Patrick W. Laffy

No-take marine reserves promote oligotrophic reef bacterioplankton communities across the Great Barrier Reef

The paper examines how marine reserves affect seawater microbial communities in the Great Barrier Reef, finding distinct microbiomes between protected and fished areas.

The planktonic microbiome of the Great Barrier Reef

The paper presents a microbial genomes database for the Great Barrier Reef, highlighting underrepresented prokaryotic and viral genomes and their utility in predicting reef management impacts.

Conserved transcriptomic heat stress response signatures in coral recruits selectively bred from thermally distinct broodstock in a low-differentiation system

The paper examines transcriptomic responses to heat stress in coral recruits from thermally distinct broodstock, finding conserved stress-response pathways and limited genetic differentiation.

Enhanced survival and lower growth in assisted gene flow corals during a marine heatwave driven by local adaptation

This study tests assisted gene flow in corals during a marine heatwave, finding AGF offspring had 4x greater survival odds than controls and 2x greater than northern juveniles.