{"id":294,"date":"2025-02-28T08:35:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T13:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/astrangia\/?page_id=294"},"modified":"2025-07-16T08:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:42:47","slug":"research-updates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/astrangia\/research-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>This page is no longer being maintained. Please bookmark our new page at <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.tufts.edu\/astrangia\/\"><strong>https:\/\/sites.tufts.edu\/astrangia\/<\/strong><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been working on a number of new research initiatives to bolster <em>A. poculata<\/em> as a highly tractable experimental system.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Experimental System Resources:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Research publications:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/astrangia\/temperate-coral-publications\/\">https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/astrangia\/temperate-coral-publications\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C22&amp;q=astrangia+poculata&amp;btnG=\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C22&amp;q=astrangia+poculata&amp;btnG=<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C22&amp;q=oculina+arbuscula&amp;oq=oculina+a\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C22&amp;q=oculina+arbuscula&amp;oq=oculina+a<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Astrangia<\/em> genome\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Cite:<\/strong><\/em> <span>Stankiewicz, K.H., Guiglielmoni, N., Kitchen, S.A., Flot, J.F., Barott, K.L., Davies, S.W., Finnerty, J.R., Grace, S.P., Kaufman, L.S., Putnam, H.M. and Rotjan, R.D., 2025. Genomic comparison of the temperate coral\u00a0<em>Astrangia poculata<\/em>\u00a0with tropical corals yields insights into winter quiescence, innate immunity, and sexual reproduction.\u00a0<\/span><i>G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics<\/i><span>, p.jkaf033. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/g3journal\/jkaf033\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/g3journal\/jkaf033<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Astrangia<\/em> microbiome\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Cite:<\/strong><\/em> <span>Sharp, K.H., Pratte, Z.A., Kerwin, A.H., Rotjan, R.D. and Stewart, F.J., 2017. Season, but not symbiont state, drives microbiome structure in the temperate coral Astrangia poculata.\u00a0<\/span><i>Microbiome<\/i><span>,\u00a0<\/span><i>5<\/i><span>, pp.1-14.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Protocol <span>and programs for\u00a0custom RGB color analysis with color standards, designed\u00a0 and calculated with MATLAB R2007b.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Cite:<\/strong> <\/em><span>Burmester, E., A. Breef-Pilz, N. Lawrence, L. Kaufman, J. Finnerty, and R.D. Rotjan. 2018. The impact of autotrophic versus heterotrophic nutritional pathways on colony health and wound recovery in corals. Ecology and Evolution 00:1-12. <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/rotjanlab\/data-code\/\">https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/rotjanlab\/data-code\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Oculina<\/em> transcriptome assembly and annotation files: <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/data-code\/\">http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/data-code\/<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Cite:<\/strong> <\/em><span>Rivera, H.E. and Davies, S.W., 2021. Symbiosis maintenance in the facultative coral, Oculina arbuscula, relies on nitrogen cycling, cell cycle modulation, and immunity.\u00a0<\/span><i>Scientific Reports<\/i><span>,\u00a0<\/span><i>11<\/i><span>(1), p.21226.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astrangia_poculata\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Definition of Key Terms:<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Aposymbiotic<\/strong> = host living <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">functionally without symbionts (white phenotype)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Mixed symbiosis<\/strong> = varying levels of symbiosis within polyps on a single colony (variable phenotype)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Symbiotic<\/strong> = largely symbiotic (brown phenotype)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><strong>Asymbiotic<\/strong><\/em><\/span> = zero symbionts (white phenotype) &#8211; note -this is rare \/ not yet been observed in the field, and should be reserved for the true case of zero symbionts, observed microscopically<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on these and other research initiative, please contact K. Sharp, R. Rotjan, and\/or S. Grace.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/astrangia\/files\/2019\/11\/spawning1-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-295\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page is no longer being maintained. Please bookmark our new page at https:\/\/sites.tufts.edu\/astrangia\/ We&#8217;ve been working on a number of new research initiatives to bolster A. poculata as a highly tractable experimental system. Experimental System Resources: Research publications: https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/astrangia\/temperate-coral-publications\/ https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C22&amp;q=astrangia+poculata&amp;btnG= https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C22&amp;q=oculina+arbuscula&amp;oq=oculina+a Astrangia genome Cite: Stankiewicz, K.H., Guiglielmoni, N., Kitchen, S.A., Flot, J.F., Barott, K.L., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14599,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/astrangia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/astrangia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/astrangia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/astrangia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/astrangia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/astrangia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/astrangia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/astrangia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}