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- Title
- Characterizing the diversity of heat shock proteins in Nematostella vectensis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Author
- Alexander, William, Reitzel, Adam M., Truman, Andrew
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Heat shock proteins, Biology
- Description
- Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are a highly conserved family of proteins critical to both environmental stress response and cellular function under normal conditions. More specifically HSPs are chaperone proteins that work to refold other misfolded pr...
- Title
- Quantifying reproductive behavior in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
- Author
- Alexander, William, Justin, Hannah, Reitzel, Adam M.
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Cnidaria, Biology, Developmental biology, Marine biology, Sea anemones
- Description
- The Starlet Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis (Nv) exists widely in coastal estuarine environments across North America. Nv has become a popular cnidarian model organism with a growing number of applications, including evolutionary developmental ...
- Title
- A chromosome-level genome assembly of the highly heterozygous sea urchin Echinometra sp. EZ reveals adaptation in the regulatory regions of stress response genes
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Ketchum, Remi, Smith, Edward, Davidson, Phillip L.
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Sea urchins, Echinodermata
- Description
- Echinometra is the most widespread genus of sea urchin and has been the focus of a wide range of studies in ecology, speciation, and reproduction. However, available genetic data for this genus are generally limited to a few select loci. Here, we ...
- Title
- Symbiotic life of echinoderm larvae
- Author
- Carrier, Tyler J., Reitzel, Adam M.
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Symbiosis, Life sciences, Marine biology
- Description
- Echinoderms larvae have served as a fundamental system for understanding development and life history evolution over much of the last century. In the last few decades, our understanding of echinoderm larvae has expanded to the microbiota that they...
- Title
- Diel patterning in the bacterial community associated with the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Leach, Whitney B., Carrier, Tyler J.
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Gene expression, Biology
- Description
- Microbes can play an important role in the physiology of animals by providing essential nutrients, inducing immune pathways, and influencing the specific species that compose the microbiome through competitive or facilitatory interactions. The com...
- Title
- Linear mitochondrial genome in Anthozoa (Cnidaria) : a case study in Ceriantharia
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Stampar, Sergio N., Macrander, Jason
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Gene expression, Biology
- Description
- Sequences and structural attributes of mitochondrial genomes have played a critical role in the clarification of relationships among Cnidaria, a key phylum of early-diverging animals. Among the major lineages of Cnidaria, Ceriantharia (tube anemon...
- Title
- DNA extraction method plays a significant role when defining bacterial community composition in the marine invertebrate Echinometra mathaei
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Ketchum, Remi, Carrier, Tyler J.
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Bacteria, Biology
- Description
- The microbial assemblages of marine organisms play fundamental biological roles in their eukaryotic hosts. Studies aimed at characterizing this diversity have increased over the last decade and with the availability of high-throughput sequencing, ...
- Title
- Convergent shifts in host-associated microbial communities across environmentally elicited phenotypes
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Carrier, Tyler J.
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Evolution (Biology), Biology
- Description
- Morphological plasticity is a genotype-by-environment interaction that enables organisms to increase fitness across varying environments. Symbioses with diverse microbiota may aid in acclimating to this variation, but whether the associated bacter...
- Title
- Venomix : a simple bioinformatic pipeline for identifying and characterizing toxin gene candidates from transcriptomic data
- Author
- Janies, Daniel, Reitzel, Adam M., Macrander, Jason
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Genomics, Biology
- Description
- The advent of next-generation sequencing has resulted in transcriptome-based approaches to investigate functionally significant biological components in a variety of non-model organism. This has resulted in the area of venomics: a rapidly growing ...
- Title
- Origin of the animal circadian clock : diurnal and light-entrained gene expression in the sponge amphimedon queenslandica
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Jindrich, Katia, Roper, Kathrein E.
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Evolution (Biology), Biology
- Description
- The circadian clock is a molecular network that coordinates organismal behavior and physiology with daily environmental changes in the day-night cycle. In eumetazoans (bilaterians + cnidarians), this network appears to be largely conserved, yet di...
- Title
- Daily cycle in oxygen consumption by the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis Stephenson
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Maas, Amy E., Jones, Ian T.
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Gene expression, Biology
- Description
- In bilaterian animals, the circadian clock is intimately involved in regulating energetic metabolism. Although cnidarians exhibit diel behavioral rhythms including cycles in locomotor activity, tentacle extension and spawning, daily cycles in cnid...
- Title
- Using Nematostella vectensis to study the interactions between genome, epigenome, and bacteria in a changing environment
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Fraune, Sebastian, Foret, Sylvain
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Gene expression, Biology
- Description
- The phenotype of an animal cannot be explained entirely by its genes. It is now clear that factors other than the genome contribute to the ecology and evolution of animals. Two fundamentally important factors are the associated microbiota and epig...
- Title
- Developmental expression of germline- and sex determination-related genes in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Pang, Kevin, Martindale, Mark Q.
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Evolution (Biology), Biology
- Description
- Background: An essential developmental pathway in sexually reproducing animals is the specification of germ cells and the differentiation of mature gametes, sperm and oocytes. The germline genes vasa, nanos and piwi are commonly identified in prim...
- Title
- Microbial diversity and activity in the Nematostella vectensis holobiont : insights from 16S rRNA gene sequencing, isolate genomes, and a pilot-scale survey of gene expression
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Har, Jia Y., Helbig, Tim
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Gene expression, Biology
- Description
- We have characterized the molecular and genomic diversity of the microbiota of the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis, a cnidarian model for comparative developmental and functional biology and a year-round inhabitant of temperate salt mar...
- Title
- Sex-specific and developmental expression of dmrt genes in the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Traylor-Knowles, Nikki G., Kane, Eric G.
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Evolution (Biology), Biology
- Description
- Background: The molecular mechanisms underlying sex determination and differentiation in animals are incredibly diverse. The Dmrt (doublesex and mab-3 related transcription factor) gene family is an evolutionary ancient group of transcription fact...
- Title
- Genetic variation at aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) loci in populations of Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) inhabiting polluted and reference habitats
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Karchner, Sibel I., Franks, Diana G.
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Gene expression, Biology
- Description
- Background: The non-migratory killifish Fundulus heteroclitus inhabits clean and polluted environments interspersed throughout its range along the Atlantic coast of North America. Several populations of this species have successfully adapted to en...
- Title
- Production of a reference transcriptome and transcriptomic database (EdwardsiellaBase) for the lined sea anemone, Edwardsiella lineata, a parasitic cnidarian
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Stefanik, Derek J., Lubinski, Tristan J.
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Evolution (Biology), Biology
- Description
- Background: The lined sea anemone Edwardsiella lineata is an informative model system for evolutionary-developmental studies of parasitism. In this species, it is possible to compare alternate developmental pathways leading from a larva to either ...
- Title
- Developmental and light-entrained expression of melatonin and its relationship to the circadian clock in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Peres, Rafael, Passamaneck, Yale
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Gene expression, Biology
- Description
- Background: The primary hormone of the vertebrate pineal gland, melatonin, has been identified broadly throughout the eukaryotes. While the role for melatonin in cyclic behavior via interactions with the circadian clock has only been reported in v...
- Title
- Genomic organization, evolution, and expression of photoprotein and opsin genes in Mnemiopsis leidyi : a new view of ctenophore photocytes
- Author
- Reitzel, Adam M., Schnitzler, Christine E.
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Bioluminescence, Biology
- Description
- Background: Calcium-activated photoproteins are luciferase variants found in photocyte cells of bioluminescent jellyfish (Phylum Cnidaria) and comb jellies (Phylum Ctenophora). The complete genomic sequence from the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, a...
- Title
- The complete mitochondrial genome of the sea urchin, Echinometra sp. EZ
- Author
- Ketchum, Remi, DeBiasse, Melissa B., Ryan, Joseph F., Burt, John A., Reitzel, Adam M.
- Subjects--Topical
- Mitochondrial DNA, Sea urchins
- Description
- The complete mitogenome of Echinometra sp. EZ has been described and fully annotated in this study. Phylogenetic analysis of cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) from six Echinometra species confirms that our sample is E. sp. EZ. The mitogenome is...