Publications since 1999

Sunagawa, S., E. Wilson, M. Thaler, M. Smith, C. Caruso, J. Pringle, V. Weis, M. Medina, and J. Schwarz. 2009. Generation and analysis of transcriptomic resources for a model system on the rise: the sea anemone Aiptasia pallida and its dinoflagellate endosymbiont. BMC Genomics 10(1) 258. Article link

Weis, V. M. and D. Allemand. 2009. What determines coral health? Science 324:1153-1155. Article link

Wood-Charlson, E. and V. M. Weis. 2009. The diversity of C-type lectins in the genome of a basal metazoan, Nematostella vectensis. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 33:881-889 (PDF) Article link

Dunn, S. R. and V. M. Weis. 2009. Apoptosis as a post-phagocytic winnowing mechanism in a coral-dinoflagellate mutualism. Environmental Microbiology 11:268-276. (PDF) Article link

Weis, V. M. 2008. Cellular mechanisms of cndiarian bleaching: Stress causes the collapse of symbiosis. Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 3059-3066. (PDF) Article link

Richier, S., M. Rodriguez-Lanetty, C. E. Schnitzler, and V. M. Weis. 2008. Response of the symbiotic cnidarian Anthopleura elegantissima transcriptome to temperature and UV increase. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology D: Proteomics and Genomics 3:283-289. (PDF) Article link

Weis, V. M., S. K. Davy, O. Hoegh-Guldberg, M. Rodriguez-Lanetty, and J. R. Pringle.  2008.  Cell biology in model systems as the key to understanding corals. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 23(7): 369-376. (PDF) Article link   

Perez, S. and V. M. Weis. 2008. Cyclophilin and the regulation of symbiosis in Aiptasia pallida. Biological Bulletin 215:63-72. (PDF) Article link

Rodriguez-Lanetty, M., S. Dove, O. Hoegh-Guldberg and V. M. Weis. 2008. Analytical approach for selecting normalizing genes from a cDNA microarray platform to be used in q-RT-PCR assays: A cnidarian case study. Journal of Biochemical and Biophysical Methods 70:985-991. (PDF)

Dunn, S. R., C. Schnitzler and V. M. Weis.  2007.  Apoptosis and autophagy as mechanisms of dinoflagellate symbiont release during cnidarian bleaching: Every which way you lose.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B. 274:3079-3085 (PDF)

Mitchelmore, C. L., E. A. Verde, and V. M. Weis. 2007. Uptake and partitioning of copper and cadmium in the coral Pocillopora damicornis. Aquatic Toxicology 85:48-56. (PDF)

Hoegh-Guldberg, O., G. Muller-Parker, C. B. Cook, R. D. Gates, E. Gladfelter, R. K.
Trench and V. M. Weis. 2007. Len Muscatine (1932-2007) and his contributions to the understanding of algal-invertebrate endosymbiosis. Coral Reefs 26:731-739. (PDF)

Dunn, S. R., W. S. Phillips, and V. M. Weis. 2007. Knockdown of actin and caspase gene expression by RNA interference in the symbiotic sea anemone Aiptasia pallida. Biological Bulletin 212:250-258. (PDF)

Barneah, O., I. Brickner, M. Hooge, V. M. Weis, Y. Benayahu. 2007. First evidence of maternal transmission of algal endosymbionts at an oocyte stage in a triploblastic host, with observations on reproduction in Waminoa brickneri (Acoelomorpha). Invertebrate Biology 126: 113-119. (PDF)

Barneah, O., I. Brickner, M. Hooge, V. M. Weis, T. C. LaJeunesse, Y. Benayahu. 2007. Three party symbiosis: acoelomorph worms, corals and unicellular algal symbionts in Eilat (Red Sea). Marine Biology 151:1215-1223 (PDF)

deBoer, M. L., D. A. Krupp and V. M. Weis. 2007.  Proteomic and transcriptional analyses of coral larvae newly engaged in symbiosis with dinoflagellates. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology D: Proteomics and Genomics. 2:63-73 (PDF)

Hauck, L., W. S. Phillips and V. M. Weis.  2007.  A novel EF-hand protein is highly conserved among cnidarians.  Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.146(4) 551-559.
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Wood-Charlson, E. M., L. H. Hollingsworth, D. A. Krupp, and V. M. Weis.  2006.  Lectin/glycan interactions play a role in recognition in a coral/dinoflagellate symbiosis. Cellular Microbiology 8(12) 1985-1994 . (PDF)

deBoer, M., D. A Krupp, and V. M. Weis. 2006. Two atypical carbonic anhydrase homologues from the planula larva of the scleractinian coral Fungia scutaria. Biological Bulletin 211: 18-30. (PDF)

Dunn, S. R., W. S. Phillips, J. Spatafora, D. R. Green, and V. M. Weis. 2006. Highly conserved caspase and Bcl-2 homologues from the sea anemone Aiptasia pallida: Lower metazoans as models for the study of apoptosis evolution. Journal of Molecular Evolution 63:95-107. (PDF & PDF of supplementary material)

Perez, S., and V. M. Weis. 2006. Cnidarian bleaching and nitric oxide: An eviction notice mediates the breakdown of symbiosis. Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 2804-2810. (PDF) Also see this article featured in "Inside JEB." (PDF)

Rodriguez-Lanetty, M., W. Phillips, and V. M. Weis. 2006. Transcriptome analysis of a cnidarian – dinoflagellate mutualism reveals complex modulation of host gene expression. BMC Genomics 7:23. (PDF)

Rodriguez-Lanetty, M., E. Wood-Charlson, L. Hollingsworth, D. Krupp, and V. M. Weis. 2006. Dynamics of infection and localization of dinoflagellate endosymbionts in larvae of the coral Fungia scutaria during the onset of symbiosis. Marine Biology 149: 713-719. (PDF)

Barneah, O., Y. Benayahu and V. M. Weis. 2006. Comparative proteomics of symbiotic and aposymbiotic juvenile soft corals. Marine Biotechnology 8:11-16. (PDF)

Barneah, O., V. M. Weis , S. Perez, and Y. Benayahu. 2004. Diversity of dinoflagellate symbionts in Red Sea soft corals: mode of symbiont acquisition matters. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 275: 89-95. (PDF)

Rodriguez-Lanetty, M., D. A. Krupp and V. M. Weis. 2004. Distinct ITS types of Symbiodinium in clade C correlate with cnidarian/dinoflagellate specificity during onset of symbiosis. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 275: 97-102. (PDF)

Yacobovitch, T., Y. Benayahu, and V. M. Weis. 2004. Motility of zooxanthellae isolated from the Red Sea soft coral Heteroxenia fuscescens (Cnidaria). J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 298(1): 35-48. (PDF)

Schwarz, J. A. and V. M. Weis. 2003. Immunolocalization of host sym32 and an undescribed protein, p45/48, in the sea anemone-dinoflagellate association Anthopleura elegantissima-Symbiodinium muscatinei. Biol. Bull. 205:339-350. (PDF)

Mitchelmore, C., E. A. Verde, A. H. Ringwood, and V. M. Weis. 2003. Effects of heavy metal exposure on the symbiotic sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima (1) Differential accumulation of heavy metals as a function of symbiotic state. Aquatic Toxicol. 64(3): 317-329. (PDF)

Yacobovitch, T., V. M. Weis, and Y. Benayahu. 2003. Development and survivorship of zooxanthellate and azooxanthellate primary polyps of the soft coral Heteroxenia fuscescens: Laboratory and field comparisons. Mar. Biol. 142:1055-1063. (PDF)

Mitchelmore, C., A. H. Ringwood, and V. M. Weis. 2003. Differential accumulation of cadmium and changes in glutathione levels as a function of symbiotic state in the sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 284:71-85. (PDF)

Weis, V. M ., E. A. Verde, A. Pribyl, and J. A. Schwarz. 2002. Aspects of the larval biology of the sea anemones Anthopleura elegantissima and A. artemisia. Invertebr. Biol. 121: 190-201. (PDF)

Schwarz, J. A., V. M. Weis, and D. Potts. 2002. Feeding behavior and acquisition of zooxanthellae by the planula larva of the sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima. Mar. Biol. 140: 471-478. (PDF)

Weis, V. M. , E. A. Verde and W. S. Reynolds. 2002. Characterization of a short form peridinin-chlorophyll-protein (PCP) cDNA and protein from the symbiotic dinoflagellate Symbiodinium muscatinei (Dinophyceae) from the sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima. J. Phycol. 38: 157-163. (PDF)

Mitchelmore, C., J. A. Schwarz and V. M. Weis. 2002. Development of symbiosis-specific genes as biomarkers for the early detection of cnidarian-algal symbiosis breakdown. Mar. Env. Res. 54: 345-349.

Weis, V. M. , W. S. Reynolds, M. L. deBoer, and D. A. Krupp. 2001. Host-symbiont specificity during onset of symbiosis between the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium spp. and the scleractinian coral Fungia scutaria. Coral Reefs 20:301-308. (PDF)

Reynolds, W. S., Schwarz, J. A., and V. M. Weis. 2000. Symbiosis-enhanced gene expression in cnidarian-algal associations: Cloning and characterization of a cDNA, sym32 encoding a possible cell adhesion protein. Comp. Biochem. and Physiol. A 126:33-44. (PDF)

Weis, V. M . and W. S. Reynolds. 1999. Carbonic anhydrase expression and synthesis in the sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima are enhanced by the presence of dinoflagellate symbionts. Physiol. Zool. 72(3): 307-316. (PDF)

Schwarz, J. A., D. A. Krupp, and V. M. Weis. 1999. Late larval development and onset of symbiosis in the scleractinian coral Fungia scutaria. Biol. Bull. 196:70-79. (PDF)