt M, Becker C, Miller CA, Meiling S ,Correa A, Holstein D, Muller E, Mydlarz D, Tyler Smith T, Apprill A. 2022. Experimental transmission of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease results in differential microbial responses within coral mucus and tissue. ISME Communications. Vol. 2, Article number: 46
Dimos B, Emery E, Beavers K, Macknight NJ, Brandt ME, Demuth J, Mydlarz LD. 2022. Adaptive Variation in Homolog Number Within Transcript Families Promotes Expression Divergence in Reef-Building Coral. Molecular Ecology. Vol. 31 Issue 9, pp. 2594–2610, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16414
Veglia, A, Beavers K, Van Buren E, Meiling S, Muller E, Smith T, Holstein D, Apprill A, Brandt M, Mydlarz LD, and Correa A. 2022. Alphaflexivirus Genomes in Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease-Affected, Disease-Exposed and Unexposed Coral Colonies in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Microbiology Resource Announcements. https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mra.01199-21
2021
Emery, MA, Dimos BA, and Mydlarz LD. 2021. Cnidarian pattern recognition receptor repertoires reflect both phylogeny and life history traits, Frontiers in Immunology, Comparative Immunology, 12, 2430. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fimmu.2021.689463
MacKnight NJ, Cobleigh K, Lasseigne D, Chaves-Fonnegra A, Gutting A, Dimos B, Antoine J, Fuess L, Ricci C, Butler C, Muller EM, Mydlarz LD, and Brandt M. 2021. Microbial dysbiosis reflects disease resistance in diverse coral species. Communications Biology, 4,679. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02163-5
Meiling SS, Muller EM, Lasseigne D, Rossin A, Veglia AJ, MacKnight N, Dimos B, Huntley N, Correa AMS, Smith TB, Holstein DM, Mydlarz LD, Apprill A and Brandt ME. 2021. Variable species responses to experimental stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) exposure. Front. Mar. Sci., 8: 464. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.670829
Wall, C, Ricci C, Wen A, Ledbetter B, Klinger D, Mydlarz L, Gates R, Putnam H. 2021. Shifting Baselines: Physiological legacies contribute to the response of reef corals to frequent heatwaves. Functional Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13795
2020
Vega-Thurber RL, Mydlarz LD, Brandt M, Harvell CD, WEil E, Raymundo L, Willis B, Kangvin S, Tracy A, Littman R, Kemp KM, Dawkins P, Prager KC, Garren M, Lamb J. 2020. Deciphering Coral Disease Dynamics: Integrating Host, Microbiome, and the Changing Environment. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution - Coevolution, 8, 402. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2020.575927
Fuess LE, Palacio AC, Butler CC, Baker AC, Mydlarz LD. 2020. Increased algal symbiont density reduces host immunity in a threatened Caribbean coral species, Orbicella faveolata. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution - Coevolution. 8: 369 https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.572942
Shrestha, S, Tung J, Grinshpon RD, Swartz P, Hamilton PT, Dimos B, Mydlarz LD, Clark AC. 2020. Caspases from Scleractinian Coral Show Unique Regulatory Features. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295, 14578-14591. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA120.014345
Ricci, CA, Hena A, Kamal M, Chakrabarty JK, Ledbetter, B, Chowdhury S, Mydlarz LD. 2020. The cell-surface protein composition of a coral symbiont, Breviolum psygmophilum , reveals a mechanism for host specificity and displays dynamic regulation during temperature stress. Marine Biology 167 : 66. doi.org/10.1007/s00227-020-03680-3
Fuess, LE, Butler, CC, Brandt, ME, Mydlarz, LD. 2020. Investigating the roles of transforming growth factor-beta in immune response of Orbicella faveolata, a scleractinian coral. Developmental & Comparative Immunology 107, 103639
2019
Okamura, B, Long P and Mydlarz LD. 2019. Chemical Responses to the Biotic and Abiotic Environment by Early Diverging Metazoans Revealed in the Post-Genomic Age. Integrative and Comparative Biology, Volume 59, Issue 4, October 2019, Pages 731–738, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz125
Ricci, CA, Hena A, Kamal M, Chakrabarty JK, Fuess L, Mann W, Jinks L, Brinkhuis V, Chowdhury S, Mydlarz LD. 2019. Proteomic investigation of a diseased gorgonian coral indicates disruption of essential cell function and investment in inflammatory and immune processes. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icz107, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz107
Dimos, BA, Butler C, Ricci, CA, Macknight N, Mydlarz LD. 2019. Responding to Threats both Foreign and Domestic: NOD-like Receptors in Corals. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icz111, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz111
Dimos, BA, Mahmud SA, Fuess LE, Mydlarz LD, Pellegrino MW. 2019. Uncovering a mitochondrial unfolded proteinresponse in corals and its role in adapting to a changing world. Proc. R. Soc. B286:20190470. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0470
2018
Fuess, LE, Mann W, Jinks L, Brinkhuis V, Mydlarz L. 2018. Transcriptional analyses provide new insight into the late-stage immune response of a diseased Caribbean coral. Royal Society Open Science. 5: 172062. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.172062
Ohdera AH, Abrams MJ, Ames CL, Baker DM, Suescún-Bolívar LP,Collins AG, Freeman CJ,Gamero-Mora E, Goulet TL,Hofmann DK, Jaimes-Becerra A, Long PF, Marques AC, Miller LA, Mydlarz LD, Morandini AC, Newkirk CR, Putri SP, Samson JE, Stampar SN, Steinworth B, Templeman M, Thomé PE, Vlok M,Woodley CM, Wong JC, MartindaleMQ, Fitt WK and Medina M. 2018. Upside-Down but Headed in the Right Direction: Review of the Highly Versatile Cassiopea xamachanaSystem. Front. Ecol. Evol. 6:35.doi: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00035
Wall, C.B., Ricci, C.A., Foulds, G.E. Mydlarz, L.D. Gates, R and Putnam, H. M. 2018. The effects of environmental history and thermal stress on coral physiology and immunity. Mar Biol. 165: 56.
Williams LM, Fuess LE, et al. 2018. Characterization of Toll-like receptor-to-NF-κB signaling pathway components in the endangered coral Orbicella faveolata. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 79: 128-136.
2017
Fuess, L.E., J.C. Pinzón, E Weil, R Grinshpon, LD Mydlarz. 2017. Life or death: Disease tolerant coral species activate autophagy following immune challenge. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 284: 20170771. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0771
2016
Fuess, L.E., J.C. Pinzón, E Weil, LD Mydlarz. 2016. Associations between transcriptional changes and protein phenotypes provide insights into immune regulation in corals. Developmental & Comparative Immunology 62, 17-28. doi:10.1016/j.dci.2016.04.017
Burge, C.A. C.S. Friedman, R. Getchell, M. House, K.D. Lafferty, L.D. Mydlarz, K.C. Prager, K.P. Sutherland, T. Renault, I. Kiryu and R. Vega-Thurber. 2016. Complementary approaches to diagnosing marine diseases: a union of the modern and the classic. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 20150207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0207
Mydlarz, L.D., Fuess, L., Mann, W.T., Pinzon, J.C., and D.J. Gochfeld. 2016. Cnidarian immunity: from genomes to phenomes. In: The Cnidaria, past, present and future. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 441. S. Goffredo, Z. Dubinsky (eds.), The Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31305-4_28
2015
Pinzón J.C., B. Hanna, C. Burge, C. D. Harvell, M. Medina, E. Weil and L.D. Mydlarz. 2015. Whole transcriptome analysis reveals changes in expression of immune related genes during and after bleaching in a reef-building coral. Royal Society Open Science. 2:140214.
2014
Pinzón, J.C., L. Dornberger, J. Beach-Letendre, E. Weil, L.D. Mydlarz. 2014. The link between immunity and life history traits in scleractinian corals. PeerJ 2:e628 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.628
Pinzón C., J. H., J. Beach-Letendre, E. Weil and L.D. Mydlarz. 2014. Relationship between phylogeny and immunity suggests older Caribbean coral lineages are more resistant to disease. PloS ONE 9 (8), e104787
Mann, W.T., J. Beach-Letendre and L.D. Mydlarz. 2014. Interplay between proteases and protease inhibitors in the sea fan—Aspergillus pathosystem. Marine Biology. 10.1007/s00227-014-2499-2, 1-8.
2012
McGinty, E.S., J. Pieczonka and L.D. Mydlarz. 2012. Variations in Reactive Oxygen Release and Antioxidant Activity in Multiple Symbiodinium Types in Response to Elevated Temperature. Microbial Ecology.
Hunt, L.R., S.M. Smith, K.R. Downum and L. D. Mydlarz. 2012. Microbial regulation in gorgonian corals. Marine Drugs. Special Issue, Marine Antibiotics. 10: 1225-1243.
Schug, K.A. E. Wang, S. Shen, S. Rao, S.M. Smith, L. Hunt, and L. D. Mydlarz. 2012. Affinity Screening Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry Assay for Identification of Antibacterial Agents from Natural Product Sources. Analytica Chimica Acta. 71:103-110.
Demuth, J.D. A.N. Bandari, L.D. Mydlarz. 2012. Sex, War, and Disease: The role of parasite infection on weapon development and mating success in a horned beetle (Gnatocerus cornutus). PLoS ONE. 7(1):e28690.
2011
Palmer, C.V., E.S. McGinty, D.J. Cummings, S.M. Crader, E. Bartels, and L.D. Mydlarz. 2011. Patterns of coral ecological immunology: Variation in the responses of Caribbean corals to elevated temperature and a pathogen elicitor. Journal of Experimental Biology. 214: 4240-4249.
Mydlarz, L.D. and C.V. Palmer. 2011. The presence of multiple phenoloxidases in Caribbean reef-building corals. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A. 159: 372-378.
2010
Skingel, T.R., Spencer S.E., Le C.Q., Serrano C.A, Mydlarz L.D., Scarbrough, B.J., Schug, K.A., Brooks B.W., and Grover J.P. 2010. Hemolytic toxicity and nutritional status of Prymnesium parvum during population growth. Aquatic Microbial Ecology. 61:141-148.
Martin, L.B.,Hopkins, W.A., Mydlarz, L.D. and J.R. Rohr. 2010. The effects of anthropogenic global changes on immune functions and disease resistance. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Year in Ecology and Conservation 1195: 129-148.
Mydlarz, L.D., McGinty, E.S. and C.D. Harvell. 2010. What are the physiological and immunological responses of coral to climate warming and disease? Journal of Experimental Biology. 213: 934-945.
Schug K.A., Skingel T.S., Spencer S.E., Serrano C, Le C.Q., Schug C.A., Valenti, Jr. T., Brooks B.W., Mydlarz L.D. and Grover J.P. 2010. Hemolysis, Fish Mortality, and LC-ESI-MS Fingerprinting of Cultured Crude and Fractionated Golden Alga (Prymnesium parvum). Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 46(1):33-44.
Brooks B.W, S.V. James, T.W. Valenti Jr., F. Urena-Boeck, C. Serrano, L. Schwierzke, L.D. Mydlarz, J.P. Grover and D. L. Roelke. 2010. Comparative Toxicity of Prymnesium parvum in Inland Waters. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 46(1):45-62.
2009
Palmer CV, Modi CK, Mydlarz LD. 2009. Coral Fluorescent Proteins as Antioxidants. PLoS ONE 4(10): e7298.
Mydlarz, L.D., Couch, C.S., Weil, E., Smith, G., and C.D. Harvell. 2009. Immune defenses of healthy, bleached and diseased Montastraea faveolata during a natural bleaching event. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. Special Issue 5; The role of environment and microorganisms in diseases of corals. 87: 67-78.
2008
Palmer, C.V., L.D Mydlarz and B. Willis. 2008. Evidence of an inflammatory-like response in non-normally pigmented tissues of two scleractinian corals. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London – B- Biological Sciences.
Couch, C.S., L.D. Mydlarz, C.D. Harvell and N.L. Douglas. 2008. Variation in measures of immunocompetence of sea fan coral, Gorgonia ventalina, in the Florida Keys. Marine Biology, 155:281–292. DOI 10.1007/s00227-008-1024-x.
Mydlarz ,L.D., S.F. Holthouse, E.C. Peters and C.D. Harvell. 2008. Cellular Responses in Sea Fan Corals: Granular Amoebocytes React to Pathogen and Climate Stressors. PLoS ONE 3(3): e1811.
2007
Ellner, S.E., L.E. Jones, L.D. Mydlarz and C.D. Harvell. 2007. Within-host disease ecology in the sea fan Gorgonia ventalina: modeling the spatial immunodynamics of a coral-pathogen interaction. American Naturalist. Vol. 170, no. 6.
Mydlarz, L.D. and C. D. Harvell. 2007. Peroxidase Activity and Inducibility in the Sea Fan Coral Exposed to a Fungal Pathogen. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A Vol. 146, 54-62.
2006 and Prior
Mydlarz, L.D., L.E. Jones and C. D. Harvell. 2006. Innate Immunity, Environmental Drivers and Disease Ecology of Marine and Freshwater Invertebrates. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, Vol 37, pp 251-288.
Mydlarz, L.D. and R.S Jacobs. 2006. An Inducible Release of Reactive Oxygen Radicals in Four Species of Gorgonian Corals. Marine and Freshwater Behavior and Physiology, Vol. 39 (2), pp 143-152.
Busse L.B., E.L. Venrick, R. Antrobus, P.E. Miller, V. Vigilant, M.W. Silver, C. Mengelt, L.D. Mydlarz and B.B. Prezelin. 2006. Domoic acid in phytoplankton and fish in San Diego, CA, USA. Harmful Algae Vol 5 pp. 91-101.
Mydlarz, L.D. and R.S Jacobs. 2004. Comparison of an inducible oxidative burst in free-living and symbiotic dinoflagellates reveals properties of the pseudopterosins. Phytochemistry, Vol, 65 (24) pp. 3231-3241.
Santiago-Vázquez, L., L.D. Mydlarz, R. S. Jacobs and J.G. Pavlovich. 2004. Identification of hydroxy fatty acids by liquid chromatography-atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometry in Euglena gracilis. Journal of Chromatography B, Anl.Tech. in the Biomed. and Life Sci, Vol. 803 (2) pp. 233-236.
Mydlarz, L.D, Jacobs R.S., Bohnlein, J and Kerr, R.G. 2003. Pseudopterosin biosynthesis in Symbiodinium sp., the dinoflagellate symbiont of Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae. Chemistry and Biology. Vol. 10, (11) pp 1051-1056.
Coleman, A.C, Mydlarz, L.D. and Kerr, R.G. 1999. In Vivo and In Vitro investigations into the biosynthetic relatedness of the Pseudopterosins. Organic Letters, Vol. 1 (13) pp 2173-2175.