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Mary Alice Coffroth

Researcher at University at Buffalo

Publications -  87
Citations -  6925

Mary Alice Coffroth is an academic researcher from University at Buffalo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Symbiodinium & Zooxanthellae. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 82 publications receiving 6360 citations. Previous affiliations of Mary Alice Coffroth include University of Miami & State University of New York System.

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Differential gene expression during thermal stress and bleaching in the Caribbean coral Montastraea faveolata.

TL;DR: It is postulate that oxidative stress in thermal‐stressed corals causes a disruption of Ca2+ homeostasis, which in turn leads to cytoskeletal and cell adhesion changes, decreased calcification, and the initiation of cell death via apoptosis and necrosis, the cellular foundation of thermal stress‐induced coral bleaching.
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Genetic diversity of symbiotic dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium.

TL;DR: The basis of the symbiosis is nutritional, with the dinoflagellates playing a significant role in host nourishment and physiology, and photosynthetically fixed carbon can be translocated from the algae at a rate and volume capable of meeting the hosts’ respiratory demands.
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Molecular phylogeny of symbiotic dinoflagellates inferred from partial chloroplast large subunit (23S)-rDNA sequences.

TL;DR: Comparisons of sequence dissimilarity indicated that cp23S-rDNA Domain V evolves 9-30 times faster than the V1-V4 regions of nuclear small sub unit (n18S)-rDNA, 1-7 times as fast as the D1-D3 regions ofnuclear large subunit (n28S)- rDNA, and 0.27-2.25 times that of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS)-r DNA region.