Katherine E. Dougan

This study examines how thermal stress affects microbial symbiosis and host activity in the sponge Ianthella basta, showing tissue regression, symbiont loss, and microbial shifts under elevated temperatures.

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

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.

This study confirms whole-genome duplication in the algal symbiont Durusdinium trenchii and shows how lifestyle adaptations enhance coral thermotolerance.

The paper identifies and characterizes long non-coding RNAs in dinoflagellates, revealing their functional diversity and role in gene regulation under heat stress.

The paper presents genome and transcriptome data from Effrenium voratum, showing genome reduction predates symbiosis in Symbiodiniaceae and highlights differences between free-living and symbiotic lineages.

The paper presents a multi-omics analysis of Prorocentrum cordatum under heat stress, revealing RNA editing and exon usage regulation of biomolecules.

The paper examines intraspecies genomic divergence in Symbiodiniaceae and Polarella glacialis, revealing greater sequence divergence and the role of gene duplication in functional innovation.

The paper presents an improved genome assembly of Cladocopium goreaui using long-read data, revealing structural features and a complex evolutionary history involving horizontal gene transfer.

The paper compares genomes of Brazilian bioethanol Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains to show they form a unified group related to cachaca spirit yeasts.

The paper presents whole-genome comparisons of Symbiodiniaceae isolates, revealing extensive sequence divergence but conserved gene functions across species and genera.

This study presents the Ostreobium nuclear genome and metatranscriptomic analysis to understand its adaptations to the coral skeleton environment and its role in coral holobiont dynamics.

The paper compares the transcriptomes of a heat-tolerant coral endosymbiont under stable and stressed conditions to identify molecular signatures of symbiosis and heat tolerance.