Robert John Toonen

This study shows that light availability significantly affects the morphology of Montipora capitata corals, demonstrating high phenotypic plasticity without changes in symbiont communities.

The paper uses transcriptomics to study connectivity and viability selection in a marine species, finding high self-recruitment in the historical range and increasing self-recruitment with age in the expanded range.

This study examines how coral symbioses respond to future ocean conditions through long-term mesocosm experiments, finding both adaptive and stochastic changes in symbiont communities.

This study uses DIA proteomics to analyze how Hawaiian rice coral Montipora capitata and its symbionts respond to decreased light intensity, identifying changes in protein abundance linked to metabolic and structural adaptations.

This study shows that shading corals does not reduce their thermal tolerance during heat stress under low light, but makes them less resistant to light stress and heat stress under high light.

This paper quantifies the demographic effectiveness of coral restoration strategies by analyzing matrix population models, finding that structural interventions improving survival and recruitment are more efficient than supplemental approaches.

This study shows that coral population persistence under climate change depends more on growth rate and genetic variance than thermal tolerance alone.

This paper introduces a bacteria-powered living material that significantly enhances coral larval settlement on restoration substrates.

This study examines shifts in holobiont communities of Palythoa tuberculosa under high-pCO2 conditions at Iotorishima Island, finding reduced Symbiodiniaceae diversity and altered bacterial profiles.

This study uses SNP markers to examine reproductive isolation in sympatric lineages of Stichopus cf. horrens, identifying three genotype clusters and divergent genes related to reproduction.

assessPool provides a pipeline for analyzing pooled sequencing data to infer population structure using FST values and other genomic statistics.

The paper compares coral microbiomes from the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans, finding similar alpha diversity but distinct composition, with implications for symbiont phylogeny and environmental change.

This study optimizes and validates a DNA extraction protocol for Kellet's whelk, enabling high-quality genomic sequencing for non-model marine organisms.

The paper quantifies the loss of spatiotemporal metadata in genomic datasets over time and advocates for improved metadata preservation practices.

The paper examines genomic and transcriptomic differences between crustacean ecotypes across a marine thermal gradient, finding distinct ecotypes and temperature-related transcriptomic responses.

The paper examines genetic structure in Porites lobata corals, finding stronger genetic differentiation across human-impacted habitats than between distant islands.