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Robert J. Toonen
Researcher at University of Hawaii
Publications - 252
Citations - 13867
Robert J. Toonen is an academic researcher from University of Hawaii. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Coral reef. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 231 publications receiving 12000 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert J. Toonen include University of North Carolina at Wilmington & University of California, Davis.
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Preservation of corals in salt-saturated DMSO buffer is superior to ethanol for PCR experiments
TL;DR: It is found that soft tissue integrity was better maintained and higher quantities of DNA were extracted from EtOH-preserved specimens; however, by all other measures, SSD was a superior preservative to EtOH.
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Isolation by distance across the Hawaiian Archipelago in the reef-building coral Porites lobata.
TL;DR: Cluster analysis and measures of genetic differentiation indicated that while the majority of ongoing gene flow in Hawaiian P. lobata occurs among geographically proximate reefs, inter‐island distances are insufficient to generate strong population structure across the archipelago.
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An alternative to ITS, a hypervariable, single-copy nuclear intron in corals, and its use in detecting cryptic species within the octocoral genus Carijoa
TL;DR: This case study with the octocoral C. riisei shows that variation in SRP54 appears sufficient to address questions of phylogeography as well as systematics of closely related species.
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Biological and physical interactions on a tropical island coral reef transport and retention processes on Moorea, French Polynesia
James J. Leichter,Alice L. Alldredge,Giacomo Bernardi,Andrew J. Brooks,Craig A. Carlson,Robert C. Carpenter,Peter J. Edmunds,Melanie R. Fewings,Katharine M. Hanson,James L. Hench,Sally J. Holbrook,Craig E. Nelson,Russell J. Schmitt,Robert J. Toonen,Libe Washburn,Alex S. J. Wyatt +15 more
TL;DR: The Oceanography Society as mentioned in this paper has granted permission to copy this article for use in teaching and research, but only with the approval of the Oceanography society, which is required by the Copyright Act.
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Increasing comparability among coral bleaching experiments
Andréa G. Grottoli,Robert J. Toonen,R. van Woesik,R. Vega Thurber,Mark E. Warner,Rowan H. McLachlan,James T. Price,Keisha D. Bahr,Iliana B. Baums,Karl D. Castillo,Mary Alice Coffroth,Ross Cunning,Kerri L. Dobson,Megan J. Donahue,James L. Hench,Roberto Iglesias-Prieto,Dustin W. Kemp,Carly D. Kenkel,David I. Kline,Ilsa B. Kuffner,Jessica Matthews,Anderson B. Mayfield,Anderson B. Mayfield,Jacqueline L. Padilla-Gamiño,Stephen R. Palumbi,Christian R. Voolstra,Virginia M. Weis,Henry C. Wu +27 more
TL;DR: A recent review of published experiments revealed a wide range of experimental variables used across studies as discussed by the authors, but without full transparency in the experimental and analytical methods used, can also make comparisons among studies challenging.