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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: 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: 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: 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: Decoupling behavioral and transcriptional responses to color in an eyeless cnidarian
Author: Reitzel, Adam M., Leach, Whitney
Subjects--Topical: Gene expression, Circadian rhythms
Description: Background Animals have specific molecular, physiological, and behavioral responses to light that are influenced by wavelength and intensity. Predictable environmental changes – predominantly solar and lunar cycles – drive endogenous daily oscilla...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Population genomic analyses of the sea urchin Echinometra sp. EZ across an extreme environmental gradient
Author: Ketchum, Remi, Smith, Edward, DeBiasse, Melissa B., Vaughan, Grace, McParland, Dain, Leach, Whitney, Al-Mansoori, Noura, Ryan, Joseph F., Burt, John A., Reitzel, Adam M.
Subjects--Topical: Sea urchins, Extreme environments, Marine biology
Description: Extreme environmental gradients represent excellent study systems to better understand the variables that mediate patterns of genomic variation between populations. They also allow for more accurate predictions of how future environmental change m...

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: 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: 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: Some like it hot : population-specific adaptations in venom production to abiotic stressors in a widely distributed cnidarian
Author: Reitzel, Adam M., Sachkova, Maria Y., Macrander, Jason, Surm, Joachim M., Aharoni, Reuven, Menard-Harvey, Shelcie S., Klock, Amy, Leach, Whitney, Moran, Yehu
Subjects--Topical: Predation (Biology), Venom
Description: Background In cnidarians, antagonistic interactions with predators and prey are mediated by their venom, whose synthesis may be metabolically expensive. The potentially high cost of venom production has been hypothesized to drive population-specif...

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: 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...