Tracy Ainsworth

Publications

• Light Capture, Skeletal Morphology, and the Biomass of Corals' Boring Endoliths
• Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic
• Diverse symbiont bleaching responses are evident from 2-degree heating week bleaching conditions as thermal stress intensifies in coral
• Complementary sampling methods for coral histology, metabolomics and microbiome
• Understanding decay in marine calcifiers: Micro-CT analysis of skeletal structures provides insight into the impacts of a changing climate in marine ecosystems
• Coral Disease Causes, Consequences, and Risk within Coral Restoration
• Know Thy Anemone: A Review of Threats to Octocorals and Anemones and Opportunities for Their Restoration
• Positive Interactions in the Coral Macro and Microbiome
• Rethinking the coral microbiome: Simplicity exists within a diverse microbial biosphere
• Tropicalisation of temperate reefs: Implications for ecosystem functions and management actions
• A comparative analysis of microbial DNA preparation methods for use with massive and branching coral growth forms
• Colonial Ascidian Populations at Inshore Coral Reefs of Norfolk Island, South Pacific
• SURVIVING THE ANTHROPOCENE: THE RESILIENCE OF MARINE ANIMALS TO CLIMATE CHANGE
• Coral growth anomalies, neoplasms, and tumors in the Anthropocene
• Deep sea treasures - insights from museum archives shed light on coral microbial diversity and functioning within deepest ocean ecosystems
• Microalgal blooms in the skeletons of bleached corals during the 2020 bleaching event on Heron Island, Australia
• Characteristics of The Bleached Microbiome of The Generalist Coral Pocillopora damicornis from Two Distinct Reef Habitats
• Core Intestinal Microbiome Richness of Coral Reef Damselfishes (Actinopterygii: Pomacentridae) Reflects Trophic Guild
• Spatial extent of dysbiosis in the branching coral Pocillopora damicornis during an acute disease outbreak
• Its What’s on the Inside That Counts: An Effective, Efficient, and Streamlined Method for Quantification of Octocoral Symbiodiniaceae and Chlorophyll
• The impact of rising temperatures on the prevalence of coral diseases and its predictability: A global meta-analysis
• Intestinal Microbiome Richness of Coral Reef Damselfishes (Actinopterygii: Pomacentridae)
• The microbiome of the endosymbiotic Symbiodiniaceae in corals exposed to thermal stress
• Mapping literature reviews on coral health: Protocol for a review map, critical appraisal and bibliometric analysis
• Assessing the coral microbiome at the scale of tissue-specific habitats within the coral meta-organism
• A glimmer of hope for an Endangered temperate soft coral: the first observations of reproductive strategies and early life cycle of Dendronephthya australis (Octocorallia: Malacalcyonacea)
• Intestinal microbiome richness of coral reef damselfishes (Actinopterygii: Pomacentridae)
• Will daytime community calcification reflect reef accretion on future, degraded coral reefs?
• Microalgae, a Boring Bivalve and a Coral - A Newly Described Association between Two Coral Reef Bioeroders Within Their Coral Host
• Identification of coral disease within the high-latitude reef, Lord Howe Island Marine Park.
• A coral disease outbreak highlights vulnerability of remote high-latitude lagoons to global and local stressors
• Bleaching Susceptibility and Resistance of Octocorals and Anemones at the World’s Southern-Most Coral Reef
• High flow conditions mediate damaging impacts of sub-lethal thermal stress on corals' endosymbiotic algae
• Deep Sea Treasures - Insights from Museum Archives Shed Light on Coral Microbial Diversity and Functioning within Deepest Ocean Ecosystems
• Experiment Degree Heating Week (eDHW) as a novel metric to reconcile and validate past and future global coral bleaching studies
• Localising terrestrially derived pollution inputs to threatened near-shore coral reefs through stable isotope, water quality and oceanographic analysis
• The Meta-Organism Response of the Environmental Generalist Pocillopora damicornis Exposed to Differential Accumulation of Heat Stress
• Rebuilding relationships on coral reefs: Coral bleaching knowledge-sharing to aid adaptation planning for reef users: Bleaching emergence on reefs demonstrates the need to consider reef scale and accessibility when preparing for, and responding to, coral bleaching
• Promoting inclusive metrics of success and impact to dismantle a discriminatory reward system in science
• Marine heatwave hotspots in coral reef environments: Physical drivers, ecophysiological outcomes and impact upon structural complexity
• How do we overcome abrupt degradation of marine ecosystems and meet the challenge of heat waves and climate extremes?
• A horizon scan of priorities for coastal marine microbiome research
• Rapid Coral Decay Is Associated with Marine Heatwave Mortality Events on Reefs
• A place for taxonomic profiling in the study of the coral prokaryotic microbiome
• Seeking Resistance in Coral Reef Ecosystems: The Interplay of Biophysical Factors and Bleaching Resistance under a Changing Climate: The Interplay of a Reef's Biophysical Factors Can Mitigate the Coral Bleaching Response
• Characterization of coral-associated microbial aggregates (CAMAs) within tissues of the coral Acropora hyacinthus
• Multiple techniques point to oxygenic phototrophs dominating the Isopora palifera skeletal microbiome
• Coral bleaching.
• Core intestinal microbiomes of planktivorous and algae-farming coral reef damselfishes (Actinopterygii: Pomacentridae) reflects feeding behaviour
• Characterization of coral-associated microbial aggregates (CAMAs) within tissues of the coral Acropora hyacinthus
• Corals' microbial sentinels: The coral microbiome will be key to future reef health
• The Other Microeukaryotes of the Coral Reef Microbiome
• From microbes to people: Tractable benefits of no-take areas for coral reefs
• Coral transplantation triggers shift in microbiome and promotion of coral disease associated potential pathogens
• Acute Tissue Death (white syndrome) Affects the Microenvironment of Tabular Acropora Corals
• Towards a better understanding of white syndromes and their causes on Indo-Pacific coral reefs
• Fluorescence in situ hybridization and spectral imaging of coral-associated bacterial communities
• Increased prevalence of ubiquitous ascomycetes in an acropoid coral (Acropora formosa) exhibiting symptoms of brown band syndrome and skeletal eroding band disease
• Bacterial communities closely associated with coral tissues vary under experimental and natural reef conditions and thermal stress
• The combined effects of temperature and CO2 lead to altered gene expression in Acropora aspera
• A framework for understanding climate change impacts on coral reef social–ecological systems
• The microbial signature provides insight into the mechanistic basis of coral success across reef habitats
• Exposure to elevated sea-surface temperatures below the bleaching threshold impairs coral recovery and regeneration following injury
• Ecology and pathology of novel plaque-like growth anomalies affecting a reef-building coral on the great barrier reef
• The Vulnerability and Resilience of Reef-Building Corals
• Defining the Core Microbiome in Corals’ Microbial Soup
• In situ visualization of bacterial populations in coral tissues: Pitfalls and solutions
• Symbiosis and microbiome flexibility in calcifying benthic foraminifera of the great Barrier Reef
• Polyp bailout in Pocillopora damicornis following thermal stress
• The coral immune response facilitates protection against microbes during tissue regeneration
• Analysis of evolutionarily conserved innate immune components in coral links immunity and symbiosis
• The hologenome theory disregards the coral holobiont
• Elevated seawater temperatures have a limited impact on the coral immune response following physical damage
• RNA and DNA binding of inert oligonuclear ruthenium(ii) complexes in live eukaryotic cells
• Early cellular changes are indicators of pre-bleaching thermal stress in the coral host
• The nature and taxonomic composition of coral symbiomes as drivers of performance limits in scleractinian corals
• Diets of coral-dwelling fishes of the genus Gobiodon with evidence of corallivory
• In situ hybridisation detects pro-apoptotic gene expression of a Bcl-2 family member in white syndrome-affected coral
• Diazotrophic bacteria associated with Hawaiian Montipora corals: Diversity and abundance in correlation with symbiotic dinoflagellates
• Coral disease diagnostics: What's between a plague and a band?
• Phototrophic microendoliths bloom during coral "white syndrome"
• The future of coral reefs: a microbial perspective
• Disease and cell death in white syndrome of Acroporid corals on the Great Barrier Reef
• Aerial exposure influences bleaching patterns
• Defining the tipping point. A complex cellular life/death balance in corals in response to stress
• Imaging the fluorescence of marine invertebrates and their associated flora
• Cellular processes of bleaching in the Mediterranean coral Oculina patagonica
• Differential responses of the coral host and their algal symbiont to thermal stress
• The acute transcriptional response of the coral Acropora millepora to immune challenge: Expression of GiMAP/IAN genes links the innate immune responses of corals with those of mammals and plants
• Infection dynamics vary between Symbiodinium Types and cell surface treatments during establishment of endosymbiosis with coral larvae
• The coral core microbiome identifies rare bacterial taxa as ubiquitous endosymbionts
• Exposure of clownfish larvae to suspended sediment levels found on the Great Barrier Reef: Impacts on gill structure and microbiome
• Farming behaviour of reef fishes increases the prevalence of coral disease associated microbes and black band disease
• Bacteria are not the primary cause of bleaching in the Mediterranean coral Oculina patagonica
• Climate change disables coral bleaching protection on the Great Barrier Reef
• White Syndromes of Indo-Pacific Corals
• Viral outbreak in corals associated with an in situ bleaching event: Atypical herpes-like viruses and a new megavirus infecting symbiodinium
• Exposure to elevated sea-surface temperatures below the bleaching threshold impairs coral recovery and regeneration following injury