Rebecca Vega Thurber Lab

R. M. Welsh, Rosales, S. M., Zaneveld, J. R., Payet, J. P., McMinds, R., Hubbs, S. L., and Vega-Thurber, R. L., “Alien vs. predator: bacterial challenge alters coral microbiomes unless controlled by Halobacteriovorax predators.”, PeerJ, vol. 5, 2017.

J. F. Pollock and McMinds, R., “Coral-associated bacteria demonstrate phylosymbiosis and cophylogeny”, Nature Communications, vol. 9, 2018.

L. Wang, “Corals and Their Microbiomes Are Differentially Affected by Exposure to Elevated Nutrients and a Natural Thermal Anomaly”, Frontiers in Marine Science, vol. 5, 2018.

M. M. Rice and Maher, R. L., “Different nitrogen sources speed recovery from corallivory and uniquely alter the microbiome of a reef-building coral”, PeerJ, vol. 7, 2019.

S. M. Rosales and Thurber, R. Vega, “Draft Genome Sequence of Phocine Herpesvirus 1 Isolated from the Brain of a Harbor Seal.”, Microbiol Resour Announc, vol. 8, no. 14, 2019.

G. G and Tara Pacific Consortium, “Expanding Tara Oceans protocols for underway, ecosystemic sampling of the ocean-atmosphere interface during Tara Pacific expedition (2016-18)”, Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019.

L. G. E. Wilkins, Leray, M., O'Dea, A., Yuen, B., Peixoto, R. S., Pereira, T. J., Bik, H. M., Coil, D. A., J Duffy, E., Herre, E. Allen, Lessios, H. A., Lucey, N. M., Mejia, L. C., Rasher, D. B., Sharp, K. H., Sogin, E. M., Thacker, R. W., Thurber, R. Vega, Wcislo, W. T., Wilbanks, E. G., and Eisen, J. A., “Host-associated microbiomes drive structure and function of marine ecosystems.”, PLoS Biol, vol. 17, no. 11, p. e3000533, 2019.

D. E. Burkepile and Thurber, R. L. Vega, “The Long Arm of Species Loss: How Will Defaunation Disrupt Ecosystems Down to the Microbial Scale?”, BioScience, vol. 69, pp. 443-454, 2019.

I. A. Morelan, Gaulke, C. K., Sharpton, T. J., Thurber, R. Vega, and Denver, D. R., “Microbiome Variation in an Intertidal Sea Anemone Across Latitudes and Symbiotic States”, Frontiers in Marine Science, vol. 6, 2019.

S. Roux, “Minimum Information about an Uncultivated Virus Genome (MIUViG)”, Nature Biotechnology, vol. 37, pp. 29-37, 2019.

R. L. Maher, Rice, M. M., McMinds, R., Burkepile, D. E., and Vega-Thurber, R., “Multiple stressors interact primarily through antagonism to drive changes in the coral microbiome”, Scientific Reports, 2019.

L. Ezzat, Lamy, T., Maher, R. L., Munsterman, K., Landfield, K., Schmeltzer, E. R., Clements, C., Vega-Thurber, R., and Burkepile, D. E., “Parrotfish predation drives distinct microbial communities in reef-building corals”, Animal Microbiome, vol. 2, 2020.

G. J. Klinges, Rosales, S. M., McMinds, R., Shaver, E. C., Shantz, A. A., Peters, E., Eitel, M., Wörheide, G., Sharp, K. H., Burkepile, D. E., Silliman, B. R., and Thurber, R. Vega, “Phylogenetic, genomic, and biogeographic characterization of a novel and ubiquitous marine invertebrate-associated Rickettsiales parasite, Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri, gen. nov., sp. nov”, The ISME Journal, vol. 13, pp. 2938–2953, 2019.

G. Torda, Donelson, J. M., Aranda, M., Barshis, D. J., Bay, L., Berumen, M. L., Bourne, D. G., Cantin, N., Foret, S., Matz, M., Miller, D. J., Moya, A., Putnam, H. M., Ravasi, T., van Oppen, M. J. H., Vega-Thurber, R. L., Vidal-Dupiol, J., Voolstra, C. R., Watson, S. - A., Whitelaw, E., Willis, B. L., and Munday, P. L., “Rapid adaptive responses to climate change in corals”, Nature Climate Change, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 627 - 636, 2017.

J. M. McDevitt-Irwin, Baum, J. K., Garren, M., and Vega-Thurber, R. L., “Responses of Coral-Associated Bacterial Communities to Local and Global Stressors”, Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017.

J. R. Zaneveld, McMinds, R., and Vega-Thurber, R. L., “Stress and stability: applying the Anna Karenina principle to animal microbiomes”, Nature Microbiology, vol. 2, p. 17121, 2017.

L. Ezzat, Lamy, T., Maher, R. L., Munsterman, K., Landfield, K., Schmeltzer, E. R., Gaulke, C., Burkepile, D. E., and Thurber, R. Vega, “Surgeonfish feces increase microbial opportunism in reef-building corals”, Marine Ecological Progress Series, 2019.

J. M. Flores, “Tara Pacific Expedition’s Atmospheric Measurements of Marine Aerosols across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans”, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2020.

S. Planes, Allemand, D., Agostini, S., Banaigs, B., Boissin, E., Boss, E., Bourdin, G., Bowler, C., Douville, E., J Flores, M., Forcioli, D., Furla, P., Galand, P. E., Ghiglione, J. - F., Gilson, E., Lombard, F., Moulin, C., Pesant, S., Poulain, J., Reynaud, S., Romac, S., Sullivan, M. B., Sunagawa, S., Thomas, O. P., Troublé, R., de Vargas, C., Vega-Thurber, R., Voolstra, C. R., Wincker, P., and Zoccola, D., “The Tara Pacific expedition-A pan-ecosystemic approach of the "-omics" complexity of coral reef holobionts across the Pacific Ocean.”, PLoS Biol, vol. 17, no. 9, p. e3000483, 2019.

J. M. McDevitt-Irwin, Garren, M., McMinds, R., Vega-Thurber, R., and Baum, J. K., “Variable interaction outcomes of local disturbance and El Niño-induced heat stress on coral microbiome alpha & beta diversity.”, Coral Reefs, vol. 38, pp. 331-345, 2019.