Rebecca Vega Thurber
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Rebecca Vega Thurber's Degrees
- PhD Ecology University of California, Santa Barbara
- Masters Marine Science University of California, Santa Barbara
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Santa Barbara
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rebecca Vega Thurber is an American microbial ecologist and coral reef scientist. She is the Pernot distinguished chair of microbiology at Oregon State University since 2020. She is a team leader of the Tara Pacific expedition and co-producer of the coral reef documentary Saving Atlantis.
Rebecca Vega Thurber's Published Works
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Published Works
- Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences (2013) (6561)
- A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity (2017) (1501)
- Functional metagenomic profiling of nine biomes (2008) (917)
- Viruses manipulate the marine environment (2009) (543)
- Metagenomic analysis of stressed coral holobionts. (2009) (537)
- Laboratory procedures to generate viral metagenomes (2009) (522)
- Stress and stability: applying the Anna Karenina principle to animal microbiomes (2017) (473)
- Microbial Ecology of Four Coral Atolls in the Northern Line Islands (2008) (414)
- Chronic nutrient enrichment increases prevalence and severity of coral disease and bleaching (2014) (387)
- Viral and microbial community dynamics in four aquatic environments (2010) (378)
- Overfishing and nutrient pollution interact with temperature to disrupt coral reefs down to microbial scales (2016) (352)
- Minimum Information about an Uncultivated Virus Genome (MIUViG) (2018) (286)
- Rapid adaptive responses to climate change in corals (2017) (263)
- Biodiversity and biogeography of phages in modern stromatolites and thrombolites (2008) (249)
- The future of coral reefs: a microbial perspective. (2010) (236)
- Metagenomic analysis indicates that stressors induce production of herpes-like viruses in the coral Porites compressa (2008) (203)
- Coral-associated bacteria demonstrate phylosymbiosis and cophylogeny (2018) (184)
- Responses of Coral-Associated Bacterial Communities to Local and Global Stressors (2017) (164)
- Survival and settlement success of coral planulae: independent and synergistic effects of macroalgae and microbes (2009) (147)
- Metagenomic signatures of 86 microbial and viral metagenomes. (2009) (128)
- Sewage pollution: mitigation is key for coral reef stewardship (2015) (125)
- Macroalgae Decrease Growth and Alter Microbial Community Structure of the Reef-Building Coral, Porites astreoides (2012) (118)
- Virus–host interactions and their roles in coral reef health and disease (2017) (109)
- Potential role of viruses in white plague coral disease (2013) (94)
- Current insights into phage biodiversity and biogeography. (2009) (87)
- Phage-bacteria network analysis and its implication for the understanding of coral disease. (2015) (78)
- A Vicious Circle? Altered Carbon and Nutrient Cycling May Explain the Low Resilience of Caribbean Coral Reefs (2016) (78)
- Unique nucleocytoplasmic dsDNA and +ssRNA viruses are associated with the dinoflagellate endosymbionts of corals (2012) (73)
- Bacterial predation in a marine host-associated microbiome (2015) (71)
- Host-associated microbiomes drive structure and function of marine ecosystems (2019) (68)
- Viral Outbreak in Corals Associated with an In Situ Bleaching Event: Atypical Herpes-Like Viruses and a New Megavirus Infecting Symbiodinium (2016) (67)
- Viruses of reef-building scleractinian corals (2011) (66)
- Corals and Their Microbiomes Are Differentially Affected by Exposure to Elevated Nutrients and a Natural Thermal Anomaly (2018) (53)
- Phylogenetic, genomic, and biogeographic characterization of a novel and ubiquitous marine invertebrate-associated Rickettsiales parasite, Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri, gen. nov., sp. nov (2019) (49)
- Effects of predation and nutrient enrichment on the success and microbiome of a foundational coral. (2017) (48)
- Alien vs. predator: bacterial challenge alters coral microbiomes unless controlled by Halobacteriovorax predators (2017) (46)
- Multiple stressors interact primarily through antagonism to drive changes in the coral microbiome (2019) (46)
- Increasing comparability among coral bleaching experiments (2020) (43)
- Apoptosis in early development of the sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. (2007) (39)
- Two distinct microbial communities revealed in the sponge Cinachyrella (2014) (34)
- Expanding Tara Oceans Protocols for Underway, Ecosystemic Sampling of the Ocean-Atmosphere Interface During Tara Pacific Expedition (2016–2018) (2019) (33)
- The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology (2015) (33)
- Deciphering Coral Disease Dynamics: Integrating Host, Microbiome, and the Changing Environment (2020) (32)
- A novel sister clade to the enterobacteria microviruses (family Microviridae) identified in methane seep sediments. (2015) (29)
- The Tara Pacific expedition—A pan-ecosystemic approach of the “-omics” complexity of coral reef holobionts across the Pacific Ocean (2019) (29)
- Erratum: Functional metagenomic profiling of nine biomes (2008) (27)
- Coral Microbiomes Demonstrate Flexibility and Resilience Through a Reduction in Community Diversity Following a Thermal Stress Event (2020) (26)
- Unprecedented evidence for high viral abundance and lytic activity in coral reef waters of the South Pacific Ocean (2014) (25)
- The sea urchin embryo as a model for studying efflux transporters: roles and energy cost. (2006) (24)
- Harnessing the microbiome to prevent global biodiversity loss (2022) (21)
- Parasitic ‘Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri’ is a marker of disease susceptibility in Acropora cervicornis but is lost during thermal stress (2020) (20)
- Hidden state prediction: a modification of classic ancestral state reconstruction algorithms helps unravel complex symbioses (2014) (20)
- Parrotfish predation drives distinct microbial communities in reef-building corals (2020) (20)
- Multi-domain probiotic consortium as an alternative to chemical remediation of oil spills at coral reefs and adjacent sites (2021) (17)
- Increased diversity and concordant shifts in community structure of coral‐associated Symbiodiniaceae and bacteria subjected to chronic human disturbance (2020) (17)
- Microbiome Variation in an Intertidal Sea Anemone Across Latitudes and Symbiotic States (2019) (15)
- Variable interaction outcomes of local disturbance and El Niño-induced heat stress on coral microbiome alpha and beta diversity (2019) (14)
- Different nitrogen sources speed recovery from corallivory and uniquely alter the microbiome of a reef-building coral (2019) (14)
- The coral symbiont Candidatus Aquarickettsia is variably abundant in threatened Caribbean acroporids and transmitted horizontally (2021) (12)
- Nutrient Pollution and Predation Differentially Affect Innate Immune Pathways in the Coral Porites porites (2020) (12)
- Natural experiments and long-term monitoring are critical to understand and predict marine host–microbe ecology and evolution (2021) (11)
- Coral-Associated Viral Assemblages From the Central Red Sea Align With Host Species and Contribute to Holobiont Genetic Diversity (2020) (11)
- Brain Meta-Transcriptomics from Harbor Seals to Infer the Role of the Microbiome and Virome in a Stranding Event (2015) (10)
- Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales (2022) (10)
- Methods in Viral Metagenomics (2011) (9)
- Alien vs. Predator: Pathogens open niche space for opportunists, unless controlled by predators (2015) (9)
- Coral Bleaching Phenotypes Associated With Differential Abundances of Nucleocytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses (2020) (8)
- Surgeonfish feces increase microbial opportunism in reef-building corals (2019) (7)
- Tara Pacific Expedition’s Atmospheric Measurements of Marine Aerosols across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: Overview and Preliminary Results (2020) (7)
- Chronic low-level nutrient enrichment benefits coral thermal performance in a fore reef habitat (2021) (7)
- Thermal Stress Interacts With Surgeonfish Feces to Increase Coral Susceptibility to Dysbiosis and Reduce Tissue Regeneration (2021) (7)
- The Long Arm of Species Loss: How Will Defaunation Disrupt Ecosystems Down to the Microbial Scale? (2019) (5)
- Brain transcriptomes of harbor seals demonstrate gene expression patterns of animals undergoing a metabolic disease and a viral infection (2016) (4)
- Positive interactions between corals and damselfish increase coral resistance to temperature stress (2022) (4)
- Nutrient Enrichment Predominantly Affects Low Diversity Microbiomes in a Marine Trophic Symbiosis between Algal Farming Fish and Corals (2021) (3)
- Chronic nutrient enrichment causes increased coral disease prevalence and severity (2013) (3)
- Revealing General Patterns of Microbiomes That Transcend Systems: Potential and Challenges of Deep Transfer Learning (2022) (3)
- Inconsistent Patterns of Microbial Diversity and Composition Between Highly Similar Sequencing Protocols: A Case Study With Reef-Building Corals (2021) (3)
- A review of coral bleaching specimen collection, preservation, and laboratory processing methods (2021) (3)
- Evaluation of the Effects of Library Preparation Procedure and Sample Characteristics on the Accuracy of Metagenomic Profiles (2021) (2)
- Unified methods in collecting, preserving, and archiving coral bleaching and restoration specimens to increase sample utility and interdisciplinary collaboration (2022) (2)
- Host-associated microbiomes and their roles in marine ecosystem functions (2019) (2)
- Bacterial Predators in Host Microbiomes: Halobacteriovorax bacteria are marine predators that drive the dynamics of their host microbiomes, in turn modulating the health of their animal hosts (2016) (2)
- Open science resources from the Tara Pacific expedition across coral reef and surface ocean ecosystems (2022) (2)
- Correction: Brain Meta-Transcriptomics from Harbor Seals to Infer the Role of the Microbiome and Virome in a Stranding Event (2015) (1)
- Phosphate enrichment induces increased dominance of the parasite Aquarickettsia in the coral Acropora cervicornis (2022) (1)
- Future directions for marine disease research (2020) (1)
- Priority effects in coral–macroalgae interactions can drive alternate community paths in the absence of top‐down control (2022) (1)
- Disparate patterns of genetic divergence in three widespread corals across a pan-Pacific environmental gradient highlights species-specific adaptation trajectories (2022) (1)
- Endogenous viral elements reveal associations between a non-retroviral RNA virus and symbiotic dinoflagellate genomes (2022) (1)
- Correction: Phylogenetic, genomic, and biogeographic characterization of a novel and ubiquitous marine invertebrate-associated Rickettsiales parasite, Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri, gen. nov., sp. nov (2020) (1)
- Mystery solved: Disease detectives identify the cause of a mass die-off in the sea (2023) (0)
- GCMP sample photos (2017) (0)
- Multi-domain probiotic consortium as an alternative to chemical remediation of oil spills at coral reefs and adjacent sites (2021) (0)
- Marine Aerosols: Measurements by the Tara Pacific Expedition (2020) (0)
- Harnessing island–ocean connections to maximize marine benefits of island conservation (2022) (0)
- Parrotfish predation drives distinct microbial communities in reef-building corals (2020) (0)
- 5. Biodiversity and Biogeography of Phages in Modern Stromatolites and Thrombolites (2011) (0)
- Microbiomes of a disease-resistant genotype of Acropora cervicornis are resistant to acute, but not chronic, nutrient enrichment (2023) (0)
- CORRECTION (2004) (0)
- Multiple stressors interact primarily through antagonism to drive changes in the coral microbiome (2019) (0)
- Synergistic Effects of Crude Oil and Corexit Dispersant on a Sponge Holobiont System (2013) (0)
- Peer Review #2 of "Microbiome dynamics in the tissue and mucus of acroporid corals differ in relation to host and environmental parameters (v0.1)" (2020) (0)
- Electron microscopy reveals viral-like particles and mitochondrial degradation in scombrid puffy snout syndrome. (2021) (0)
- Coral-associated bacteria demonstrate phylosymbiosis and cophylogeny (2018) (0)
- An alternative to chemical remediation of oil spills at coral reef and adjacent sites (2021) (0)
- Viruses of a key coral symbiont exhibit temperature-driven productivity across a reefscape (2023) (0)
- Draft Genome Sequence of Phocine Herpesvirus 1 Isolated from the Brain of a Harbor Seal (2019) (0)
- From genome wide SNPs to genomic islands of differentiation: the quest for species diagnostic markers in two scleractinian corals, Pocillopora and Porites (2022) (0)
- Bacterial Predators: Bacteriovorax as a Probiotic Control of Vibriosis in Oyster Spats (2014) (0)
- Big Data Approaches To Coral-Microbe Symbiosis (2016) (0)
- Variable interaction outcomes of local disturbance and El Niño-induced heat stress on coral microbiome alpha and beta diversity (2019) (0)
- Best practices for generating and analyzing 16S rRNA amplicon data to track coral microbiome dynamics (2023) (0)
- Correction: Phylogenetic, genomic, and biogeographic characterization of a novel and ubiquitous marine invertebrate-associated Rickettsiales parasite, Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri, gen. nov., sp. nov (2019) (0)
- Viral discovery in the ‘realm’ of COVID‐19 (2020) (0)
- Correction to: Chronic low-level nutrient enrichment benefits coral thermal performance in a fore reef habitat (2021) (0)
- The Global Coral Microbiome Project - Australia (2018) (0)
- Evidence for microbially-mediated tradeoffs between growth and defense throughout coral evolution (2023) (0)
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