Maren Ziegler

The paper characterizes the eukaryotic diversity in coral reef environments, revealing high diversity and identifying environmental drivers shaping these communities.

The paper investigates the diversity and distribution of Apicomplexa across marine environments using metabarcoding data, revealing previously unknown diversity and biogeographic patterns.

The paper analyzes corallicolid parasites in Pocillopora corals across the Pacific Ocean, finding their widespread presence and linking their abundance to environmental factors and host immune responses.

The paper investigates water-mediated interactions in coral reef communities, finding that these interactions can alter ecosystem productivity and functioning during phase shifts, independent of physical competition.

This study uses RGB color indices to estimate symbiont cell density and chlorophyll content in corals under bleaching conditions, finding the Red index provides strong correlations across species.

This study assesses the microbial biosynthetic potential of reef-building corals using genome-resolved metagenomics, revealing host-specific microbiomes with high biotechnological value.

This study reconstructs Symbiodiniaceae communities from coral skeletons across species and locations, showing variability influenced by host species, sampling location, and DNA extraction methods.

The paper investigates how species identity and composition affect stony coral productivity in controlled experiments, finding that conspecific neighbors enhance productivity more than heterospecifics.

This study tests menthol treatments on six stony coral species to establish effective bleaching protocols, finding varying tolerance levels and optimal treatment durations.

This study assesses how thermal preconditioning affects thermal tolerance and baseline physiology across six coral species, finding species-specific responses and trade-offs in physiological baselines.

The paper compares Symbiodiniaceae communities across coral microhabitats and environmental niches using ITS2 sequencing, revealing distinct community structures and shared variants between habitats.

The paper analyzes global ocean data to show that physical and biological patchiness are decoupled, using variance slope to quantify spatial patterns.

This study investigates how short periods of decreased water flow affect coral physiology under ocean acidification, finding species-specific responses and potential mitigation of OA effects.

This paper identifies Galaxea fascicularis as a new model coral species for studying symbiosis, showing it can be bleached and reinfected with non-native algae and complete its gametogenic cycle in captivity.

This paper develops a field-friendly framework for characterizing coral holobionts using nanopore sequencing and bioinformatics pipelines, revealing reef-scale bacterial networks and host-specific associations.