M. Isabel Martinez-Rugerio

The paper quantifies the maintenance cost of photosynthesis in zooxanthellate corals and shows it limits depth distribution by increasing ATP demand and reducing energy available for the host.

The paper identifies cryptic coral lineages with functional differences in thermal tolerance and growth, highlighting their role in coral reef resilience to climate change.

This study investigates immune regulation in symbiotic and aposymbiotic coral tissue using multiomic approaches, revealing compartmentalized immune suppression in specific cell types during symbiosis.

The paper identifies three cryptic coral lineages with distinct thermal tolerance strategies by analyzing their associations with photobionts and bacteria across different reef environments.