Temperate Coral Publications

We ask that if your paper was inspired by the Temperate Coral Research Conference (or former Astrangia Research Workshops) that you please add the following text to the acknowledgements section of your paper. This helps us to generate support and resources to keep our conference going and growing. Thank you!
Acknowledgement clause for authors: “The authors extend appreciation to the Temperate Coral Research Conferences hosted by Roger Williams University, Boston University, and Southern Connecticut State University for fostering creative conversations and collaborations leading to this work.”

Villafranca, N., Changsut, I., Diaz de Villegas, S.C., Womack, H.R. and Fuess, L.E., 2023. Characterization of trade-offs between immunity and reproduction in Astrangia poculata. bioRxiv, pp.2023-07.

Holliman, D.K., 2023. Effects of Origin Environment and Temperature Acclimation on the Temperate Coral Astrangia poculata.

Fleming, C.G., Muller, E., McAlister, J.S. and Rotjan, R.D., 2023, February. Building a Dynamic Energy Budget for the northern star coral Astrangia poculata: modeling and parameterizing facultative symbioses. In Integrative and Comparative Biology (Vol. 62, pp. S96-S96). Oxford University Press 

Navarro, K., 2023. Host and symbiont-specific patterns of gene expression in response to cold stress in the temperate coral Astrangia poculata.

Beans, C., 2023. Are microplastics spreading infectious disease?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(31), p.e2311253120.

Puntin, G, Sweet, M, Fraune, S, Medina, M, Sharp, KH, Weis, VM, and M Ziegler. 2022. Harnessing the power of model organisms to unravel microbial functions in the coral holobiont. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews e00053-00022.

Woosley, N., 2022. The Effects of Time, Depth, and Orientation on the Fluorescence of the Symbiont Breviolum psygmophilum in Astrangia poculata. Southern Connecticut State University.

Glass, B., Ashey, J., Okongwu, A., Putnam, H. and Barott, K., 2022. Characterization of a sperm motility signaling pathway in a gonochoric coral suggests conservation across sexual systems. bioRxiv, pp.2022-12.

Harman, T.E., Barshis, D.J., Salas, B.H., Hamsher, S.E. and Strychar, K.B., 2022. Indications of symbiotic state influencing melanin-synthesis immune response in the facultative coral Astrangia poculata. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 151, pp.63-74.

Sharp, K., Apprill, A. and Brown, A., 2022. Reshuffling of the Coral Microbiome during Dormancy. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 88(23).

Ball, A., 2022. Characterization of The Northern Star Coral (Astrangia poculata) Behavioral and Physiological Response to Microplastics.

Changsut, I., Womack, H.R., Shickle, A., Sharp, K.H. and Fuess, L.E., 2022. Variation in symbiont density is linked to changes in constitutive immunity in the facultatively symbiotic coral, Astrangia poculata. Biology Letters, 18(11), p.20220273.

Trumbauer, W., Grace, S.P. and Rodrigues, L.J., 2022. Seasonal variation in the bioaccumulation of potentially toxic metals in the tissues of Astrangia poculata in the northeastern United States. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 174, p.113180.

Dellaert, Z., Vargas, P.A., La Riviere, P.J. and Roberson, L.M., 2022. Uncovering the effects of symbiosis and temperature on coral calcification. The Biological Bulletin, 242(1), pp.62-73.

Speroff, S.M., 2022. Stressed out in a changed world: investigating the strength of the temperate coral response to acute and chronic anthropogenic stress (Masters thesis, Boston University).

Stankiewicz, K., 2022. Coral biology and evolution through the lens of genomics and population genetics.

Wuitchik, D.M., Almanzar, A., Benson, B.E., Brennan, S., Chavez, J.D., Liesegang, M.B., Reavis, J.L., Reyes, C.L., Schniedewind, M.K., Trumble, I.F. and Davies, S.W., 2021. Characterizing environmental stress responses of aposymbiotic Astrangia poculata to divergent thermal challenges. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16108

Trumbauer, W, Grace, SP, and LJ Rodrigues. 2021. Physiological seasonality in the symbiont and host of the northern star coral, Astrangia poculata. Coral Reefs 40: 1155–1166 .

DiRoberts, L.E., A. Dudek, N.E. Ray, R.W. Fulweiler, and R.D. Rotjan. 2021. Testing assumptions of nitrogen cycling between a temperate, model coral host and its facultative symbiont: symbiotic contributions to dissolved inorganic nitrogen assimilation. Marine Ecology Progress Series 670: 61-74. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13731

Bent SM, Miller CA, Sharp KH, Hansel CM, Apprill A. 2021. Differential patterns of microbiota recovery in symbiotic and aposymbiotic corals following antibiotic disturbance. mSystems. e01086-20.

Sweet, M, Villela, H, Keller-Costa, T, Costa, R, Romano, S, Bourne, D, Cardenas, A, Huggett, M, Kerwin, A, Kuek, F, Medina, M, Meyer, J, Müller, M, Pollock, J, Rappe, M, Séré, M, Sharp, KH,  Voolstra, C, Zaccardi, N*, Ziegler, M, and R. Peixoto. 2021. Insights into the cultured bacterial fraction of corals. mSystems e01249-20R1.

Aichelman, H.E. and D.J. Barshis. 2020. Adaptive divergence, neutral panmixia, and algal symbiont population structure in the temperate coral Astrangia poculata along the Mid-Atlantic United States. PeerJ 8:e10201 

Rotjan, R.D., K.H. Sharp, A.E. Gauthier, R. Yelton, E. Baron Lopez, J. Carilli, J.C. Kagan, and J. Urban-Rich. 2019. Patterns, dynamics and consequences of microplastic ingestion by the temperate coral, Astrangia poculata. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286 (1905).

Goldsmith, D., Pratte, A., Kellogg, C., Snader, S., Sharp, K. 2019. Stability of temperate coral Astrangia poculata microbiome is reflected across different sequencing methodologies. AIMS Microbiology 5(1): 62-76.

Aichelman, H., Zimmerman, R., Barshis, D. 2019. Adaptive signatures in thermal performance of the temperate coral Astrangia poculata (Ellis & Solander, 1786). Journal of Experimental Biology. 

Grace, S.P. and B. Patrizzi. 2018. Presence of the northern star coral (Astrangia poculata) as an epibiont on the carapace of the spider crab Libinia emarginata in the central Long Island Sound, USA. Reef Encounter. 33:54-55.

Burmester, E., A. Breef-Pilz, N. Lawrence, L. Kaufman, J. Finnerty, and R. Rotjan. 2018. The impact of autotrophic versus heterotrophic nutritional pathways on colony health and wound recovery in corals. Ecology and Evolution 00:1-12.

Sharp, K.H., Z.A. Pratte, A.H. Kerwin, R.D. Rotjan, and F.J. Stewart. 2017. Season, but not symbiont state, drives microbiome structure in the temperate coral Astrangia poculata. Microbiome 5(120): 1-14.

Grace, S. 2017. Winter Quiescence, Growth Rate, and the Release from Competition in the Temperate Scleractinian Coral Astrangia poculata (Ellis & Solander 1786). Northeastern Naturalist. 24(7).

Burmester EM, Finnerty JR, Kaufman L, Rotjan RD. 2017. Temperature and symbiosis affect lesion recovery in experimentally wounded, facultative symbiotic temperate corals. Marine Ecology Progress Series 570: 87-99.

DeFilippo, L., EM Burmester, L Kaufman, and RD Rotjan. 2016. Patterns of surface lesion recovery in the northern star coral, Astrangia poculata. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 481: 15-24.

Perrault, Justin & Muller, E & Hall, Emily & Rotjan, Randi. 2015. Presence of the northern star coral (Astrangia poculata) as an epibiont on the carapace of a nesting loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) in the western Gulf of Mexico, USA. Reef Encounter. 30(46).

Dimond, JL, AH Kerwin, RD Rotjan, K Sharp, FJ Stewart, and DJ Thornhill. 2013. A simple temperature-based model predicts the upper latitudinal limit of the temperate coral Astrangia poculata. Coral Reefs 32(2): 401-409 .